The sweet watercolors draw the reader into a century-old world.
A naval clash over disputed, gas-rich islands in the East China Sea has revived century-old World War II grievances.
This seems to infuriate the medics, who see their century-old world crashing down around them and there is a vocal group of GPs who don't like it.
But the water used to keep them so is being sucked from groundwater under the city, threatening the stability of the centuries-old, world heritage-listed landmark.
By the 19th century, many Old World churchyards and church walls had completely run out of room for new monuments, and cemeteries on the outskirts of cities, towns or villages became the usual place for burials.
LAST week, delegates from 55 nations assembled in a suburb of Paris to bring to fruition a dream, centuries old, to perfect the world's measurement system.
This argument is light-centuries away from the old world of checks and balances.
This was the greatest city of the New World, three centuries old when New York was a muddy clutch of huts.
"I wasn't dumb," he was told by a new teacher, "I was just old world, 19th-century, understimulated".
Reflecting on Italy's transmogrification during the opening decades of the early-20th century, Antonio Gramsci lamented how the "old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born".
The tragedy, the biggest in England's centuries old sporting culture, resonated round the world.
