Here's a simple example, from "The Age of Innocence" (1920): "It was not the custom in New York drawing rooms for a lady to get up and walk away from one gentleman in order to seek the company of another...
Wright, an author of fiction and non-fiction works, uses the fallen civilisations of Easter Island, Sumer, Rome, and Maya, as well as examples from the Stone Age, to see what conditions led to the downfall of those societies.
Good examples from the middle ages are Ibn Battuta's Rahlat in Arabic and Nasser Khosrow's Safarnameh in Persian.
After spending four years in the corps, he became a leading bookbinding expert, specializing in examples from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and in literary and musical autograph manuscripts.
As an example: from the earliest age, children in schools are required to learn two languages - English as a common language for all, as well as one of three "mother tongues" of the most predominant ethnic backgrounds in Singapore.
Councillor Rodney Chambers, leader of Medway Council, added: "Chatham's Dockyard and its defences have an unrivalled and illustrious history and is the world's most complete example of an historic dockyard from the age of sail and early age of steam.
Advanced techniques were also known: glassblowing, for example, dates from the Augustan age.
Examples run from the middle ages to the present, one of the most mesmerising being a fold-out reproduction of Borromini's pencil drawing, complete with corrections, reworkings, and scribbled instructions, for the dome lantern of the church of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza in Rome.
Cecily Brown, for example, displayed an aptitude for capturing movement in paint from the age of 8 years old.
John Mangan from The Age cited the film as an example of this phenomenon.
