The classical music world, embarked on a bicentennial tour through the Romantic era, is just now preoccupied with the melancholic master Frédéric Chopin, born near Warsaw in 1810.
The Bretton Woods system fractured amid the inflationary pressures of the 1970s, around the time the rich world embarked on a three-decade process of financial liberalisation.
But it was not until 1798, when Napoleon arrived in Egypt with troops and scientists, that the Western world embarked on its continuing romance with all things Egyptian.
From that point, the "great divergence" of the West from the Rest came to an end, and the world embarked on a "great reconvergence".
Moments after the announcement, the literary world embarked on a time-honored post-Nobel tradition: assessing — and sometimes sniffing at — the work of the prizewinner.
Now as much as I am sure you won't believe me, considering my self-indulgent ambitions to see the world, embark on adventures and have fun, I chose this internship not because of the location or the fantastically charismatic study species, but down to the scientific prowess of the station.
In 1961 the world embarked on a US-led act of collective folly when it identified the non-medical use of specific drugs, including cannabis, cocaine and heroin, as a global threat and attempted to rid the world of them using punitive enforcement.
Last month, a team of 58 scientists from around the world embarked on 31 day oceanic voyage to research the ethereal life forms living at the bottom of the ocean off the Eastern coast of Australia.
As governments in the developed world embark on drastic measures to drag their economies out of recession, the annual world wealth report by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini, published today, recorded a 17% rise in the number of HNWIs in 2009 compared with 2008, when the banking crisis caused panic on the world markets.
As the world embarks on the 21st century, China with a population of 1.3 billion—has arrived at a new stage of development: building a prosperous society and speeding up the national drive toward industrialization and modernization.
