Marshall McLuhan

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

Canadian Sociologist

Otis Redding

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.

American Musician

Kate Williams

Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

British Historian

Used to show the order of things in a sequence; often in dates and lists.

Ordinal Usage

Reference to centuries when talking about history or classical topics.

Historical Periods

Marks significant age milestones in many cultures, especially turning 16.

Birthday Milestone

Indicates a very specific place in a sequence, often just after 15th.

Precise Ordering

In the United States, the sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, is often discussed.

Cultural Significance

Representing a small fraction that is 1/16 of a whole, useful in math and measurements.

Fraction Explanations

Use to describe a very small part or quantity of something.

Minuscule Amount

In music, a very short note that's played quickly, one of the shorter note values.

Fast Note Duration

Combines with other musical notes to create complex rhythms in a piece.

Rhythmic Variety

 ten weeks and I put my life on the line in fluid that honestly worked out to true success and now to this day a young lady that was in our program we've had a number of success stories but a young lady in our program who can tell you where sixteenth

Stories of Exploration...

 seemed to suggest possibility and I asked what might have happened what if my examples are drawn or three they are drawn from the sixteenth century from the nineteenth century and from the twentieth the first

Africa’s rhyming history...

 That's 10 to the sixteenth. And they consume one and a half megawatts of power. So that would be really great, if you could add that to the production capacity in Tanzania. It would really boost the economy.

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