Sentences with phrase «short history of the world»

The CET record is well cross referenced by historical observations, this from Geoffrey Blainey's «A Short History of the World.»

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They are characterized as being the most diverse U.S. generation in history, having the shortest attention span (an average of 8 seconds) and being the world's first true digital natives.

In 12 short hours, the press embargo would lift, the news would jolt the financial world and GoCoin would be cemented in history alongside BitPay and Coinbase as the startups that ushered one of the world's largest payment companies into cryptocurrencies.

«The role of active investors is to find value, but when all asset classes are overvalued, the only way to survive is by using financial engineering to short volatility in some form... In world of ultra-low interest rates shorting volatility has become an alternative to fixed income... The global demand for yield is now unmatched in human history.

In short, history weighs us down with considerable force, but the importance of what is at stake forces us to take a different approach and, all over the world, we can see the emergence of new reflections, proposals and experiences.

In all its shapes and forms, Judaism has always adhered to a concept of redemption which sees it as a process that takes place publicly, on the stage of history and in the medium of the community: in short, which essentially takes place in the visible world, and can not be thought of except as a phenomenon that appears in what is already visible.

History is known as the Living Buddha of Mongolia's largest served «Religious leader» life is not long, the short - lived on the third world die before the age of 16 baffling disease.

In short, how are we, Christians in Asia, to tell stores of our faith in the world of cultures, religions and histories which though unrelated to Christianity in origin and development, can not be separated from who we are and what we are?

Only one other team in major league history has achieved the dubious feat of going from worst to first to worst in its league in so short a time — the St. Louis Browns during the World War II era.

In its relatively short history, the venue has already played host to countless memorable moments of British success at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, and Laura Kenny, who won double Olympic gold in 2012 and the omnium title in 2016, believes that a vocal home crowd will lead to more British medals.

Specific activities might include studying a globe — or making one from papier - mâché — to learn where the continents are, creating simple time lines to get a sense of history, or giving a short talk on what part of the world each child's family comes from.

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The purpose of this site is to introduce people to the world of girl - oriented anime gaming, where you play a female The Foundation of Geemu: A Brief History of Early Japanese video games by Martin Picard Abstract The paper offers a short history of the origins History of Early Japanese video games by Martin Picard Abstract The paper offers a short history of the origins history of the origins and the

«Black Panther» opens on a short re-telling of the history of the fictional country of Wakanda, an African nation that sealed itself off from the world upon discovering its technological advantages and was left undisturbed as the rest of the world was colonized by Western European powers.

by Walter Chaw Like The Big Short before it, Todd Phillips's War Dogs is a breezy, loose, «for dummies» gloss on recent history that says for all the things you thought were going to hell in the world, you don't know the fucking half of it, buddy.

Now we know we're giving some comic book films, like Road to Perdition, American Splendor, Ghost World and a A History of Violence the short shrift here, but we wanted to focus in on the type of film we cover the most.

The PowerPoint contains hyperlinks to Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York City - the world's largest Halloween parade and a link to a short video of the history of Halloween.

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Following Facing History's unique methodology, Holocaust and Human Behavior uses readings, primary source material, and short documentary films to examine the challenging history of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our worldHistory's unique methodology, Holocaust and Human Behavior uses readings, primary source material, and short documentary films to examine the challenging history of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our worldhistory of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our world today.

A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Lark and Termite by Jayne Ann Phillips The City & The City by China Mieville The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson

A Short History of Czechoslovakia The lands now known as The Czech Republic and Slovakia were ruled by the Austrian - Hungarian Empire for about 300 years until the end of World War I and the collapse of the empire.

Long on history, short on gossip, Gould examines the cultural and historical stages on both sides of the Atlantic onto which the world's most admired rock band emerged.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

From international bestseller Mercedes Lackey's Grey's Ghost — a short story of ghosts and magic in an alternate - history Victorian England — to NYT bestseller Elle Casey's sassy modern take on encountering the faerie realm with her War of the Fae books, you'll find plenty of great reading in these stories that explore the places where magic and our ordinary world collide.

Set in England against the backdrop of World War II, the much anticipated second novel by the Booker Prize finalist and national best - selling author of The Hiding Place is a story of pursuit: of stolen goods, of missing years, and of one woman's forgotten history The only debut novel to be short - listed for the Booker Prize in 2001, The Hiding Place became a national bestseller and established Trezza Azzopardi as an international sensation.

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A story about the shadowy world of short - term traders and the largest insider trading investigation in history involving Steven A. Cohen and his hedge fund, SAC Capital.

A short flight will transport travelers to a world of delicious food, great wine, beautiful beaches and towns filled with breathtaking architecture and rich history.

The package is all what you will need for a short vacation to Hoi An with 03 night accommodation in spacious and comfortable Junior Suite Balcony room, breakfast at our top notch Temple restaurant, airport transfer, spa service and additional tour to discover Hoi An, a stroll through the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hoi An and discover a complex history that borrows from a variety of cultures.

These short, muscular built, red - skinned Indians built great temples, made astonishing artifacts, tools and pottery, carved their history on slabs of stelae and made scholastic achievements that forever changed the world.

From age - old inventions, including fireworks, sophisticated methods of navigation at sea, and sublime ancient architecture that has come to be revered throughout the modern world, Chinese innovation is as old as its extremely long past, so a short history here is often hard to come by.

Each stage you skirmish on has a profile and a short blurb of history on the Guns of Icarus Website, but there's nothing there to attach you to the world in - game.

The narrative all comes from dialogue and short cutscenes that expand on the history of the world.

Actually, just last Thursday (March 12th), on the 6 train, after having spent a short time at the press conference at the Italian Cultural Institute of the next Venice Biennale All the World's Futures, I was reading Okwui Enwezor's curatorial statement which began with an epigraph of Walter Benjamin's paragraph, extracted from his famous book, Theses on the Philosophy of History.

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In its short history, Galerie Rudolfinum has earned a stable position on the Czech art scene, and not only thanks to the exhibitions of world - known artists such as Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Louise Bourgeois, Georg Baselitz, Neo Rauch or Nan Goldin, but also of the best of the local circuit, e.g. Mikuláš Medek, Alén Diviš, Petr Nikl, Ivan Pinkava, František Skála or Jiří Černický.

In short, he was very much attuned to the mid-19th century world, to its economic and technological development, to its concerns with the lessons of history and the nation's future prospects, to its debates about the contribution of art to civil society and to reflections on the nature of painting.

I didn't acquire my taste for the art world in what seems to be the popular way of doing so, by early exposure to art history and first - hand experience of the work of revered painters and sculptors; while I engage with the history and traditions of art in a serious way now, I was unconcerned with such scholarship just a few short years ago.

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Building cities along coastlines as we have throughout our so - far short modern history, short though it has been from the standpoint of our climate history, should be recognized as the kind of short term planning that has gotten us into this trouble whether it happens now or a few decades or centuries down the road, and this concern over atmoshperic warming is just one of a multitude of possible planet - affecting scenarios that could have devastating effects on our world's societies.

Never in history has there been so many democracies in the world, yet voters give very little thought to how they vote, and most of the thought they do give is selfish and short - sighted, consequently many countries are effectively run by moneyed interests rather than by «the will of the people».

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I notice that none of that needed ABS, so I ask again, why in the name of all things holy would we ever sell our ownership of the no - worse - than - second - most - important profession in the World to an extra layer of entirely profit motived remote investors when (a) we do not have to, (b) every last benefit claimed for ABS can be achieved without ABS, and (c) it would be utterly irreversible when it proves to be, as it most assuredly will prove to be, the most colossal, short - sighted, cynical, profiteering at the expense of the public, and unnecessary blunder in the history of the legal profession dating back 800 years?

To help fill in those gaps, Netflix released a short video that highlights all of the history of the world that would have made the story a bit more comprehensible.

There have also been some success stories in the ICO world, but the history of the ICO is much shorter.