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Skeptics, write Hoffman, «argue that public funding of science in the post-Second World War era through organizations like the National Science Foundation (NSF) corrupted the scientific process.»

Via email, I asked her about the genesis of the exhibition: «As a child, I had wondrous and strange experiences at Coney Island... My family and I still go there and we believe in its never - ending potential for magic... [This is the] first exhibition to look at the site's enduring status as a muse for artists, from its rise in popularity as a seaside resort in the Civil War era through the closing of its space - age amusement park, Astroland, after decades of urban decline.»

The museum is able to tell the story from the post war era through to the close of the Cold War, and with names like Hawker, De Havilland, Percival, Blackburn and Avro on display; this is going to be a museum that is ideal for aircraft fans and people who love local history.

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Rookie pitchers accounted for nearly 20 % of all starts in the majors last season, the highest such percentage since the World War II era (rookies made better than 22 % of major league starts in each year from 1943 through» 45).

During Mordecai Historic Park's Holiday Open House in Raleigh Dec. 9, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., and Dec. 10, 1 - 4 p.m., tour the home as it would have been decorated for Christmas during colonial days through the World War II era.

After Babangida's rash annulment of June 12, that clamour flared into an impassioned crusade over the «national question», all through the no - war - no - peace era of Gen. Sani Abacha.

New York's answer was «yes» from World War II through the Vietnam era, and this effectively would make that approach permanent.

Their demographics coincide very closely with those of the scientific and technical elite that began their careers in the post-Sputnik era and led the United States through the Cold War.

About halfway through «Atomic Blonde,» Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron), a lethal MI6 superwoman on assignment in Cold War - era Berlin, goes to see Andrei Tarkovsky's «Stalker.»

Naked Snake, Big Boss, or whatever he's called in this one (Punished Snake - you know this, doofus)-- it was his journey through Groznyj Grad in the Bond / Cold - war era of 1964 that resonated with me more than nano machines, mechanical cow - Gekkos and a guard continually shitting himself.

Sterritt ** A well - to - do Protestant clergyman falls in love with a younger woman, complicating his passage through the World War I era and subsequent years of changing social conditions.

Charlize Theron blasts her way through Cold War - era Berlin in this glib actioner from John Wick's David Leitch.

Directed by Britain's Simon Curtis with a «Masterpiece Theatre» sensibility for accurately reproducing an era in cars, clothes and home furnishings, Goodbye Christopher Robin sprints comfortably along from Milne's harrowing World War I service in the trenches through his difficult adjustment to peacetime, his sometimes fraught relations with Daphne and his retreat to the woods where the muses eventually whispered like the wind in the tree branches.

Of course, the era between 1862 through 1866 is littered with changes in the country; laws, slave status, war, economy, all play major roles, but the focus of the film doesn't zoom in on any particular thing.

The Historian follows a motherless young girl's quest to learn the truth about her father's secret past and his search through Cold War - era Eastern Europe for the murderous fiend that has cost him so much — Dracula.

A spellbinding novel that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.

Enthralling and lyrical, Paulette Jiles» account of this dangerous journey through Texas in the fractious years after the Civil War offers a crystalline look at the era, the characters and the mysteries of the human heart.

Olen Steinhauer's acclaimed literary crime series set in a fictional country in Eastern Europe began in the heady post — World War II era and has taken readers from the first noise of revolution through to the chaos of the 1960s and»70s.

Nuclear Reactions (Grades 11 - 12) >> Nike Missile Site This program will usher your high school students through the gates of a Cold War - era restored Nike Missile site that reflects a pivotal period in U.S. history with resounding implications for today.

Whether walking the successive 25 km's (15.5 miles) of sand stretching through Radar, Long, Combers and Wickaninnish Beaches, the boardwalks and stairs of Tonquin Park trail near town or visiting historical Radar Hill or the World War 2 era Canso Bomber plane crash Tofino has near endless day hiking opportunities for all ages.

Andrew X. Pham traces his family's history from a war - era work camp to the slums of California all while narrating his five - month bike trip through Vietnam in painstaking lyric detail.

Hike through the rice terraces to minority villages and stay in a traditional farmer's home; trek through the jungle to vast Hang En cave, with its own climate and beach; and crawl through the war - era Cu Chi tunnels.

While it seems likely that the «new era» promised in the trailer is just going to be some other period (Victorian Era through the World Wars perhapera» promised in the trailer is just going to be some other period (Victorian Era through the World Wars perhapEra through the World Wars perhaps?)

This prequel included a Big Boss focused storyline, Cold War - era setting, and several exciting boss battles that required skill and patience to maneuver through.

Dice has done everything possible to create a believable Vietnam setting, including creating new character skins to fit the era, creating weapons that look like they've already been through a war, and throwing us into the middle of a lush jungle filled with deadly opponents.

Retaining the tight controls of Star Wars: Starfighter, Jedi Starfighter lets you battle it out in a variety of expansive, detailed battlefields while blasting through an Attack of the Clones - era story as Jedi Master Adi Gallia.

-- Survival Mode: Pilot your World War I era fighter airplane through endless waves of enemies — Night Mode: Relive the original adventure with different lighting and difficulty levels.

The Ultimate Star Wars Battleground A Star Wars multiplayer universe unmatched in variety and breadth where up to 40 players fight as iconic heroes, authentic - to - era troopers and in a massive array of vehicles on land and in the air — as battle rages through the galaxy.

The debut game spawned one of the most popular franchises in history, which has taken players across multiple theaters and through different eras, and today we are proud to announce that Call of Duty is returning to its World War II roots with Call of Duty: WWII»

Take control of a nation in the World War II era and guide it through a significant Military Campaign, or attempt one of many Set - Piece Historical Scenarios.

His early work, through its emphasis on broken and torn surfaces, responds to the destruction experienced in his youth during the Spanish Civil War, followed by that of the Second World War and the era of the atomic bomb.

The broad scope of the exhibition touches on a web of themes, all interconnected through the art and personal history of Curtis within the era of the late 1930s to the end of World War II.

The Mint Museum's collection of American Art includes paintings, unique works on paper, prints, sculpture, and photographs created from the Colonial Era through the Second World War.

In addition to presenting important artworks, the exhibition will convey the political foment of an era that saw both the emergence of Conceptual art and the rise of the Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and anti — Vietnam War movements, and will illustrate the period's experimental impulses through catalogues, artist publications, periodicals, photographs, and ephemera from key exhibitions and events.

Taking inspiration from the character of Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic Civil War - era novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Saar re-contextualizes the sprightly uncouth slave girl as a symbol of defiance, through paintings on dyed vintage...

«Sharrer negotiated a sophisticated and coherent artistic vision through the political and social changes that spanned the Cold War era,» explained exhibition co-curator Melissa Wolfe.

In the digital age, we've become accustomed to photographs manipulated through Photoshop, but photographers have been altering images, through cropping, dodging and burning, and manipulating subject matter since the Civil War era.

Roy Lichtenstein made paintings of an atom bomb filtered through the Pop master's signature Ben - day dot style, portraying the dark side of the Cold War era.

The war's impact on art and culture was enormous, as nearly all of the era's major American artists interpreted their experiences, opinions and perceptions of the conflict through their work.

But that thread leads through the bloody Civil War, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights era.

18 For a thorough history of the evolution of legal writing instruction in law schools, see Romantz, supra note 5, at 127 — 36 (tracing the evolution of legal writing instruction in law schools from the early days of moot court exercises under Dean Langdell at Harvard Law School, through the ABA's formal recognition of legal writing as a law school subject in 1947, and through the widespread adoption of legal writing programs in American law schools); Jeffrey D. Jackson & David R. Cleveland, Legal Writing: A History from the Colonial Era to the End of the Civil War, 19 Leg.

The history of Black lawyers, judges and professors in America precedes the Civil War, but the Reconstruction Era (1865 - 1877) and a national legacy of racism severely hampered the progress of Black men and women in the law, particularly in the South, through the twentieth century Civil Rights Movement and beyond.

Denver City suffered stagnation in development through most of the Civil War era, only coming back to life after locals successfully created their own link to the growing Union Pacific railway called the Denver Pacific Railway.