Sentences with phrase «centuries by our ancestors»

Used for centuries by our ancestors as primary fuel sources, it has recently become subject of fierce rejection.

The technique used for the Murano glass of this impeccable lamp, developed in the 17th century by an ancestor of the founder, Michelangelo Serena, makes this lamp even more refined.

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The ancestors of the September document are the Defense Policy Guidance paper of 1992, prepared in the Department of Defense under then Secretary Richard Cheney, and «Rebuilding America's Defenses; Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century,» issued in September 2000 by the Project for the New American Century.

Part of the old house in which she lives at Ojo de Agua was built more than a century ago by one of her ancestors, whose name was Pedro Luro.

It's home to most of St. Paul's 500 residents, the majority of them Aleuts whose ancestors were brought here by Russian traders more than two centuries ago to work the northern fur seal killing fields.

Pressure cookers have not been used by our ancestors until their invention in the early 18th century by scientists to preserve food by canning for the French army!

Cal will zip back to 15th century Spain and there slip into the sandals of knife - wielding, guy - liner sporting ancestor Aguilar de Nerha (the contraption, so far as I could gather, works by tapping their shared genetic coding).

Whilst ultimately a holocaust novel, Safran Foer manages to inject plenty of humour with his characters (the «blind» grandfather driver with his seeing - eye bitch, Sammy Davis Junior, Junior; an ancestor with a blade in his head; a young Ukrainian with an ambition to be an accountant, who is saving to go to America by eschewing nightclubs in favour of the beach), with his fantastic eighteenth century Polish - Ukrainian Jewish shtetl full of whacky inhabitants and customs, and with the often hilarious results of generous if totally misguided use of a Thesaurus.

Its earliest ancestor may have been the black St. Hubert hound documented in Europe by the eighth century.

Photo by Eric Bean / Getty Images Hound Ancestors of the Basset Hound can be traced back to 16th century France.

It is said that the ancestors of today's Persians were brought back from far away Persia along with silk, jewels and spices by explorers in the 17th century.

Their ancestors were herding dogs from the central Asian steppes, either brought to Portugal by way of the Visigoths in the fifth century or by way of the Berbers and then Moors in the eighth century.

Some experts believe that the ancestors of the Irish Setter were the early flushing spaniels of the fourteenth century, when bird hunting was accomplished by the dogs pointing to the trees in which the birds hid.

The Grand Bleu de Gascogne may descend from dogs left by Phoenician traders, [4] its ancestors were contemporaries with the St Hubert Hound and English Southern Hound, [5] Comte de Foix kept a pack in the 14th century and Henry IV of France kept a pack in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

A prevailing origin tale has it that the Dogue's ancestors were introduced to France (then called Gaul) by Julius Caesar's conquering legions in the first century b.c..

«This tower, built in 1928 by Clough Williams - Ellis, architect and publican, embodies stones from the 12th Century castle of his ancestor Gryffyrd ap Cynan, King of North Wales, that stood on an eminence 150 yards to the west.

We will encounter the Visconti «maquétothèque» of the Monte - Carlo Opera, Eugène Frey's fabulous luminous decors, the Marquis du Périer de Mouriez's strange collection of transparent paintings, plus the religious boxes from the Galéa Collection made by the Provencal Carmelites and a thousand other from the reserve collection that evoke the cabinets of curiosities of the 17th and 18th centuries, the ancestors of European museums.

I encourage you to read «Tsunami - hit towns forgot warnings from ancestors,» a haunting and fascinating Associated Press story by Jay Alabaster describing centuries - old stone tablets warning of coastal tsunami risk that dot the Japanese coast ravaged by the great earthquake and resulting waves on March 11th.

``... our carbon footprint is the means by which we live longer, healthier, and freer lives than our ancestors did only a century ago.»

John Byng - Hall, one of the UK's earliest family therapists, was evidently profoundly influenced by the public disgrace of Admiral Byng, his illustrious 18th - century ancestor, as well no doubt as viewed through the lens of Byng - Hall's own life - experience.

Dandelions were introduced to North America by European immigrants whose ancestors have known their value for centuries.