Sentences with phrase «day by our ancestors»

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Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar in Nashville, Tennessee, realized that the rising generation of black southerners might best understand the importance of spirituality by learning the songs their ancestors sang during the days of....

«Has such a thing [as a plague of locusts wrought by God] happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors?»

One day, probably not in the near future judging by how much unspent energy there still is to tap, we will simply give up trying to fix what our ancestors broke, and just admit that our good intentions are just as naive and interfering as theirs were.

Origins of such a notion go far back in human history, to primitive days when our remote ancestors thought that some special anima indwelt human bodies; it was given additional support by the teaching of certain of the Greeks, with their insistence on the soul as entirely distinct from, yet temporarily the tenant of, the body — at its most extreme this expressed itself in the saying soma sema, «the body is the prison - house of the soul».

It has been practiced by our ancestors for thousands of years and yet these days they seem to be obsolete.

The present - day extinct ancestors of turtles had a flexible ribcage and breathed, like us, by alternately expanding and contracting the lungs and thorax.

An international research team led by Mainz palaeogeneticists demonstrates that populations in the ancient Fertile Crescent are the ancestors of modern day South Asians but not of Europeans.

This week, an international research team led by palaeogeneticists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) published a study in the journal Science showing that the earliest farmers from the Zagros mountains in Iran, i.e., the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent, are neither the main ancestors of Europe's first farmers nor of modern - day Europeans.

This 11.6 - million - year - old fossil find, nicknamed Laia by its discoverers, represents the first evidence that present - day African apes descended from a relatively small, somewhat gibbonlike common ancestor — not large - bodied African primates as previously thought, scientists report in the Oct. 30 Science.

The resulting evolutionary tree pointed to a common ancestor that dated back to the days of the first cultivation of fungi by ants, he reports in the 17 January issue of Science.

We should be keeping the inheritance of our ancestors,» says the pekaseh who works in a high - end hotel bar by day.

Chimpanzees spend 6 hours a day gnashing fruits and the occasional monkey carcass — all made possible by the same type of big teeth and large jaws our early ancestors had.

The by - product of submerging aromatic plant matter in a fixed oil for days or weeks, the remaining oil is reminiscent of what our ancestors would have used as perfume, anointing oils, or healing ointments.

Paleo diet helps you lose weight by increasing the intake of food our ancestors used to eat when they lived in communities where they had to hunt for food every day.

Going Back in Time A paleo diet is all about reviving our ancestors» diets back in the day by eating fresh, healthy, wholesome foods that have not been contaminated with additives and preservatives.

The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy by Mark Sisson is a journey through human evolution, comparing the life and robust health of our hunter - gatherer ancestors with a day in the life of a modern family.

Even when your ancestors were not Irish, you may want / have to wear emerald that day just because there is a great Irish community in your town; you are invited by your friends who have Irish ancestor / are Irish or celebrate everything; someone at the office is throwing an Irish coffee break — you name it.

The movie follows modern day death row inmate Cal Lynch (Michael Fassbender) as he's forced to cybernetically tap into the memories of one of his assassin ancestors in order to find the Apple of Eden so that scheming scientist Alan Rikkin (Jeremy Irons) and his daughter Sophia (Marion Cotillard) may eliminate violence by extinguishing free will on behalf of all humanity.

Because Germany as a country did not exist until 1871, many of the ancestors of today's German Americans would not have emigrated from Germany itself but from other parts of Europe that were dominated by German speakers during the height of the Holy Roman Empire (which had its center in the Kingdom of Germany, just one of the many kingdoms that were unified to form modern day Germany).

Records substantiate the existence of short, square, «under the table» dogs from at least 1000 B.C.. By piecing together historical facts and documented records, it is possible to some extent to follow the development in China of the breeding of dogs likely to be the ancestors of the present - day Shih Tzu.

In terms of size, the present day Chihuahua is much smaller than its ancestors, a change thought to be due to the introduction of miniaturized Chinese dogs, such as the Chinese crested dog, into South America by the Spanish.

It is unknown whether they are descended from the Vallhunds (Swedish cattle dogs possibly brought to Pembrokeshire by the Vikings) or from the ancestors of the present - day Schipperkes and Pomeranians that were brought to Wales by Flemish weavers.

Each year the town celebrates by having parades, educational workshops and lectures on the islanders history and ancestors, special church masses, blessings of the fleet and local fishermen, dances, special concerts and a fun day for children and adults.

Ghosts of Milton — walking tour of historic township of Milton Step back in Time — coach tour of Milton & Ulladulla Discover your Ancestors — A guide to cemeteries In Days Gone By — Walking Tours of Ulladulla & Harbour

And to carry on the guild analogy, the word «journeyman» is derived from an ancestor of modern French «journee»: a journeyman is someone who's hired and paid by the day.

The increased precipitation toward the end of the Pleistocene was marked by a vast proliferation of pluvial lakes in the Great Basin of western North America, notably Lake Bonneville and Lake Lahontan (enormous ancestors of present - day Great Salt Lake and Pyramid Lake).

(I) Have transferred, and do hereby transfer to the said A. H. Ide, All and Whole of my rights and privileges in the 13th day of November, formerly my birthday, now, hereby, and henceforth, the birthday of the said A. H. Ide, to have, hold, exercise and enjoy the same in the customary manner, by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments, and copies of verse, according to the manner of our ancestors.»