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Brant Moscovitch researches global history at Oxford University.

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The excerpt draws on: Jean Jennings Bartik, Pioneer Programmer (Truman State); Jean Bartik oral history, conducted by Gardner Hendrie, Computer History Museum, July 1, 2008; Jean Bartik oral history, conducted by Janet Abbate, IEEE Global History Network, Aug. 3, 2001; Steve Lohr, «Jean Bartik, Software Pioneer, Dies at 86,» New York Times, Apr. 7, 2011; Jennifer Light, «When Computers Were Women,» Technology and Culture, Julhistory, conducted by Gardner Hendrie, Computer History Museum, July 1, 2008; Jean Bartik oral history, conducted by Janet Abbate, IEEE Global History Network, Aug. 3, 2001; Steve Lohr, «Jean Bartik, Software Pioneer, Dies at 86,» New York Times, Apr. 7, 2011; Jennifer Light, «When Computers Were Women,» Technology and Culture, JulHistory Museum, July 1, 2008; Jean Bartik oral history, conducted by Janet Abbate, IEEE Global History Network, Aug. 3, 2001; Steve Lohr, «Jean Bartik, Software Pioneer, Dies at 86,» New York Times, Apr. 7, 2011; Jennifer Light, «When Computers Were Women,» Technology and Culture, Julhistory, conducted by Janet Abbate, IEEE Global History Network, Aug. 3, 2001; Steve Lohr, «Jean Bartik, Software Pioneer, Dies at 86,» New York Times, Apr. 7, 2011; Jennifer Light, «When Computers Were Women,» Technology and Culture, JulHistory Network, Aug. 3, 2001; Steve Lohr, «Jean Bartik, Software Pioneer, Dies at 86,» New York Times, Apr. 7, 2011; Jennifer Light, «When Computers Were Women,» Technology and Culture, July 1999.

«Rates and inflation, even though they have ticked up, are still at very low levels relative to history, monetary policy is still easy, said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors in Boston.

He is a Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and the author of the forthcoming book «Missing OPEC: The History and Future of Boom - Bust Oil Prices,» from Columbia University Press, 2016.

«It's a rare moment in global economic history that people are looking at Canada not for its charm but its expertise,» he says.

When you look at the last 15 years of eSports history, and in particular the production quality, sponsor involvement, global reach and audience, you will notice that the quality and level of entertainment have always gone up with an audience boost.

Since mobile phones are one of the most widely deployed technologies in history, it makes sense that mobile will start driving global Internet penetration, which currently stands at 36 %.

History plays a large role, says Algernon Austin, senior research fellow at Washington, D.C. - based think tank Center for Global Policy Solutions.

«The history of currency pegs is that they are susceptible to changes in economic fundamentals that warrant a completely different level in the exchange rate,» said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital.

Anybody who's seen Chinatown can guess at the sordid history of the real estate deals that helped transform Los Angeles from a dusty burgh to a global capital of glamour, and for Gross — who sold truckloads of his previous book, 740 Park, a history of New York's richest apartment building and its residents — the estates of Beverly Hills and Bel Air prove fertile ground.

Although the Virgin brand is well respected within the music industry given our roots — Virgin Records and Virgin Music did very well at music production and distribution — we had no history of promoting global tours.

Because China begins the process with the highest investment level in history, the extent of the transformation must exceed that of any other case, and it must occur at a time when weak Chinese demand is compounded by weak global demand, thereby reducing productive investment opportunities for the private sector.

JEFF KLEINTOP, CHARLES SCHWAB CHIEF GLOBAL MARKET STRATEGIST: You know, Sue, unfortunately, we have many, many years of history to look at when we look at coalition and U.S. missile strikes.

Arun here... breaking radio silence to share with you a thought - provoking piece by Larry Kazdan, a graduate of York University in sociology and history, and currently a Council Member with the World Federalist Movement - Canada, an organization that monitors developments at the United Nations and advocates for more effective global governance.

Russia's Gazprom ranked no. 1 in the 2017 S&P Global Platts Top 250 Global Energy Company Rankings, toppling ExxonMobil and ending its 12 - year reign at the top spot, S&P Global Platts said in what it defined as the most profound change in the 16 - year history of the ranking.

If you take a look at the global corporate history, you will see that the large cap stocks, also known as Blue Chip stocks are by and far the most consistently high performers in the market, even when you average them across decades of performance data.

Taking the context in real terms, it implies that the margin debt of the NYSE amount currently to about 2.87 % of US GDP, surpassing the previous all - time high of 2.78 % which has been set at the peak of the biggest stock market bubble in global history, in March 2000.

One of my favorite Twitter follows @LadyFOHF shared the below scatter chart from Morgan Stanley that attempted to map areas of the global market that were both cheap (valuation ranks at the lower end of its 10 - year history) and defensive (a low or negative correlation to global equities).

Why has reconciliation arisen in global politics at this moment in history?

Our present global warming is not at all unusual by the standards of geological history, and it is probably benefiting the biosphere.

Ulrich L. Lehner is professor of religious history and theology at Marquette University and the author of the forthcoming book The Catholic Enlightenment: The Forgotten Story of a Global Movement (Oxford).

But here is a question for Senator Obama, or anyone seeking the awesome burden and responsibility of the American presidency at this moment in history: With whom do you stand on the question of Vietnam and its relationship to our global responsibilities today?

There was never a global flood and yet scientists say that at some time in earth's history it was entirely covered in water.

For a time, that led scientists to look for archeological evidence that there might have been a great global flood at some time in human pre-history, before recorded history, when stories were passed down orally.

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

Smith explained in a statement how they've managed to progress global access to God's Word: «New strategies, methods, tools, and resources are empowering the local church and Christians to translate God's Word into more languages than at any time in world history.»

In the end the original purpose of God in Christ will be realised, but not before the pattern of his death and resurrection has been repeated one last time at the climax of history — and therefore on a global scale.

This isn't Tom Wright writing the definitive history of Israel, but a New York Times chart - topper with 50 times Wright's global influence, choosing to put an ancient biblical story at the heart of the cultural zeitgeist.

«Jim Beam has been making history by producing the world's finest bourbon through seven generations of family distillers, and this partnership truly signifies a new era for the brand — an era in which we push boundaries even further, attracting new fans across the globe and continuing the great growth we've enjoyed on the brand,» said Kevin George, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Beam Inc. «Mila's love of bourbon, her appreciation for the authenticity of our brand, her warm personality and her global relevance to our Make History campaign make her the perfect phistory by producing the world's finest bourbon through seven generations of family distillers, and this partnership truly signifies a new era for the brand — an era in which we push boundaries even further, attracting new fans across the globe and continuing the great growth we've enjoyed on the brand,» said Kevin George, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Beam Inc. «Mila's love of bourbon, her appreciation for the authenticity of our brand, her warm personality and her global relevance to our Make History campaign make her the perfect pHistory campaign make her the perfect partner.

Faisal Devji is Reader in Indian History at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and the author of two books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (Hurst, 2005), and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (Hurst, 2009).

For the past four years, Notaro has taught at Westmoreland Central School, instructing students in Advanced Placement World History and ninth and tenth grade Global Studies.

Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and the author of two books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (Hurst, 2005), and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (Hurst, 2009).

At the event she will be presenting alongside David Goldblatt, broadcaster and author of The Ball is Round, a book which explores the global history of football.

Traditionally, the state's Global History exam covered two years» study in ninth and 10th grades, and was administered at the end of the second year.

«This is a person now that has affiliated with radical organizations like Perdana Global, and now they want to build a mosque in the shadow of the worst terrorist attack in American history at a time when they say — if you take them at their word — that they're coming at this to heal divisions and instead they're opening up wounds particularly for the families of the victims of 9/11.»

«We're at a moment in our global history where there's a rising tide of anti-Semitism, where people refuse to recognize it even exists.»

Dr Michael Collins is a Lecturer in British History in the Department of History, and Director for Institutional Change and Democracy at the Global Governance Institute (GGI) University College London (UCL).

The ease of transport and the global population mean that humans are more at risk of disease than at any other time in our evolutionary history, Jones says.

The same GIMPS software just uncovered a flaw in Intel's latest Skylake CPUs, and its global network of CPUs peaking at 450 trillion calculations per second remains the longest continuously - running «grassroots supercomputing» project in Internet history.

As the global population grows, far more people are concentrated in at - risk areas than at any time in Earth's history.

The Messenger probe's second flyby of Mercury earlier this month has provided the first global view of the pockmarked planet, hinting at a complicated mineral structure beneath the surface and more glimpses of the planet's volcanic history.

At one point during the Bush Administration, OGHA reached a level of power and clout that was unprecedented in its history and that literally meant no other agency representative in the entire U.S. government could speak to global players in health without clearing that through OGHA.

Throughout the history of life, new groups of species have flourished at the expense of earlier ones and global biodiversity has varied dramatically over geologic time.

«In the early part of our history we developed our focus on orphan diseases,» explains Greg Geissman, director of public relations at the global biopharmaceutical company.

Among spiders, «Every group has a weird story,» says Hannah Wood, a spider researcher at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington, D.C. Spiders» universal ability to make silk helps explain their global success — an estimated 90,000 species thrive on every continent except Antarctica.

In a study published in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than today.

Carsten Nowak, a conservation biologist at the Senckenberg Research Institutes and Natural History Museum in Gelnhausen, Germany, and his colleagues have made a first attempt to understand how global warming might affect this form of diversity.

«The first step was to reconstruct the history of global mean temperatures for the last 784,000 years, using combined data from marine sediment cores, ice cores, and computer simulations covering the last eight glacial cycles,» said Friedrich, a post-doctoral researcher at IPRC.

«As more freshwater flows into the Arctic Ocean due to global warming, I think we are going to see it become more brackish,» said Eberle, also curator of fossil vertebrates at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.

The heading, «Examination of Earth's Recent History Key to Predicting Global Temperatures», didn't seem to be on point at all.