Sentences with phrase «it's an ancient»

I learned conversational Korean, studied everything from string theory physics to ancient Greek and even taught myself the basics of computer programming without the internet, using textbooks.

Something more efficient and pleasant and beautiful and easy - to - use than whatever ancient, bloated and ugly enterprise software they currently suffer.

In it, Clason divulges financial wisdom through a series of parables set in ancient Babylon.

Sir Richard Branson's Kasbah Tamadot snuggled into the heart of Morocco's snow - capped Atlas Mountains, is a magical retreat surrounded by an ancient wall.

On his first visit to Facebook - crazy Indonesia, Mark Zuckerberg met the president - elect, spread the word about his company's global Internet - access initiative and posted a photo of himself at an ancient Buddhist temple.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Thousands of ancient clay tablets, seals and other Iraqi archaeological objects that were smuggled into the U.S. and shipped to the head of arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby were returned to the Iraqi government on Wednesday.

The ancient city's culinary scene, Travel + Leisure reports, features food that incorporates noodles, fresh meat, seafood and herbs.

«Somebody should tell these newbies their ideas about health care data are already ancient,» Laszewski grumpily concludes.

It turns out that these long - lived fishes, who are our ancient evolutionary cousins, share the core of an adaptive immune system with human beings.

The idea of selling out seems very ancient now,» Gardner says.

As noted in the History website this tradition dates back 4,000 years to the ancient Babylonians where they made a New Year's commitment to the gods to pay back their debts.

Also, your credit history is an average, so be careful when canceling those ancient credit card accounts: they could bring your history length down and potentially lower your score.

He spoke 10 languages and objected to many ancient medical treatments, including the practice of bloodletting, but he also suggested that coffee was responsible for many diseases.

Paraphrasing the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, author Will Durant wrote, «We are what we repeatedly do.

Today, most businesses still use these ancient artifacts because for years, faxing was the only way to exchange documents that needed signing or reading.

CNBC's Eunice Yoon reports from China's ancient and westernmost city Kashgar, which will be a linchpin along the revived trade route under China's «One Belt, One Road» initiative.

There they fell in love with a game that would change their lives: Defense of the Ancients, a.k.a. DotA.

When a threat is imminent, this reaction is essential to your survival, but when a threat is ancient history, holding on to that stress wreaks havoc on your body and can have devastating health consequences over time.

Known since the Middle Ages, colchicine had been one of those ancient discoveries that had found new life in a host of scientific and medical applications during the modern era.

The Virginia Beach, Va. - based organization, named after an ancient Chinese poem about healing, offers free, on - demand listening services for anyone who needs to simply be heard or vent.

The Ancient Chinese used mercury; ancient Indians tried sitting over pots of steam or onions; German folklore recommended a concoction of ants, camel saliva, and deer hair boiled in bear fat.

Using the two, it created AlphaGo, the system that, this past March, defeated the champion player of the ancient Chinese game of go — widely considered a landmark AI achievement.

This leads to happier lives, says Jonathan Haidt in The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom:

York comes from Old English Eoforwic, earlier Eborakon, an ancient Celtic name probably meaning «Yew - Tree Estate.»

«I have become insatiable on the topic of ancient Rome.»

There is truth to the ancient adage, «a GIF is worth a thousand words.»

But the company's origins stretch back to 1984 — ancient by tech standards.

The ancient tower that now serves as a roof terrace could again be used for a classic defense site.

The unknown and the invisible ignite ancient danger signals.

A sprawling ancient city on the banks of the Ganges, Patna is noisy and congested city and is used as a transport hub.

In the spot, set in a sleek Beijing lecture hall 20 years in the future, a sharply dressed Chinese instructor explains to his Asian students why previous empires, from Ancient Greece to the U.S.A., turned to dust.

It would be like if the ancient British colonized North America before they colonized Wales.

Don't say «very old,» say «ancient.»

So over time I've gotten fairly good at Social Jiu - Jitsu, the ancient art of getting people to talk about themselves.

New Mexico: From Spanish Nuevo Mexico, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) mexihco, the name of the ancient Aztec capital.

Travelled on an ancient Ilyushin aircraft, and whilst happy to reach my destination, this is not an airline I would use again (no choice this time on my schedule to Pyongyang).

That can't be proved, of course, so every such case resides in the limbo of urban legend and ancient superstition.

The company, which employs approximately 400 people in King's Cross, is perhaps best known for developing an AI agent that defeated the world champion of the ancient Chinese board, Go.

An ancient Chinese proverb states: «The faintest writing is stronger than the strongest memory.

Her plan: grind the heritage and ancient grains she grows into flour, creating a new revenue stream for her farm.

When a threat is imminent, this reaction is essential to your survival, but when a threat is ancient history, holding onto that stress wreaks havoc on your body and can have devastating health consequences over time.

You see, the same problem existed in ancient Babylon that existed in 1926 and still exists today: most people are broke.

Visitors will have access to the ancient ruins at Mada'in Saleh, a relic of the same ancient civilization that built the better - known city of Petra in Jordan and a UNESCO world heritage site.

Only here will you find a Disney theme park rubbing elbows with ancient temples.

From the ancient world to the Renaissance, the educated classes devised shockingly effective coping mechanisms.

This document is like an old pair of khakis you wear into the office on Saturdays or that one ancient delivery truck that never seems to break down.

The Giza Pyramids — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — can be found here, plus historic neighborhoods like Coptic Cairo.

Cairo's high temperatures and ancient charm continue to draw in tourists every year.

The news has reached China: Most of the tourists in the courtyard and at dozens of other ancient temples in the Cambodian jungle were Chinese.

They're not fools, though; they've simply fallen back on ancient instinct to cope with an over-marketed, amoral world.