Sentences with phrase «learn something about history»

If you are going to practice law for the next 30 or 40 years, you might as well learn something about its history or famous litigators.

While staying at this lode, you can also learn something about the history of the area and can visit the town school, churches, stores, National Parks, and the community center that houses the Symphonic Band project.

(I'd recommend taking your more mature kids to see Goodbye Christopher Robin instead, because they'll learn something about history, unlike this movie.)

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I always enjoy reading the letters of investment managers with long term records of success; whether it's a new investment idea or perhaps a new ways of thinking about the economy, markets, psychology, risk or market history, there is always something to learn.

I find it fascinating that you can take something as simple as a potato and dependent upon whether it has been boiled, roasted, deep fried, baked in cheese, sliced, cooked whole, crumbled, burnt, sprinkled in mint, or doused in yogurt — it will open your eyes to learning about another culture and their adoption of traditions throughout their own history.

(my android didn't like something), you can learn a lot about eight dough and its history, travels across the pond to the USA how it had more value than money on the frontier and lots of other fun stuff at king Arthur s webpage.

Until he took on the herculean task of combing through over a century's worth of menus from L.A. restaurants to see if he could learn something about the city's history.

«This is a wonderful opportunity to re-open our eyes to our own history, as well as learn something about it,» Savino said.

Learn more about the evolution When I was in school, I was never the biggest fan of history unless it was something I cared about.

How sad that a confluence of limited funding, political pressures, and its own history of empire - building has led the National Assessment Governing Board to propose an increase in testing combined with a reduction in the kinds of items and tasks that might actually tell us something worthwhile about student learning («Board Ponders New Format To Make NAEP More Cost - Effective, Useful,» Jan. 24, 1996).

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

If we at least started to make pupils aware that learning to spell English is difficult because it was repeatedly changed for the worse by people who did not care a jot about enabling all children to learn as much as possible (as I have explained to the History page of my EnglishSpellingProblems blog) future generations might start doing something about it.

At the end, he hopes that somebody reading Underground Airlines «will have something akin to the experience I had [writing it], which is this: as much as I thought I knew about my nation's history and the pervasiveness of racism in our present day, I had a lot to learn.»

In Rachel Hauck's The Wedding Dress, bridal boutique owner Charlotte traces the history of a gorgeous vintage wedding dress, learning something about true love as she discovers the stories of its previous owners.

From native history and storytelling to the crazy creatures that come out after dark - there's something to learn about at every track and turn.

Obviously, you can't visit Vietnam without learning something about the country's history including the Vietnam War.

See a 40 - foot whale skeleton, read about the history of whaling, and spend a little bit of time on your vacation learning about something new.

Our main interest however, is making sure that visitors to Peru who join our expeditions and tours have an experience of a lifetime and leave having had a great time and having learned something along the way about the country, the history, the people, the wilderness and wildlife.

We will learn something new about this land and its history rather than just sail around and fight ghost pirates.

«Especially now, at a time when some of these basic values are being challenged, it's really interesting to dive back into thoughts about learning and why art is important, and Black Mountain is one of those times in history where we veered very close to something quite essential.»

A paper reporting a «rigorous double blind» study — the VIGOR trial — was submitted to NEJM in 1998, got through peer review at one of the most up - tight journals in the world of medicine, and — by way of cherry - picking the data submitted (selecting out some study subjects whose adverse events histories which, if considered, would've significantly affected the safety profile for rofecoxib and revealed something that Merck really didn't want us prescribers to learn about their «blockbuster» product — was published to be touted by Merck's marketing weevils as solid proofs of Vioxx's tolerability, efficacy, and safety.

If we learn to properly identify the people responsible for the situation, and deal with it appropriately, we will find that we can go back to our normal way of playing games for recreation, rather than dealing with them as if they are actually more than just a way to pass time we could be spending doing something more meaningful, like, for instance, learning about Chinese Culture, History and Language.

Now that you have had your history lesson and learned something new, let's talk about Canadian mortgage services in 2018 & beyond.