Sentences with phrase «living piece of history»

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«If you're keeping photos and other items because they represent a piece of your life's history, then it's not a problem.

attempts to re-write history need to proceed in small pieces We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The Bible is full of fairy tales and should only be taken as a piece of literature of great importance just as the Odyssey is, but it shouldn't be used to govern one's life, much less to help build a relationship with the biggest fictional and ever - changing character in human history.

I wasn't able to appreciate him much live, but I was able to view him as a piece of college football history.

The Scranton Lace Company will always live in the history of the classic American Industrial Age and pieces from these great places are getting harder and harder to find.

Tiny Tags mission is to honor and remember life with you — whether the birth of a child, loss of a loved one, adoption of a pet or special date (or even location), Tiny Tags can create a one - of - a-kind piece of jewelry which is sure to become a heirloom piece in your family's history.

A decade later, as a postdoctoral researcher, he was working on a multi-university collaboration called the Tree of Life, to piece together the phylogeny — that branching tree of evolutionary history — for all flowering plants.

By studying avian bone fragments, James and husband Storrs Olson, both of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, have pieced together a picture of bird life before the first Polynesian settlers arrived sometime between a.d. 400 and 600.

Surveying the star streams helps us piece together the life history of our galaxy.

And the marbled lungfish — a living piece of evolutionary history with the largest genome of any animal — is also rated as of least concern, despite being commonly eaten by humans.

With the talks I endeavour to put together various pieces of a jigsaw puzzle — of what is the longest lasting Empire in history — into a simple and enjoyable format — «Egyptology Made Easy» as it were... My fascination for Egyptology arose from living in the country.

This collection is a little gem capable of telling a piece of forgotten history of our beloved Videogame and give, even in the comfort of your living room, the original experience of Capcom's original title.

«Because it's a piece of history, I tried to get to the honest living person in resemblance and personality.

Blu - ray adds «The Music of Coco»; «Paths to Pixar: Coco»; «Welcome to the Fiesta»; «How to Draw a Skeleton»; «A Thousand Pictures a Day» travelogue through Mexico, visiting families, artisans, cemeteries, and small villages during the Día de los Muertos holiday; «Mi Familia»; «Land of Our Ancestors» in which Pixar artists lovingly construct layer upon layer of architecture from many eras of Mexican history, bringing the Land of the Dead to life; «Fashion Through the Ages»; «The Real Guitar»; «How to Make Papel Picado»; «Un Poco Coco» montage of original animated pieces used to promote «Coco»; «Coco» trailers.

Twenty years ago, Super Mario Bros. made the leap from the NES to live - action theatrical films, in the process creating an unforgettable piece of cinematic history.

Making the rounds of the Web - fed platforms is this piece from and starring Fred Armisen — late of «Saturday Night Live» and still of «Portlandia» — as Ian Rubbish, the 1970s bottle - blond British punk rocker he introduced in an April edition of «SNL» and brought back for his swan song in May, with an indie - history supergroup that featured Steve Jones, Kim Gordon, J. Mascios, Aimee Mann and Michael Penn..

Exclusive to the Blu - ray is a thorough and detailed commentary track by director / writer Richard Kelly, the featurette «The Box: Grounded in Reality» (about the real - life history of his parents that inspired the characters), three brief yet quite efficient snapshots of the film's digital effects, a trio of bonus mood piece shorts (more ominous suggestions of otherworldly surveillance) and a bonus digital copy of the film for portable media players.

Blu - ray extras include four separate audio commentaries, with participants including the late O'Bannon, Matthews and author Gary Smart (The Complete History of The Return of the Living Dead); a making - of documentary; the final interview with O'Bannon; pieces on the film's effects and music; and a featurette on»80s horror films.

In addition to Matt's Brennan's piece on religion on TV, there are also essays on «Groundhog Day,» Ingmar Bergman, «Captain Fantastic,» «Defending Your Life,» Tarkovsky's «Nostalghia,» «Midnight Special,» «The Last Temptation of Christ,» «Last Days in the Desert,» «American Movie,» «Tommy,» «Top Chef / Cooked» and a look at the cinematic history of Joan of Arc.

All of Hank's lessons are framed through his life experience, from pieces of popular culture to his own personal history.

To celebrate taking ownership of these remarkable pieces of history, RGVA are also providing 2 VIP TICKETS to see Led Zeppelin live at the O2 on Monday 10/12/07.

This notion of papers shows up throughout Underground Airlines — Victor frequently has to show his own, proving he's a free man — and I thought about another piece of recent history, especially potent to me a few years ago when I was living in Arizona: the passage of SB 1070, giving authorities the right to stop you and ask for identification if you seem like you might not be a citizen.

«We are so thankful for Kobo's commitment and generous donation to help us shed light on the importance of education and literacy, while bringing to life Aboriginal stories and culture to youth across Canada, enriching the lives of young people and helping to preserve a piece of Canada's history.»

If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life.

The kind of person who lives here is the kind of person who realizes how amazing it is to be living in a piece of history, and who appreciates the things that they have.

It is run by Pacific Life Insurance Company, so it has a long history in the financial world, which is always good for piece of mind.

The remarkable Manggarai village of Wae Rebo, some 108 kilometres from Labuan Bajo is nestled in the cloud forests of western Flores and centres around seven cone - shaped traditional houses, which are built from bamboo, wood and grass and function as a remarkable piece of Flores» living history.

While that particular piece of gaming history seems to have been scrubbed from recent memory, the Ultima series is one that has lived on for many years and is still just as beloved as it was back in the day.

A living piece of MMORPG history.

Laden with 1984 references and Kojima's name dropping every time you clear a mission, I think it will certainly live on as a piece of gaming history, the self - referential and almost cutting meta commentary standing as a lesson for the big publishers, don't bite the hand that feeds you, or it'll drag you down.

All the works in «Localized Histories,» including pieces by Leonardo Drew, Tony Feher, Thomas Hirschhorn, Christian Marclay, Isa Genzken and Trenton Doyle Hancock, emerge from the tradition of found - object assemblage — that is, taking objects or materials from life's landscape and combining and reusing them in unexpected and insightful ways.

He also has a history with the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has 216 Johns pieces, including «Three Flags,» which it bought for $ 1 million in 1980, then the highest price ever paid for the work of a living artist.

Alemani even invited novelist Rick Moody to pen a short story set on the island; and, in a nod to the site's history as a locale for hospitals and asylums in the 19th century, Israeli artist Uri Aran will remake an abandoned office into a fictional examination room with doctors, patients, and strange «procedures» broadcast live — a piece of performance that is sure to be less Treasure Island than Shutter Island.

Therefore, the encounter will survey works with either a complex exhibition history or with limited exposure; for instance, the assemblages and pieces the artist made at the end of his life, after officially retiring, in which he revisited, reformulated and refined old materials, such as his «90s punk collages or his «60s and «70s films, which he transferred to a digital format.

Some of the key themes of Starr's work - from Hypnodreamdruff (1996) a 6 screen multimedia work about the intertwining lives of a group of lonely eccentric characters, to Big V (2004) a four screen piece about teenage sexuality and Catholicism - explore the relationship between history and memory; attempting to extract meaning from collapsing realities, she makes complex and obsessive investigations into invisible, lost or fragile phenomena.

As with other films of Jankowski's, such as Casting Jesus of 2011, the live, performative elements of Heavy Weight History have been documented in the style of scripted reality television, or specifically in this case as a convincing piece of outside broadcast coverage of a competitive sport, with a well - known Polish commentator on hand to describe the action.

In these pieces, the artist tackled genres like the still life, the portrait, figurative representation, landscape, interiors, historical painting, political propaganda, religious iconography, and the appropriation of elements from popular culture and art history.

For example a work like 10 Karat Still Life I have over there [gestures to the Chicago Cultural Center], it's more a piece that plays with art history in terms of the still lLife I have over there [gestures to the Chicago Cultural Center], it's more a piece that plays with art history in terms of the still lifelife.

This layering of time is accompanied by a unique merging of influences from the artist's native Guyana and London, where Locke now lives and works, leading to richly textured, visually vibrant pieces that stand on a crossroad of histories, cultures and media.

Instead of evaporating or being silent, he took these things — pieces of wreckage — and turned them into works of art, a meditation on one's life, one's work, one's history.

When an applicant that applies for life insurance is a moderate to heavy drinker or has a history of alcohol abuse, life insurance underwriters will typically request the following pieces of information:

Another piece of bad news is that even if you decide not to combine your policies, if your partner is a high risk driver it still could negatively impact your premiums simply because most insurance companies consider the driving history of each family member that lives within a household when they underwrite policies.

The life insurance companies will run reports by the Medical Information Bureau which will show many specific pieces of information about your health history.

The kind of person who lives here is the kind of person who realizes how amazing it is to be living in a piece of history, and who appreciates the things that they have.

This makes this building a living piece of Texas history.

This statement is not history of your life but a marketing piece.

With the talks I endeavour to put together various pieces of a jigsaw puzzle — of what is the longest lasting Empire in history — into a simple and enjoyable format — «Egyptology Made Easy» as it were... My fascination for Egyptology arose from living in the country.

A gas station assistant manager resume is not merely words on a piece of paper — it is a career life history.

With the talks I endeavour to put together various pieces of a jigsaw puzzle — of what is the longest lasting Empire in history — into a simple and enjoyable format — «Egyptology Made Easy» as it were... My fascination for Egyptology arose from living in the country.

I love that it's a small piece of the history of the house that gets to live on.