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But you can see that sort of history lesson in any number of traditional towns all over Germany.

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«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culturIn the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culturin the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

But there are other connections that matter, too, connections that are more fundamental and more personal — ties to a family and a history, to memories of a father or dreams for a son, to a husband or a wife across a desk, or to a grandmother whose lessons lie in the distant past.

History lesson: when Chrysler was bailed out and went bankrupt in 2008, nobody wanted any part of the carmaker.

In honor of its anniversary, Scott Berkun, the author of five popular books on creativity and leadership, wrote an essay devoted to lessons you can learn from the history of the Eiffel Tower's construction.

It's a nice history lesson for anyone who's interested in Apple, but the second half of the film is where things really start to get interesting.

She never intended to study the history of guns in America but, as a survivor of the Feb. 14 mass shooting, it was a lesson forced upon her.

As always in this publication, we turn to the lessons of history for the clues that they may offer us about today.

No one knows who created it and those who've attempted to dismiss it have gotten a history lesson in the power of disruptive technologies.

The lesson of history is that trusting in networks to run the world is a recipe for anarchy.»

Importantly, other investors are aware of the same history that you're aware of, they've been exposed to the same lessons — «think long - term», «don't sell in a panic», «stocks for the long run.»

When we are steep in gloom, doom and feelings of despair we need statistics and lessons of history to show that others have gone through this before.

Too late for the tour and the history lesson, too late in the season on this southern plantation, and the ancient, front - line cedar soldiersbacked up by a strong regiment of holliesare not telling what they know.I walk on the old brick, caulked with thin moss, but soon overlaid with a thickening....

In any case, the lessons of recent history still have not translated in the WCC into some sense of reservation, of tentativeness regarding grand world - order schemeIn any case, the lessons of recent history still have not translated in the WCC into some sense of reservation, of tentativeness regarding grand world - order schemein the WCC into some sense of reservation, of tentativeness regarding grand world - order schemes.

Portier's sympathetic treatment of the struggles of Denis J. O'Connell, John R. Slattery, William L. Sullivan, and Joseph McSorley to find a path for Catholicism in modernity illuminate a lot of history that has been in the shadows — and which, brought to light, teaches important lessons for today.

We can not idealise the Church or the state there, but we can be thankful for the rich history of both — and for the many lessons they can teach us in the West and in the world of Islam.

much less have all those present... second... I still sick and tired of this abuse of separation of church and state... you people need to get a history lesson in how it all came about and the intentions..

30 Rock blazed a number of trails in its history, and it's not only changed television (The New Girl, Parks and Rec, The Mindy Project and Girls all almost certainly owe part of their existence to it) but it's given a few lessons worth taking into our own lives as well.

The Assemblies of God learned this lesson early in its history when in 1916 it lost nearly a quarter of its following due to «heresy»» that came from a private revelation denying the trinity of God.

YOU need a lesson in biblical history, particularly 1st century Judea, which will help you understand the world of the Gospels better.

A little history lesson for you: God, Jesus, Christ, and Christian are 4 words that do NOT appear in our Declaration of Independence or more importantly, our Consti - tution.

Given this long history of Christian collusion with social injustice, today we must reflect on the lessons of the participation in the first phase of capitalist - led globalization from 1492/1498 onwards.

As far as my history lessons tells me was that the middle east was far advanced in math and science and arts before the coming of Islam.

Civiloutside, I restricted my reply to the last 2,000 years because I did not have time to give a history lesson as to culture of the chosen ones God was addressing in the old testament.

Mr. Benne must have neglected his lessons in church history, as he seems unaware that the catholic tradition of ecclesiology, which is quite enthusiastic about ecclesial life, has always resisted the elitism prominent in schismatic renderings of the Church.

Egyptian state - controlled media regularly broadcast the anti-Judaic and anti-Christian sermons that jihadist religious leaders preach on Fridays, and the history lessons in the state - controlled schools rarely mention the centuries when Egypt was a majority - Christian province of the caliph's empire.

Failing to see the council's place in the whole modern history of the Church, they try to unlearn a still harder and more basic lesson about the Church's relationship with the world, one that long antedates Catholicism's journey through modernity.

a few history lessons; 1) «The Battle of Tours followed 21 years of Umayyad conquests in Europe which had begun with the invasion of the Visigothic Christian Kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula in 711.

One of the things that put my son off Christianity was learning about all the wars that had been fought by Christians in His school history lessons.

There was also a prophet named Isaiah, but his prophecies were included in the Bible to give us lessons of morality not of history.

A lesson for Catholics in the U. S. from a classic history of the struggle for control of the American continent.

In fact, the whole purpose of the discernment of spirits coincides with Milton's purpose in writing Paradise Lost: as Fish has rightly seen (and he was the first to do so), Milton wants us to live through the consequences of sin in our imaginative reenactment of salvation history (no wonder he felt that Paradise Regained was the capstone of his work) in order to keep us from the more dire lessons that life impartIn fact, the whole purpose of the discernment of spirits coincides with Milton's purpose in writing Paradise Lost: as Fish has rightly seen (and he was the first to do so), Milton wants us to live through the consequences of sin in our imaginative reenactment of salvation history (no wonder he felt that Paradise Regained was the capstone of his work) in order to keep us from the more dire lessons that life impartin writing Paradise Lost: as Fish has rightly seen (and he was the first to do so), Milton wants us to live through the consequences of sin in our imaginative reenactment of salvation history (no wonder he felt that Paradise Regained was the capstone of his work) in order to keep us from the more dire lessons that life impartin our imaginative reenactment of salvation history (no wonder he felt that Paradise Regained was the capstone of his work) in order to keep us from the more dire lessons that life impartin order to keep us from the more dire lessons that life imparts.

We never learn our lessons, we know that every time in history that a religious group got too powerful, a bunch of people who did not agree with them ended up dead.

When analysts and fund managers gather in picturesque St Helena and its surrounds in California's Napa Valley on March 9 and 10 for a full run - through by Treasury Wine Estates» plan for super-charging its American wine business, the lessons of history may loom large.

He begins our history lesson in perfect idiomatic English: «You must realize that the Savoie has been a part of France for no time at all — only since 1860 — not even as long as our Caribbean possessions, which we got in the 17th century.

I have long accepted that we will never lift a major trophy with arsene again and am willing to put up with him for the remaining part of his arsenal career but these should be a lesson to all of us ie the fans, board and everyone else in the arsenal hierarchy, NEVER AGAIN SHOULD WE TRUST ANY OTHER MANAGER THE WAY WE HAVE TRUSTED WENGER... humans have that history of taking advantage of their victims and i hope that these situation will never affect the future generation of arsenal fans....

Our great leader Arsene Wenger has no interest in citing history lessons ahead of Arsenal's top - of - the - table clash against Chelsea on Sunday, and the Frenchman thinks that current form should be the deciding factor in the game.

Wenger is as usual treating players poorly and inconsistent e.g Lacca never plays 90 mins Xhaka plays every game every minute I know who I think is better For me I can not think of another midfielder who we bought worse than Xhaka We have not fixed the problems we have (as always) hoodwinked) the fans We have not spent a penny in the last two windows we've spent what been generated I have not and then I'll not spend a penny on the club till that awful manager is gone (don't give me history lessons about how good he is / was) It may be the board but until wenger has gone we won't know.

Austria v Hungary is one of the great football derbies and also a lesson in the history of the 20th century.

This weekend's picks include an «owl prowl» at Crowder County Park in Apex, immersion in international art at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, a bird identification 101 program in Raleigh, a performance and history lesson about the evolution of the horn at Duke Gardens in Durham, and Carolina Parent's 2018 Summer, Track - Out and Residential Camp Fair at Embassy Suites in Cary.

One of the signal results of toxic - stress exposure is a hyperactive fight - or - flight mechanism, which can be a valuable asset in a violent home or neighborhood but is much less helpful during a seventh - grade history lesson.

«At Waldorf, we are excited to see students in the high school singing the elements of the periodic table, staging plays in Spanish, drawing in Math, producing short videos for Shakespeare lessons and conveying, through abstraction, the history of language through circus arts and acrobatics.»

The history course was done in short, easy to understand lessons with plenty of activities to complement.

This mini history lesson continues outside the tenement on Orchard Street and goes around the neighbourhood describing how these immigrants lived outside of their homes in the neighbourhood and how the area has changed over the years.

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My history lesson truly began at the turn of the century, when I travelled with Ruth back to her birthplace, Siauliai (Shavl in Yiddish), in northern Lithuania.

Miliband: «If he wants a history lesson» he can be reminded of a 2008 speech in which he said «the problem of the last decade is too much regulation».

I think you're in need of a little history lesson as to who ended slavery.

While stuck at the airport in Tyler, Texas yesterday, I ran across a fascinating history lesson in the comments section of a random Sadly, No article.

Cuomo's hand - picked MTA chairman Joe Lhota gave a quick history lesson of the history of the authority, explaining that the city owns the assets of MTA sub-agency New York City Transit and the state only stepped in to fund the first capital plan in 1981 because the city's finances were a mess and the subways were a disaster.