Sentences with phrase «written history of world»

The Race Underground is a superbly written history of world - wide ingenuity, which culminated in twos cities triumph over congestion, graft, politics and proving America as a world innovator.
One could write a history of the world's religions in terms of that question and the various answers people have given to it.
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter «Y2K to March 2004,» what will they say was the most crucial development?

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But that long history of data on past catastrophes does not exist in the cyber insurance policy world, says Stephen Boyer, the CTO and co-founder of risk - rating company BitSight, a company that assesses company risk for cyber policies written by AIG, Travelers, and others.
The man who wrote the original work was a promising young scholar in his early thirties at All Soul's College at Oxford; the person who issues the new edition is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton, the most renowned student of Augustine in the world, and one of the most respected historians of the religious history of the later Roman History at Princeton, the most renowned student of Augustine in the world, and one of the most respected historians of the religious history of the later Roman history of the later Roman Empire.
And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.
I fear that I have not done it justice, rather as if I had said, «There are some interesting facets of English and Roman history, and many details of world geography,» when writing of the plays of Shakespeare.
As Erich Auerbach, a literary critic Frei much admired, once wrote of the Bible: «Far from seeking... merely to make us forget our own reality for a few hours, it seeks to overcome our reality: we are to fit our own life into its world, feel ourselves to be elements in its structure of universal history.
Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported by the New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..
The history of the world is written around emerging peoples» quest for land and other resources, and established populations» defense of them.
«The immorality of the United States and Great Britain's decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in historywrote Tutu.
Meanwhile, Hutchinson continued to write books, turning out a dozen or more volumes on such themes as the history of Methodism, world revolution and religion, the ordeal of Western religion, the leaders who made the churches and the modernization of China.
Journalists have lately been writing about the Watergate syndrome in almost apocalyptic terms: as not merely the worst political disaster in U.S. history but also the nemesis of U.S. world power and effective leadership in government at home.
When the Japanese historian undertook to write the history of his people, like the Hebrews, he went back to the very beginning of the world.
The bible is one of the many ways satan uses to mislead people... seriously look at the history of the world since the bible was written... Belief in the bible has led to wars, faster spread of disease, attempted genocide, and the chaos of trying to interpret it, 40, 000 versions of belief in the bible... definitely sounds like something satan would want... a source of unfounded belief leading to conflict, and silly people trying to perform «exorcisms»
In the history of both the individual and the human race, writes Buber, the proper alternation between I - It and I - Thou is disturbed by a progressive augmentation of the world of It.
Also see Gym Prakash, «Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Indian Historiography is Good to Think» in Colonialism and Culture, Ed., Nicholas B. Dirks, (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1992), pp. 353 - 388.
Einstein's characterization of the scientist who wants to find a lucid and simplified image of the world is reinforced in our time by the statement of Stephen Hawking (1988) in his A Brief History of Time, when he wrote on the final page: «The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe».
In Plato's writing, Whitehead found what he proclaimed to be one of the greatest intellectual discoveries in the history of religion — «that the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency and not as a coercive agency» (AI 166).
The whole history of philosophy can be written from the standpoint of the effort of man to clarify and integrate his conceptions of time and space as they enter into the constitution of the world.
I'm shaped by this place, as Luci Shaw wrote about poets, the slender antennae of awareness is always combing the world, and I am shaped by the people here, by their stories, by our becoming - shared histories, what I pick up here matters for my work, my voice, my faith, my family, perhaps it's not so prideful in this context, to say that it matters for the world.
And the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind, whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of this world, is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion.»
«Science,» she writes, «is important for exactly the same reason that the study of history or of language is important — because we are beings that need in general to understand the world in which we live, and our culture has chosen a way of life to which that understanding is central.»
The estimable Steve Forbes recently wrote in Forbes magazine that the last twenty - five years have been the most prosperous in the history of the world, particularly in one overlooked respect: During this period, between a half billion and a billion of the poor have seen the shackles of their poverty cut away.
Saying that there is no Creator YHWH, is like saying that there was never a Nebuchadnezzar, no Solomon, no David, and that there was no Cyrus the Great the Persian, all who are wrote into our own world history, as well as in this book of remembrance, the so called OT, also called the bible.
In other words, since Moses began writing the Pentateuch (Genesis — Deuteronomy) around 1400 B.C. and since the last book of the Bible was written around 400 B.C., are we to believe that throughout all history and around the entire world, God was only whispering to a select few individuals for only a few brief centuries?
According to Samuel Huntington of Harvard University (writing in The National Interest), there have been three discernible «waves» of democracy in world history.
This is the most extensive and thorough world history of homosexuality ever written.
The Church was very powerful in those days and controlled most aspects of society, including politics, economics, literature and history - writing... still, his dating system took hundreds of years (nearly 1000) to be inst - ituted world - wide.
Dr. Boli goes to the opera -LRB-» Giuditta tells the story of the doomed love affair between Octavio... and Giuditta, a beautiful woman with the brains of a gerbil»), observes Thanksgiving customs all over the world, teaches us history, and writes a play.
This kind of watered down Judaism has put us on the edge of an Iran with a bomb, Obama in office and an Israel at risk.Religion is not about compromise that is a bumper sticker far too many have bought into.When the next great history of the Jewish people is written, they will write we did it to ourselves - trying to be oh so tolerant we put ourselves in a state where we ended up being unrecognizable to those who paid so much for us to lamely claim to be Jews in a primarily anti-semitic world pushing us to compromise.
The mythological world of ancient man forms the real background for the appreciation of the Old Testament, and the first thing which strikes one is that the Old Testament contains so much writing of history.
History books across the country / world are written and screwed to the liking of those who wrote it and they will continue to be!
The twentieth - century philosopher of history, R.G. Collingwood, judged the early Christians to be the first to conceive of writing a universal history of the world going back to the origin of humankind, and instanced Eusebius of Caesarea (c.260 - 340).
The Church was very, very powerful in those days and controlled many aspects of society, including politics, economics, literature and history - writing... still, his dating system took hundreds of years (nearly 1000) to be inst - ituted world - wide.
CARY, N.C. — Six days after the worst defeat in U.S. soccer history, the next chapter already was being written half a world away in New Delhi, India, where the Americans progressed to the quarterfinals of the FIFA U-17 World Cup with a 5 - 0 rout of Paraworld away in New Delhi, India, where the Americans progressed to the quarterfinals of the FIFA U-17 World Cup with a 5 - 0 rout of ParaWorld Cup with a 5 - 0 rout of Paraguay.
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Senegal coach Aliou Cisse has made no secret of his desire for his charges to emulate the Teranga Lions» previous World Cup team and write their own history in the tournament, but is downplaying his side's changes of reaching the quarter finals.
Don't Start Too Early «The idea that parents should hurry reading, spelling, writing, or math ahead of children's normal development is not supported by a single replicable research study in the world or by any clinical experience in history...» - so read this to find out what you should do, when and how to start.
After publishing Postwar in 2005, a tour de force of European history since World War II, winning the Arthur Ross Book Award for best book in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thought.
One of the most remarkable and mysterious technical advances in the history of the world is written on the hide of a 13th - century calf.
Globe - hopping from ancient China to the Aztec Empire, from glamorous Parisian cafes to the mills of New England, Paper weaves culture with chemistry, and politics with pulpwood, as it chronicles world history through that wafer - thin product we write on.
Historians tend to be suspicious of anything that would be called a grand narrative, yet even some of them have recently made an effort in a field called world history, starting with the beginning of writing or agriculture or even anatomically modern humans.
Now there's a powerful new approach for illuminating the world before the dawn of written history — reading the actual genetic code of our ancient ancestors.
The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered only 120 feet, «but it was nevertheless the first in the history of the world in which a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight,» Orville later wrote.
Scientists estimate that the experiment will result in one of the largest scientific samples of data ever, at least a few hundred petabytes — more than all the written works in the history of the world, several times over.
Natural and Cultural Resources Manager Tim Green talks about the history At the same location where soldiers passed through for two world wars and Irving Berlin wrote «God Bless America,» staff at Brookhaven Lab lead and collaborate with some of the world's brightest minds as an asset for innovation and inspiration with seven Nobel Prize - winning discoveries and countless other advances, supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's mission to discover the solutions that power and secure our nation's future.
Now there's a powerful new approach for illuminating the world before the dawn of written history - reading the actual genetic code of our ancient ancestors.
In their book Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus, Monica Murphy and Bill Wasik write: «In their maddened lunges and infectious bites, our cinematic zombies... are nothing less than projections of our timeless fear of rabies.»
One of the most famous diabetologists in the history of the world — Dr. Elliot Joslin wrote about it in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in 1916!
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