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Religious movements often originate in a dream. It was said in Arabia in the 1800s that a man in Najd province dreamed that his body produced flames that spread far and wide, consuming desert camps and towns alike. He told his dream to a sheik, who said the man's son would found a new faith that the desert Arabs would adopt. And so it transpired--although the founder was ultimately the man's grandson: Mohammed ibn Abd Wahhab...
...colleagues turned to old photographs and historic texts, all of which confirmed that prior to European settlement, the ponderosa pine forests of the Southwest looked very different, with "every foot...covered with the finest grass," wrote a traveler who passed through the area in the mid-1800s, "and unencumbered with brush wood...
...other scholars in the field and served as director of publications in the New York City Public Library. It was at the library in the early 1980s where he met and lent support to Gates in a research project regarding black women’s writings in the 1800s...
...confused about what a credit union is, you're not alone. The institutions, which date to the mid-1800s, took off during the Great Depression as not-for-profit, tax-exempt organizations through which workers in a company could pool their savings to qualify for loans for cars and other big-ticket items. About 10,000 exist today. The Navy's is the nation's largest, with 1.25 million members, while some have fewer than 500 members. Roughly 60% of credit unions are federally chartered (the rest have state charters) and supervised by the National Credit Union Administration. Nearly...
Glaeser has most recently researched the economy of hatred, studying the situation of blacks in the United States in the late 1800s, Jews in Nazi Germany and anti-American sentiments in the Middle East during recent decades. He has concluded that “hatred is not innate, but is rather a creation of particular political actors who face incentives to build hatred...