Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helped place those manuscripts in context as well as providing valuable clues to the cultural development of Eurasia. Everyday items such as bronze vessels, weapons, clothing and funerary offerings provide a picture of daily life. And the discovery of both Chinese- and Indian-inspired imagery on porcelain and sculpture confirm Mongolia's role in the cultural exchange between China and Eurasia...
...girlfriend's dorm and will remain there until it is convenient for the assistant dean to take her to her residence. I'm told that the boy will be spoken to that evening by another dean of the school. Later on that evening, my daughter calls to confirm that she is at the dean's residence and she will be okay for the evening. She has discovered that any Harvard key such as the one she has or the one the boy has will open the outside door of that residence...
...Russian panel. Participants declared she was killed during the Bolshevik execution of her family in 1918. Since then, several women have claimed to be Anastasia, insisting that the young girl survived the killing. Last year British experts conducting DNA tests on the remains of the royal family could only confirm the identities of the Czar, his wife and three of the four daughters. The more recent Russian study concludes that the bones of the Romanov son Alexei and his sister Maria, not Anastasia, were missing...
There a technician identified the strands as either Ebola Zaire or something very close to it. Even more alarming, an incident at the Reston building seemed to confirm that this virus, unlike the African one, could be transmitted through the air. Franctic phone calls were made to Virginia health authorities and to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The Reston building was, in Army parlance, a "hot zone," an area that contained lethal, infectious organisms. An Army team, wearing space suits, killed the 450 surviving monkeys by lethal injection, and the cadavers were place in plastic bags for disposal...
...distance carriers to provide local phone service. In the Senate on Aug. 11, the Commerce Committee sent to the floor S1822, a bill that would permit the same process but stipulates that the Baby Bells cannot enter long-distance markets until the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission confirm that they have opened their lines to competitors. That could take several years. The House version lets them in after one year, regardless of competition. The House version is expected to go to the Senate floor in September...