Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was another consideration beyond Kennedy's making a strong personal impression on Khrushchev. In his inaugural speech, John Kennedy had demanded national sacrifice to meet the challenges of the cold war. "Ask not what your country can do for you," he cried. "Ask what you can do for...
When they built the first airplane that carried a man, the Wright brothers were inspired tinkerers, not original thinkers; they did not concoct the theories on which their contraption was based. That job had largely been done by a British baronet who published a lengthy paper on aerodynamics in 1809...
¶ The new church would have to manifest its historic continuity with the church both before and after the Reformation.
The catalogue is a fine book in its own right. Containing first-rate reproductions and a scholarly description of each book, it is really the outstanding text in its field. In the introduction, Philip Hofer sketches the history of book illustration over the last century, a topic which can hardly...
Before closing the site in early September, the researchers had extracted the near-perfect skeleton of the mammoth, and bones of an elk, a deer, a wolf, and a huge pre-historic bison from the muck. Of even more significance than the spectacular mammoth bones, parts of stone knives were...