Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the new home for the newsstand was torn down in 1961, it has been rebuilt because efforts by the Cambridge Historical Commission four years earlier put the newsstand on the National Register of Historic Places. By law, buildings on the register must be preserved, though they may be removed...
He is a Sikh, a member of a casteless religion that combines elements of Hinduism and Islam but scorns both the caste system of the Hindus and the historic expansionism of the Muslims in favor of monotheism, unembarrassed materialism and, where necessary, militarism. Though the 15 million Sikhs represent only...
A cloud of thick gray smoke and the pungent scent of burning wax wafted above the jumble of gravestones in Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery last Thursday. It was All Saints' Day, and thousands of Poles had crowded into the historic burial ground to light candles in memory of...
Despite the government's measures to defuse tension, there was widespread suspicion of high-level complicity in the tragedy. Even when Popieluszko was a young seminary student serving a mandatory term in the military, he had spent time in the stockade for conducting prayer services. The priest was so...
One week after the historic transplant operation at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Southern California, the first infant?though not the first person?to receive a simian heart was reported to be doing remarkably well. "All vital signs are still good, and there's no sign of rejection," said...