Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reached home, he became a drawing-room sensation. Beautiful women pursued him upon his return, and Louis XVI was even moved to authorize French aid for the Americans. Lafayette had convinced his countrymen, as he wrote in 1777, that "America's happiness is intimately linked to that of mankind...
Boorstin boldly announces, at the launching of The Discoverers, that he plans to ignore all the obvious territory: politics, finance, culture, "the waging of wars, the rise and fall of empires." That leaves him free to concentrate on one thematic concept: "mankind's need to know-to know what is out there." The exploration starts with a basic aspect of history, time itself. Who first thought of measuring the year, or dividing it into months and weeks? The Romans decreed a week of eight days and a day of twelve hours, but the day itself was measured solely...
Luther's anti-Semitism confirms that his reforms were man-made and not divinely inspired. Luther failed to understand God's plan for mankind's salvation. Christians should look to their Jewish roots, which are the foundations of the Christian church, if they wish to see all God's people united in "one fold and one shepherd...
...Berlin, Kennedy often worried himself into a black mood. One night in his office he wondered out loud if the world would blow itself up and decided that it probably would, since all weapons ultimately had been used by man against man. Yet almost instantly he challenged himself. Maybe mankind with its new knowledge could find a way out. A short while later Kennedy invited me into the Oval Office; then he took me to the White House swimming pool. Almost before I knew what was happening he had shed his clothes and walked naked into the pool. I followed...
...Baha'i religion, founded in Iran in 1844, holds as its basic principle the unity of mankind, McLaughlin said. This commitment, she added, also includes equality of sexes and races, the refusal to fight, the advocacy of non-partisan nuclear disarmament, and the disavowal of all divisive actions...