Word: rebirths
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...Thracians believed in resurrection, but the rebirth was as a spirit. They believed the spirit has the same needs as the body. That's why they put so many things inside [the tombs...
...says. “Climbing has really been growing in popularity in the past years. With Lucas’ leadership, especially, and a really dedicated group of officers and climbers, the club is definitely on its way to a renaissance. I see this expedition as a sign of this rebirth...
Cervero did not at first know that he had been flying 7,000 ft. above a 17,716-ft.-high, long-dormant volcano known as Nevado del Ruiz at the exact moment when it came thunderously alive. Within hours, that rebirth had left upwards of 20,000 people dead or missing in a steaming, mile-wide avalanche of gray ash and mud. Thousands more were injured, orphaned and homeless. The Colombian town of Armero (pop. about 22,500) had virtually disappeared. At week's end a huge cloud of ash, rising as high as 45,000 ft., hung dramatically over...
...Register, which is the flagship of the 32-paper Freedom Newspapers chain, owes its rebirth partly to its rival's success in Orange County. By the late 1970s, the Times had whittled the Register's lead from about 50,000 to 38,000 copies a day. Threshie, 54, who joined the company in 1962 after marrying a descendant of the chain's founder, battled the Times's incursion by plowing profits back into the paper at a rate never imagined by previous Register publishers. He quadrupled the newsroom budget, nearly tripled the news staff (to 260) and hiked salaries...
...separates two German histories. The moral rebirth of Germany after the war was, and is, premised on a radical discontinuity with the Nazi past. The new Germany is built around the thin strand of decency, symbolized by people like Adenauer and Brandt, that reaches back to the pre-Nazi era. If history is what the President wants to acknowledge, it is this German history that deserves remembrance. For Kohl and Reagan to lay a wreath at Bitburg is to subvert, however thoughtlessly, the discontinuity that is the moral foundation of the new Germany...