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11 Jan 2018, 8:33 am
Brief History of Finland Although a relatively young independent nation in Northern Europe, Sami people—the indigenous people living in the very north of Europe—have inhabited the northern parts of Finland for several millennia. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 8:00 am
Herzog’s lapidary book is much vaster than even its title suggests and is required reading for Americanists North and South, and indeed, for all of us inhabiting a postcolonial world deeply marked by the millennia of legal imaginings whose dynamic transformations it so lucidly charts. [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 4:00 am
It took 10 million cat pictures for computers to build a model allowing them to identify cats [4] and cats haven’t really changed for millennia. [read post]
10 Dec 2017, 5:03 pm
Of course, given the extensive human migrations over the millennia, these findings are largely presumptive, and only provide limited information about a single line of ancestors on either parental line. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 7:10 am
" Time has deviated from using an actual human being a couple times — "the computer" in 1982 and "The Endangered Earth" in 1988.But it would be bad in a special way to go abstract this year, when the story is about women finally getting seen in the press after so many decades — so many millennia — of invisibility. [read post]
17 Nov 2017, 4:20 am
For example, in one appearance he said in part:I agree with Dinesh D'Souza, your friend and mine, who says really all that Islam has ever given us is oil and dead bodies over the last millennia and a half. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 6:45 am
He said in part:In Egypt, we see the bombing of churches during Palm Sunday celebrations -- a day of hope transformed into a day of horror.In Iraq, we see monasteries demolished, priests and monks beheaded, the two-millennia-old Christian tradition in Mosul clinging for survival.In Syria, we see ancient communities burned to the ground, believers tortured for confessing Christ, and women and children sold into slavery.Let me assure you tonight, President Trump and I see these crimes… [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 12:32 am
This is particularly the case with our common law which is based largely on legal cases, building up case on case over millennia like leaves on the forest floor. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 10:42 am
The fact is that Israelis eat hummus (and falafel), including Mizrahi Jews whose ancestors have lived in the Middle East for millennia. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 1:34 pm
“The centrality of marriage to the human condition makes it unsurprising that the institution has existed for millennia and across civilizations. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 1:45 pm
In our own lifetimes, birth control technologies combined with other forces to encourage a fundamental rethinking of women’s roles in society, overturning views and practices maintained for millennia. [read post]
14 Aug 2017, 4:00 am
Indigenous nations have governed their territories and made decisions about the environment for millennia according to their own laws and legal processes. [read post]
31 Jul 2017, 9:30 pm
Beispiele aus drei Jahrtausenden (Extrajudicial Conflict Resolution in Antiquity: Examples from Three Millennia), edited by Guido Pfeifer and Nadine Grotkamp, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History presents the newest publication in its book series "Global Perspectives on Legal History. [read post]
12 Jul 2017, 9:48 am
There it was locked into the ice, forming part of a natural record of geological activity that spans millennia. [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 5:07 am
And really, if you are reading a text that is millennia old, is that too much to ask? [read post]
15 May 2017, 2:44 pm
And, first, let's just say that, over the last two millennia or so, the emergence of a category called adolescence is a pretty special gift. [read post]
12 May 2017, 6:44 am
The Master-Apprentice relationship has been around for millennia. [read post]
12 May 2017, 4:15 am
And nowhere is this onslaught against our faith more evident than in the very ancient land where Christianity was born....In Iraq, at the hands of extremists, we’ve actually seen monasteries demolished, priests and monks beheaded, and the two-millennia-old Christian tradition in Mosul virtually extinguished overnight. [read post]
7 May 2017, 5:28 am
They’re the ideas of philosophy that have been around for millennia, propounded by people whose names you learned and now revile. [read post]
16 Apr 2017, 7:36 pm
The article’s most important claim is that a significant part of the challenge posed by AI-equipped machines can be addressed by the kind of ethical choices made by human beings for millennia. [read post]