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Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money until the colonial government of Massachusetts emitted a fiat paper issue in 1690. Murray Rothbard
Government World Money Seen Before Paper Invented Colonial Both Never Had Massachusetts Until Printing Issue West Fiat Which China Apart Centuries Medieval
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas. Nancy Pearcey
Christmas Celebrate Thought First Christian Setting Birth Easter Bethlehem No-One Up After Holiday Centuries Jesus
It has been popular to threaten 'small islands and low-lying coasts' with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries. Nils-Axel Morner
Future Past Changes Analysis Has-Been Threaten Rise Recorded Scenarios Small Disastrous Most Islands Undertaken Been Target Either Centuries Sea Popular Flooding Actual Level Present Careful
A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last until the year 1792, when there will be a revision of centuries. Nostradamus
Church Will Year Christian Shall Until Greater Been Befall Persecution Revision Than Africa Centuries Ever Christian Church Last
Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now. Octavio Paz
Time Speed Our Distant Once Ancestors Neighbor Posterity Archaic Picasso He Him Without Permits Go Going Happen Happening Places Centuries Next-Door Neighbor Now Letting Letting Go Belong Here Two
The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience. Pamela Stephenson
Me Bible Experience People Other Religious Religious Experience Something Exciting Contemporary Sort Because Context Very Happened Centuries Epiphany Notion Thing
My favorite class as an undergraduate was a political theory class on justice. Now, 'justice' is hardly a self-defining term, and much smarter men than I have developed various definitions over the centuries. The class put Plato at one end and Nietzsche at the other, and off we went. Paul S. Kemp
Class Justice Political Men Other Definitions Favorite Various Developed Put Smarter Over Term Undergraduate Off End Than Centuries Much Theory Plato Now Hardly Nietzsche
After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states. Pedro Pierluisi
Government Local Rule States Citizenship Similar Federal Federal Government Allowed Over Exercise Affairs Were Authority After Spanish Centuries Manner Granted Rico United United States Residents Four Puerto Puerto Rico
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries. Peter M. Brant
Art Freedom You Society Through Freedom Of Expression Message Understand Occupy Occupy Wall Street Wall Wall Street Artists Centuries Expression Street
Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me. Peter Saul
Art Me World Thought Stupid Thousands About Never Over Because Occurred Art World Artists Famous Unfortunately Centuries Realized Really Sufficiently Things
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace. Pierre Schaeffer
World Better Worse Menace Atomic Morally Both Off Than Middle Middle Ages Centuries Ages
For centuries our wealth has come from our ambition, entrepreneurial skills and global reach. Priti Patel
Wealth Ambition Our Entrepreneurial Come Global Reach Centuries Skills
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century. Raoul Dufy
Art Time Long Long Time Too Nine France Until Up Eight Centuries Century Derivative Lived
For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name. Rebecca MacKinnon
History Culture Important Nile River Longest Name Economy Important Role German Role Egyptian China Chinese Asia Centuries Use Businesses Many Played
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap. Rebecca Solnit
Best You World Live Those Gifts Has-Been Given Struggles Through Count Beauties Freedoms Over Protected Built Passionate Heap Been Won Centuries Us Much Your Many Growing Activists Among Last
For over two centuries, Americans have grown up in a society that rewards hard work, protects innovation, and allows its citizens to constantly break new barriers. The key element to this success rests on freedom and the ability of individuals to strive toward achieving their dreams and making their children's futures better than their own. Renee Ellmers
Success Work Dreams Hard Work Freedom Innovation Key Better Own Society Strive Futures Citizens Constantly Ability Rests Individuals Toward Over New Protects Making Up Than American Rewards Children Achieving Break Centuries Hard Barriers Element Grown Grown-Up Two
My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. If I wanted a watch like that, I'd much rather buy the real thing at auction than a replica. Richard Mille
Buy Made Analysis Market Way See One-Way Rather Only Inspired Like Look Most Another Around Auction Real Were Replica Than Real Thing Wanted Centuries Much Thing Watch Watches
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. Ridley Scott
God Own Visual Give Sacred Had Texts Artists Depiction Centuries Choose Specific Filmmakers
Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults. Robert Fogel
Women Difficult Proper Adult Smaller Leading Been Get May Children Centuries Pregnant Nourishment Therefore
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries. Robert Green Ingersoll
God Great Grace World Mind Will Free Free Will Accountability Saved Moral Civilized Civilized World Call Occupied Glory Question Being Predestination Centuries Agency Many
That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries. Robert Winston
Today Church Values Past Few Society Liberal Our Philosophy Anglican Outlook Shape Because Did In The Past Which Centuries Much Largely Britain Core Core Values
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries. Russel Honore
Systems Hurricane City Area New Most Hit York New York New York City Storm Vicious Centuries Sandy Nearly Two
Dominant and emerging forms of interpersonal communication have to find their way into literary language somehow - think of the epistolary novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sally Rooney
Communication Language Think Nineteenth Way Find Somehow Emerging Dominant Eighteenth Literary Forms Centuries Novels Interpersonal
The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries. Samuel P. Huntington
State Out Evolved Reached Couple Although West Close Which Centuries Certainly Warring Phase Universal
Trans women, trans men, AFAB - which is assigned female at birth - and non-binary performers, but especially trans women of color, have been doing drag for literal centuries and deserve to be equally represented and celebrated alongside cis men. Sasha Velour
Women Men Birth Color Performers Alongside Equally Female Doing Been Celebrated Literal Which Centuries Deserve Assigned Drag
Five centuries ago, Copernicus upset humanity's applecart with the news that the Earth is not the center of the cosmos. It could be that, before you've paid off your house, we'll learn that the universe is not the center of the universe, either! Seth Shostak
News You Humanity Before Universe Earth Cosmos Could House Learn Off Five Upset Center Either Centuries Paid Your
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