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  • Who only rarely and with some embarassment used their military service to promote themselves, and never used Present-Day militaristic themes hammering other people with symbols that They Served!

    "For Republicans, there's only one candidate of hope: Hillary Rodham Clinton." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Mr. Bartov, a professor of European history and German studies at Brown University, is the author of "Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine" (Princeton, 2007).

    Witness to Horror Omer Bartov 2008

  • Mr. Bartov, a professor of European history and German studies at Brown University, is the author of "Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine" (Princeton, 2007).

    Witnesses to Horror 2008

  • Via Plastic's sci/tech section, this Atlantic article, The Royal We: according to the mathematics of genealogy, everyone in the world is descended from Nefertiti and Confucius, and all Europeans from Muhammed and Charlemagne (here's the source paper - PDF format - by Yale statistician Joseph Chang, Recent Common Ancestors of All Present-Day Individuals).

    Archive 2004-03-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • Via Plastic's sci/tech section, this Atlantic article, The Royal We: according to the mathematics of genealogy, everyone in the world is descended from Nefertiti and Confucius, and all Europeans from Muhammed and Charlemagne (here's the source paper - PDF format - by Yale statistician Joseph Chang, Recent Common Ancestors of All Present-Day Individuals).

    Miscellanea Ray Girvan 2004

  • Daniel W. Mosser has a good website on "The Evolution of Present-Day English" that has pages on each phase of the history of English, starting with Indo-European.

    languagehat.com: IN FORME OF SPECHE. 2005

  • We go places together when we're both lost, when I need a guide and when I sense that if I were her I would like a guide; but I still feel the need to establish my autonomy; hence I went to CIM alone tonight rather than wait perhaps an hour for her, I chose a different seminar from her in our Dutch Present-Day Society course.

    evolver Diary Entry evolver 2004

  • But in Dutch Present-Day Society I was presented with a viable Erin substitute -- she was among the five people I referred vaguely to yesterday, and today we resumed our pre - post - and mid-class discussions which, to my amazement and great pleasure, got to more interesting topics at record speed.

    evolver Diary Entry evolver 2004

  • Just as this film, "Applied Eugenics in Present-Day Germany," demonstrated the folly of spending money to keep the Rhineland's genetic defectives alive, so too could my research demonstrate the waste of pouring money into drug education in mostly white schools: after all, you just can't get through to some people.

    White Pathology Nathaniel Livingston 2004

  • It may be followed in the literature noted in the appendix or in the volume of this series entitled "Present-Day Confucianism."

    Buddhism and Buddhists in China Lewis Hodus

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