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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your language, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the ancestors or anticipate the promise of the children?
Kanzi's rock is from Gona, Ethiopia and is identical to that used by our African ancestors two-and-a-half million years ago.
Compare them to the tools our ancestors used; they bear a striking resemblance to Kanzi's.
But to put that in context: 5.93 million years ago was when our earliest primate human ancestors stood up.
And at this sacred fire, the spirit of our ancestors speak through the headman and advise us where to get water, where to get grazings, and where to go and hunt.
This ice formed as snow 15,800 years ago, when our ancestors were daubing themselves with paint and considering the radical new technology of the alphabet.
As we evolved from our ape-like ancestors on the African savanna, what distinguished us was our larger brains.
This is a trick that none of our ancestors could do, and that no other animal can do quite like we can.
Now we're making Scottish tartans, as you can see on the left, to sell to all people of Scottish ancestors.
My ancestors moved to the United States.
Moving to the other end of the scale, our ancestors never had to navigate through the cosmos at speeds close to the speed of light.
If a neutrino had a brain, which it evolved in neutrino-sized ancestors, it would say that rocks really do consist of empty space.
We have brains that evolved in medium-sized ancestors which couldn't walk through rocks.
So this ingenuity of our ancestors, to invent this most marvelous technology.
There's going to be a lot of disagreement about what ought to be done, but it's important to remember that this is a far better problem to have than the one that haunted our ancestors for centuries: how to make that pie big enough in the first place.
Dr. Paul Merchant (Bruce Ramsey) is a scientist in the future, whom while prisoner regales his captor of the story of how his ancestors (all played by Ramsey) had first built the evil Lament Configuration puzzle-box that sets evil upon the world and how his bloodline had subsequent dealing with said box.
A group of four young men, attending a prestigious private school, belong to an old covenant that was formed by their ancestors during the time of the witch hunts of the late 1600s.
If we allow undemocratic, inhumane acts to be committed in our name, if we split our society into those who have rights and those who don't then we undo the work of our ancestors.
Miniseries in recent years include DAY OF THE ROSES (the story of the investigation into the Glanville train crash), KINGS IN GRASS CASTLES (the adaptation of Mary Durack's historical account of her pioneering ancestors), KANGAROO PALACE (about a group of friends from a country town in Australia who travel to London and change and grow apart), and the (somewhat disappointing) adaptation of Bryce Courtenay's powerful novel, THE POTATO FACTORY.
The whole Chineseness is awakened in your being because of the ancestors was a hard sell.
Some of the characters in the present-day "Tremors" films have ancestors, both figurative and literal, in the past.
As Spock spends more time in this era, he slowly begins to revert to the behavioral patterns of his ancestors, feeling a natural attraction to Zarabeth and throwing "caution to the wind" about ever leaving this place.
I also love the way this is directed, by flashing back and forth between the modern day and Stanley's ancestors' stories.
Is it just a coincidence that the Islanders point out to sea in the direction of South America and say that is where their ancestors came from, led by Tiki, their equivalent of Adam?
They may not have had all the rights of whites but they certainly had more control over their destinies than their slave ancestors.
I think this movie is important because it shows the women of today how hard their ancestors fought to secure us a luxury that so few practice today and how important it is.
If I could go back in time I would go back to the beginning of Conrad John's lineage and smite his ancestors so that he may never make a movie such that is this.
One funny scene in this movie is when an old "chief:" goes out like his ancestors.
His relatively liberal religious tolerance compared to his predecessors and ancestors does not make him the greatest ruler of India.
Here, marriage to a handsome man and financial success - long the expectations of many young Korean women - are not depicted as an absolute guarantee of security and/or happiness, and turning 30 without being defined is hardly the end of the world, particularly for Korean women who remain adaptable to the changes happening around them, rather than being pressured to fit a mold as their ancestors were.
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