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Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have been trying to get to the bottom of this question for centuries— without reaching any consensus.
So an entire philosophy, a body of knowledge about the natural world that had been empirically gleaned over centuries, goes away.
The feather is one of the most astonishing pieces of technology invented by the natural world, and for centuries, this feather has helped birds to keep dry, to keep warm and even power flight.
Indeed, these birds have been part of our lives and cultures all over the world for centuries, and every society has a story about birds.
These were survivors of
centuries
of wildfires.
Now, in the military, we have known for decades, if not centuries, that the time to prepare, whether it's for a hurricane, a typhoon or strategic changes, is before they hit you, and Admiral Nimitz was right there.
No one knows how historically accurate that particular story is, but remarkably, it draws on fact: For centuries, in the Karakoram and Himalayan mountain ranges, people have been growing glaciers and using these homemade bodies of ice as sources of drinking water and irrigation for their crops.
Over the following years, decades, and centuries, the pressure of the accumulated snow transforms layers into highly compacted glacial ice.
At the confluence of three great mountain ranges, the Himalayas, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush, some local cultures have believed for
centuries
that glaciers are alive.
For example, the Greenland Norse, in this difficult environment, were held together for four-and-a-half
centuries
by their shared commitment to religion, and by their strong social cohesion.
It has to do with astronomy, and it was a question that had been plaguing astronomers literally for
centuries.
It is the brightest object in the sky, but having studied astronomy, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics for centuries, we learned something very important about it.
You can say that the relationship between science and design goes back
centuries.
Because for centuries, glamour had a very particular meaning, and the word was actually used differently from the way we think of it.
There's the not-glamorous version of what it looks like today, after a few
centuries.
Which means that these stories can and do influence social and technological forces
centuries
into the future.
Young black people in America have been fighting, really fighting hard to get their stories told for
centuries.
All of these references would have been familiar to medieval Europeans from other art forms and oral tradition, though some have grown more mysterious over the
centuries.
So the design problem for today is going to be, how do you house an eventual monumental clock like this so it can really tick, save time beautifully for 100
centuries?
The play describes Atlantic crossings, Alabama cotton fields, New York skylines, and we framed the whole thing within this single revolving cube, a kind of kinetic cinema through the
centuries.
Because these witch hunts occurred sporadically over
centuries
and continents the specifics varied considerably.
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty
centuries
of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
These are the Tuareg nomads, and they're living their lives much as they have for
centuries.
For centuries, this was dismissed, but actually it's true.
And then finally, my grandmother said, a good Samaritan came by, saw the man on the side of the road and looked and saw not
centuries
of hatred between Jews and Samaritans, looked and saw not his fears reflected, not economic anxiety, not "what's going to happen to me because things are changing."
We should be up to a thousand in three
centuries
at the most, but my friend David Battisti in Seattle says he thinks a 100 years.
But to be fair, chemical engineers as a group haven't really earned a reputation over the
centuries
for being alcoholic manic-depressives.
Curious historical footnote: when the Moors invaded southern Spain, they took this custom with them and the pronunciation changed over the
centuries
from "Allah, Allah, Allah," to "Olé, olé, olé," which you still hear in bullfights and in flamenco dances.
Introduced by Hippocrates
centuries
earlier, this misguided hypothesis attributed most medical problems to an imbalance in four bodily fluids called humours.
Over the next 13 centuries, Galen’s prolific collection dominated all other schools of medical thought.
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