Historical in sentence

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And the email was from Dr. Jack Geiger, who had written to congratulate me on Health Leads and to share, as he said, a bit of historical context.

He also says that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological.

But as I began to read historical documents and contemporary descriptions, I found there was a kind of a missing component, for everywhere I came across descriptions of tapestries.

Vultures also have tremendous historical significance.

The criminologist Manuel Eisner scoured all of the historical records across Europe for homicide rates in any village, hamlet, town, county that he could find, and he supplemented them with national data, when nations started keeping statistics.

One can see, in historical record, it expanding from the village, to the clan, to the tribe, to the nation, to other races, to both sexes, and, in Singer's own arguments, something that we should extend to other sentient species.

We see it in the constant appearance of slang and jargon, of the historical change in languages, in divergence of dialects and the formation of new languages.

What if I try to fit a curved line to this historical record?

It's a historical fact that in 1885, the average North Carolina housewife walked 148 miles a year carrying 35 tons of water.

In order to raise the historical awareness of this fact, the government has planted mulberry trees.

So when we say, "Freedom, sovereignty, independence," each one of you draws a specific image in their own mind, there are specific feelings of a specific day in a specific historical period.

The Akan of people of Ghana and [Cote d'Ivoire] developed Adinkra symbols some 400 years ago, and these are proverbs, historical sayings, objects, animals, plants, and my favorite Adinkra system is the first one at the top on the left.

Most probably, one of humanity's greatest achievements is the invention of the alphabet, and that has been attributed to Mesopotamia with their invention of cuneiform in 1600 BC, followed by hieroglyphics in Egypt, and that story has been cast in stone as historical fact.

We're taking all of this data, a lot of it bad data, a lot of historical data full of prejudice, full of all of our worst impulses of history, and we're building that into huge data sets and then we're automating it.

And Amazons were described in ancient historical accounts, not just myths.

It was a historical day.

One thing you can do is document each step of the process, not only coding the historical information but what we call the meta-historical information, how is historical knowledge constructed, documenting each step.

And as we look ahead I'd like to share with you a thought: It's the thought of a future where the 17 million deaths per year that we currently have due to infectious disease is a historical footnote.

And it's a historical footnote that has been achieved by improved, radically improved vaccines.

So I loved, on an art historical level, I loved that layered quality that he has.

And it is the product of a complex historical process, one which has gained ground with the rise of Islamic conservatism since the late 1970s.

Historical records are full of accounts of people around the world who have sexual practices that should be impossible given what we have assumed about human sexual evolution.

In particular, can it explain a momentous historical development that I spoke about five years ago here at TED? Namely, we seem to be getting more humane.

Well, for starters, there has been a major historical change.

And the most interesting thing I found out about it was historical.

Now, this would be a mere historical curiosity, except that in large parts of the world, this is still the truth.

Now, I'm not boasting, because all of you have famous people and historical figures in your tree, because we are all connected, and 75 million may seem like a lot, but in a few years, it's quite likely we will have a family tree with all, almost all, seven billion people on Earth.

We’re used to celebrating historical leaders for their achievements and victories.

So here you see this iconic entrance in which we would literally peel up the street and reveal the historical layers of the city, and invite people into this warm underground space.

So I've been working on the history of income and wealth distribution for the past 15 years, and one of the interesting lessons coming from this historical evidence is indeed that, in the long run, there is a tendency for the rate of return of capital to exceed the economy's growth rate, and this tends to lead to high concentration of wealth.

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