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He invited scholars to live and study in Alexandria at his expense.
For years, scholars believed the library burned as the blaze spread into the city.
It's possible the fire destroyed part of the sprawling collection, but we know from ancient writings that scholars continued to visit the library for centuries after the siege.
Hailed by some scholars as the father of comedy, his fingerprints are visible upon comic techniques everywhere, from slapstick to double acts to impersonations to political satire.
In certain communities, we actually had to go as far as saying the International Human Rights Declaration, which you opposed because it wasn't written by religious scholars, well, those same principles are in our book.
Sure, there are some less than savory elements in there, but on the whole, scholars agree that its existence is probably a good thing.
Today, scholars work long and hard trying to predict what causes a bubble and how to avoid them.
He also established a major university, further elevating the city's reputation, and attracting scholars and students from all over the Islamic world.
In fact, just before, African scholars had collected a random assortment of old books and left them out for the terrorists to burn.
And it wasn't edited because it existed in only one manuscript which was so badly damaged during the firebombing of Dresden in World War II that generations of scholars had pronounced it lost.
Over the past five years, our team of imaging scientists, scholars and students has travelled to seven different countries and have recovered some of the world's most valuable damaged manuscripts, included the Vercelli Book, which is the oldest book of English, the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest book of Welsh, and some of the most valuable earliest Gospels located in what is now the former Soviet Georgia.
Some scholars have tried to identify patterns common to all languages, but apart from some basic features, like having nouns or verbs, few of these so-called linguistic universals have been found.
By the late Middle Ages, the Hindu-Arabic decimal system mostly replaced Roman numerals and fractions in Europe, but efforts by scholars like John Wilkins to promote standard decimal-based measures were less successful.
And yet, decades ago, scholars found that it's theoretically possible to not just spread human civilization across the galaxy, but to do so quite quickly, without breaking any known laws of physics.
Perhaps medieval scholars were attempting to create an alphabet for a language that was spoken but not yet written.
And this was very important, because Saint Augustine had been recognized by scholars, philologists, historians, as one of the founders of introspection.
In August of 2012, I led my first expedition, taking a group of artists and scholars up the northwest coast of Greenland.
This literary revelation has led many scholars to call Don Quixote the first modern novel.
The consensus amongst international relations scholars is that globalization brings interdependence, which brings cooperation and peace.
This resulted in 1.4 million dollars being raised for our scholars to attend field trips to colleges and universities, Summer STEAM programs, as well as college scholarships.
Fortunately, Anna and Nikephoros ended up sharing many intellectual interests, hosting and debating the leading scholars of the day.
On numerous occasions in the last 200 years, scholars and activists have raised the alarm that we are running out of work and making ourselves obsolete: for example, the Luddites in the early 1800s; US Secretary of Labor James Davis in the mid-1920s; Nobel Prize-winning economist Wassily Leontief in 1982; and of course, many scholars, pundits, technologists and media figures today.
In my efforts to explain this to others, one conversation led to the Venus of Willendorf, a Paleolithic figurine scholars assumed was a goddess of love and beauty, hence the name Venus.
This theory was later revised, though, when scholars noted the sculptor's obvious focus on the figurine's reproductive features: large breasts, considered ideal for nursing; a round, possibly pregnant belly; the remnants of red dye, alluding to menstruation or birth.
I think this transition speaks more about the scholars who have interpreted her purpose than the actual purpose of the figurine herself.
A man of learning who executed scholars.
What if we empowered all kids as scholars, asked them what colleges they were going to, designed a summer school they want to attend to completely eliminate the summer learning loss and close two-thirds of the achievement gap?
Some scholars have.
Two scholars from Cornell came up with the Dunning-Kruger effect.
This is also, if you talk to legal scholars, the foundations of new ideas in legal thought.
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