The chain has inserted itself into the American urban landscape more quickly and craftily than any retail company in history, and has forever changed Western-branding strategies.

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Stanley Fish, a literary theorist, has suggested that the entire history of Western thought could be written as a history of the debate between Socrates and the sophists, namely that between philosophy and rhetoric.

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The communist version of history may have been mostly lies, but the western version has holes in it too.

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For 55 years, the building on the northeast corner of Western and Adams in LA has loomed large in the local history of African-Americans.

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It is home to independent crude-oil refiner Western Refining Co. and to Fort Bliss and has a rich history.

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The U.S. has had a complicated history with different countries in the Western Hemisphere over the course of our independence.

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Launched from the small town of Dumbarton on the banks of the River Clyde in western Scotland in 1869, the Cutty Sark has a long and colorful history.

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It's as much a practical kitchen aid as a history of the cookbook itself and a cultural record of how the Western world has dined.

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