But I would propose an exemption to the a promise is a promise rule, and that's the immortal-genius-a-person-of-historical-importance exemption, very much akin to your put-it-away-for-a-generation.
During the 1980s, a pseudo-historical restoration of Nebuchadnezzar's palace was completed on Mr Hussein's orders.
For all his efforts to set the scene in a Jewish-historical perspective, he felt that the president focused more on the plight of the Palestinians.
He has the potential to emerge as a world-historical figure.
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Dr. Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a keen interest in historical linguistics, is co-founder of a project known as Evolution of Human Languages.
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As many new distillers are quick to point out, the presently sparse U.S. spirits-making landscape--with a relative handful of large whiskey distilleries plus a few big rectifiers making neutral spirits for white liquor--is a post-Prohibition phenomenon, a historical fluke.
Neil Lennon was hounded out of the Northern Ireland national team by a hardcore of protestant fans unhappy about the prominent role of a Celtic player - a club with historical Irish Catholic roots.
Still, Michael Kurtz, chief Asia strategist at Nomura Holdings, noted that Hong Kong's H-shares have reached the point where they are Asia's cheapest in terms of their forward price-to-earnings ratio, at 8.4 times, compared to a 10-year historical average of 12.6 times.
It's a series with a conscience, and a historical purpose - to retrace part of Cook's voyage of discovery.
"Turner Inspired in the Light of Claude" at the National Gallery is a specialist art-historical show though you'd never know it from the crowds there on a weekday afternoon.
Put together with artefacts from the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, it is a four-part historical tour of the ancient Olympics and their modern rebirth in the late 1800s, including a hall of past torches and a gallery of 16 extraordinary modern athletes profiled along with examples of medals from each modern Games.
The group - supporters of a Muslim sultan that makes a historical claim to the land - said police had opened fire.
Unfortunately, there are millions more who barely have any idea what happened because of a 50-year historical whitewash by the Education Ministry.
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The scene took place in an institution, where a trained archivist carefully removed a centuries-old historical document from its resting place and gently handed it to the celebrity to examine.
That led to 1970s postmodernism, less a period of creative vitality than of confusing signals and flawed buildings, a half-understood historical recall supposedly leavened with irony in the way past and present were combined.
Roosevelt and Frank Sinatra to Queen Elizabeth II and Elizabeth Taylor, the hotel's guestbook reads like an A-list of twentieth century historical figures -- not to mention tens of thousands of well-to-do tourists and travelers.
One, featuring a sepia-toned, faux historical photo of a young Henry Ford in a workshop with an Apple, compared the product to the Model T for its ease of use.
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But amidst the "craving a chocolate bar" or "watching my cat throw up a hairball" tweets, there is a serious reflection of historical context -- a real-time timeline written by regular people.
However, it suffered from a strong Anglo-Saxon bias and a short historical perspective.
After 228 consecutive shows that were wholly or mostly Monica, last year feels like a rip in the space-time continuum, a historical skid as inexplicable as the election of 1876 or the hairstyle you wore in 1982.
The glossy catalogue lists the provenance of each lot and provides a mass of art-historical detail.
With its ancient citadel and surrounding palaces and pagodas, Hue is a United Nations-recognized historical site.
C. are the biggest Indian clubs with a historical 86-year long rivalry, comparable to the Scottish clubs Celtics and Rangers.
He notes that on a historical price-earnings ratio basis, the stock market is now undervalued and there is an abundance of money still sitting in fixed income funds.
It led to a UK-wide police investigation into historical abuse and set off a chain of events that resulted in the departure of the BBC's then director general, George Entwistle.
But in large measure, the reality of decline that it is part of a huge historical re-balancing act - something we acknowledge in words like "globalisation" or "Brics", while often ducking just how profoundly the world is changing.
It sounds strange when you consider this is fashion we're talking about -- a notoriously stodgy industry predicated upon its historical archives -- but then again, this is the very same designer that teamed up with MakerBot for his fall 2012 collection.
As this run-up has persisted and the bull market has ventured into its third year, a number of historical and psychologically-important benchmarks have begun to enter the market discussion.
But what chance does a mid-calorie soda stand in a battle against major historical forces like urban sprawl and white collar jobs taking over those in factories and on the farm?
The Old-World-style brick and stucco spread, a historical landmark, is situated on a rare half-acre-plus lot.
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