Prior to dinner, Paul Morris, the founding director of the show, gave guests a preview of the art that will be on display and a presented a brief history of its modest beginnings at the former Gramercy Hotel to its move to the 69th Street Regiment Armory and finally to its current home at Piers 92 and 94.
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And, of course, the required reference to Bernard Lewis, The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2, 000 Years (1995).
Although "apartheid" is now a familiar term in much of the world, a few brief details of its history seem necessary to explain its grotesque impact on the life of Ruth Khumalo as well as on her children and their children, including the boy.
In 1998, Hawking published "A Brief History of Time, " a layman's guide to the origins of the universe.
To tease its announcement on Tuesday 19, the company has released an infographic called "a brief history of photography".
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In telling Mr Elmore's story, Mr Bonner deftly weaves in a brief history of American capital punishment and its discontents.
All in all, this is a fascinating brief history of a powerful but often hidden thread in western ways of thought.
Shortly after A Brief History of Time came out, Ferguson approached Hawking with the idea of writing a book for young people about him and his theories.
Perhaps a brief history of retirement savings and income benefits in the United States would be of value to gain some perspective on where we are historically in retirement savings, benefits and guarantees.
For example: Typing in Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) turns up a single page with a brief company history including pictures of the founders, a company profile, annual sales, employees, office phone numbers, executive's names, stock charts and recent news.
The class began with a humorous bartender video, a slide show and a brief overview of cocktail history.
"This cooperation is nothing less than a watershed in the brief history of Smart TVs, " said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company.
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She went on to laud her Latina upbringing and culture before delivering a brief history on the ascension of women and minorities to the federal bench.
That's because beginning tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives will stage one of the most unusual debates in its history -the House will debate a brief resolution disapproving of President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq.
Yet our very brief history has also yielded a legacy of remarkable and uniquely American global influences in the bargain.
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Here I will merely provide a brief overview of Pakistan within the larger context of Indian history, or more appropriately, the history of Islam and Muslims in India.
Debt levels are over 100% of GDP, the highest level in our history except a brief spike during WWII, and foreigners own about half our debt.
That brief speech encapsulating two centuries of American military history is a monument of the power of forthrightness in advocating for peace through strength in the Reagan tradition.
For such an apparently dull subject, Witold Rybczynski's brief history is a charming work that gracefully threads its way back to the origins of precision manufacturing and, in the process, the origins of the modern world.
The history of resurgent 3-D, an earlier version of which had a brief heyday in the 1950s, turns on two relatively recent releases.
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He and partner James Yao, a former classmate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have assayed scores of bright ideas in Asiatech's brief history.
Because it provides a view of big historical and global developments going back to World War I, although the old history is brief, through the experiences of an American family.
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