Some of this water apparently made its made to the surface in the ancient past.
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But if Curiosity could make the definitive identification of organics in Gale Crater, it would be a eureka moment and go a long way towards demonstrating that the Red Planet did indeed have habitable environments in its ancient past.
Kahn admitted that ancient Roman vaults and arches were his inspiration, and by combining them with advanced engineering and a simple palette of materials concrete, travertine and white oak he created a place that is of the present but also invokes an ancient past.
Tourists flock to these landmarks to get a glimpse of the city's ancient imperial past.
Walking through my favorite part of campus, past an ancient gnarly tree by the faculty club, I came upon three students playing frisbee.
And once per week, my poor mother, now 79, would have to make sure she wasn't wearing her nice clothes as she squeezed past that ancient hunk of Detroit iron to get to the garbage cans.
The decision allows the Ancient Order of Hibernian parade to go past a memorial and Mourne Presbyterian Church, where seven victims are buried.
The music was something new in American rock: both ancient and modern, rooted in the past and eschewing the psychedelic sounds then in vogue.
Mohamed talked about the past and the future of his ancient people with an unhurried air.
One such tale is that of IGCP project 567 on ancient earthquakes, what they can tell us about our past, and how we can learn from them to prepare for the future.
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And just as I'm impressed by these signs of China's journey to the 21st century, I'm eager to see those ancient places that speak to us from China's distant past.
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In the past, in various cultures, it may have been ancient warriors, Olympians, or saints.
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As researchers pick up garbage left by ancient humans, researchers say they're also finding clues about the past climate.
She still treasures the moment when a piece of the past, an object of people's daily lives in ancient Athens, or a marker mentioned in an ancient text, is revealed and she's able to bring it back into the light.
The modern Olympics are a model example of what the historians Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger have called invented traditions ritualized official or quasi-official events, often presented as revivals of ancient practices or in other ways designed to imply continuity with the distant past.
For the past century in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, ancient fossils dating back millions of years continue to emerge suggesting a common ancestor for humans.
He felt instantly at home in Marrakech, exploring its dusty alleys, unearthing subtle evidence of its ancient culture and discovering craftsmen still working with skills harking back to its medieval past.
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.
He became infuriated that he could not bring me to accept what he believes to be pure fact, as supposedly revealed in ancient Sumerian tablets: that this mysterious planet is populated by beings who in the past came down to Earth, mingled with human beings and, by implanting us with their stellar DNA, kick-started us down the road to civilization.
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Of course tomb robbery has been going on since ancient times, but Kent Weeks, Professor of Egyptology at the American University of Cairo says the past two years have seen a dramatic increase in such crimes.
That said, over the past decade, there has been an enormous amount of evidence that water once flowed freely on the ancient surface of Mars.
Italians live amidst ancient beauty, and this immersion produces both designers with flair and the discriminating consumers who are to be seen promenading past the glamorous shop fronts of Milan's Via Montenapoleone.
Since his election as Pope seven years ago, Benedict has consistently tried to correct what he regards as a misinterpretation of Vatican II, insisting that it did not mark a revolutionary break from the past, as liberal Catholics would have it, but rather a renewal of the best traditions of the ancient Church.
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