Electricity comes from an ancient power plant built by Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.

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He predicts that history is about to restore China to its ancient position of global power.

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This ancient fascination with courtly power has in no way been diminished by monarchy's decline in modern times.

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You know, in ancient Israel you had people with power called kings and you had people with no power at all called prophets.

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Even more strangely, in a very compelling section on learning, Brooks has high-school Harry develop a fascination with the impressive explanatory power of thumos, the ancient Greek notion of, among other things, status motivation.

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Ancient traditions endure, even as a rising power is on the move.

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But the search goes on and the rover has enough power to last two years with ancient streams and the slopes of a mountain to explore.

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Nevertheless, that Iran has its own interest, a proud, ancient culture trying to reestablish itself as the regional power in the Middle East.

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Public events express the relations of power among leaders and nations -- an ancient legacy inherited from Byzantine times where high politics were decided by seating arrangements at banquets.

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He says that Steve Forbes' 2009 book, Power, Ambition, Glory: The Stunning Parallels Between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today ... and the Lessons You Can Learn, damaged his reputation in its discussions of the criminal conviction.

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