Many of them question whether cultural phenomena, including destruction layers, cultural-piercing features (man-made structures displaced by surface rupturing, e.g. viaducts), structural damage to buildings, indications of repairs, historical accounts and myths can be reliably used as earthquake indicators.

UNESCO: Tales set in Stone: learning from ancient earthquakes

Which means that Bjorn (yes, this is a racial and cultural stereotype), the man who both sets the tax levels and allocates the spending, you probably know where he has a beer on a Friday night after his hard week of taxing and spending.

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This year marked an important step in the pursuit of our activities, with the 10th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, and the 40th anniversary of the Man and the Biosphere programme.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Perhaps a few well-placed questions will help keep you from the expense (emotional, cultural and financial) of dressing in drag or acting like a man on Wall Street.

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Likewise, Carol Delaney, a cultural anthropologist at Stanford University, concludes that Columbus was a deeply religious man whose purpose was to sail to Asia to obtain gold in order to finance a crusade to take back Jerusalem and rebuild the Jews' holy Temple.

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Yet he was also a literary man (great consolation for inaction) and frequently published in the cultural magazine of the moment, The Atlantic Monthly, where, along with gymnastics, women's rights, and slavery, his subjects were flowers and birds and the changing seasons.

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This is a man whose vast body of work is the direct result of absorbing untold global cultural influences and subverting them to his own ends.

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He only gets to be a real character when the actor drops the cultural signifiers and plays what Friedman really is behind the Borscht Belt speech: a middle-aged man looking for love, and a home.

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