D. in medieval French history at Cambridge, stumbled across this little-known episode described in a historical dictionary.
Depardieu has worked in Russia before, appearing in a historical film on czarist Russia and in ad campaigns.
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In Texas, pilots are independent contractors who, in a historical hangover, still receive their commissions directly from the governor.
On a blustery Thursday night this February, the members of one such society convened in a historical clubhouse in downtown Manhattan.
After the blaze, which took hold in a historical part of the town, known locally as the traditional birthplace of St Boniface, a collection was started to help those who lost their homes.
"Xerox is certainly sensitive in a historical sense about being tagged as the company that let all these innovations get away and go elsewhere but I think that's a little unfair to Xerox, " he says.
But, I think we also have to - when we bring in a historical perspective, really think about the legacies we have in terms of how we conceptualize what health care is and what insurance is and what risk is?
In their declaration, prompted by the pope's pre-millennium call to local churches to ask for pardon for misdeeds committed during the course of the church's history, the French bishops seek to place the church's actions between 1940 and 1945 in a historical context.
It seeks to place indigenous-language media in Africa in a particular historical context with a view to highlighting their role in enhancing the participation of Africans in the political process in their local environs.
Pittsburgh is an exceptionally appealing contrast of attractive modern buildings in a rich historical setting.
In a neat historical parallel, Dhani's savior and mentor, Mr. Wahid, is a direct descendant of Siti Jenar, a 16th-century Sufi prophet who also preached tolerance in the face of a militant Islamic group in Java.
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In other words, the framers did not mean to freeze America in a single historical moment by dictating that only the legal or political outcomes they expected should be seen as legitimate for all time to come.
We are engaged in a major historical transition and if there are techniques that help companies to understand how to manage their journey through that then they need to be framed within the big picture, the system-wide change.
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In it, he takes a historical look at race in sports and discusses a number of topics, including whether today's stars are doing enough to help their communities.
He offers a journalistic account of its worldwide use in tandem with a historical one of the development of English as it made its way around the world.
In an interview with a local historical society in 1994, Mrs Tillman said her parents had been slaves.
And as Connor reminds us in a victory for historical accuracy, not every colonial fought for the United States.
Residents in the area objected to the size and scale of the project in such a sensitive historical area of town.
To try to put this moment in a very broad historical perspective.
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We all make assumptions about events like the Fukushima plant meltdown but most of them are made in a vacuum of historical context.
Both Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers explain to him that the globalization and deregulation of finance that they helped to bring about when they were in government was a historical inevitability, not a policy choice.
Today Maddalena, 47, owns Profiles in History, a Los Angeles dealer in historical documents and movie memorabilia.
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 area has beautiful walks, plus there is a small folk museum in the village with a local historical collection.
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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We publish a magazine on education and health, support a public library in Herat and recently began promoting the revival of culture in Herat by publishing a book of historical places and holding classes of traditional classes in the restored Citadel.
Fans of the author will love and recognize all the hallmarks of Boyd's best books: a historical thriller, rife with espionage, set in the not-too-distant past, featuring an exotic and exquisitely drawn locale and a cameo from a famous historical figure, in this case Sigmund Freud.
"I wish to emphasize that, as a Berlin-based company, we are just as interested in the preservation of the East Side Gallery as a historical monument as are Berliners and people in the entire world, " he said.
And this is all in a state with a historical reputation for collegiality and Midwestern politeness.
Then in 1937 Fey und Sohn brought Malskat to the ancient town of Schleswig, to assist them in a restoration of profound historical significance.
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