The cost is far outweighed by the savings in inventory, shrinkage and spoilage, which is why the simple everyday items that Taleb mentions are available to everybody today, not just aristocrats in the ancient times he so adores.
It had been used in the West since ancient times, reaching an aesthetic and technical peak in 12th-century Byzantium.
Mr Rogge said that like the messengers in ancient times who shared news of the Olympic truce - the laying down of arms for the Games - "the torchbearers who carry this flame to London will spread the message of sport's capacity to promote peace and to make our world a better place".
Meanwhile, Jews had been trading in the Mediterranean since ancient times.
He pointed out how violations of the truce were extremely rare in ancient times, whereas in recent years the games have been cancelled three times due to war.
In ancient times the Library of Alexandria held the collected knowledge of the Western world.
In ancient times the distinction was clear: The manor house and the farmland around it constituted principal, and the right to live in the house or to collect the farm rents was income.
The Cluster was known in ancient times, and Galileo was able to observe 40 stars within the cluster with one of his first telescopes.
The next time someone tells you about a miraculous diet that mimics the way people ate in ancient times, here is a nice counterargument: studies of mummies say the ancients got heart disease too.
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Because the new study has found warmer tropical waters in ancient times, it would support the idea that the earlier shell data were indeed wrong.
While Steinhauer saw the change of time first-hand, some iReporters found that the landscape in other parts of the world retained structures from ancient times.
In ancient times, the Dharug Aboriginal tribe came to this part of the Hawkesbury to fish and perform ceremonies, leaving carvings on the cliff rock that can be seen from the river.
The Industrial Revolution happened in Europe with no scientific knowledge beyond what the Greeks, Romans, Chinese and Persians knew in ancient times.
Most of them were historical novels set in ancient times when samurai roamed the land.
He saw cultural and genetic links between South Americans and Polynesians, and set out to show that such a voyage between the two territories would have been possible in ancient times.
In such ancient times, few if any humans were living around the Dead Sea.
Illicit trade's ancestor, smuggling, traces back to ancient times, and many a "thieves' market" survives in the world's commercial hubs.
Yale economist William Nordhaus examined the history of lighting technologies, from open fires and stone animal fat lamps in ancient times to modern incandescent and fluorescent bulbs.
In ancient times, however, such objects played a more significant role, with the intaglios used as seals (because these carvings were incised rather than raised) and the cameos employed as symbols of the state.
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Then she told us this story: In ancient times, when much of North India was divided into small principalities, our ancestors were the rulers of a kingdom called Kukraj, somewhere near Jaipur, in Rajasthan.
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