• In the present day, it hosts its own annual jazz festival every July.

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  • The new Terrence Malick film is set fitfully in the present day, largely in the nineteen-fifties, and, somewhat surprisingly, a few billion years before that.

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  • In the present day, however, their history has been more chequered.

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  • Mr Talbott has also had the good luck to be able to track the same tension in the present day, as America after the cold war has oscillated between a multilateral and unilateral foreign policy under Presidents Clinton and Bush.

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  • The Gallaghers would argue that is because Irish players - like Eoin Morgan in the present day - tend to be poached by England with the promise of test match cricket at the highest level... and the money and recognition that go with it.

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  • His comment about World War IV indicates that the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church continues to reconsider the matter of war in the present-day, post-Cold War world, and that it is placing the Cold War into a historical perspective.

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  • She went out in the present-day lifeboat to lay a wreath, along with two of her sons.

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  • "Those water masses play a very important role in the present-day status of the ice pack and changes in the delivery would have an influence and effect on ice distribution, " said Weingartner.

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  • One was Vladimir Jabotinsky, whose ideas inspired both the Irgun Zvai Leumi resistance movement in wartime Palestine and the Likud party in present-day Israel.

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  • He snared 37 wickets in six Tests against South Africa and Bangladesh over the winter, was an automatic choice in the one-day side and an ever-present in the Twenty20 team which captured England's first world one-day trophy in the Caribbean earlier this month.

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  • An unknown number of Soviet civilians perished in the to-and-fro of the armies, and in the ruins of the city (present-day Volgograd).

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  • Mr Goldin and his co-authors offer a history of migration, from man's earliest wanderings in Africa to the present day.

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  • Originally located downtown in Georgia's capital, its course was actually the nearby East Lake Golf Club, not the present-day development in Johns Creek north of the city.

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  • Though this first volume concludes with the French revolution (a second, charting developments up to the present day, is in the works) its insights are relevant to our understanding of modern states and how they became what they are.

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  • Bourbon was likely born in the 1770s when present-day Kentucky was first settled by Europeans.

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  • The cable networks upgraded with fibre can run at speeds in the hundreds of megabits per second, enough to handle most present-day applications and many in the immediate future, like high-definition video.

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  • It has also handicapped public institutions in the U.S. in the development of plants that can handle the challenges facing present-day agriculture and forests.

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  • This was the period when the city of Angkor in present-day Cambodia went into rapid decline, a fact that some historians have blamed on invasions by the rival Siamese and Champa kingdoms.

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  • Mr Szymanski plans to update his figures to the present day in an effort to see whether the wage gap has narrowed.

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  • Working with a team of scholars, they translated both works (the second one turned up, go figure, in the library at the University of Texas) into present-day Spanish and modern math formulas.

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  • Starting in 2008 and continuing to the present day, we read of increasing numbers of cases involving so-called trading platforms, FOREX scams, and all sorts of odd investment opportunities offered by registered persons to their brokerage firm customers.

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  • In the case of managers, umpires and executives, their time period during the Expansion Era will begin in 1973 and go all the way up to present day.

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  • The document for submission to the Memory of the World Register is the Deed of Endowment of the Rab' i-Rashidi, and details the justification for the complex, the management system, administration and the budget of the endowed properties, which included land in present-day Afghanistan, Asia Minor, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq and Syria.

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  • If so, promising planets may have been sterilized by solar flares or frozen in the past, which wouldn't be reflected in present-day habitable-zone calculations.

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  • In the Middle Ages, for example, city-states in present-day Italy or Spain traded from a position of strength with north European suppliers of textiles and north African sellers of gold.

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  • But some academics have been looking back at the 1920s to make comparisons with the present day and they find similarities both in the nature of the economic problems and the adjustment efforts designed to alleviate them.

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  • It shuttles breezily between the present day, in which an L.A. detective named Mike Church (Branagh) is trying to discover the identity of an attractive amnesiac (Emma Thompson), and the late forties, in which a European composer and conductor (also Branagh) may or may not have murdered his pianist wife (also Thompson).

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  • In 1565, a Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St.

    CNN: Sunday,

  • Of the many palenques that existed in former times, only San Basilio has survived until the present day.

    UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

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