Lettie, who's in her 20s, went to Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham before reading history at Glasgow University.
He was already passionate about history, often reading history books under the magnolia tree in front of Columbia's public library.
But it has been adopted by students who engage in intellectual pursuits like playing chess or reading history as they sip their pulque.
He had a fondness for mafia movies, international travel and a passion for reading history, to learn from the past's "mistakes, " he wrote.
The task of re-reading Muslim history, specially the earliest years of the post-Prophetic period, is not one of retrospectively reading our standards into what was narrated in the formative period, but finding clues in that narrative to explain the subsequent development of Muslim politics into our time.
Mr. Krastev says Berlin's policy prescriptions are based on its reading of history, aspects of which are open to debate.
Reading the history linked above will give you some background as to why and how long it has been fought.
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But he believed that it was vital to mix liberal idealism with a pessimism rooted in a conservative reading of history.
Obama's correct reading of history is why he's made the decisions he has in his first term -- even when they were politically unpopular.
When it comes to mobile news reading, history is running backwards.
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It also takes a deft reading of history to show that the sweep of the past 2, 000 years has led precisely to the values of New Labour's third term.
The sleepless CEOs should perhaps consider as bedtime reading a history of the finance sector, and they would find that banks have been about much more than we realize today.
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Local councillor Andrew Cumpsty said removing it would be "throwing away another piece of Reading's history".
He certainly should devote months to reading books on history, foreign policy, science, technology and economics.
My favorite pastimes are online computer gaming and reading about WWII history.
One of the biggest gaps that I have in my reading of American history is the history of labor struggles in this country.
Her work offers a visual re-reading of the history of a famous 17th-century cape, made of red ibis feathers, which was said to transform its shamanic wearer into a birdman.
It seems to serve a different purpose now, a couple of older gentlemen shuffling in and out of the library during the three hours we spend there, each staying quiet, seated alone at a small table, reading novels and history books from off the shelves.
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An ancient manuscript documenting part of Reading Abbey's history dating back to the 14th Century is being displayed publicly for the first time.
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Bookfuturism turns out to be not just about books as such, but a kind of aesthetic and culture of reading, literacy, history, in connection with (only rarely in opposition to) other kinds of media culture.
The third reading is a sort of American History from the perspective of dogs.
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President Bush is now reading Michael Beschloss's excellent history "The Conquerors, " about how Franklin Roosevelt planned Germany's postwar future.
It should be required reading for anyone inclined to think that economic history is bunk.
As an adult I learned more about him on my own, reading about his work, philosophy, and history.
All three new tests will mirror the old GED in many ways: They will be five to eight hours long and cover the basic subjects of reading, writing, math, science and history.
After you've wandered around Middle Temple checking out old suits of armour, reading the plaques and taking in all the history, you can grab a Stella or Hoegaarden and watch the games on a movie theatre-size screen in the grand hall.
Some of the weeks incorporate both history and fiction, for example the reading of "A Man for All Seasons, " Robert Bolt's 1954 play -- later reworked into a famous 1966 film - about the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to England's mercurial King Henry VIII in the 16th century.
Reams of research point to the same finding: physicians looking at the same thing will disagree with each other, or even with themselves, from 10 percent to 50 percent of the time during virtually every aspect of the medical-care process from taking a medical history to doing a physical examination, reading a laboratory test, performing a pathological diagnosis and recommending a treatment.
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