It helped to protect original documents from corruption, providing a more solid foundation for the writing of history.
There are other factors in how people evaluate our Presidents, including the passage of time and the writing of history.
That is not the way the writing of history works.
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Mr. Loconte, a professor of history at The Kings College, is writing a book on the history of religious toleration.
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Indeed, the very act of writing history in many Arab countries can be risky business.
Robert Kagan is in the middle of writing an ambitious history of American foreign policy.
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But for all the psychological plausibility of the new historians, are they writing decent history?
There are also many new novels that, like To Kill a Mockingbird, illuminate social issues not by writing through the broad strokes of history but by developing powerful characters who battle events over which they have little or no control.
The difficulties of writing this type of history are extreme when a single volume of just over 300 text pages has to cover a diverse continent from Ireland to Poland, from Bergen to Palermo, over a period when it was changing so fast.
On the evening I was there, Billy sat down with me as we talked about Irish history, the craft of writing, and what it was like to live in a town that holds his father in such high esteem.
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Semi-employed between finishing his studies and moving to England, he turned his hand to writing a history of the world for children.
Although Arab peoples may revere the study, writing, and teaching of history, their leaders are more likely to view a clash of historians as a source of threat, rather than a source of strength.
Alongside his new role at the university, Mr Wood is due to begin writing a new series for the BBC exploring the history of China.
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Montblanc, the German company with its own 106-year history as a manufacturer of luxury writing instruments, not only bought into the legacy of Minvera, but in some cases expanded upon it.
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Of course, the show has a fickle history full of surprises, and had I been writing such predictions back in Season 10, I would have picked Pia Toscano to at leach reach the final two, but she was shockingly cut almost immediately after reaching the Top 10, finishing ninth.
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Mr. Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is writing a history of guerrilla warfare.
Writing may be one of the most important discoveries in human history.
At this writing, it seems likely that, when the history of the presidency of George W. Bush is written, that statement will be one of its most laudable achievements.
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.
Writer and researcher Jone Johnson Lewis, writing on the website Women's History, has told of female resistance fighters on the Channel Islands wearing men's clothes to disguise themselves while posting flyers stirring opposition to German occupation.
Nagel has a history of writing critical essays and reviews about the limits of materialism and the deficiencies of the New Atheists.
While cleaning up your timeline might somehow resemble a re-writing of history, it sounds like a good investment into the future to me.
Valentina is currently hard at work writing a history of Via Margutta, and has discovered that the first meeting of the revolutionary Italian art movement, the Futurists, took place here in 1906.
Shortly after A Brief History of Time came out, Ferguson approached Hawking with the idea of writing a book for young people about him and his theories.
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Overall, Douglas will leave London with much to celebrate: A gold medal win with Team USA, re-writing history with her gold medal win in the all-around, and a plethora of opportunities by which to earn endorsement dollars.
Mr. Tsarnaev's ability to speak Russian would have allowed him to be something of a "native guide for Kazakhs far from home, " said Brian Glyn Williams, a professor of Islamic history at the university who once advised Mr. Tsarnaev on a paper he was writing on Chechnya.
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