Through centuries of warfare and the shifting borders of regional kingdoms, gold was the safest currency.
OED, a mighty work that pursued the changing usages of English through centuries, almost from its birth.
Unlike his upper-class wife Victoria, whose family, the Digbys, had held on to the old religion through centuries of persecution, he took Catholicism much too seriously.
The papal visit has revived a sense of unity and pride among Syria's 2.4 million Christians, who have retained their faith through centuries in a Muslim-dominated country of 17 million.
It kept prices constant through centuries and provided an automatic mechanism to remove international imbalances, such as those that are creating today's currency wars, without the help of any international bureaucracy.
Nor, can they be trusted to coordinate their actions through the centuries old institution of voluntary exchange in free markets or through the voluntary organizations that are the bedrock of a civil society.
"We've been a pretty weepy country through the centuries until the 20th Century, " says Dr Dixon.
Peter's Square, down through the centuries, has often been the one they have turned to.
Through the centuries the Chitral Gol was to all intents and purposes a hunting reserve.
Unfortunately for painters down through the centuries, the world is full of art patrons like Monsieur Degas'.
Transcending rather than traveling back through the centuries, she finds herself in an English fishing village circa 1410.
Through the centuries, knowledge has been used to subdue and liberate.
To visit the Alhambra is to walk with wonder through storied halls added down through the centuries by rulers eager to leave their mark upon history.
Through the centuries and due to its contemporary beauty and freshness of color, suspicions abounded that Nefertiti was a fake, executed with the complicity of Borchardt himself.
Some conservatives are also reported to favour a papal resignation, apparently because they are angry over series of millennium initiatives including apologising for the sins of Catholics through the centuries.
It has famously been interrupted through the centuries but also in recent times, as global busts in commodities or real estate, or other home-market vagaries, got in the way of would-be Marco Polos.
From ancient shipwrecks to underwater caves, this photo exhibition is an insight to the diversity of the underwater cultural heritage and its astonishing condition of conservation through the centuries of time, or even millennia.
Case studies, historic maps, photographs, newspapers, government documents, and original objects are used to explore the evolution and development of the once rural island through the centuries, beginning with its early Dutch days.
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Think of all the beauty that has been lost to history over the centuries through violence.
Today, the dance is a cultural and aesthetic event, connecting townspeople to their agricultural heritage, to Japan's tradition of reliance on rice, and to a group identity transmitted across centuries through folk performance.
The Daily Mail reported Wednesday that between visits to the gym and a local fro-yo joint, Clinton made a stop at Bauman Rare Books, a Manhattan-based shop filled with rare and hard-to-find first-edition books, maps and prints dating from the 15th through the 20th centuries.
Well, for more than two centuries, through war and depression, the United States has always paid its bills, always honored its obligations.
"The site is a wonderful slice through the first four centuries of London's existence, " said Sophie Jackson of the Museum of London Archaeology.
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: This house has stood for more than two centuries, through war and peace, through hardship and through prosperity.
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The archaeologists may turn up other unexpected finds as they dig back through soil packed down over centuries.
The 34.98-carat Beau Sancy diamond, the signature gem of the Prussian crown jewels, has made it through the last three turbulent centuries firmly in the hands of the House of Hohenzollern, the ruling dynasty of Prussia and, later, imperial Germany.
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Evidence of a Viking longhouse and later occupation during the 1600s through to the 18th and 19th centuries were also found.
Mr Duncan follows these roots as they twist and turn through history, sometimes atrophying for centuries, only to be revived within a particular society, by the influence of visionary leaders and scientific discoveries from abroad.
European explorers spent centuries searching for a passage through the ice at the top of the world.
Afghanistan for centuries has been governed loosely through a social covenant between all the ethnic groups, under a sovereign king.
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