Just one movement, that of the Russian avant-garde, after it was cut off from Europe by war and revolution, achieved something like collective genius.
Back in Russia, at his home town of Vitebsk and then in St Petersburg (then called Petrograd), he worked on through war and revolution with equal fire, using cardboard when canvas was scarce.
"I've been to Zagreb and Belgrade and both cities, both countries, view this as something much bigger than football, " James Montague, author of When Friday Comes: Football, War and Revolution in the Middle East, told CNN.
An economy left in ruins by the years of war and violent revolution in the 1970s and 80s grew at a rate of almost 10% a year from 1998 to 2008.
The first was born in 1723 and the last died in 1813 a period of emerging empires, generating enough war, revolution and trade to absorb any number of precarious Scots.
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He had a view of what was good for France and what was good for Europe, to which he stuck through revolution, war and restoration.
Singer is a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution whose book, "Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, " projected a vision of the future of war that developers were seeking.
Deutsche Bank analysts said that threat hasn't been this severe since the late 1970s and early 1980s, the time of the Iranian revolution and a war between Iran and Iraq that disrupted oil supplies.
Clinton had just warned Arab leaders that the region was sinking in the sand, but she didn't expect months of revolution and war.
About 60 oil paintings, murals and sketches gathered together from Moscow, St Petersburg and Paris focus on the eight years Chagall spent in his home town of Vitebsk in Russia during World War 1, the Bolshevik Revolution and its aftermath.
When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British.
All these functions of government were designed before the rise of the global economy, the information technology revolution, and the end of the Cold War.
As members of the Armed Forces, heroic Hispanic men and women have also fought and died to defend the liberties and security of the United States in every war since the American Revolution, many serving before becoming American citizens.
On this Memorial Day, it is important to remember that much of the technological revolution that we celebrate today was the product of war--and that most of the great inventions of the electronics age were originally designed to destroy property and kill human beings.
Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Pennsylvanian who signed the Declaration of Independence, wrote that the war was only the first step in the Revolution's destiny to transform America and the world.
The four decades following America's first Gilded Age in the 1870s were pocked with dislocation: multiple financial panics, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the fall of the Manchu dynasty, the onset of the Mexican Revolution and Otto von Bismarck's German makeover.
Besides, this latest revolution is being conducted under perfect conditions--no inflation, no war and a Fort Knox of risk capital available to all.
Alexander Hamilton, the subject of this penetrating portrait, was in the thick of it all-from the agitation preceding the American Revolution, through the war itself (as a key staffer for George Washington and then as a courageous officer in the field), to the writing and adopting of the Constitution, to the rise of partisan politics.
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