Burr began his journalism career in 1987 as a stringer in The Christian Science Monitor's Southeast Asia bureau, and later became a Contributing Editor to U. S. News and World Report.

Contributing writers to the site have included notable comedians Christian Finnegan, David Wain, Paul Scheer, Amir Blumenfeld, Justin Johnson, Judah Friedlander.

His son Matthew ( Mate ) Meštrović is an American university professor of Modern European history and worked as a Contributing Editor of Time magazine, served as a lieutenant in the US Army PsyWar.

Contributing factors include the popularity of stories by Charles Dickens in nineteenth-century America ( with their emphasis on generous gift-giving ), introduction of more secular traditions over the past two centuries ( such as the American Santa Claus ), and the rise in popularity of New Year's Eve parties.

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* The Boston Sunday Globe, April 29, 1990: “ Irving Fiske, noted for essays, modern version of Hamlet ; at 82 .” by Kevin Dotson, Contributing Reporter

Contributing to the economic health of the downtown and Wilmington Riverfront regions has been the presence of Wilmington Station, through which 665, 000 people passed in 2009.

Education of healthcare professionals ( including medical physics trainees: Contributing to quality healthcare professional education through knowledge transfer activities concerning the technical-scientific knowledge, skills and competences supporting the clinically-effective, safe, evidence-based and economical use of medical radiological devices.

Contributing to the band's breakup was Kim Warnick's move to the band Visqueen in 2001 through 2004.

* Contributing to the economic development of the region and the state through basic and applied research and public service.

Australian Fabians promote the common good and foster the advance of social democracy in Australia through reasoned debate by: a ) Contributing to progressive political thinking by generating ideas that reflect a level of thinking that meets the challenges of the times.

Contributing artists include many well-known award-winning alternative comics artists like James Kochalka, Sam Henderson and Howard Cruse, as well as young artists like Drew Weing, Chris Onstad and Eric Millikin.

Contributing demographics include a predominantly Anglophone population residing in a largely rural agrarian setting.

Contributing to the Dolchstoßlegende, its failure was blamed on strikes in the arms industry at a critical moment of the offensive, leaving soldiers without an adequate supply of materiel.

Contributing to the confusion are the facts that various species such as D. wrightii and D. inoxia are very similar in appearance, and that the variation within a species can be extreme.

Contributing to this decline in ticket sales is the fact that Jacksonville is one of the league's smallest markets, though its stadium is relatively large ; since 2005 the team has covered nearly 10, 000 of the stadium's 73, 000 total seats with tarp in order to lower the stadium's official capacity to a more typical size and reduce blackouts.

Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins.

Contributing just twice are such luminaries as Tom Lehrer, Gustave Doré, Danny Kaye, Stan Freberg, Mort Walker and Leonardo da Vinci.

Contributing to the international scene was the location of several foreign embassies and foreign corporate offices in the Roppongi area.

Contributing the single " Boss of Me " as the theme song to the hit television series Malcolm in the Middle, as well as to the show's compilation CD, brought a new audience to the band.

Contributing to these rudder pedal inputs were characteristics of the Airbus A300-600 sensitive rudder system design and elements of the American Airlines Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Training Program.

Contributing factors include the following: First, the first officer's predisposition to overreact to wake turbulence ; second, the training provided by American Airlines that could have encouraged pilots to make large flight control inputs ; third, the first officer likely did not understand an airplane's response to large rudder inputs at high airspeeds or the mechanism by which the rudder rolls a transport-category airplane ; finally, light rudder pedal forces and small pedal displacement of the A300-600 rudder pedal system increased the airplane's susceptibility to a rudder misuse.

* Factors Contributing to Municipal Annexation among Medium Sized Southern US Cities.

Contributing to Richmond's resurgence was the first successful electrically powered trolley system in the United States, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway.

Contributing to the harshness of the germination environment above mature root systems, young creosote bushes are much more susceptible to drought stress than established plants.

Contributing to the strong ties between the United States and Portugal are the 20, 000 Americans living in Portugal and some sizable Portuguese communities in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, California, and Hawaii.

Contributing to the added expenses was the filming of snow scenes and aircraft interiors at the Los Angeles Ice and Cold Storage Warehouse, where the low temperature affected the equipment and caused lengthy delays.

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Contributing writers were Desmond Child, Christina Amphlett of Divinyls, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, Diane Warren, and Frank Previte.

Contributing to the economy of Harrison's Landing was Moyer's Grist Mill located in Yarrow, the very first mill of its type between Baltimore and Alexandria, Virginia.

Contributing houses throughout the Oak Ridge Historic District have long been associated with the school, as either the homes of founders and trustees, boarding houses, or the residences of principals, teachers, and officials.

Contributing to the cultural fabric of Spencer are the Spencer Chamber of Commerce, the Spencer Garden Club, and the Spencer Historical Society.

These structures are classified as Significant, Contributing, and Non-Contributing.

Wheaton stated that the public law was essentially `` limited to the civilized and Christian peoples of Europe or to those of European origin ''.

Angel-shaped beings appear in ancient Mesopotamian and Greek art and were probably the inspiration for the popular Christian image of angels, a popular subject for Byzantine and European paintings and sculpture.

In the 16th and the 17th centuries, the earliest European arrivals in China, the Christian Jesuits, considered Confucianism to be an ethical system, not a religion, and one that was compatible with Christianity.

The Cathars were largely a homegrown, Western European / Latin Christian phenomenon, springing up in the Rhineland cities ( particularly Cologne ) in the mid-12th century, northern France around the same time, and particularly southern France — the Languedoc — and the northern Italian cities in the mid-late 12th century.

The Group of the European People's Party ( Christian Democrats ), abbreviated to EPP Group, is a centre-right political group of the European Parliament.

The Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( the predecessor of the present day European Parliament ) first met on 10 September 1952 and the first Christian Democratic group was unofficially formed the next day, with Maan Sassen as President.

As the Community expanded into the Union, the centre-right in the new member states were not necessarily Christian Democrat and the EPP ( European People's Party, the transnational political party founded in 1976 which all group members are now affiliated to ) feared being sidelined.

However, the group saw its membership fall sharply in the late 1980s, as many centre-right members moved to the rival European People's Party group, dominated by the German CDU and the ideology of Christian democracy in general.

Although Ireland's political spectrum was traditionally divided along Civil War lines, rather than the traditional European left-right spectrum, Fine Gael is described generally as a centre-right, Christian democratic party, with a focus on law and order, enterprise and reward, and fiscal rectitude.

Fine Gael is a founding member of the European People's Party ( EPP ), the largest European political party comprising conservative and Christian democratic national-level parties from across Europe.

Currently, the party conforms generally with European political parties that identify themselves as being Christian democratic.

The immediate occasion for the war was the uprising of the Protestant nobility of Bohemia against the emperor, but the conflict was widened into a European War by the intervention of King Christian IV of Denmark ( 1625 – 29 ), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ( 1630 – 48 ) and France under Cardinal Richelieu.

In 1686, the capital city Buda was freed from the Ottomans by an allied Christian army composed of Austrian, Hungarian, and Western European troops, each roughly one third of the army.

Scholastic European scholars, who sought to reconcile the philosophy of the ancient classical philosophers with Christian theology, proclaimed Aristotle the greatest thinker of the ancient world.

Compared with the languages of European Christendom, the Russian language was little influenced by the Greek and Latin of early Christian writings.

Legislation against the Talmud in European courts resulted from concerns that its circulation would weaken Christians ' faith and threaten the Christian basis of society, the preservation of which was the monarch's duty.

The Crusades, first preached in 1095, were military attempts, by western European Christians, to regain control of the Middle Eastern Holy Land from the Muslims, and succeeded long enough to establish Christian states in the Near East.

Through the adoption of Christianity Mieszko I included his Polish state in the community European western Latin rite Christian states.

Though Molokans are somewhat similar to the European Quakers and Mennonites — for their pacifism, communal organization, spiritual meetings, and sub-groupings — they are ethnically much closer to Doukhobors and Sabbatarians ( Subbotniki ) because they evolved from the same Russian Spiritual Christian movement of Khristovers and Ikonobors ( icon-wrestlers ), and migrated together with some intermarriage.

By the late 19th century, Nazareth was a town with a strong Arab Christian presence and a growing European community, where a number of communal projects were undertaken and new religious buildings were erected.

Poznań hosted the 2009 European Young Adults Meeting of the ecumenical Christian Taizé Community.