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" History seems to have vindicated Drucker in his belief that Sloan's faith in rationality alone — and in the ability of other white-collar managers to be as astute as he himself was — was overardent, because 40 years later, the management and board of directors who had run the original General Motors Corporation into the ground by 2009 were not " in a position to appraise the broad long-term trends of the market "— or were in that position, but not doing the job successfully therein.
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At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;
Book Eight of The Wars of Justinian, and the Secret History, suggest that his relationship with Belisarius seems to have cooled thereafter.
Even in ancient times nothing seems to have been known of his life except what can be gathered from notices in his Historia Ecclesiastica (" Church History "), which departed from its ostensible model, Eusebius of Caesarea, in emphasizing the place of the emperor in church affairs and in giving secular as well as church history.
The name " Potsdam " originally seems to have been " Poztupimi " ( see section " History ").
This Glasgow scientist seems to have been the first to suggest the usage of a manometric gas flame for optical transmission, demonstrated at a meeting of the Glasgow Philosophical Society ; " The History of selenium and its action in the Bell Photophone, with description of recently designed form ", Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow No. 13, 1881, * * * Moser, J.
Eleanor Loftus herself was Strafford's friend, the sister of his brother's wife, but there is no evidence that she was his mistress, and his words quoted above do not support the accusation, which seems to rest upon some ambiguous expressions in Clarendon's History.
Cynan ap Iago seems to have died while Gruffudd was still young, since the History describes his mother telling him who his father was.
" here seems to be a striking simlarity between Maimon ’ s discussion of Spinoza in the Lebensgeschichte ( Maimon's autobiography ) and Hegel ’ s discussion of Spinoza in the Lectures in the History of Philosophy.
In his 1909 manuscript The Rule of Phase Applied to History, Adams attempted to use Maxwell's demon as a historical metaphor, though he seems to have misunderstood and misapplied the principle.
J. O ' Connor and E. F. Robertson ( 1999 ), Omar Khayyam, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, states, " Khayyam himself seems to have been the first to conceive a general theory of cubic equations.
While the History seems to suggest that considerations of justice are artificial and necessarily capitulate to power, it sometimes also shows a significant degree of empathy with those who suffer from the exigencies of the war.
Instead it seems likely that, as with the speeches, Thucydides is looser than previously thought in inferring the thoughts, feelings, and motives of principal characters in his History from their actions, as well as his own sense of what would be appropriate or likely in such a situation.
The existence of a minster dedicated to Chad in this town seems to be a legend traceable to Burton's 1890 History of Kidderminster, in which the author acknowledges that the only evidence for such a place is the name of the town.
In his Communal History and Rama's Ayodhya, Professor Ram Sharan Sharma writes, " Ayodhya seems to have emerged as a place of religious pilgrimage in medieval times.
The years he had spent in France he had occupied in improving his general education, for, incredible as it seems, the author of the History of the War in the Peninsula could not spell or write respectable English till that time.
* A History from the Chicago Public Library, however it seems that they have a mistake.
As the largest town in the region, Sohar has been supposed to be identical with the Omana mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, which settlement seems to have given Oman its name.
There seems to have been yet another Hermogenes of Tarsus, remembered for being put to death by Emperor Domitian because of some allusions in his History.
The only known contemporary ethnical description of Brodnici (" Bordinians ") is by Byzantian chronicler Niketas Choniates in his History, who describes them as a branch of " Tauroscythians ," and this term he seems to apply to the Rus people drawing a distinction of them from Turkic Polovtsians and from Vlachs.
Although it may be too soon to measure the full impact of this volume, it seems safe to say that Norton's work, and his companion study in Textual History, will necessarily have a far-reaching influence on any subsequent scholars who deal with the King James Version's history or its text.
A middle position seems to be taken up by the English critic Kingsley Amis, who acknowledged the SF and satirical character of True History at the same time:
Specifically, this report seems from Lucian to have been parodied in his " True History ".
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Because anthropology developed from so many different enterprises ( see History of Anthropology ), including but not limited to fossil-hunting, exploring, documentary film-making, paleontology, primatology, antiquity dealings and curatorship, philology, etymology, genetics, regional analysis, ethnology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, it is difficult to characterize the entire field in a brief article, although attempts to write histories of the entire field have been made.
Since the 1980s issues of power, such as those examined in Eric Wolf's Europe and the People Without History, have been central to the discipline.
Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.
He might also have been influenced by the name of a legendary island mentioned in The Natural History by Pliny the Elder.
Liddell Hart ( Decisive Wars of History ), among many others, have written books in the style of Creasy's work.
' There, in that fixed attitude of grief which Michelangelo has immortalized, the prophet may well be supposed to have mourned the fall of his country " ( Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, History of the Jewish Church ).
Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.
Due to economic downturn Golden State was forced to sell their entire art collection to ward off its mounting debts and as of spring 2011 the National Museum of African American History and Culture had offered $ 750, 000 to purchase the artworks which led to a controversy regarding the importance of the artworks which have been estimated to be worth at least $ 5 million.
Such was Catherine's impression on people, that even her enemy, Thomas Cromwell, said of her " If not for her sex, she could have defied all the heroes of History.
Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.
The Historian Procopius, in his Secret History, claims that the emperor Justinian attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar in the 6th century, and a modern writer has suggested that this measure may have been directed against the protopaschites.
* Edward Gibbon ( 18th century historian ) dismissed his testimony on the number of martyrs and impugned his honesty by referring to a passage in the abbreviated version of the Martyrs of Palestine attached to the Ecclesiastical History, book 8, chapter 2, in which Eusebius introduces his description of the martyrs of the Great Persecution under Diocletian with: " Wherefore we have decided to relate nothing concerning them except the things in which we can vindicate the Divine judgment.
: History of science and technology has consistently taught us that scientific advances in basic understanding have sooner or later led to technical and industrial applications that have revolutionized our way of life.
According to BBC History: " There have been 53 major wars in Europe, France had been a belligerent in 49 of them ; UK 43.
A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".
These codes have influenced, and in turn, have been influenced by, the responsa ; History of Responsa thus provides an informative complement to the survey below.
In his book Sketches on the History of Man in 1734 Home claimed that the environment, climate, or state of society could not account for racial differences, so that the races must have come from distinct, separate stocks.
The earliest written references that have survived relating to the islands were made by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he states that there are 30 " Hebudes ", and makes a separate reference to " Dumna ", which Watson ( 1926 ) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides.
Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.
Theodorus Lector, in his 6th-century History of the Church 1: 1 stated that Eudokia ( wife of Theodosius II, died 460 ) sent an image of " the Mother of God " named Icon of the Hodegetria from Jerusalem to Pulcheria, daughter of the Emperor Arcadius: the image was specified to have been " painted by the Apostle Luke.
The book covers that Orton and Halliwell vandalised have since become a valued part of the Islington Local History Centre collection.
" A Concise History of Knighthood: Containing the Religious and Military Orders which have been Instituted in Europe ".
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