A record that " captivated alternative rock ", it represented Stereolab's " high-water mark " according to music journalists Tom Moon and Joshua Klein, respectively.

Critic Joshua Klein said that " the emphasis this time sounds less on unfocused experimentation and more on melody ... a breezy and welcome return to form for the British band.

Said Joshua Klein in The Washington Post, " Years before everyone else caught on, Stereolab was referencing the 1970s German bands Can and Neu !, the Mexican lounge music master Esquivel and the decidedly unhip Burt Bacharach.

The band's 1996 album Emperor Tomato Ketchup, their " high-water mark " according to critic Joshua Klein, was a critical success and underground hit.

The current fellows are Patrick Caldwell and Jamelle Bouie ; past fellows have included Adam Serwer, Tim Fernholz, Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, Chris Mooney, Joshua Marshall, Dana Goldstein, and Kate Sheppard.

Past contributors include Jonathan Chait, Jonathan Cohn, Joshua Green, Joshua Micah Marshall, Jedediah Purdy, Chris Mooney, Matthew Yglesias, Michael Massing, Joe Conason, Michael Tomasky, Ezra Klein, and Scott Stossel.

While many diavlogs feature Wright and Kaus, other regular participants at Bloggingheads. tv include Rosa Brooks, Conn Carroll, Jonathan Chait, Joshua Cohen, David Corn, Timothy Noah, Ross Douthat, Daniel Drezner, Garance Franke-Ruta, John Horgan, Heather Hurlburt, George Johnson, Mark Kleiman, Ezra Klein, Jeffrey Lewis, Glenn Loury, Megan McArdle, John McWhorter, James Pinkerton, Jacqueline Shire, Mark Schmitt, Will Wilkinson and Matthew Yglesias.

At a Technology Entertainment Design conference in March 2008, Joshua Klein presented the potential use of a vending machine for crows.

* TED Talk: The Amazing Intelligence of Crows by Joshua Klein

On-air guests have included Radio Hall of Famer Arthur Godfrey ( in 1947 ), Pete Hamill, Steve Buscemi, Tim Robbins, Graham Nash, Roger McGuinn, Suzanne Vega, Jimmy Webb, Peter, Paul & Mary, Cyndi Lauper, Sting, Bo Diddley, Judy Collins, Lou Reed, Brian Wilson, Robert Klein, Kevin Bacon, Dick Cavett, Glen Campbell, Ringo Starr, Joshua Bell, Paul Simon, Robbie Robertson, Los Lobos, Tony Bennett, The Bad Plus, Buddy Guy, Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Ani DiFranco, Jackson Browne, Ben Harper, Richard Barone, The Decemberists, Moby, Uncle Tupelo, Josh Ritter, Neil Young, Mavis Staples, and Norah Jones ( in her radio debut ).

Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

The Babylonian Talmud was the first attempt to attach authors to the holy books: each book, according to the authors of the Talmud, was written by a prophet, and each prophet was an eyewitness of the events described, and Joshua himself wrote " the book that bears his name ".

For the Old Testament, he wrote commentaries on Isaiah, the books of the Pentateuch, the Psalms, and Joshua.

Similar passages include, for example, Exodus 17: 14, " And YHWH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;" Exodus 24: 4, " And Moses wrote all the words of YHWH, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel ;" Exodus 34: 27, " And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel ;" and " These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

In 1987, Joshua Sinai of the Library of Congress wrote that the Syrian Arab Army was the dominant military service, and as such controlled the senior-most posts in the armed forces, and had the most manpower, approximately 80 percent of the combined services.

Ibn Ezra hinted, and Bonfils explicitly stated, that Joshua wrote these verses many years after the death of Moses.

Other commentators do not accept this position and maintain that although Moses did not write those eight verses it was nonetheless dictated to him and that Joshua wrote it based on instructions left by Moses, and that the Torah often describes future events, some of which have yet to occur.

When the film was screened in New York in 2005, film critic Joshua Land wrote, " Little Fugitive shines as a beautifully shot document of a bygone Brooklyn — any drama here resides in the grainy black-and-white cinematography, with its careful attention to the changes in light brought on by the inexorably advancing sun ... Filled with ' Aw, fellas!

Commentator Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that the book is written as if Jeremiah not only heard as words but personally felt in his body and emotions the experience of what he prophesied:

In a letter to Joshua Zeitlin of Shklow, Shneur Zalman wrote: " The Hasidim, too, set aside time for study.

Taylor also wrote about painters, editing the Autobiography of B. R. Haydon ( 1853 ), the Autobiography and Correspondence of C. R. Leslie, R. A. ( 1860 ), and writing Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1865 ).

While there, on 12 August 1823, Mackintosh wrote a two-sheet letter from Cadogan Place, London to James Savage asking for source material for Savage's edition of The History of Taunton by Joshua Toulmin.

He wrote several medical works, now forgotten ; and his edition of Euripides ( 1778 ) was a considerable advance on that of Joshua Barnes.

West got the canvas into the Exhibition of the year and wrote, on August 4, 1766, a letter to Copley in which he referred to Sir Joshua Reynolds's interest in the work and advised the artist to follow his example by making " a viset to Europe for this porpase ( of self-improvement ) for three or four years.

In the Advent Herald of April 24, Joshua Himes wrote that all the " expected and published time " had passed and admitted that they had been " mistaken in the precise time of the termination of the prophetic period ", while Josiah Litch surmised that they were probably " only in error relative to the event which marked its close.

Other artists about whom he wrote include Thomas Bewick, Edward Burne-Jones, George Cruikshank, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, Edwin Landseer, William Mulready, Samuel Palmer, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Rowlandson, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, and Thomas Woolner.

She is most famous now as the author of The Female Quixote and for her association with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and Samuel Richardson, but she had a long career and wrote poetry, prose, and drama.

In the 2011 book Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon, authors Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner wrote that Johnson was one of the key figures responsible for the late-2000s financial crisis.

* Irish rock band U2 wrote a song about the hill, " One Tree Hill ", which appeared on their album The Joshua Tree.

" Similar passages include, for example, Exodus 17: 14, " And the said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;" Exodus 24: 4, " And Moses wrote all the words of the, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel ;" Exodus 34: 27, " And the said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel ;" and " These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

Much later in the Book, when Joshua was old and dying, he gathered the people together at Shechem, and gave a farewell speech, and then wrote these words in the book of the law of Yahweh, and set up a stone as a witness, placing it next to the sanctuary of Yahweh, under the oak tree.

Abraham Joshua Heschel once wrote, " According to Jewish tradition, even God Himself can only forgive sins committed against Himself, not against man.

Joshua Davis, lead singer of the Michigan based band Steppin ' In It wrote a song about " The Weatherman " called " Charles Hatfield Blues ".

In 1996 Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell wrote the seminal work Sugarscape.

The Ark is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and then numerous times in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Psalms and Jeremiah.

( Chapter 1 is the first of three important moments in Joshua marked with major speeches and reflections by the main characters ; here first God and then Joshua make speeches about the goal of conquest of the Promised Land ; at chapter 12, Joshua looks back on the conquest ; and at chapter 23 Joshua gives a speech about what must be done if Israel is to live in peace in the land ).

Having described how the Israelites and Joshua have carried out the first of their God's commands, the story now turns to the second, to " put the people in possession of the land.

Joshua Slocum was one of the first people to carry out a long-distance sailing voyage for pleasure, circumnavigating the world between 1895 and 1898.

The record shot to number three on the charts, followed closely, in February 1971, by her first number-one single, " Joshua.

* 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.

The fame Nova Scotia achieved from sailors was assured when Joshua Slocum became the first man to sail single-handedly around the world ( 1895 ).

Although officially denied by the Nigerian government, Nigeria is known to have also provided secret military training at the Kaduna first mechanized army division and provided other material support to Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War ( Renamed Zimbabwe in 1979 ) of independence against white minority rule of Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith which was armed and financed by the regime in South Africa.

The term plasmid was first introduced by the American molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg in 1952.

The People's Political Party ( PPP ), founded in 1952 by Ebenezer Joshua, was the first major political party in St. Vincent.

Joshua Spodek, as an astrophysics graduate student, conceived of and led the development of a class of linear zoetropes that saw the zoetrope's first commercial success in over a century.

The glow was first correctly identified as being due to scattered sunlight from dust particles in the solar system by Joshua Childrey in 1661.

* December 10 – Royal Academy founded in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first President.

In addition, Joshua erects a stone under an oak tree as the first covenant of the Lord ( Josh.

Sir Joshua Reynolds in his Discourses praised his " simple, grave, and majestic dignity " and said he " stands in general foremost of the first best painters ", especially for his frescoes ( in which he included the " Raphael Cartoons "), whereas " Michael Angelo claims the next attention.

Max later learns that Joshua was the first transgenic created by Manticore's founder Sandeman.

In biblical history, the Jordan appears as the scene of several miracles, the first taking place when the Jordan, near Jericho, was crossed by the Israelites under Joshua ().