Historicism is a mode of thinking that assigns a central and basic significance to a specific context, such as historical period, geographical place and local culture.

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned ; That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation ; That until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes ; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race ; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained ; And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed ; Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will ; Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven ; Until that day, the African continent will not know peace.

The nomination consists of a standard nomination form and contains basic information about a property's physical appearance and the type of significance embodied in the building, structure, object, site, or district.

The significance of Maat developed to the point that it embraced all aspects of existence, including the basic equilibrium of the universe, the relationship between constituent parts, the cycle of the seasons, heavenly movements, religious observations and fair dealings, honesty and truthfulness in social interactions.

The next event is a right angle bend, of no apparent significance from the boat, but a map shows that this is where the canal ( and the Trent ) changes its basic direction from south-west ( heading away from Runcorn ) to north-east ( heading towards Nottingham ).

Ecotones, as a basic unit in landscape studies, may have significance for management under climate change scenarios, since change effects are likely to be seen at ecotones first because of the unstable nature of a fringe habitat.

Although every theory of judging can incorporate some account of judicial virtue, a virtue-centered theory of judging makes the distinctive claim that the judicial virtues are central, i. e. that they have basic explanatory and normative significance.

Several basic shapes, like cordate, oval, or triangular have been distinguished, but their chronological significance is not agreed upon.

One study on dissertations submitted between 1950 and 1990 indicated that there were no differences between the two degrees regarding basic versus applied research or the significance of the findings.

He had repeated the basic ideas of Pokrovski on the 1812 campaign and he managed to interpret Napoleon from the viewpoint of the class-struggle saying that “… the Napoleonic era is the birth of the stubborn conflict of new social and economic forces, a conflict which did not begin with Napoleon or end with him, and whose basic significance consisted in the victorious assault of the middle class against the feudal and the semi-feudal order in France and Europe .” Like Pokrovski, Tarle, in this book, treated Russian people ’ s patriotism and the talents of the Russian commanders as of lesser significance.

Though most would agree on the most basic definition of the working poor ( workers whose earnings fall below a given poverty threshold ), the meaning and significance of the term remains under dispute.

* Alice Bailey wrote about the Secret Doctrine: " But those of us who really studied it and arrived at some understanding of its inner significance have a basic appreciation of the truth that no other book seems to supply.

Feyerabend locates incommensurability within a principle from the field of semantics which has the underlying idea that the change in significance in the basic terms of a theory changes the totality of the terms of the new theory, so that there are no empirically common meanings between T and T '

The most important markets and all fairs were associated with the major boroughs and can be used as a gauge of their economic and social significance as also the 1301 quo warranto proceedings in Cork at which John de Barry " claimed the basic baronial jurisdiction of gallows, infangetheof, vetitia namia and fines for shedding blood ( where ' Englishmen ' were involved ) in his manors of Buttevant, Castlelyons, Rathbarry and Lislee ".

The “ Gao Gang Affair ” can simply be viewed as a stillborn coup attempt within the Politburo, but its significance is not that it failed to succeed or even to gather basic support.

This name aptly captures the basic religious orientation of the Makuyas, who emphasize the significance of the personal, ineffable encounter with the Divine Presence in everyday life.

The depicted SERE patch is said to have the following symbolic significance: the color green represents freedom ; the patch is halved with a yellow strip to signify that survival, evasion, resistance and escape all require caution, with the knife the basic survival tool ; the severed barbed wire represents captivity but freedom regained ; the word tiger in Chinese ( 虎 ) alludes to the Here be dragons / tigers legend found on early maps ; finally, the black surround honors symbolically those who have died on active duty.

" According to Jung Chang and Jon Halliday in their book Mao: The Unknown Story, Snow probably believed what he was told to be true, and much of it is still of basic significance, especially the " Autobiography of Mao.

Supernumerary chromosomes do not carry genes that are necessary for basic fungal growth, but may have some functional significance.

During the Civil War period Mr. Brown also invented the Brown & Sharpe formed tooth gear cutter, a basic invention which ultimately revolutionized the world's gear manufacturing industry by changing its basic economics.

In 1883, basic telephony was introduced in Mauritius, only seven years after the invention of the telephone.

St Gall is noted as an early user of neume, the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation.

The basic invention involves passing an electric current through a bath of alumina dissolved in cryolite, which results in a puddle of aluminum forming in the bottom of the retort.

However, the basic idea of the point system – to generate different type sizes by multiplying a single minimum unit calculated by dividing a base measurement unit such as one French Royal inch – was not Didot ’ s invention, but Fournier ’ s .< ref group =" note ">

de Laval was impressed by the self-taught Dalén and the invention and encouraged him to get a basic technical education.

Black had trouble convincing others of the utility of his invention in part because confusion existed over basic matters of definition.

The basic public policy rationale for the protection of intellectual property is that IP laws facilitate and encourage disclosure of innovation into the public domain for the common good, by granting authors and inventors exclusive rights to exploit their works and invention for a limited period.

This was the invention of Irish scientist John Joly, although he, like so many other inventors, eventually discovered that his basic concept had been anticipated in Louis Ducos du Hauron's long-since-expired 1868 patent.

The basic invention involves passing an electric current through a bath of alumina dissolved in cryolite, which results in a puddle of aluminum forming in the bottom of the retort.

The " basic purpose the right of priority is to safeguard, for a limited period, the interests of a patent applicant in his endeavour to obtain international protection for his invention, thereby alleviating the negative consequences of the principle of territoriality in patent law.

In the US, the phrase " consisting of " excludes additional limitations, while the phrase " consisting essentially of " excludes additional limitations that would " materially affect the basic and novel characteristic ( s ) of the claimed invention ".

A neume (; spelled neum in, for instance, the Solesmes publications in English ) is the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation.

Many basic observing references quote a limiting magnitude of 6, as this is the approximate limit of star maps which date from before the invention of the telescope.

Many important basic inventions had their roots elsewhere, notably gunpowder, clock mechanisms, shipbuilding, paper and the windmill, however, in each of these cases Europeans not only adopted the technologies, but improved the manufacturing scale, inherent technology, and applications to a point clearly surpassing the evolution of the original invention in its country of origin.

The basic construction of this weapon has remained very much unchanged since its invention, making it one of the longest-lived mechanical weapons.

Except for the invention of the continuous still in the 19th century, the basic process of distillation has not changed since the eighth century.

Hill later serves as a government postal official, and he is usually credited with originating the basic concepts of the modern postal service, including the invention of the postage stamp ( his brother Edwin Hill helps the service with further innovations ).

Hill later served as a government postal official, and he is usually credited with originating the basic concepts of the modern postal service, including the invention of the postage stamp.

) A sixth basic letter, ㅇ, was an invention, as in the Haerye account.

Besides the inevitable invention of some peripheral characters, the musical plays a bit fast and loose with some basic facts of LaGuardia's life.

:" The common law divided participants in a felony into four basic categories: ( 1 ) first-degree principals, those who actually committed the crime in question ; ( 2 ) second-degree principals, aiders and abettors present at the scene of the crime ; ( 3 ) accessories before the fact, aiders and abettors who helped the principal before the basic criminal event took place ; and ( 4 ) accessories after the fact, persons who helped the principal after the basic criminal event took place.

According to Ethel Williams, who helped popularize the Texas Tommy in New York in 1913, the Texas Tommy " was like the Lindy ", and the basic steps were followed by a breakaway identical to that found in the Lindy.

Goldfarb hit upon the basic idea while working on a primitive document management system intended for law firms in 1969, and helped invent IBM GML later that same year.

In 1777, Antoine Lavoisier helped convince the scientific community that sulfur was a basic element, rather than a compound.

Although the form, usually in quarter-hour episodes, proliferated widely in the middle and late 1930s, they all had the same basic premise: that characters " fell into two categories: 1 ) those in trouble and 2 ) those who helped people in trouble.

As a boy, he mostly worked in the family tavern, helped with basic agricultural work, and spent time playing outdoors in the countryside.

Sachin Tendulkar devoted all of nine hours to the 12-hour Coca-Cola-NDTV Support My School telethon on 18 September 2011 that helped raise 7 crore – 2 crore more than the target – for from the creation of basic facilities, particularly toilets for girl students, in 140 government schools across the country.

Chomsky was not the first person to suggest that all languages had certain fundamental things in common ( he quotes philosophers writing several centuries ago who had the same basic idea ), but he helped to make the innateness theory respectable after a period dominated by more behaviorist attitudes towards language.

Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose, who helped edit Other Losses, wrote I quarrel with many of your interpretations, I am not arguing with the basic truth of your discovery and acknowledged that Bacque had made a " major historical discovery ", in the sense that very little attention had hitherto been paid to the treatment of German POWs in Allied hands.

Epidemiology has helped develop methodology used in clinical research, public health studies and, to a lesser extent, basic research in the biological sciences.

This has been mainly due to improvements in basic health care, though high-technology medical advances have also helped.

Houdini's feats helped to define the basic repertoire of escapology, including escapes from handcuffs, padlocks, straitjackets, mail bags, beer barrels and prison cells.

The name Pea Ridge comes from a combination of the physical location of the original settlement of the town, across the crest of an Ozark Mountains ridge, and for the hog peanuts or turkey peas that had been originally cultivated by Native American tribes centuries before European settlement, which later helped to provide basic subsistence once those pioneer settlers arrived.

The integration of ex-Continentals into the militia, coupled with the passage in 1792 of a national militia bill, and the establishment of the first basic training center at Legionville, all helped to improve the military of the United States.

In 1906, Tanaka helped draft a defense plan which was so highly regarded by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff and General Yamagata Aritomo that it was adopted by as basic policy until World War I.

In recent history, the Sanaag region normally maintained a diverse economy, producing and then exporting to other regions, it produced livestock, frankincense, and leather for export, this was happening while the region lacked basic infrastructure, but sadly, after the outbreak of civil war the region ’ s economy collapsed from loss of markets and dilapidated infrastructure has never helped, and lack of investment.

He helped to prepare a uniform liturgy that same year, and also wrote basic tenets for an ecclesiastical constitution, which most of the churches adopted in 1761.

The income helped both institutions to keep their own student fees at an affordable level, which enabled the College to make a full three-year course of study its basic standard.

During the SARS outbreak, the fund helped several newly-orphaned children, providing the finances to meet basic needs and continue their education.