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At the CIDOC, " Illich was able to develop his potent and highly influential critique of Third World development schemes and their fresh-faced agents: Kennedy ’ s Alliance for Progress, the Peace Corps, and countless other missionary efforts bankrolled and organized by wealthy nations, foundations, and religious groups.
Of the once wealthy abbey, mostly only knee-high ruins and exposed foundations remain.
It housed several well-known madrasas and numerous wealthy religious foundations, becoming the principal intellectual center of the central Maghreb.
This approach has been successfully used by foundations established by well-known and wealthy families such as the Ford ( automobile ), Carnegie ( steel ) and Arthur Vining Davis ( aluminium ) families.
Since 1925 there have been substantial contributions from wealthy individuals and from foundations and firms associated with the international banking fraternity, especially the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and other organizations associated with J. P. Morgan, the Rockefeller and Whitney families, and the associates of Lazard Frères and of Morgan, Grenfell & Company.

foundations and Roman
In the early 19th century the foundations for the extensive collection of sculpture began to be laid and Greek, Roman and Egyptian artefacts dominated the antiquities displays.
The foundations for the first European universities were the glossators of the 11th century, which were schools of law that taught Canon law and Roman law.
These were partly caused by the explosion in population, but also to concentrate economic power at strategic locations, while formerly cities only existed in the shape of either old Roman foundations or older bishoprics.
What remains of the foundations of an early rectangular building near the southern part of the current cathedral might also be contemporary with Justus or may be part of a Roman building.
According to scholar James Butrica, lesbianism " challenged not only the Roman male's view of himself as the exclusive giver of sexual pleasure but also the most basic foundations of Rome's male-dominated culture ".
Few Roman remains are visible today ; a fragment of the old city wall can be seen near the casino and the foundations of the amphitheatre are traced in the paving of the present-day Rembrandtstraat.
Almost nothing is known about the city in this period, aside from the walls, the Greek theatre, the foundations of a house under the Roman forum and a little temple dedicated to a hero cult.
While Rome was no longer the official capital of the Western Roman Empire ( it had been moved to Ravenna for strategic reasons ), its fall severely shook the empire's foundations.
These were covered by the foundations of Roman buildings, dating from the 1st to the late 4th century.
The liaison shake the foundations of the Western Roman Empire.
The existing port at Porto Torres, which is almost wholly artificial, is based in great part on Roman foundations ; and there exist also the remains of a temple ( which, as we learn from an inscription, was dedicated to Fortune, and restored in the reign of Philip ), of thermae, of a basilica and an aqueduct, as well as a bridge over the adjoining small river, still called the Fiume Turritano.
The chief monuments, of which the ruins are still extant within the circuit of the walls, are: the theatre, of which the remains are in imperfect condition, but sufficient to show that it was not of large size, and apparently of Roman construction, or at least, like that of Tauromenium, rebuilt in Roman times upon the Greek foundations ; a large edifice with two handsome stone arches, commonly called a Gymnasium, but the real purpose of which is very difficult to determine ; several other edifices of Roman times, but of wholly uncertain character, a mosaic pavement, and some Roman tombs.
Under the reorganization of the empire by Diocletian, Rouen became the chief city of the divided province of Gallia Lugdunensis II and reached the apogee of its Roman development, with an amphitheatre and thermae of which the foundations remain.
The antiquity of Padua was seriously damaged: the remains of an amphitheatre ( the Arena ) and some bridge foundations are all that remain of Roman Padua today.
* Titus Macchius Plautus, Roman playwright who is credited with forming the foundations of modern comedy ( d. 184 BC )
The oldest remains found during excavations beneath the present nave in 1993 were, however, parts of the foundations of an Anglo-Saxon building, which had been constructed across a Roman road.
Human remains have been found at the foundations of structures from the Neolithic time to the Roman era, with injuries and in positions that argue for their being foundation sacrifices.
In the year 581 the Visigoth king Liuvigild founded the city of Victoriacum, trying to emulate the Roman foundations, as a celebration of the victory against the Vascones near what is assumed to be the hill occupied by the primitive village of Gasteiz.
A Roman cemetery and the foundations of a Roman villa have been found here.
The architecture of the old section of town reflects its long history ; walls and foundations from the Roman Empire are still common, together with a wealth of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque structures, often artistically decorated, showing centuries of stability and prosperity.
* Medieval castle, whose foundations date to Roman times.

foundations and villa
Nero razed the former villa on the site, where Augustus had received a delegation from Rome to acclaim him Pater patriae (" Father of his Country ") to rebuild on its foundations a villa on a more imperial scale, which was used by each Emperor in turn, up to the Severans.
Evidence of human settlement was discovered during the Roman era ; according to Suetonius, when the foundations for the villa of Augustus were being excavated, giant bones and ' weapons of stone ' were discovered.
Massive foundations, sited so far from a Roman frontier, were attributed by C. Jullian to a temple or a villa instead.
The pentagonal fortress foundations, constructed probably between 1515 and 1530, became the base upon which the present villa sits ; so the overall form of the villa was predetermined by the rocca foundations.
For instance, the, now the church of the Santi Quattro Coronati, drew its name from its foundress, who doubtless owned the extensive suburban Roman villa whose foundations remain under the church and whose audience hall became the ecclesiastical basilica.
Evidence has also been found of occupation during Roman times ; the foundations of a villa were excavated in a field just north west of the castle in 1822.
The foundations of a Roman bathhouse were discovered in 1841 near Brishing Court, also a Roman villa at Brishing and a cemetery at Lockham.

foundations and were
Many aspects of civilization were not yet sufficiently crystallized to find expression, nor could the simple economic and social foundations of this world support a lofty structure.
The fact is incontestable: that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened.
With such a dream arising, at least in part, from the Protestant heritage of the United States and built into the foundations of the nation, it is not surprising that many efforts were made to give it concrete expression.
These lay abbacies were not merely a question of overlordship, but implied the concentration in lay hands of all the rights, immunities and jurisdiction of the foundations, i. e. the more or less complete secularization of spiritual institutions.
Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.
Among his major accomplishments were the 1940 proof, of the Riemann hypothesis for zeta-functions of curves over finite fields, and his subsequent laying of proper foundations for algebraic geometry to support that result ( from 1942 to 1946, most intensively ).
He went on to plan and execute a major foundational programme for rebuilding the foundations of algebraic geometry, which were then in a state of flux and under discussion in Claude Chevalley's seminar ; he outlined his programme in his talk at the 1958 International Congress of Mathematicians.
Remains of the walls of this fort were discovered west of the castle when excavating the foundations for a new post office and telephone exchange building in the late 1960s.
In the late 1920s, the mathematicians Gabriel Sudan and Wilhelm Ackermann, students of David Hilbert, were studying the foundations of computation.
The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.
In several quarters of the city pious foundations () were created ; these areas consisted of a theological college, a school ( or a Madrasa, usually connected to the mosque ), a public kitchen, and a mosque.
" The Church's foundations were hacked down to bedrock.
Virgilio Canio Corbo, a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavations, estimated from the archaeological evidence that the western retaining wall, of the temple itself, would have passed extremely close to the east side of the supposed tomb ; if the wall had been any further west any tomb would have been crushed under the weight of the wall ( which would be immediately above it ) if it had not already been destroyed when foundations for the wall were made.
Although the foundations of his work were put in place by Euclid, his work, unlike Euclid's, is believed to have been entirely original.
Other philosophical foundations were established by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Jefferson.
Combinatory logic and lambda calculus were both originally developed to achieve a clearer approach to the foundations of mathematics.
As the cities expanded, structures were erected supported by formalized foundations ; Ancient Greeks notably constructed pad footings and strip-and-raft foundations.
Though his sources on Gnosticism were secondary, since the texts in the Nag Hammadi library were not yet widely available, Eric Voegelin ( 1901 – 1985 ), partially building on the concept of gnosis as used by Plato and the followers of Gnosticism, along with how it was defined by Hans Jonas, defined the gnosis of the followers of Gnosticism as religious philosophical teachings that are the foundations of cults.
Greece was diplomatically isolated and vulnerable, as the Corfu incident of 1923 showed, and the economical foundations of the state were in ruins, after a decade of war and the sudden increase of the country's population by a quarter.
Attempts were made to build a stone harbour during the reign of Elizabeth I, but the foundations were destroyed by the sea in terrible storms.

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