In the hauntingly re-enacted opening portion of the film concerning the background that McNamara and his pro-nuclear-war adversary U. S. General Curtis LeMay had shared together during World War II, director Morris brought out complexities in the character of McNamara, which the public had not previously recognized, but which largely shaped McNamara's positions regarding both the missiles-in-Cuba issue and the Vietnam War issue, and which therefore created the historical figure that McNamara turned out to be as the U. S. Secretary of Defense.

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

India has remained one of its biggest trading partners ; in addition India has deep social and historical links with a large portion of the population of Mauritius, India is the country's second largest source of foreign assistance.

" After the asking of these questions, the main portion of the Seder, Magid, gives over the answers in the form of a historical review.

The Industrial portion of the name is largely historical, as many of the modern 30 components have little or nothing to do with traditional heavy industry.

It is located in the central-eastern portion of the island of Malta, and the historical city has a population of 6, 966.

Of historical interest is that a portion of the filming took place aboard the battleship, which was sunk by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor.

The historical separation of IP networks and the PSTN provided redundancy when no portion of a call was routed over IP network.

Jamestown Settlement is a name used by the Commonwealth of Virginia's portion of the historical sites and museums at Jamestown.

When the City of Falls Church was incorporated in 1948, its boundaries included only the central portion of the area historically known as Falls Church ; those other areas, often still known as Falls Church ( although they lie in Fairfax and Arlington Counties ), are considered here for historical reasons.

West Frisia corresponds roughly to the Dutch province of Friesland ( Fryslân ), the northern part of North Holland province ( the historical region of West Friesland, the westernmost portion of the traditional region of West Frisia ), and also modern Groningen province, though the Western Frisian language is only spoken in Friesland proper.

Maitland's " historical corridor " encompasses old residences still standing and occupied in the Lake Lily-Lake Catherine area and extending through the central portion of the city.

( the Colditz Castle historical society ), founded in 1996, has its offices in a portion of the administration building in the front castle court.

At the Thülsfelde ReservoirThe district comprises the western portion of a historical region called Oldenburgisches Münsterland, which means " lands of Oldenburg formerly held by Münster ".

The modern part of the city is to the west, but the old portion, with all the historical buildings, is to the east.

Historically the debt portion of a LBO will range from 60 %– 90 % of the purchase price, although during certain periods the debt ratio can be higher or lower than the historical averages.

Hence, a great portion of the historical chronicles given in Shahnameh are based on this epic and there are in fact various phrases and words which can be matched between these two sources according to Zabihollah Safa.

This portion of the Shahnameh is relatively short, amounting to some 2, 100 verses or four percent of the entire book, and it narrates events with the simplicity, predictability, and swiftness of a historical work.

Norfolk is today the center of the most populous portion of Virginia, and every historical, business and sentimental reason can be adduced in favor of the celebration taking place here rather than in Richmond.

Borates, which made up a large portion of Death Valley's historical past were concentrated in the lakebeds from hot spring waters and alteration of rhyolite in the nearby volcanic field.

Various historical records also referred to the range as the Arctic Mountains, Hooper Mountains, Meade Mountains and Meade River Mountains ; the Canadian portion is still often referred to as the British Mountains.

This derives in part because the term for the one portion of a cross is synonymous with the term for a stake, so that when mentioned in historical sources without specific context, the exact method of execution, whether crucifixion or impalement, can be unclear.

He gave me a long memorandum, historical in character, on the past Irish story, which seemed to be somewhat one-sided, leaving out of view the important minority and the views and feelings of the Protestant and loyal portion of the people.

It encompasses the historical-geographical region of Friuli and a small portion of the historical region of Venezia Giulia ( known in English also as Julian March ), each with its own distinct history, traditions and identity.

* " Native Experience " A four part television documentary series about the impact of oil and mineral development on the Native cultures of Alaska, dealing in particular with the historical background leading up to ANCSA and the experiences, memories and perceptions of both natives involved in the lands claim and their descendants today in rural Alaska.

There are two written sources on the origin of the name, in The Book of Icelanders ( Íslendingabók ), a historical work dealing with early Icelandic history from the 12th century, and in the medieval Icelandic saga, The Saga of Eric the Red ( Eiríks saga rauða ), which is about the Norse settlement in Greenland and the story of Erik the Red in particular.

The work is a fictional historical essay dealing with the preamble to the events described in Tolkien's epic novel The Lord of the Rings, and the events themselves, in the style of The Silmarillion.

The Soke ( head of, and heir to the style ) of Masaki-ryu Bujutsu, Nawa Yumio, has written several books on the subject and has worked as an historical consultant on matters dealing with law-enforcement and Mizukoshi Hiro ’ s recently reprinted book Torinawajutsu offers historical background followed by thorough, practical instruction in more than 25 traditional ties including some recreated from rare and very old texts.

In 1880, prominent local citizen Lew Wallace produced Crawfordsville's most famous literary work, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a historical novel dealing with the beginnings of the Christianity in the Mediterranean world.

* the internal one, dealing with the fictional historical evolution of the language inside the imaginary world of Middle-earth.

His Memorials of Canterbury ( 1855 ), displayed the full maturity of his power of dealing with historical events and characters.

Public search rooms were opened in 1866, but greater access led the authorities to restrict certain classes of document, and to favour visitors who were experienced in dealing with historical material.

1844, by WD Cooley ) dealing with historical, geographical and chronological questions, and enriched by a wealth of illustration from ancient and modern authors, is not without value.

" The Right Ginza part of the Ginza Rba contains sections dealing with theology, creation, ethics, historical, and mythical narratives ; its six colophons reveal that it was last redacted in the early Islamic Era.

Zapiski o XX i XXI wieku (" In the Whirlpools of History: Jottings on the 20th and the 21st Centuries "; Cracow, Znak, 2007 ) is a compilation of interviews and lectures, reflecting Kapuściński's training as a historian and dealing with contemporary issues and their historical and cross-cultural parallels ( including such issues as globalisation, Islam, the birth of the Third World, and the dawn of the Pacific civilisation ). Kapuściński's pronouncements on current affairs were noteworthy: he thought that the causes of the 9 / 11 tragedy, for example, were too complex to lend themselves to an exhaustively thorough analysis at present, although he offered an extensive and sophisticated exposition of some of the key elements of the puzzle in " Zderzenie cywilizacji " ( The Clash of Civilisations ); he told a BBC interviewer right after the attacks: " I greatly fear that we will waste this moment.

The book content, according to its preface, is divided into four sections: i ) a key to the foreign policy in the most dangerous and complicated area of the contemporary political scene, the area of northerners and Scythians, ii ) a lesson in the diplomacy to be pursued in dealing with the nations of the same area, iii ) a comprehensive geographic and historical survey of most of the surrounding nations and iv ) a summary of the recent internal history, politics and organization of the Empire.

The second half of the poem, detailing Doon ’ s wars in Saxony, is perhaps based on historical events but the first half, a separate romance dealing with his romantic childhood, is a fiction dating back to the 13th century.

In addition to his literary productions, Kerner wrote some popular medical books, dealing with animal magnetism, a treatise on the influence of sebacic acid on animal organisms, Das Fettgift oder die Fettsäure und ihre Wirkung auf den tierischen Organismus ( 1822 ); a description of Wildbad and its healing waters, Das Wildbad im Königreich Württemberg ( 1813 ); while he gave a pretty and vivid account of his youthful years in Bilderbuch aus meiner Knabenzeit ( 1859 ); and in Die Bestürmung der württembergischen Stadt Weinsberg im Jahre 1525 ( 1820 ), showed considerable skill in historical narrative.

* Theory and Reviews: towards the end of the paper there are articles dealing theoretical issues in Marxism, historical points and reviews of recent plays books etc.

ChronoZoom is a computer-graphical approach to dealing with this problem of visualizing and understanding time scales, and presenting vast quantities of historical information in a useful way.

Republican Prisoners have used music as a form of protest during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The tradition of rebel music in Ireland dates back many centuries, dealing with historical events such as uprisings, describing the hardships of living under oppressive rule, but also strong sentiments of solidarity, loyalty, determination, as well as praise of valiant heroes.

This is the first Croatian historical epic dealing with national history and the Battle of Szigetvár.

He was mostly dealing with historical and contemporary reflections of the Czech-German relationships.

Having withdrawn from the world of pornography out of disappointment with the purely commercial approach of American distributors and the resulting inferiority of video productions, Braun has dedicated himself to writing scientific works on sexology ( L ' impeto di Venere, dealing with the G-spot ) and on anthropology, erotic historical novels such as Lady Caligula ( both in English and his native tongue, Italian ), erotic thrillers, a study of prostitution, and his autobiography.

The encyclical was drafted by Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber with an introduction added by Cardinal Pacelli ( later Pope Pius XII ) dealing with the historical background of the concordat between the Catholic Church and the Third Reich.

During the 1990s he produced a string of books dealing with historical paganism, folklore and contemporary Paganism in Britain ; The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles ( 1991 ), The Rise and Fall of Merry England ( 1994 ), The Stations of the Sun ( 1996 ) and The Triumph of the Moon ( 1999 ), the latter of which would come to be praised as a seminal text in the discipline of Pagan studies.

Displays include an enormous collection of books written, published, illustrated, or translated by Romanian Jews ; a serious archive of the history of Romanian Jewry ; a collection of paintings of and by Romanian Jews that, while relatively small, consists of works of a calibre worthy of a major art museum ( many of the same artists ' works hang in the National Museum of Art ); memorabilia from Jewish theaters including the State Jewish Theater ; a medium-sized display devoted to Zionism ; a small but pointed display of anti-Semitic posters and tracts ; two rooms off to a side, one dealing with the Holocaust era from a historical point of view, the other a Holocaust memorial ; discussion of both favorable and unfavorable treatment of the Jews by various of Romania's historic rulers ; in short, a museum devoted to looking seriously at the history of a particular ethnic group within a society.