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Certainly no other seven American statesmen from any later period achieved so much in so concentrated a span of years.
And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.
One denomination had a membership of 1,419,833 at the beginning of the period under study, and twenty years later its membership stood at 1,541,991 -- a net growth of only 122,158.
A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.
A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.
Warhol later described this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences.
Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.
In this later period, the Pueblo II became more self-contained, decreasing trade and interaction with more distant communities.
Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was the first alloy discovered, during the prehistoric period now known as the bronze age ; it was harder than pure copper and originally used to make tools and weapons, but was later superseded by metals and alloys with better properties.
She later said her years at the home " were the happiest years " of her life ; many of the incidents in her novel Little Women ( 1868 ) are based on this period.
The 1830 – 1850 period later became known as the era of Jacksonian democracy.
In part this was a consequence of the increasingly specialised forms of warfare practiced in the later period.
According to the Jargon File, American hackers switched to what they later discovered to be the British quotation system because placing a period inside a quotation mark can change the meaning of data strings that are meant to be typed character-for-character.
It is from this period that the later Syria Vs Assyria naming controversy arises, the Seleucids applied the name not only to Assyria itself, but also to the lands to the west ( Aram modern Syria ) which had been part of the Assyrian empire.
At a later period, Paul's epistles place him with Paul and Saint Timothy at Ephesus, whence he was sent by Paul to Corinth, Greece for the purpose of getting the contributions of the church there on behalf of the poor Christians at Jerusalem sent forward.
Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the Archbishop of Wales.
The deal is said to be worth £ 80 million over four years, replacing United's deal with AIG as the most lucrative shirt deal in history at the time, but it was later equalled when Standard Chartered Bank agreed a deal with Liverpool FC to pay £ 20 million a year over the same period.
As soon as Schliemann came on the Mycenae graves three years later, light poured from all sides on the prehistoric period of Greece.
In later times, during the Ptolemaic period, Anubis was merged with the Greek god Hermes, becoming Hermanubis.
Ibsen started thinking about the play around May 1878, although he did not begin its first draft until a year later, having reflected on the themes and characters in the intervening period ( he visualised its protagonist, Nora, for instance, as having approached him one day wearing " a blue woolen dress ").
Traditionally, Bursa was famous for being the largest center of silk trade in the Byzantine and later the Ottoman empires, during the period of the lucrative Silk Road.
As a national revival occurred towards the end of the period of Ottoman rule ( mostly during the 19th century ), a modern Bulgarian literary language gradually emerged which drew heavily on Church Slavonic / Old Bulgarian ( and to some extent on literary Russian, which had preserved many lexical items from Church Slavonic ) and later reduced the number of Turkish and other Balkanic loans.
In the Triassic period some groups of archosaurs ( a group that includes the ancestors of crocodiles ) developed bipedalism ; among their descendants the dinosaurs, all the early forms and many later groups were habitual or exclusive bipeds ; the birds descended from one group of exclusively bipedal dinosaurs.
Almost all scholars agree that the book of Joshua holds little historical value for early Israel and most likely reflects a much later period.
This idea was already rejected as untenable by John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ), and by the time of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) it was recognised that the book must have been written much later than the period it depicted.

later and Zulu
Against the Boers at Blood River, massed gunfire broke the back of the Zulu assault, and the Boers were later able to mount a cavalry sweep in counterattack that became a turkey shoot against fleeing Zulu remnants.
Shaka still recognised Dingiswayo and his larger Mthethwa clan as overlord after he returned to the Zulu but, some years later, Dingiswayo was ambushed by Zwide's amaNdwandwe and killed.
She and Canning had two children, Byron and Zulu ( later Zula ) Maude.
Forty days later, the Soviet Union made its first successful underwater launch of a submarine ballistic missile in the White Sea on 10 September 1960 from the same converted Project 611 ( Zulu Class ) submarine that first launched the R-11FM ( SS-N-1 Scud-A, naval modification of SS-1 Scud ) on 16 September 1955.
After murdering Piet Retief's delegation, the Zulu impis ( battalions ) immediately attacked Boer encampments in the Drakensberg foothills at what later was called Blaauwkrans and Weenen.
On April 6, 1838 the Voortrekkers retaliated with a 347-strong punitive raid against the Zulu ( later known as the Flight Commando ), supported by new arrivals from the Orange Free State.
A year later, Simon produced Black Mambazo ’ s first U. S. release, Shaka Zulu, which won the Grammy Award, in 1988, for Best Traditional Folk Album.
According to cultural researchers Booth and Nauright, Zulu workers later took up the song to generate rhythm during group tasks and to alleviate boredom and stress.
The SABC established services in what were then the country's official languages, English and Afrikaans, with broadcasts in ethnic languages such as Zulu, Xhosa, Sesotho and Tswana following later.
The Voortrekkers under the leadership of Piet Retief obtained a treaty from the Zulu King Dingane to settle part of the lands the Zulus administered or held sway over, but Dingane later changed his mind, killing Retief and 70 members of his delegation.
Zulu expansion, later dubbed Difaqane ‘ the Crushing ’, set off a series of eastward migrations as refugees and defeated tribes fled the onslaught These displaced groups came into contact with the Sotho people residing on the Highveld.
General Ndlela personally protected prince Mpande — whom Pretorius later crowned as Zulu king in 1840 — from Dingane's repeated assassination plans.
Wolseley would write on 30 September 1879 when, later in the war, the Prince Imperial of France was killed by the Zulu: " I think this is very unfair, and is merely a repetition of what was done regarding the Isandlwana disaster where the blame was thrown upon Durnford, the real object in both instances being apparently to screen Chelmsford.
Zwide was later defeated by Shaka in the Zulu Civil War.
She then became involved with a young army officer called Captain Cedric Dolby ( Maurice Denham ), the two later became engaged, but separated shortly before he was sent off to fight in the Zulu war.
Twelve years later Shepstone attended the proclamation of Cetshwayo as king, the Zulu chief promising Shepstone to live at peace with his neighbors.
In 1984, Zulu returned to the line-up as bassist / backing vocalist, but departed again less than a year later.
Martini-Henry Mk IV ( From Left to Right ): A. 577 Snider cartridge, a Zulu War-era rolled brass foil. 577 / 450 Martini-Henry Cartridge, a later drawn brass. 577 / 450 Martini-Henry cartridge, and a. 303 British Mk VII SAA Ball cartridge.
Aggett worked as a physician in Black hospitals ( under apartheid hospitals were segregated ) in Umtata, Tembisa and later at Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, where he became a popular and active trade union member, learning to speak Zulu.
However, Dube navigated this social schism with a statesman-like ability, as in his later years, when he was able to win the trust of the Zulu royal family.
He nurtured journalist who later on went to become editors at his paper and contributed to the flourishing field of Zulu literature.
Finally the Zulu Army arrives across the Oscarberg and seconds later a Zulu infantry approaches to within 100 yards of the station and the warriors start rattling their spears against their shields and then charge.

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