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Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.
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In a recent book called `` World Peace Through World Law '', two distinguished lawyers, Grenville Clark and Louis Sohn, call for just such an overhaul of the U.N., basing their case on the world-wide fear of a nuclear holocaust.
Through such details Dickens indicates at the outset that guilt is a part of the ironic bond between Pip and Magwitch which is so unpredictably to alter both their lives.
Through Ampère, Ozanam had contact with leaders of the neo-Catholic movement, such as François-René de Chateaubriand, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, and Charles Forbes René de Montalembert.
Through such work, he supported himself after the death of his father.
Radio collaborations include Euroclassic Notturno – an overnight classical music stream, produced by BBC Radio 3 and broadcast in the United Kingdom as Through the Night – and special theme days, such as the annual Christmas music relays from around Europe.
Through the use of separate applications or plugins loaded into the node software, users can interact with the network in other ways, such as forums similar to web forums or Usenet or interfaces more similar to traditional p2p " filesharing " interfaces.
Through the years, armed insurgency took different forms, the last as powerful paramilitary groups such as the White League and the Red Shirts during the 1870s in the Deep South.
Through the 1960s and 1970s, comic fanzines followed some general formats, such as the industry news and information magazine ( The Comic Reader was one example ), interview, history and review-based fanzines, and the fanzines which basically represented independent comic book-format exercises.
Through such self-knowledge and personal purification ( virtuous living ) the adept is led to direct knowledge of God via themselves as inner reflection or will.
Through links to research networks in other regions ( such as Internet2 and ESnet in the USA, TEIN in Asia-Pacific and RedCLARA in Latin America ), GÉANT allows collaboration between researchers on a global scale, reaching over 60 NRENs outside of Europe.
Through this society, Evans was introduced to more liberal theologies, and writers such as David Strauss and Ludwig Feuerbach, who cast doubt on the literal veracity of Biblical stories.
Through this activity and others such as surveillance of its members ' economies and policies, the IMF works to improve the economies of its member countries.
Through such work, the difficulty of KR came to be better appreciated.
Through meditation, and various esoteric practices, such as Kundalini Yoga, Sahaja Yoga, and Kriya Yoga, the kundalini is awakened, and can rise up from the muladhara chakra through the central nadi, called sushumna, inside or alongside the spine and reaches the top of the head.
He was also the front man for his own band " Moon " who were co-writers on songs such as, " Lovin ' Lady ", " Jo Anna " and " She's Puttin ' Me Through Changes ".
Through most of history many philosophers found it inconceivable that cognition could be implemented by a physical substance such as brain tissue ( that is neurons and synapses ).
Through these institutions MERCAZ works with on issues such as aliyah and absorption, education, young leadership, and community affairs.
Through such thought experiments, Wittgenstein attempts to get the reader to come to certain difficult philosophical conclusions independently ; he does not simply argue in favor of his own theories.
Through the unions and the NSW Young Labor Council, Keating met other future Labor figures such as Laurie Brereton, Graham Richardson and Bob Carr.
Some of these books, such as The Number of the Beast and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, start out as tightly constructed adventure stories, but transform into philosophical fantasias at the end.
The tendency toward authorial self-reference begun in Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love becomes even more evident in novels such as The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, whose first-person protagonist is a disabled military veteran who becomes a writer, and finds love with a female character who, like many of Heinlein's strong female characters, appears to be based closely on his wife Ginny.
Through the late 1940s and early 1950s, R & B music had been gaining a stronger beat and a wilder style, with artists such as Fats Domino and Johnny Otis speeding up the tempos and increasing the backbeat to great popularity on the juke joint circuit.
Through his involvement in electronic music, Moog developed close professional relationships with artists such as Don Buchla, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, John Cage, Gershon Kingsley, Clara Rockmore, Jean Jacques Perrey, and Pamelia Kurstin.
Through such projects, the government of Sri Lanka has planned to recreate in the dry zone the lush, irrigated landscape associated with the ancient Sinhalese civilization.
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Through Amos, God tells the people that he is going to judge Israel for its sins, and it will be a foreign nation that will enact his judgment.
** Through initiatory experiences whereby the reality of Christ's death and resurrection are experienced ; Steiner believed this is the path people will increasingly take.
Spin called it a " jaw-dropping act of artistic will and a fiery, proper follow-up to 1994 ’ s Live Through This " and awarded it eight out of ten stars, while Rolling Stone suggested that, " for people who enjoy watching celebrities fall apart, America's Sweetheart should be more fun than an Osbournes marathon.
Through contact centres, valuable information about company are routed to appropriate people, contacts to be tracked and data to be gathered.
Through that process a number of people were convinced and set up various fellowships that had sympathy with that position.
Through the patriarchs God announces the election of Israel, meaning that he has chosen Israel to be his special people and committed himself to their future.
Through the electoral process, the people of India choose which representative and which political party should run the government.
Through warfare, Moctezuma expanded the territory as far south as Xoconosco in Chiapas and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and incorporated the Zapotec and Yopi people into the empire.
Through communion, differences between people are reconciled and that which was scattered is brought together.
Through beneficent deeds and Jewish observance, the Jewish people restore cosmic harmony in the Divine realm, healing the exile of the Shechina with God's transcendence, revealing the essential Unity of God.
Through the songs, Amos explores such topics as the history of America, American people, Native American history, pornography, masochism, homophobia and misogyny.
Through Jesus, membership in the one people of God is extended to include the gentiles, but they do not replace the Jews.
Through loans and grants, IFAD works with governments to develop and finance programmes and projects that enable rural poor people to overcome poverty themselves.
Through the early Middle Ages, the northern part of present-day Belgium ( now commonly referred to as Flanders ) had become an overwhelmingly Germanized and Germanic language-speaking area, whereas in the southern part people had continued to be Roman and spoke derivatives of Vulgar Latin.
Through implementation of land and resource management plans, the agency ensures sustainable ecosystems by restoring and maintaining species diversity and ecological productivity that helps provide recreation, water, timber, minerals, fish, wildlife, wilderness, and aesthetic values for current and future generations of people.
Through processes of bounded rationality, people are conditioned towards strong in-group identities and are easily swayed to fear outsiders, psychological predispositions that make possible sectarian violence, genocide, and terrorism.
Through the trans-Atlantic slave trade, South America ( especially Brazil ) became the home of millions of people in the African diaspora.
Through the process of Li's Fa rectification, life will be reordered according to the moral and spiritual quality of each, with good people being saved and ascending to higher spiritual planes, and bad ones being eliminated or cast down.
Through its work it granted long term mortgages to over a million people facing the loss of their homes.
Through popular etymology, it has been falsely claimed that André-Marie Ampère used the symbol in his widely read publications, and that people began calling the new shape " Ampère's and ".
Through his capable and fatherly leadership he withstood early opposition and gained the love and devotion of his people.
" Through media advertisements, production and distribution of literature, producing music and organizing person-to-person evangelism, the organization asserts that " a specifically Jewish mission " is necessary, saying, " Jewish people tend to dismiss evangelistic methods and materials that are couched in Christian lingo, because they reinforce the assumption that Jesus is for ' them ' not ' us '.
In 1985 Paxman published Through the Volcanoes: A Central American Journey, an eyewitness account of people, places and politics.
Through the example of Knossos on the island of Crete, which had been ( incorrectly ) represented as the paradigm of a pacifist, matriarchal and sexually free society, Gere claims that archaeology can easily slip into reflecting what people want to see, rather than teaching people about an unfamiliar past.
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