Written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson’s War is an exciting and chic take on diplomacy. It’s both an excellent vehicle for that Philip Seymour Hoffman swagger and a crash course on historical cause and effect. The events of this film directly shaped American ...
历史事件是由什么构成的? What constitutes a historical event? 谁决定哪些事件具有重大历史意义? Who decides which events are historically significant? 有没有可能不带偏见地描述历史事件? Is it possible to describe historical events in an unbiased way? 历史学家的角色是什么? What is the role of the ...
David Nail grew to country music fame in the early 2000s. During that time he came out with memorable songs like "Let It Rain", "Whatever She's Got", and "Good at Tonight." Rick Diamond, Getty Images David joins the long list of other country artists already scheduled in for both Ch...
(A6). In seismology, and for historical reasons, these two types of waves are called the primary (P) and the secondary (S) waves, respectively. For a heterogeneous, isotropic, and elastic medium, the equation of motion is more complex than Eq. (A3), and is given by Karal and Keller ...
Editor's choice: palaeoanthropology and human evolution Sections Figures References Abstract Introduction Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes Understanding Early Horse Domestication and Transport Horses and Bronze Age Economic Transitions in Mongolia Materials and Methods Results Discussion Conclusion Change histo...
In the early 2000s, one of the hottest watch brands in the world was Roger Dubuis, a company that borrowed some of the best historical ideas in watchmaking and made it sexy for the 21st century. At the peak just before the 2008 recession, over 450 employees in its expansive Geneva facto...
The middle ear ossicles in modern mammals are repurposed from postdentary bones in non-mammalian cynodonts. Recent discoveries by palaeontological and embryonic studies have developed different models for the middle ear evolution in mammaliaforms. Howeve
In North America, where Signet’s banners include Kay, Jared and Zales, third-quarter same-store sales were up 16 percent to $1.18 billion. Brick-and-mortar same-store sales in the region were up 8 percent, while online sales were up 73 percent. ...
Of the rise in global atmospheric temperature over the past century, nearly 30% occurred between 1910 and 1940 when anthropogenic forcings were relatively weak. This early warming has been attributed to internal factors, such as natural climate variability in the Atlantic region, and external factors...
Estimating dates of early American colonization events, in Time Depth in Historical Linguistics - Nichols - 2000 () Citation Context ...tion age, when the latter is estimated archaeologically. This finding contrasts with Nichols’s (e.g. 1990) model, which predicts a positive correlation between...