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We treat our snoopers with contempt – and also with confidence

Edit The Independent 04 Mar 2016
The day before Apple and the FBI began their battle over iPhone privacy in Washington, I was gazing in wonder at the mosaic figure of St Thomas of Canterbury placed just below Christ himself in the cathedral apse at Monreale in Sicily ... Forget the 1780s. Fine minds in both camps disputed the limits of governmental power long before the 1180s ... Read more ....

Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan

Edit Huffington Post 23 Feb 2016
Flying Attendant on Cloud. Courtesy Seattle Art Museum. Kamakura. Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan at Asia Society Museum, is a small exhibition presenting big changes in the art of Japan ... Courtesy Jingo-ji Temple, Kyoto ... Grateful for their victories, some of the first acts by Kamakura warlords were to replace the burned or damaged Buddhist sculptures destroyed during the plague, famine and civil war of the 1180s ... Mr ... Mr ... ....

Every faith spawns its fables and myths. The trick is to puncture them

Edit The Guardian 26 Nov 2015
The truth is out and in the headlines. Back in 1184 the monks of Glastonbury fabricated an edifice of myth about their monastery’s past for pecuniary gain. No, Christ did not come with his uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, to “walk on England’s green and pleasant land” ... The 1180s brought the establishment of Thomas Becket’s shrine after his murder at Canterbury, and an explosion of pilgrimage sites in abbeys and cathedrals across England ... ....

Zacks Investment Ideas feature highlights: TriQuint Semiconductor and Jabil Circuit

Edit PR Newswire 22 Aug 2014
Zacks Investment Research, Inc., www.zacks.com. (PRNewsFoto/Zacks Investment Research). ×. Zacks Investment Research, Inc., www.zacks.com. (PRNewsFoto/Zacks Investment Research). CHICAGO, Aug ... TriQuint Semiconductor (Nasdaq ...   ... U.S ... From a technical aspect, this implies a more bullish pattern developing for the R2K, but also there's a chance this rally dies out in the 1180s as the range becomes more compacted ahead of a breakout ... ....

Stocks to buy at all-time highs

Edit Yahoo Daily News 21 Aug 2014
Honestly, I don’t blame people for their fear or their skepticism surrounding this market. After all, it really doesn’t make much sense right? You can turn on the T.V ... In actuality it’s nearly the complete opposite ... U.S ... From a technical aspect, this implies a more bullish pattern developing for the R2K, but also there’s a chance this rally dies out in the 1180s as the range becomes more compacted ahead of a breakout ... Jabil Circuit (JBL)....

Gold weakness suggests even lower prices ahead

Edit Yahoo Daily News 27 May 2014
J.C. Parets is the founder and president of New York based hedge fund Eagle Bay Capital, LLC. You can find his smart commentary at AllStarCharts.com. As we start this holiday shortened week, Gold is quietly breaking down from a fairly clean symmetrical triangle ... A confirmed break should lead to another 100 points to the downside ... As long as prices are below that, this is a short with a target down to December’s lows in the 1180s....

Ancient trees suggest Genghis Khan's success was built on grass

Edit South China Morning Post 11 May 2014
Scientists have discovered an explanation for the phenomenal success of Genghis Khan in a most unlikely place - tree trunks ... "Trees are wonderful natural archives of environmental history" Hessl told the Sunday Morning Post ... "During Genghis Khan's early years," she said, "the climatic conditions were extremely bad, especially during the 1180s when there was one of the most severe droughts of the last few thousand years ... ....

The royal secret

Edit Deccan Herald 07 Apr 2014
The long run of unusually good conditions meant abundant grasses and a huge increase in herds of livestock and war horses that became the basis of Mongol power – a marked contrast to the long and exceptionally severe droughts that gripped the region during the 1180s and 1190s, causing unrest and division ... years of the 1180s and 1190s. ....

Pope's Franciscans kick-start fundraising effort

Edit STL Today 12 Mar 2014
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis' namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, founded his order of mendicant friars in the 13th century after receiving a calling from God to "rebuild my church." Some 800 years later, St. Francis' followers are rebuilding his church in the ancient tradition of door-to-door begging that St ... Francis." ... Francis today." ... St. Francis was born to a wealthy cloth merchant in the Umbrian hill town of Assisi in the early 1180s ... ___....

>Pope's Franciscans kick-start fundraising effort

Edit Seattle Post 12 Mar 2014
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis' namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, founded his order of mendicant friars in the 13th century after receiving a calling from God to "rebuild my church." Some 800 years later, St. Francis' followers are rebuilding his church in the ancient tradition of door-to-door begging that St ... Francis." ... Francis today." ... St. Francis was born to a wealthy cloth merchant in the Umbrian hill town of Assisi in the early 1180s ... ___....

Pope's Franciscans kick-start restoration effort

Edit The Associated Press 12 Mar 2014
ROME (AP) -- Pope Francis' namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, founded his order of mendicant friars in the 13th century after receiving a calling from God to "rebuild my church." Some 800 years later, St. Francis' followers are rebuilding his church in the ancient tradition of door-to-door begging that St ... Francis." ... Francis today." ... St. Francis was born to a wealthy cloth merchant in the Umbrian hill town of Assisi in the early 1180s ... --- ... ....

Pope’s Franciscans kick-start restoration effort

Edit The Washington Post 12 Mar 2014
ROME — Pope Francis’ namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, founded his order of mendicant friars in the 13th century after receiving a calling from God to “rebuild my church.” Some 800 years later, St. Francis’ followers are rebuilding his church in the ancient tradition of door-to-door begging that St ... St. Francis was born to a wealthy cloth merchant in the Umbrian hill town of Assisi in the early 1180s ... ___ ... ___....

What Genghis and Babar owed to rain - wet spell powered Mongol empire, sowed mughal ...

Edit The Telegraph India 11 Mar 2014
New Delhi, March 10 ... For the first time, the researchers have reconstructed a year-by-year record of soil moisture, an indicator of rainfall, at a site in Mongolia over the past 1,112 years ... The pine tree findings combined with recent meteorological observations suggest that a drought in central Mongolia between 1999 and 2002 was the hottest in the past 1,112 years, and comparable only to the drought in the 1180s. ....
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