Word: historicization
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In the few hours I spend viewing the exhibits, the films, and the interactive demonstrations I learned than in over a decade of formal schooling. I saw the actual bus in which Rosa Parks refused to move to the back. The intricate planning and forgotten incidents which made the historic...
Although Harvard failed to move past a historic barrier as a team, Giardi thumbed his nose to the football ghosts by breaking a Harvard record that has lasted 78 years.
September 1993 In a historic speech before the United Nations, Nelson Mandela calls for the lifting of all remaining sanctions against South Africa. Congress reacts by lifting all economic sanctions against the nation.
Oded Ben-Ami, a spokesman for Rabin, watched it in wonder. "It was a handshake with someone who just a moment ago was the devil in person," he said, "and from now on is your partner in negotiation." The Lebanese daily L'Orient-Le Jour made a cooler but no...
Government-sponsored urban-renewal schemes are bad almost by definition, since they derive from the bureaucrat's impulse to tidy up, to eradicate funk and chaos in favor of large-scale orderliness; planners fail to see the trees for the forest. During the past couple of decades, the relentlessly-raze...