Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blame it on the pyramids. Those astonishing works of architecture--and vanity--are so overwhelming that scholars have taken a while to turn to the lesser aesthetic achievements of the Old Kingdom, the 500 glorious years between about 2650 and 2150 B.C. when many of the iconic structures were erected. Until recently, in fact, archaeologists knew little more about this period than Herodotus...
First, he tried to steer the United Kingdom through economic doldrums caused by the privatization of government industries during the 1980s...
...before its opening to ensure that Islamic and Christian claims on Jerusalem are respected. And the site?s producers are left with the headache of creating an entertainment and education program that reconciles competing claims on the city?s identity. But hey, they don?t call it the Magic Kingdom for nothing...
...scientific "facts" of today have an unnerving way of being superseded by tomorrow's knowledge and improved technology. Your article said the human race, of all the animal kingdom, is the only currently unique species. Is this not more than pure coincidence? A more objective look at this extraordinary fact might lead us to the words of Genesis: "So God created man in his own image." CHARLES HARDING West Sussex, England...
...overwhelmingly white, Christian, educated and affluent--and not comparable to a control group of public school children. "Given the education level and affluence of the parents," observes Gerald Bracey, an educational analyst in Alexandria, Va., "you could say, 'Gosh, these kids could do better.'" Mitchell Stevens, who is writing Kingdom of Children: Pedagogy and Politics in the Home Schooling Movement for the Princeton University Press, concludes, "At worst, home schoolers are doing as well as the average public school...