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Cahill's book, A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green, represented a departure from the Hinges of History series. It was both the story of Dominique Green, a young man from Houston who was on death row in Texas, and of the effect that knowing him had on Cahill. Arrested at age eighteen for the fatal shooting of a man during a ...
Derek Parfit wrote that we "live during the hinge of history" [26] and William MacAskill states that "the world’s long-run fate depends in part on the choices we make in our lifetimes" [6]: 6 since "society has not yet settled down into a stable state, and we are able to influence which stable state we end up in". [6]: 28
Classical antiquity – long period of cultural history in the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the Greco-Roman world. Ancient Greece – period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages (ca. 1100 BC) to 146 BC and the Roman conquest of Greece. It was the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western ...
Goodwin's story tackles a pivotal moment in history when the door of unquestionable faith was beginning to close and that of reason and science open, personified by the power struggle between the ...
An ornate brass door hinge A barrel hinge. A hinge is a mechanical bearing that connects two solid objects, typically allowing only a limited angle of rotation between them. Two objects connected by an ideal hinge rotate relative to each other about a fixed axis of rotation, with all other translations or rotations prevented; thus a hinge has one degree of freedom.
The book presents Western history from the collapse of the Roman Empire and the pivotal role played by members of the clergy at the time. A particular focus is placed upon Saint Patrick. The book details his early struggles through slavery, mirroring much of the content in The Confession of Saint Patrick.
Other novels by Aiken include The Hinges of Custom (1923); [7] If Today Be Sweet (1923), about Prohibition; [8] Love and I (1928); [9] and Snow (1930), set in Alaska. Her one-act play about World War I , The Hate Breeders (1916), was published with an introduction by Belgian pacifist Henri la Fontaine . [ 10 ]
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