Its 2, 500 years of documented history (and 1500 years of Christian observance) has been ruled by a dramatic progression of warlords, emperors, and kings.
The Venezuelan Jewish community traces its roots back more than 200 years and has no history of tension with the local population.
The former would mean Argo has to overcome 80 years of Oscar history to take Best Picture without even a nomination for Best Director, and the latter means Lincoln has to overcome a softening status amid a race that became highly competitive with strong challengers in the home stretch.
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Over the more than 100 years of its history, BP has taken pride in operating at the frontiers of the energy industry, and we are committed to defining the new path forward.
Shorter-term seasonal patterns include that September tends to be the worst month of the year, and has a history of being more negative in years when August was already down, and when the market was down for the year-to-date as of the end of August, which were the conditions at the end of August this year.
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It seems in the past couple of years that it has become fashionable to diss Black History Month as something of a dinosaur whose time has come and gone.
Buffett has lived the past 40 years of financial history in the trenches.
Around 300 years of maritime history has come to an end in south-west England after the region's last manned lighthouse became automated.
Naive as he is about finding fish, he writes well about the Russians he meets, from his friend Yuri Brodsky who has spent 25 years cataloguing the history of the first Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to Fyodorovich, a trapper, who survived the camps in Siberia and stayed on to live like a hermit in the boundless far eastern taiga.
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Given how thickly trafficked this corridor of English literary history has been in recent years, a writer like Hollinghurst can spin yards of this soft stuff practically in his sleep.
But such cases take years, and Argentina has a history of leaving awards against it unpaid.
Speed being the defining characteristic of Hikari Tsushin, it not surprisingly has made the fastest rise in history--within 12 years of being founded--to the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Yangzhou, where Marco Polo once served as a municipal official, has a history of 2, 500 years, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period in China (771 to 403 BC) when it was called Guangling.
The company has paid dividends since 2003 and has a history of big hikes, even during the financial crisis four years ago, and a 60% boost to the payout last year.
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No single person has done as much to shape the history of the Balkans in the past dozen years, and no single person has as much to answer for in the court of historical judgment.
In its 700-odd years of recorded history, the city has been both capital city and provincial backwater.
That's a tough fight for Amgen, which has had one of the roughest years in its two-decade history.
Historic Duxford, which has been 20 years in the making, details the history of Duxford airfield in Cambridgeshire from 1918 to 1961.
The praise for The History of Love over the years has been nothing short of incredible, with some critics going so far as to state that she reaffirms faith in the power of fiction.
Sellers has an academic's understanding of design history combined with years of museum experience.
Even HSBC, a British bank with a sterling reputation, ingrained prudence and a history of astute acquisitions has stumbled in recent years when entering markets where unfamiliarity prevented it from bringing these traits to bear.
Zardari is studying history at Christ Church College and has three more years of his course to run.
Now, the history of Somalia over the last 20 years has been equally heartbreaking, if not more so.
For two years now he has made that point by showing investors a slide of history's great speculative manias, from tulips to CMGI (nasdaq: CMGI - news - people ).
But instead of reviewing church history, Brown has spent the past few years studying the future.
But with a planetary history of over four billion years, the Earth has likely suffered the slings and arrows of exploding stars more than once in past eons.
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For all its history and successes, the FHA, of recent years, has been a bit player on a stage dominated by subprime lenders.
"The bridge we're demolishing has a long history of accidents with at least 20 reported over the past 20 years - some resulting in vehicles overturning, " he said.
Norwich has a history of encouraging literature and writers, ideas and print for over 900 years.
Yes, over the past two hundred years the U.S. economy has been the most successful ever in the history of the world.
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