But the first two of these questions require quicker, more contemporaneous answers.
A: Closing comment threads after they've been open for a while (depending on section of site: see above) means that the conversations are kept relatively fresh and contemporaneous.
Noticeably, the Nicolay version does not contain the phrase "under God", which was later added to other copies Lincoln made of the speech – and appeared in contemporaneous newspaper reports.
A: The main reason is that we want to ensure conversations are relevant and topical, which makes sense considering so much of what we publish on the site is related to or inspired by contemporaneous events.
Zooming in again can show contemporaneous developments in ancient Babylon and Mycenaean Greece, say, or how matter behaved in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
But he is keen to distinguish this from nostalgia; the sense of oldness and newness being contemporaneous runs through the book.
Instead his contemporaneous typewritten journals have now been published, abridged but not expurgated.Though an imperfect substitute for a reflective integrated work, the "Journals" are an indispensable source for historians and irresistibly readable.
One contemporaneous example is Sasha Issenberg's "Rick Perry and his Eggheads".
Moreover, education has an extraordinarily high contemporaneous relationship with national income levels.Before I sign off on job-creating opera-construction initiatives, I'd like to see an effort to control for education levels a century ago.
It has the merit of being both distinctive and contemporaneous with the foundation of the EU itself.
Steering clear of fads and fashions, Mr Bellow made his mark by revivifying realism, even though he wrote mostly from the viewpoint of impression and memory rather than contemporaneous action.
