The underlying historical reasons why this could happen are not hard to set out.
Like them he was credited with discerning patterns underlying historical finds that reflected changes in past human behavior.
"As a matter of conviction, we believe in the fundamental, underlying historical reliability of the biblical record," Brown said.
On a drenched autumn evening, I met with Musa S. Muhammad, an archivist in his fifties, at a building in the Arewa House complex, beside the grand Sultan Bello Mosque in the northern city of Kaduna, to get a sense of the historical currents underlying the controversy.
Overlapping historical currents may be responsible.
Underlying the current imbalances are fundamental structural problems with the global reserve system.
Joyce Malcolm illuminates the historical facts underlying the current passionate debate about gun-related violence, the Brady Bill, and the NRA, revealing the original meaning and intentions behind the individual right to "bear arms". Few on either side of the Atlantic realize that this extraordinary, controversial, and least understood liberty was a direct legacy of English law.
The BBC has failed, I believe, to adequately brief its interviewers on the basic historical and legal facts underlying the current conflict, namely the dispossession of the Palestinians as a result of the creation of Israel in 1948 and the occupation of the Palestinian Territories from 1967 to this day.
Beneath all this is a larger historical current.
The focus of the second part shifts from historical to topical inquiry, analyzing the key policy areas, frameworks and choices underlying the current political economy of the region's countries (fiscal and industrial policies, monetary and financial policies and policies on trade, migration, poverty and inequality, energy and environment).
What are the underlying currents of this change?
