Fatima, revered by Roman Catholics as a place where the Virgin Mary appeared to three Portuguese shepherd children in 1917, has long held a broader fascination for people attracted to unsolved, spooky mysteries.
But, since past is prologue, the broader fascination lies with the story of CIA backing for the Afghan mujahideen before, during and after the anti-Soviet war - the agency's golden opportunity to give Moscow its own Vietnam quagmire.
Michael Berchtold, president of Morgan Stanley's Asian and Pacific operations, said the interest by construction equipment manufacturers was part of a much broader and still growing fascination by outsiders with the Chinese market, which is growing at close to 10percentt a year.
The employment of young girls in the fashion world is indicative of a broader cultural belief and fascination: to look good, you must look young.
Until a couple of weeks ago, Mississippi's Clower-Thornton Nature Trail lured avid birders as well as small children, who wandered in fascination underneath its broad canopy of oak and dogwood trees.
I'll describe the Uncanny in plain language, trace its origins back to Descartes and medieval automata, and show how it relates to our contemporary human fear and fascination with a broad variety of technologies from AI to cosmetics to robots to Siri to Google Glass to zombies.
The broader background is modernism's fascination with all things perceived as primitive.
He would sit in the hills and read philosophy books imagining the broader universe, he says, a fascination that led him into academia and all the way to 'Oumuamua.
Undoubtedly this technique originally arose in the broader scientific community through a fascination with understanding synchronisation in networks of interacting heterogeneous oscillators, and can be traced back to the work of Huygens on "an odd kind of sympathy" between coupled pendulum clocks [1].
I envy their time in Ilhan's class". Aksay said the purpose of the seminar is not to develop the next great technical breakthrough but to expose a broad range of students to the fascination of science.
