Turkey's efforts have spurred an international debate about who owns antiquities after centuries of shifting borders.
From the sky they must look like so much fallen confetti, configured every which way thanks to centuries of shifting street plans, so that today they are at right angles and cater-corners to one another.
The Supreme Court granted corporations the right to personhood in 1886, and more recently extended that right to the funding of political campaigns — arguably a tipping point in two centuries of shifting toward private sector power in American society.
Another dubious inheritance is BMW's latest electronic shifter, which flouts a half-century of shift-pattern convention in favour of its own.
How is it that some images, whether they're paintings or photographs, have stayed relevant through years, decades, even centuries of shifting aesthetic trends and tastes?
Western European countries such as Sweden, United Kingdom, and France took most of the 19th century to shift from Stage 2 to Stage 3 and then a further half-century from Stage 3 to Stage 4 (122, 124, 165, 165).
In Part 1, "Theoretical and Practical Background," readers can explore the changes occurring within 21st century inclusive of shifts in priority of lessons conveyed within higher education.
Its few rich and its throngs of poor live in starkly different worlds, and endured a century of wars and shifting ideologies before the enforced 30-year slumber of Hosni Mubarak's rule.
Despite centuries of wars, shifting alliances and dictatorships, Catalonia, and its capital, Barcelona, have struggled to maintain their independence and cultural identity.
This spirit was matched in the beginning of the 13th century by a shift toward lighter, brighter colours and flatter forms, a softening of facial types, and an increasing definition of form by means of a graceful, rhythmic line.
"A clear long-term decarbonisation objective in the Paris agreement, such as net zero greenhouse gas emissions well before the end of the century, will shift this towards low-carbon investment and avoid unmanageable climate risk," said Nigel Topping, the chief executive of the We Mean Business coalition.
