Its story of a British aristocrat discovering his Jewish origins and devoting himself to a Zionist cause kindled Lazarus's interest in "Jewish repatriation" and "self-emancipation".
Beginning with a section devoted to the origins of the museum itself, founded in 1914 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in a townhouse at 8 West 8th Street, we soon find ourselves mired in stories of gross inequality, of America's increasing industrialisation and the after-effects of the great depression.
He forgets his origins before the movie devoted to their exposition is even over.
In On the Origin of Species, Darwin devoted a chapter to the nature of the geological record, explaining why key transitional fossils might not be found and why we might not know about many of the links that are preserved.
Most of "The Origins of Political Order" is devoted to telling the story of how the state, the rule of law and accountability happened to evolve independently in different societies, before their combination in 18th-century Britain.
The top floor takes its subject matter all the way to the 19th century, with a display of Victorian-era photographs of Glasgow slums by Thomas Annan, portraits of often-anonymous women of the era, and a gallery devoted to the origins of modern sport in Scotland as seen through the eyes of artists and photographers.
Much work over the last decade has been devoted to exploring the origins of false-positive screening hits, and ligand promiscuity has emerged as one such cause.
The entire film is devoted to finding the origins of the beloved hot sauce and paying homage to its many lovers and creators around the world. .
In the last decades, much effort has been devoted to determining the origins of human handedness, leading to a description of genetic, hormonal, and environmental factors whose interaction would cause neural and behavioral asymmetries.
But with the expanding Hispanic presence – an estimated 40% of the US Catholic church is now of Latino origin – the Bishops devote almost as much policy attention to immigration as they do their most visible concern, abortion.
