Cut ties with a past marked by frustration and organizational chaos.
Still, the European Union's report said, the elections had been peaceful and showed the Angolan people's "clear commitment to the country's democratic process and desire to leave behind a past marked by decades of war and civil conflict".
It's a timely reminder that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are only one part of a continuum of horror and destruction, linking 21st century England to the killing fields of the Somme and Gallipoli, even to its ancient bloody past, marked in fortress walls "shelled by a million bullets".
Rising like a pale stone swell from the depths of the Mediterranean, the island of Malta has a long and prickly past marked by periods of violent occupation, unlikely defense and cultural turnover.
It has in the past marked important anniversaries with tests of its weapons.
The Greenwich Village couple arrested for explosives on Saturday have a criminal past marked by drugs and suspected robbery.
After 17 years as FIFA's president, the 79 year-old Blatter represents continuity and a past marked by lack of transparency and accountability and a culture of impunity and secrecy.
"[The architecture] deeply inspired my series by sketching the setting that I wanted to explore: a timeless universe, oscillating between future and past, marked by the wrinkles of its arabesques of concrete".
