Sami's past caught up to him.

Sami investigated Layla's past.

Sami's past haunted him for ever.

My name now is Gaza Jad Madi

Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York

Jordanian blogger Jad Madi, who describes himself as simply Middle Eastern, changed his name to Gaza Jad Madi today after discovering Facebook's alleged biases

The disadvantages included the lack of a clean break between Poland s authoritarian past and its democratic present.

Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed.

I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities and horrors of Ukraine s history.

Therefore, many names from Peru s past are also present here Atahualpa, Pizarro, Sucre, Bolivar.

They record information that eliminates the need to read a long way into the log's past.

Steve told us about the future of little technology I'm going to show you some of the past of big technology.

So all my life I have wanted to find this stuff out, and spent the last four years tracking these old guys down.

Simpson is condescending and derisive and wildly wrong about important parts of the Social Security system's past.

They are significant resources for those who are interested in learning more not only about Cambodia s colonial past but also its rich culture.

The city's past as a Soviet industrial center has left it as one of the most polluted cities in the world.

The biggest idea was that Britain s monarchy serves to connect the country s past to its future in ways that transcend the pettiness and ugliness of quotidian politics.

In the religious versions, the text emphasizes mourning for Africa s past and a prayer for redemption through Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

He built this machine, and we had a beautiful demonstration of how this thing really works, with these little bits. And it's an idea that goes way back.

In contrast with Mexico s authoritarian past, when an imperial presidency constituted a major obstacle to modernization, power has been dispersed.

And here, scientists are drilling into the past of our planet to find clues to the future of climate change.

The blog to which Gaza Jad Madi links is Shuger Cuebs, which asks Is Facebook Violating Our Right to Free Expression? The Palestinian blogger writes

Archaeogenetics, a term coined by British archaeologist and paleolinguist Colin Renfrew, refers to the application of the techniques of molecular population genetics to the study of the human past.

A distinctive class of biases affect memory, such as consistency bias (remembering one's past attitudes and behavior as more similar to one's present attitudes).

The girl, my old love, the last lost time I saw her when she came to find me at a party, her drunkenly stumbling, falling, sprawling, skirt hiked, eyes veined red, swollen with tears, her shame, her dishonor.

We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road based on sometimes dreams of a past that never really was, a fear of each other, distancing and blame.

This bizarre brew appears to have been concocted in an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable the current yearning for democracy with Russia s despotic past.

Much like in Germany in the 1840 s, when the appeal to private enterprise converted the entire middle class to nationalism, the explicit definition of economic power as the central pillar of China s greatness awakened ordinary Chinese to nationalism s appeal.

He once wrote, and I am here paraphrasing, that talking about Libya's rich past and ancient ruins was nice, but that the youth wanted to see a modern Libya with functioning metropolises.

These data will make it possible to determine the thermal history and evolution, bombardment and tectonics, and to get some insight into the internal structure and core size of the two proto planets.

I brought up my past because I think that fact checking is the single best training not just for journalism, but for life in general. It teaches you to think skeptically.

While Dick Grayson's past remains much the same, the history of Jason Todd, the second Robin, is altered, turning the boy into the orphan son of a petty crook, who tries to steal the tires from the Batmobile.

The Consultative Committee expresses its thanks to the Advisory Panel for its report, entitled Organizational assessment UNIFEM past, present and future (A 60 62 E 2005 10, annex).

If we run the movie of our universe backwards, we know that there was a Big Bang in our past, and we might even hear the cacophonous sound of it, but was our Big Bang the only Big Bang?

In contrast to men like Funes, Ortega, Mujica, and Chávez, whose careers began in guerrilla movements or failed coups, Mockus s past is irreproachable.

Germany s Nazi past is uniquely horrible, so comparisons with other countries with blighted histories are misleading.

Spain s soccer victory was not a fluke but the culmination of a long evolution to emerge as a winning machine from its Francoist furia española past.

That shattering, that opening of my girl cell, that kind of massive breakthrough of my heart allowed me to become more courageous, and braver, and actually more clever than I had been in the past in my life.

The criminals are almost all dead now. Their descendants and successors in Germany have done and are doing better than anyone could have expected at grappling with and mastering the nation s unmasterable past.

While it draws attention to the fact that Kony, indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in 2005, is still on the loose, it s portrayal of his alleged crimes in Northern Uganda are from a bygone era.

But one also hopes that China s successes will enable its leaders to feel strong enough to begin looking honestly at China s recent past in a more critical way.

The author sees a fusion of past and present in Colombia, where the fate of displaced persons and the tragedy of internal armed conflict, which has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people since it began in the late 1950s, has made it difficult to forge a collective social project for the country

My guess is that there's nothing quite that specific in our evolutionary past. But rather, if you're looking for an evolutionary explanation, you might say that most organisms are neo phobic that is, they're a little scared of stuff that's new and different.

I believe that our future is as promising as Europe s past is proud, and that our destiny lies not as a forgotten borderland on a troubled region, but as a maker and shaper of Europe s peace and Europe s unity.

Here is a round up of some of the pictures posted on these pages that not only depict a not so distant past, but also fuel nostalgia for a simpler time, when poverty and the hardships of daily life seemed less obvious.