![]() ![]() ![]() Old Assyrian specialists have produced a series of refinements on the list of eponyms (year names). For a copy of the complete article, please contact me at The appearance of an annual chronology from Old Assyrian records in the form of eponym lists, around 2000 (AD) has had a significant impact on the quest to anchor early second millennium chronology. (The uploaded document is only the first page. This article also explores how such a calendrical system impacts the Middle Assyrian kings’ regnal dates, which would need to be lowered given that the unadjusted Assyrian lunar year was slightly shorter than its solar counterpart. The author draws upon a variety of administrative tablets-primarily from the reigns of Shalmaneser I, Tukultī-Ninurta I, and Tiglath-pileser I-to demonstrate that the months of the Assyrian year were in fact not permanently affixed to particular seasons of the solar year, revealing that its year was not intercalated and was thus perpetually rotating slowly through the solar year. The present article, however, argues that the Assyrians did not use this type of system. With this understanding, the regnal dates assigned to the Middle Assyrian kings have traditionally been expressed in terms of solar years. She’s moved the game itself.Scholars generally assume that Assyria employed a luni-solar calendrical system during the Middle Assyrian period-akin to the one used in Babylonia-that kept the months of its year synchronized with the seasons of the solar year through periodic intercalation. That, to me, showed how broad Serena’s reach is. All throughout the tournament, most of the images were taken during the warmups, because she didn't wear the boots during the match. The next day, they’re on the front page of USA Today. “Later that night, I flipped on SportsCenter, and there were the boots. “She came walking out at the US Open like she’s on the Paris runway,” Smith says, “and the tournament directors say, ‘Hey, Serena, those boots are a little over the top.’ They’re pretty conservative, warm up in them. I’ve always challenged Nike to think bigger and more fashion forward in their designs.”ĭesigner Wilson Smith answered that call with the tennis great’s first signature shoe, a slick Shox model with a detachable knee-high, boot-like extension that doubled as a compression sleeve to ward off cramping. “I wanted to be daring and bold both on and off the court. “I wanted to make sport and fashion more synonymous,” Williams says. “Through that exchange, it accelerates our own culture of thinking and innovating.”įrom the moment she signed with Nike in 2003, Serena Williams had one simple goal. “Outside collaborations push us toward the edges as a company,” says Mark Parker, Nike’s executive chairman and former CEO. But since the early aughts, the Swoosh has courted a vastly wider array of talent, working with generational hitmakers like Kanye West and Drake, cult art heroes like Tom Sachs and Futura, and fashion world luminaries like Virgil Abloh, Jun Takahashi, and Rei Kawakubo. The superstars, for the first three decades or so, were almost entirely athletes we all knew on a first-name basis: Michael, Bo, Tiger, Serena. And Steve Prefontaine was the otherworldly athlete whose gutsy style and cult of personality lent the Nikes on his feet a sheen of credibility and transcendent cool.įor 50 years, Nike has hewed pretty closely to that basic formula-weaving together bleeding-edge innovation and galactic superstars, and then backing them with savvy industrialism-as it mushroomed into a global powerhouse. Bill Bowerman, Knight’s former college track coach, was the tireless tinkerer who sliced open his running shoes to make adjustments and commandeered his wife’s waffle iron to develop new rubber soles. ![]() Phil Knight was the fearless entrepreneur who foresaw the rise of running culture. ![]()
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