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During his reign Palestine flourished, but his successors proved less able, and over the next four centuries the country continuously declined to become a virtual backwater.
Lacan's life was a struggle against the institutionalization of knowledge, and he flourished by creating havoc, both publicly (in a famous break with the International Psychoanalytic Institute) and privately (among some of his colleagues).
The various forms of politically driven realism that flourished during the Depression continued to dominate American art through the end of World War II.
Intellectual life flourished, and great advances were made in science and medicine.
New palaces and gardens were laid out and scholarship flourished.