Russia's weak laws and a strong tradition of scientific education have combined to create a flourishing culture of computer hacking, specialists in the programming industry say.

It had a flourishing culture, comprising part of the larger Gaelic-speaking world and an economy dominated by agriculture and by short-distance, local trade.

By about 1000 BC a flourishing culture had arisen in western Andalucía.

But The Great Chaos had changed the spaceport into a ghostly reminder of a once flourishing culture.

Prior to the European contact the Yir-Yoront retained a flourishing culture with traditions, one of them being axe making.

A few centuries later and they had multiplied one hundredfold and developed a flourishing culture.

Drought, famine, pestilence--they could end a flourishing culture just as fast.

During the Edo period (1615-1868), Japan was isolated from the rest of the world but developed a flourishing culture.

It has always enjoyed a flourishing culture, much of which one can sense there even today.

Jahangir supported a flourishing culture of court painters.