But if anything, I was struck by how the two cultures converged during the collaboration.

Countless cultures - Persian, Greek, Indian, Chinese, Russian - have converged there.

Jerusalem, a city where religions and cultures converge and clash, is claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians.

Anthropologists contend that the indigenous culture of the area converged on the mound to trade in pottery.

By the late Bronze Age (circa 1600-circa 1000 B.C.), many cultures had converged on the island.

Those two words served as the dramatic ground on which politics and popular culture turbulently converged over the past 12 months.

Throughout his career, Dr. Gilkey explored the often slippery terrain where religion, technology and culture converge.

Only one planet,' he says, 'one small and crowded planet, on which all cultures converge to a drab and depressing sameness.

It is a phenomenon in which local values and global cultures converge to create something new.

Ms. Lin is constructing at least four memorials along the Columbia, marking places where cultures and rivers converged and nations forever changed course.