...
The accounts also stated what days' works were due from each tenant according to the
season of the year, and at the end of each year there was a careful valuation of live and
dead stock.[129] ... century a lease of 2 acres of arable land in Nowton,
Suffolk, let the land at 6d. an acre per annum for a term of six years.[150] It contains
no clauses about cultivation; the landlord warrants ... years after the Peasants' Revolt another attempt was made to regulate
agricultural wages by the statute 12 Ric. II, c. 4, which stated that 'the hires of the said
servants and labourers...
... noble architecture in cathedrals and palaces, of
formal religious ritual, and of the pomp and display of all elaborate pageantry. In the outcome they largely
reshaped the heavy mass of Anglo-Saxon ... ones as Burns' 'Cotter's Saturday Night,' Byron's 'Childe
Harold,' Keats' 'Eve of St. Agnes,' and Shelley's 'Adonais.'
In general ... years beginning in 1660. Pepys, who ultimately became Secretary to the Admiralty, and
was a hard-working and very able naval official, was also astonishingly naïf and vain. In his 'Diary'...
... was avoided
in the name of regulatory forbearance.
Repealing Glass-Steagall
The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 had established a firm separation between commerce and banking in
the financial ... Reserve also played a role in guaranteeing
hundreds of billions of dollars worth of assets at Citigroup and Bank of America.
Additionally, the Fed has created several special lending facilities ... among other things, commercial paper, municipal bonds, and mortgage-backed securities.
In August 1987, Alan Greenspan was appointed as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. A student of
Ayn Rand’s...
... had followed Fabyan as an
English historian, and, above all, Latimer's Sermons had shown how to transform spoken Englishof the
raciest kind into literature. Lord Berners's translations ... was written to another father ofEnglish prose, Sir Thomas
Hoby, the translator of Castiglione's Courtier. But Ascham had already and some years earlier published his
Toxophilus, and various ... translations of Froissart and of divers examples of late Continental
romance had provided much prose of no mean quality for light reading, and also by their imitation of the
florid and fanciful style of...
... Welsh
wars. And it was by means of these magnificent concentric castles—Conway,
Beaumaris, Carnarvon, and Harlech—that Edward hoped to keep Wales.
There are many kinds of bows. In war two were ... Tribal System in Wales, Clark's Medieval Military
Architecture, Morris' Welsh Wars ofEdward I., Southall's Wales and Her Language.
In writing local history, A. N. Palmer's ... stands, had protected William Marshall against Llywelyn and had enabled
an important district to remain a "little England beyond Wales," was the last
mediaeval castle to take an important...
... into circulation 60
Withdrawing national banknotes and coins 62
Adapting cash dispensers and cash-
operated machines 64
Exchanging national banknotes at face value 66
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Preparing ... spread as broadly as possible via TV
commercials, print adverts, the internet and other
channels, and a pivotal role here was played by the
Euro 2002 Information Campaign, conducted by the
ECB and ... printing and
hot-stamped holograms on banknotes.
The visual and machine-readable features of all the
test banknotes underwent exhaustive laboratory
checks. For example, the banknotes’ chemical and...
... control
themselves.
– War against Antioch III, king of Syria and Asia Minor (192–188
BC). Rome was able to break the power of this king and obtain
control of the eastern part of the Mediterranean by means of a
system ... secular law.
Furthermore, archaic law—like the law of nearly all primitive
peoples—was ofa formalistic nature. To ensure that a certain
transaction would have the desired result, it always had ... The pontiffs have always been regarded as
guardians of the law; they were primarily concerned with the
application of sacral law such as the regulation of the calendar,
but at the same time they...
... Cockatoo. Dugong. Gamboge. Gong. Gutta-percha. Mandarin.
Mango. Orang-outang. Rattan. Sago. Upas.
PERSIAN.
Awning. Bazaar. Bashaw. Caravan. Check. Checkmate. Chess. Curry. Dervish. Divan. Firman. ... 'they askance their eyes'; as a noun, 'the backward and
abysm of time'; or as an adjective, &apos ;a seldom pleasure.' Any noun, adjective, or neuter verb can be used as an
active ... Hazard.
Horde. Houri. Jar. Jackal. Jasmine. Lac (a gum). Lemon. Lilac. Lime (the fruit). Musk. Orange. Paradise.
Pasha. Rook. Saraband. Sash. Scimitar. Shawl. Taffeta. Turban.
POLYNESIAN DIALECTS.
Boomerang....
... Beelzebub, and a crowd of allegorical personages. But
the battles and debats ofa chivalric age were not only religious; there are battles of wine and water, battles of
fast and feasting, battles of ... his character as a man, he belonged to an age of
philosophers and sentimentalists, an age of "virtue" and "nature." Shakespeare's translation is as strange as
that of his ... Statira, daughter of
Darius; the Prince de Conde masks in Cleopatre as Coriolan; Pharamond is the Grand Monarch in disguise.
Notwithstanding the faded gallantries and amorous casuistry of La Calprenede's...
... near about
the same time the Apothecaries Charter
was granted; and being almost nothing
else but a supply of what was short in
their former Grants, viz. That whereas
their Charter granted by ... abuses
daily increase since the Censors,
discouraged by the multitude of
and also make their own Medicines as
well as they, especially since the
Apothecary may as easily falsify, and to
greater ... to take away their Charter,
Oyls drawn from Plants by distillation
hardly flame, and the flame soon goes
out, and the smoak gives a full flavour of
the Plant it self, whereas those
sophisticated...
... (1996) Anticoagulant activity
of Triatoma infestans and Panstrongylus megistus saliva
(Hemiptera ⁄ Triatominae). Acta Trop 61, 255–261.
4 Amino R, Tanaka AS & Schenkman S (2001) Triapsin,
an ... Porto RM, Chammas R, Egami MI &
Schenkman S (1998) Identification and characterization
of a sialidase released by the salivary gland of the
hematophagous insect Triatoma infestans. J Biol ... Morita A, Isawa H, Orito Y, Iwanaga S, Chinzei Y &
Yuda M (2006) Identification and characterization of a
collagen-induced platelet aggregation inhibitor, triplatin,
from salivary glands of...
... of classical and romantic fancy, of pagan and Christian theology, of
real and fictitious history, of tragical and comic incidents, of familiar and heroic manners, and of satirical and
sublime ... Chrestien's
'Perceval' it will be found, again and again, in the prose of Sir Thomas Malory; it will be found in many
ballads and ballad burdens, in 'William and Margaret,' in 'Binnorie,' ... Rossettis in England and of Longfellow and Dr. Parsons
in America that any poetry ofa really Dantesque inspiration and, at the same time, of high original value was
added to our literature. [18]
The...
... Major magnates and vintners would have had their own ox
carts, but others would have had to hire a carter at a rate of
appoximately 1d a day per tun. The allocation of wine for each member
of the ... Salisbury, known as the
Kingmaker, was also a Knight of the Garter, the Captain of Calais and
the Constable of Dover Castle and owned huge estates all around the
country. He had married his daughters ... was also a health angle to a
16
feet ofa ship’s hold became the internationally accepted measure of a
ship’s capacity; to this day we define ships in terms of tonnage (for
which, read tunnage)....