... lineages of
mitochondrial DNA exist among the San (‘Bushmen’) of southern Africa and
the Biaka Pygmies ofthe modern Central African Republic. About 100,000 years
ago, some of these anatomically ... several books on Africa, including
Amodern historyof Tanganyika and The African poor: A history, which was awarded
the Herskovits Prize ofthe African Studies Association ofthe United States. Both
books ... truly historical sense emerged; learning
consisted ofa gigantic catalogue of names and attributes; and the law was not
codified. The state was a mass of individual of cials, tasks, and institutions;
unlike...
... conversion of cel-
lulose to sugars was again investigated by Battelle-Geneva on a pilot plant basis,
particularly of separation ofthe hydrochloric acid and sugars, as well as re-
concentration ofthe ... petroleum. At the
time, George Tsao was on assignment at the U.S. National Science Foundation,
on leave from Iowa State University, managing several funding programs as a
part ofthe RANN (Research Applied ... there are likely
chemical reactions taking place between the acid and the substrates, which
could influence the yield as well as the degradability ofthe monosaccharides so
obtained as well as the...
... resemble the works of early Babylonian art, of the
time ofthe patesis of Shirpurla or the Kings Shargani-shar-ali and Narâm-Sin. One ofthe best known relics of
the early art of Babylonia is the famous ... rock-cut
gallery and chamber in the cliff at Abydos, Amenemhat a pyramid not very far to the south, at Hawara, close
to the Fayyûm. It is uncertain whether the Hawara pyramid or that of Dashûr was the ... and
Mêdûm may be regarded as appanages of Sakkâra. At Sakkâra itself Tjeser ofthe IIId Dynasty had a pyramid,
which, as we have seen, was probably not his real tomb (which was the great mastaba at Bêt...
... the papacy and ofthe monastic orders and the emergence ofa feudal
civilization out ofthe chaos ofthe Dark Ages, the constant preoccupation of
architecture was to evolve from the basilica type ... the above phases of Western art; one under the influence of Mohammedan
civilization, another in the Brahman and Buddhist architecture of India, and the third
in China and Japan. The first of these ... support, and
hence the nature ofthe structural design. A comparison, for example, ofthe plans of
the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak (Fig. 11, h) and ofthe Basilica of Constantine (Fig. 58)
shows at...
... together for your benefit the fruits ofthe labor of all the others the hand of your dear
mother, always active, always ready, that hand which so often acts as yours when your own is awkward ... _gastritis_, the name ofa disease ofthe stomach TR.] It is a very good fable, and was wisely
appealed to once by a Roman Consul to appease a disturbance in the State. But the application was ... several other ofthe physical sciences, as well as having attained to
some knowledge of natural history generally.
I begin at once, then, with the _History ofa Mouthful of Bread_, although I am aware...
... Rome.
The Bear, a Wild Animal
For the Romans, the bear was the strongest of
all animals and the wild beast par excellence.
Its dark fur and anthropomorphic appearance
made it a formidable creature, ... hooves and tail of
a goat) that Christian art borrowed the first features ofthe devil,
before granting him a pair of wings (he was a fallen angel, after
all) and then exaggerating his animal characteristics.
In ... and demons,
Saracens and pagans, traitors and deceivers (the biblical traitors
Judas, Cain, and Delilah; Ganelon and Mordred, the traitors from
the Song of Roland and Arthurian legend), but also...
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Madison signed the bill chartering the second Bank ofthe
United States.
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... characterized
by a hegemony of surface aesthetics where the prevalence of an “always-acting” aesthetic
results in the “always-aesthetic experience” of aeV.
This has happened at the same time as ... 2003 All rights reserved.
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and their agents are not liable for any legal actions that may arise ... the artist only created a musical depiction
of an illusion ofthe noumenal world, his social status was very low.
The time of Plato and Aristotle was a time of dramatic social protests, upheavals
and...
... nominally by
Sadasiva, during whose reign Vijayanagar was practically in the hands of Rama Rajah and of his two brothers,
Tirumala and Venkatadri.
Firishtah was a great admirer of Asada Khan and ... of
Telingana and place himself at their head.
Ballala Deva then built the city of Vijayanagar,[38] raised an army, and the war began. Warangal, then in the
hands ofthe Muhammadans, was reduced, and its ... either Rajasekhara or Virupaksha I. was the king of Vijayanagar,
Mahmud Gawan, Muhammad's minister, marched towards the west, and after a fairly successful campaign
attacked Goa, then in the...
... with the Bank of Amsterdam were
afterwards established at Hamburg, and some other ofthe commercial
towns and free cities of Germany.
Chapter III.
Bank of England.
The bank of England, first chartered ... essential to trade, the actual state ofthe affairs of the
bank were kept a profound secret from all but the magistrates, who
were a sort of self-perpetuating oligarchy.
Banks on the same principle ... Company, and the China Company; and now assumed the title
of the Company ofthe Indias. The Company next acquired the privilege
of farming all the taxes and the whole revenue ofthe kingdom; and
presently...
... founded at
Singapore and on the Malay Peninsula. In India itself Tippoo was defeated and slain in his capital at
Seringapatam in 1799, the Mahrattas were crushed at Assye and Argaum in 1803, the nabob ... soldier and a bigoted churchman,
was anything but a statesman; and the value of his churchmanship may be gauged from the fact that he
assumed the insolence ofa crusader against a nation more catholic ... English
government. A century and a half ago two Secretaries of State were all that Great Britain required; now there
are half -a- dozen, and a dozen other departments have been added. Among them are the Local...
... camps. First, he was an unpaid volunteer in the army of the
Protestant Prince of Orange; later he served in the army ofthe Catholic
Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, who was then at war with the Palatine ... practical application
of physics, and magic is the practical application of metaphysics.
This brisk and provocative anatomy of philosophy is not as neat as it
seems, and many ofthe names Bacon ... years in Holland his work was mainly mathematical and
physical. He laid the foundations of analytical geometry: the Cartesian
coordinates that every schoolchild learns about derive their name...
... used by Archytas
to illustrate how considerable was the knowledge ofthe Pythagorean
school at the time.
Theodorus. Another Pythagorean of about the same date as
Archytas was Theodorus of Cyrene, ... and
towards the end ofthe century to have looked to Athens as the intellec-
tual capital ofthe Greek world; and it is to the Athenian schools that
we owe the next great advance in mathematics.
TABLE ... testimony of these au-
thorities.
We know nothing ofthe applied mathematics (if there were any)
of the Egyptians or Phoenicians. The astronomical attainments of the
Egyptians and Chaldaeans were...