... growth of a scale and speed unique in human history. This growth underlay the collapse of colonial rule, the destruction of apartheid, and the instability of successor regimes. It was the chief ... bc,while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes. There they ... ofthe economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge ofthe West African forest in modern Ghana. This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the...
... considering the endoscopic option. The facet injections in these 72 patients gave 50 to 100% relief of their pain in 86% of the patients with a median relief period of 3 months. The range of relief ... the direct visualization of the joint allows better de-innervation ofthe joint and removal ofthe entire end-plate receptors that adhere to the bone and capsular tissue. Limitations ofthe ... considering the endoscopic surgery option. Of these 26 patients, 14 patients had 50 to 100% relief with a median period of pain relief being 5 months. The range of relief for the radiofrequency...
... per day of ethanol, utilizing Saccharomyces for the pro-cess (Harris 1946). This yield of 50 gallons per ton of wood was approximately50% ofthe theoretical yield. The indicated loss of sugars ... engineeringtopics. The content reflects the interests or personal experience ofthe authors.It offers a limited view ofthehistoryof biochemical engineering. History, asalways, has to be told ... ofthe concerns of future exhaustion of non-renewable fossil fuels. One ofthe authors of thisarticle, Raphael Katzen, had his first personal experience in wood hydrolysis 60 years ago in the...
... part ofthe war effort; theyturned lipstick into a symbol of resilient femininity in the face of danger, a symbol that would boost the morale of both the women wearing the lipstick and the male ... cosmetics during the couple’s courtship.1051800s99Statute 10 Geo. I, c. 20. “By virtue of this [law], the censors ofthe College of Physicians, assisted by the wardens of the Apothecarie s’ Company, ... or devices, or cosmetics because ofthe use ofthe additive, (ii) the cumulativeeffect. . .of such additive in the diet of man or animals, taking into account the same or anychemically or pharmacologically...
... was the readiest way of converting them to the principles ofthe Christian religion. These, then, were the first forerunners in the great cause ofthe abolition ofthe Slave Trade: nor have their ... held the reigns ofthe government of Spain till Charles the Fifth came to the throne, for the establishment of a regular system of commerce in the persons ofthe native Africans. The object of ... nature of it; and ofthe extent of it; and ofthe difficulty of subduing it.—Usefulness also ofthe contemplation of this subject. I scarcely know of any subject, the contemplation of which...
... to their love of adventure, their hope of enjoying some ofthe advantages of their civilized neighbors, or the need of new lands for their increasing numbers. And the Romans, by means of their ... time formed the northern boundary ofthe kingdom ofthe West Goths. Clovis then enlarged his empire on the east by the conquest ofthe Alemanni, a German people living in the region ofthe Black ... in either Emerton or Oman. [Pg 1] INTRODUCTION TO THEHISTORYOF WESTERN EUROPE CHAPTER I THE HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW The scope of history. 1. History, in the broadest sense of the...
... agreeable to the majority ofthe house of commons, and suited their religious principles. But as the impatience ofthe people, the danger of delay, the general disgust towards faction, and the authority ... expressed by the parliament, there prevails a story, that Popham, having sounded the disposition ofthe members, undertook to the earl of Southampton to procure, during the king’s The Historyof England, ... two months, the parliament met, and proceeded in the great work ofthe national settlement. They established the post-office, wine-licenses, and some articles ofthe revenue. They granted...
... refuses the offers ofthe army. Which marches to London.Enters the city. And gives the law to the parliament. The king listens to the counsels ofthe officers. Andintrigues against them. Rise ofthe ... to the maintenance ofthe true Protestant religion, with due consideration to the just ease of tender consciences, to the settling ofthe rights ofthe crown and of parliament, the laws ofthe ... declaration on the part of[ a] the parliament; that itwas the real intention ofthe king to satisfy the demands ofthe papists by altering the national religion, and the rapacity ofthe Cavaliers...
... byhis son of how, on the visit of à Beckett, Charles Dickens, and the rest, he would throw off his clothes andswim with them in the sea, or challenge them to a game of leap-frog on the sands ... his father, and sat for another seven years at the tail of the Table by right of proprietorship, the business was reinforced by the inclusion ofthe house of Agnew. Itthen became Bradbury, Agnew ... these versions (which, after all, vary hardly more than the accounts of other incidents of Punchlife[1]) it is not very easy at first sight to sift the truth. There is a story ofthe tutor of...
... between the promoters ofthe varioussorts ofhistoryof science. Then and only then, will thehistoryof knowledge retain the central role it should have in thehistory and philosophy of science.CNRS: ... superior to Descartes’ vortex theory in dealing with problemssuch as the return of Halley’s comet, the orbit ofthe Moon, and the shape ofthe Earth,that the Continentals shrugged off their antipathy ... study the reception of scien-tific theories are best able to answer this question because they have the evidenceright in front of them; but unless they recognize the importance ofthe question theymay...
... architecture. In the North and West, meanwhile, under the growing institutions ofthe papacy and ofthe monastic orders and the emergence of a feudal civilization out ofthe chaos ofthe Dark Ages, the ... to harmonize in a building the requirements of utility and of beauty. It is the most useful ofthe fine arts and the noblest ofthe useful arts. It touches the life of man at every point. It ... the lists of books recommended have been revised and brought up to date. College Histories of Art. A HISTORYOF PAINTING. BY JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D. Professor oftheHistoryof Art...
... room as they grew older, the place they spent much of their time, the more formal rst oor being the domain of their mother. Eloise still felt like that part ofthe house didn’t quite belong ... contained by the seats in her classroom. These days she had parties out of a sense of obligation more than an anticipation of pleasure. This particular party—a celebration ofthe house’s one ... the glinting gold thread and imagine the weaver who’d made it, the lady ofthe house who’d chosen it, the workers who’d tacked it to the walls and lled in cotton batting, the partygoers of...
... place ofthe money itself. At the request of Governor Arthur, coins to the value of a hundred thousand pounds were sent out from England for the use ofthe colonists. Governor Arthur’s period of ... possession ofthe country on behalf of His Britannic Majesty, giving it the name, “New South Wales,” on account ofthe resemblance of its coasts to the southern shores of Wales. was no hope of defending ... MACQUARIE. In the early days ofthe colonies their destinies were, to a great extent, moulded by the Governors who had charge of them. Whether for good or for evil, the influence ofthe Governor...