... 1460. His great
work was training seamen. Many men afterward famous as discoverers and navigators, as Dias (dee'ahss), Da
Gama (dah gah'ma), Cabral (ca-brahl'), Magellan, and Columbus, ... to
make the voyage, and on Friday, the 3d of August, 1492, the Santa Maria (sahn'tah mah-ree'ah), the Pinta
(peen'tah), and the _Ni a_ (neen'yah) set sail from Palos (pah'los), ... revealed the vast width of the
Pacific. It showed that America was probably not a part of Asia, and changed the geographical ideas of the
time. [12]
THE COAST OF FLORIDA EXPLORED What meantime had...
... exhibited almost a repetition ofthe faults of Edward II.; and the appearance ofa new
and powerful dynasty the House of Lancaster in the person ofthe able and ambitious Henry IV. This
century saw also ... any other
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abysm of time'; or as an adjective, &apos ;a seldom pleasure.' ... +Character ofthe Scandinavian Element.+ The Northmen, as we have said, were Teutons; and they
spoke a dialect ofthe great Teutonic (or German) language. The sounds ofthe Danish dialect or language,
as...
... southward along
the coast of Spain, Portugal, and Africa, as far as the Canary Islands, then they
followed the track of Columbus to the West India Islands, and thence along the coast
of Florida] ... Annals is invaluable,
and the early volumes ofthe North American Review contain a great deal of
interesting historical matter. The American Cyclopaedia and Thomas's Dictionary of
Biography ... use ofthe book, and the adoption ofthe topical
mode of recitation and study, as far as possible, by placing the questions at the close
of the work, rather than at the bottom of each page....
... [As a mathematician, I don't cheat, and I
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does *not* contain characters other than those intended by the
author ofthe work, although ... permission
from several other colleges and/or universities, at which
he has computer accounts and/or is affiliated.]
as a way of life. The purpose of each on of these is
and always has ... says:
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of the Order ofthe Patrons of Husbandry,
the oldest general farm organization
in the United States. . .formed largely
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... mathematical lore.
20 ABRIEFHISTORYOFTHE PARADOX
THE MATHEMATICAL SETTING
Anaximander’s vision oftheworld was basically accepted by
his successors. However, the Greeks never got comfortable
with ... near the earth’s horizon? Aristotle’s eyes
said yes, but his astronomical theory said no. After gazing at
a waterfall, Aristotle saw the bank ofa river apparently
moving—while simultaneously appearing ... mentioned at the end of The
Wizard of Oz. After the Scarecrow discovers that he has a
brain, he is presented with a diploma. To illustrate his new-
found acumen, the Scarecrow states that the sum of the...
... will recall here Buchanan's opinion about the Bank: "If the Bank of
the United States, after ceasing to be a national bank, and obtaining a
new charter in Pennsylvania, had restrained ... of Fiske & Hatch, ofthe Union
Trust Company, ofthe National Trust Company, and ofthe National Bank
of the Commonwealth. On the 20th of September, for the first time, the
Stock Exchange ... the payment of their notes at the rate of 20 per
cent. a month by the 1st of January, 1858. The same favor of repaying
their notes at the rate of 6 per cent. was granted to the city banks....
... well as the eighteenth -century English, Scottish, and Italian economists and the
German and Austrian cameralists and statisticians (“statistics” then included the compilation of
nonnumerical facts), ... misunderstandings. Bayly takes a
closer look at this “rest oftheworld and arrives at the plausible idea ofa polygenesis of forms of
nationalist solidarity: that is, before nationalist doctrines ... nationalism and the nation-state. Many people living at the time already
saw expanded horizons of thought and action as a distinguishing feature of their epoch, and
dissatisfied members of the...
...
Statistical analysis
Statistical significance between the treatment groups was analyzed using a two-way statistical
analysis of variance (ANOVA), followed by Dunnett t-test and post-hoc analysis ... International Union of Pharmacology. He serves on the editorial
board of several journals such as European Journal of Pharmacology, Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology,
and Journal of Pharmacological ... of
isolated ventilation to avoid microbial contamination. Gastric cancer tissues (1.5 mm
3
) were implanted
subcutaneously (s.c.) into the right dorsal area of mice. Ten days after implantation,...
... on a totally separate
system.
The variants ofthe Microsoft Windows operating system cannot export the display of
an individual application to be viewed on a separate machine. If an application ... location ofthe
viewable display is called the server (or display server), since it is serving the application’s
graphical display functions.
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ABRIEF TOUR OFTHE X DISPLAY ... in that the DISPLAY variable is set to Machine B instead
of Machine A, where the X server is running. This is because you are attaching to one end
of the ssh tunnel. The other end ofthe tunnel...
... was raising
a glass-not of champagne but of thick Turkish coffee. His name was Osama bin Laden
and he had a different narrative. His view was that it was the jihadi fighters in
Afghanistan, ... here,"
the mayor added, "and with this as a base they have now moved to R & D and software
development In the past one or two years, the software companies ofthe U.S. are
advantage of ... Japan and Korea, each only about an hour away by air,
its large number of Japanese speakers, its abundance of Internet bandwidth, and many
parks and a world- class golf course (all of which appeal...