... mainly a transit trade in goods that came from far away—from India, Southeast Asia, and China and that Italian ships loaded at Alexandria and other ports in the Levant; Italian merchants then ... and slavery, which had long been a basic trait of society, gave way to one between warriors and peasants Together, the chaos ofthe period, the scarcity of labor, andthe abundance of land made ... makes up only percent ofthe Earth’s land surface, has been called a small peninsula of Asia, and no clear geographical boundary demarcates it from the rest ofthe Eurasian land mass The Ural...
... Broughton—Influenza—Octavius Hadfield The east coast—Taumatakura—W Williams moves to Poverty Bay—Ripahau at Cook Strait—Rauparaha—Tamihana learns from Ripahau—Tamihana and Te Whiwhi come to Bay of Islands—Hadfield ... Australia, Ruatara was once again a man, and now almost a Christian This meeting was momentous in its results "Mr Marsden and Ruatara," as Carleton says, "were each necessary to the other; each ... guests to a scene of mimic warfare Led by himself and Korokoro, four hundred warriors in all the pomp of paint and feathers rehearsed the details ofa naval engagement The brandished spears and blood-curdling...
... Newton realized that apples, the moon, andthe planets all obeyed the same law of gravitation, that they were all falling under an inverse square law When Newton found that the mathematics ofthe ... Observatory was supposed to give a talk about the age ofthe universe, the previous speaker announced sarcastically, “What you will hear next is all wrong.” And Sandage, hearing of how a rival group ... astronomers around the world are now speculating about what these parallel worlds may look like, what laws they may obey, how they are born, and how they may eventually die Perhaps these parallel worlds...
... between the Danube andthe Balkan range (the classical Haemus), became an imperial province, and twenty years later Thrace, the country between the Balkan range andthe Aegean, was incorporated in the ... north ofthe Carpathians, in Galicia and Poland, but may also have included parts ofthe modern Hungary, they moved southwards and south-eastwards They were presumably in Dacia, north ofthe Danube, ... collected a large army of Slavs and Asiatics and attacked Constantinople both by land and sea from the European side, while the Persians threatened it from Asia But the walls ofthe city andthe ships...
... explain the causes ofthewar we must find the causes ofthe alliances of England, France and Russia against Germany For the cause ofthewar is that alliance that and nothing else The defence of ... defend themselves from overseas attack The defeat ofthe British navy would make scarcely at all easier the landing of German troops in, say, Australia, South Africa or New Zealand Awarof conquest ... strange texts for the desecrater of Christian Ireland to appeal to against that continent which she would fain hem in with Malayan and Indian battleships, and Canadian and Australasian dreadnoughts...
... despise the Americans instead of fearing them, and were eager to take the warpath against so easy a prey Already other bands of braves were hastening from Lake Huron and from Mackinac, whose American ... might carry out his own idea of an operation against Montreal at the same time as the Niagara campaign was in progress On the shore of Lake Champlain, Dearborn was in command ofthe largest and ... spread fast and wide and thousands of people, as though they were bound to the theater, hastened to the heights of Malden, to Nahant, and to the headlands of Salem and Marblehead, in hopes of...
... as the Hash Kernel, the incremental calculation ofthe scores ofthe completion model, andthe parallel feature extraction as well as the parallelized transition-based parsing strategy play an ... Annual Meeting ofthe ACL andthe 4th IJCNLP ofthe AFNLP, pages 351–359, Suntec, Singapore K Sagae andA Lavie 2006 Parser combination by reparsing In NAACL ’06: Proceedings ofthe Human Language ... Matsumoto, 2003) The last column shows the accuracy of Part -of- Speech tags finding rules of Yamada and Matsumoto (2003) Table gives an overview ofthe properties ofthe corpus The annotation ofthe corpus...
... pleasure of surprise" as distinguished from "the pleasure of recognition." Again and again realism returns to the charge and demands of art that it give us the present andthe actual; and again ... view ofthe sacred art ofthe Italian Middle Age he anticipated the Pre-Raphaelites andthe modern interpreters of Dante Here is a part of what he says ofthe paintings in the Campo Santo at Pisa: ... Otranto" andthe poems of Spenser and Ariosto; or composed and narrated to each other "interminable tales of battles and enchantments" and "legends in which the martial andthe miraculous always predominated."...
... from a Martian and I crawled into some bushes by the side ofthe road He looked back and turned to join me We heard the distant sound ofa gun, then another nearer, and then another And then the ... the fallen one The third and fourth stood beside him in the water The cases that produced the Heat-Rays were waved high andthe beams flashed this way and that The air was full of deafening and ... Ogilvy had told me about the impossibility of Martians capturing the Earth On the surface ofthe Earth the force of gravity is three times as great as on the surface of Mars A Martian, therefore,...
... AHistoryof Land and Life scholar, Franz Boas, he saw to the collecting and safekeeping ofa substantial amount of Cree artifacts drawn mainly from the Bear Hills area ofthe Battle River Valley, ... Parkland, Elk Island National Park The interplay of grassland and aspen trees made the hills a good winter retreat for bison Fire, both natural and induced, was another factor that assisted the ... severe was the prairie drought in the period from 1200 to 1400 A. D that some have argued for a general abandonment by both human and animal in much ofthe lands to the east ofthe central and southern...
... Nora Bensahel et al., Olga Oliker, Keith Crane, Richard R Brennan, Jr., Heather S Gregg, Thomas Sullivan, and Andrew Rathmell, After Saddam: Prewar Planning andthe Occupation of Iraq (Santa Monica, ... States went into Iraq with a maximalist agenda— standing up a model democracy that would serve as a beacon to the entire region anda minimalist application of money and manpower In particular, ... arrival, he began consultations leading to the formation ofthe Governing Council, a body of Iraqi émigré and internal leaders chosen by Bremer with the help ofthe UN anda team of American and...
... Asia, the Tartars, who wrought great havoc and even penetrated as far as the Adriatic coast Nevertheless Hungary was always a menace to Serbia; Croatia, Slavonia, andthe interior of Dalmatia, ... Danube), and in Baranya (between the Danube andthe Drave) All this part of southern Hungary and Croatia was formed by the Austrians into a military borderland against Turkey, andthe Croats and immigrant ... Montenegro, and Albania, and later of Bulgaria and Greece, will disappear, de facto if not in appearance, and both materially and morally they will become the slaves ofthe central empires If the Balkan...
... encyclopaedia of all the knowledge and all the opinions ofthe author This latest Renard has a value akin to that ofthe second part of Le Roman de la Rose; it is a presentation ofthe ideas and manners ... drama of passion, and are aided by the repeated lyrical cry ofa refrain As yet, love was an affair for the woman; it was she alone who made a confession ofthe heart None of these poems are later ... Beelzebub, anda 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 the...
... merchants ofthe first fortune and character, and lawyers ofthe highest class, many of them educated at the temple, called to the bar in England, andof abilities and integrity equal to any there ... know that many ofthe most virtuous and independent ofthe nobility and gentry are for us, and among them, the best bishop that adorns the bench, as great a judge as the nation can boast, andthe ... XIV andthe suprema lex ofthe king of Sardinia,—to the law of brickbats and cannon balls, which can be answered only by brickbats and balls This language, the imperial crown of Great Britain,”...