... Russia,
Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro, and in many parts of Austria-Hungary and
THE BALKANS
A HISTORY OF BULGARIA—SERBIA—
GREECE—RUMANIA—TURKEY
THE BALKANS
A HISTORY OF BULGARIA—SERBIA—
GREECE—RUMANIA—TURKEY ...
antiquity of their own and to claim as early a date as possible for the authentic
appearance of their ancestors on the kaleidoscopic st...
... dioceses of Italy and Dacia; the line is roughly the same as
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the Anatolian peasantry, has yet to make its physical and moral qualities ... peninsula, of that of the Bulgars, and of the formation of
the Bulgarian nationality has already been described (cf. p. 26). The installation of the S...
... ports on
the Atlantic and North Sea coasts. Historians have debated the economic
impact of those large towns, particularly of capitals. Braudel has described
them as parasites that lived at the expense ... contagion easier.
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Historians have no basis to assert that a Malthusian crisis as cata-
strophic as the one that actually took place was inevitable, but they can
at least su...
... Waharoa—Station at
Puriri—Visit to Waikato—Station at Mangapouri—Tauranga—Rotorua The
Rotorua-Thames war—Looting of Ohinemutu station—Flight from Matamata—Mrs.
Chapman's bonnet—Withdrawal ... to Poverty Bay—Ripahau at Cook
Strait—Rauparaha—Tamihana learns from Ripahau—Tamihana and Te Whiwhi
come to Bay of Islands—Hadfield offers to return with them—H. Williams and
Hadfield vis...
... description of a game of ombre was as poetical as that of a walk in the forest, and
whether " ;the sylph of Pope, 'trembling over the fumes of a chocolate pot, ' be an image as poetical as ... of
surprise" as distinguished from " ;the pleasure of recognition." Again and again realism returns to the charge
and demands of art that it gi...
...
Beaver Hills Country: A History of Land and Life
scholar, Franz Boas, he saw to the collecting and safekeeping of a
substantial amount of Cree artifacts drawn mainly from the Bear
Hills area ... characteristic of this region
include the Trembling Aspen and the Balsam Poplar, along with
willows. Manitoba Maple and Burr Oak appear in the eastern
portions of the...
... e lack of any agreed-on plan, the improvised nature of the
organization, and the rapidity of staff turnover made a greater degree
of delegation difficult and, in the early days, possibly dangerous; ...
years of mismanagement and economic sanctions and further dam-
aged by the widespread looting that followed Saddam’s fall. Prewar
American planning had called for fixing o...
... but of natural attraction, and at a
critical moment of peril the fragment closes. About twenty years later (1170) the tale was again sung by an
Anglo-Norman named THOMAS. Here again in a fragment ... self-sacrifice.
Through the later translation of the Spanish Amadis des Gaules, something of the spirit of the mediaeval
romances was carried into the chivalric and pa...
... in accordance with the Principle of Polarity described a moment
ago. There is always an action and a reaction; an advance and a retreat; a rising and a
sinking. This is in the affairs of the ... references to the appearance of the
Paradox in the consideration of the problems of Life and Being. The Teachers are
constantly warning their students against...