... than average because ofthe Christmas season and the first few days of January are traditionally a sales and stocktaking period for retailers A number of other dates were considered but, in the ... lead times for printing banknotes and minting coins The date of January 2002 had both advantages and disadvantages The peak period for banknote use is at the end ofthe year: circulation is around ... cultures and had to avoid any national or gender bias. This impartial approach was taken into account when choosing the design theme. The notes should also allow the incorporation of aesthetically appealing...
... contributing factor was the passage ofthe Tax Reform Act of 1986 Reagan’s tax cuts eliminated many ofthe tax shelters that had made real estate an attractive investment in the first place, and deposits ... options, there was no clearinghouse for trades in most ofthe 21 Barth, James R., R Dan Brumbaugh Jr and James A Wilcox, The Repeal of Glass-Steagall and the Advent of Broad Banking,” Journal of Economic ... industry The repeal of GlassSteagall was a monumental piece of deregulation, but in many ways it ratified the status quo ofthe time.21 Hands-Off Regulation Many argued that consolidation in banking...
... Graecia Magna, had been brought before the Athenians on various occasions Anaxagoras Amongst the most important ofthe philosophers who resided at Athens and prepared the way for the Athenian ... that of mathematics under Greek influence, that ofthe mathematics ofthe middle ages and ofthe renaissance, and lastly that of modern mathematics The next four chapters (chapters ii, iii, iv and ... 412–485 Damascius Eutocius Roman Mathematics Nature and extent ofthe mathematics read at Rome Contrast between the conditions at Rome and at Alexandria End ofthe Second Alexandrian School...
... principally to the sick, I shall in the next place speak of them, as they relate to Physicians, and that either to the profession in general, or to the particular practisers of it As to the Physicians ... for the fixed Salts, most of them are made ofthe Ashes of Tobacco-stalks, &c More might be said for the discovery ofthe Cheats of other Chymical preparations, which shall be reserved to another ... him ofthe same disease) to his greater charge, danger of his life, and offence against God Having done with the Apothecaries abuses relating chiefly to the Patients Health and Purse, and such as...
... among them The first races that came were short and dark They came in tribes They had tribal marks, the picture of an animal as a rule; and they had a strange fancy that this animal was their ancestor ... swarmed across the eastern sea The Angles came to the Humber, and spread over the plains ofthe north and the midlands of Roman Britain; the Saxons came to the Thames, and won the plains and the ... between a Welshman who was an innate freeman and a Welshman who lived on a serf maenol Their aim was to make them all pay the same tax The fall in the value of money At the time ofthe Norman Conquest,...
... that America was probably not a part of Asia, and changed the geographical ideas ofthe time [12] THE COAST OF FLORIDA EXPLORED. What meantime had happened along the coast of North America? In ... Mas'sasoit, chief ofthe Wam-pano'ags, and of Canon'icus, chief ofthe Narragansetts, and learned their language In 1633 he returned to Salem, and was again made pastor ofa church [8] The fate ... Spain) to the Strait of Magellan The Pacific coast of America was explored (1513-1542) for Spain by Balboa part of Panama Magellan part ofthe southwest coast Pizarro (note, p 23) from Panama to Peru...
... by almost all the papal sovereigns of Europe A remarkable circumstance is related ofthe hopes and intentions ofthe Spaniards, in the event of success in the Armada A Spanish officer, who was ... gentleman At this stage ofthe examination, the lord chamberlain saw a man standing in a corner ofthe cellar, who stated that he was Percy's servant, and that he was left by his master in charge of ... merely to an attempt, on the part ofthe Romanists, at the commencement ofthe session, to obtain a toleration for their worship, and the relaxation of some ofthe penal laws Various attempts have...
... letters ofthe Greek alphabet, which are called alpha, beta There are languages that have never been put upon paper at all, such as many ofthe African languages, many in the South Sea Islands, and ... Toddy CHAPTER V 41 HUNGARIAN Hussar Sabre Shako Tokay MALAY Amuck Bamboo Bantam Caddy Cassowary Cockatoo Dugong Gamboge Gong Gutta-percha Mandarin Mango Orang-outang Rattan Sago Upas PERSIAN Awning ... Llama Mahogany Maize Manioc Moccasin Mustang Opossum Pampas Pemmican Potato Racoon Skunk Squaw Tapioca Tobacco Tomahawk Tomato Wigwam ARABIC (The word al means the Thus alcohol = the spirit.) Admiral...
... Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, the Canadas and Acadia [Footnote: As we shall see hereafter, the English at this time clung to a narrow strip along the Atlantic coast.] In 1688 it had a population ... fifteen tons—and ascended the St Lawrence on an exploring tour At Hochelaga all was changed The Indian town had vanished, and not a trace remained ofthe savage population which Cartier saw there seventy ... Florida, and a map of Henry II gives that name to all North America.] The Spanish explorers had traversed a large portion ofthe present Southern States, and ofthe Pacific coast All this vast...
... don't." [Nyah nyah naa naa naa!] *** *** Now that ownership ofthe basic library of human thoughts is potentially available to every human being on Earth I have been watching the various attempts ... with ALL of such graphics and markup proposals is LIMITED DISTRIBUTION as a way of life The purpose of each on of these is and always has been to keep knowledge in the hands ofthe few and away ... concept was nuts, but the files didn't take a whole lot of space, and the 200th Anniversary ofthe Revolution [of the United States against England] was coming up, and parchment replicas of all the...
... supplementary to those ofthe bailiff: he looked after all the live and dead stock ofthe manor, saw to the manuring ofthe land, kept a tally ofthe day's work, had charge ofthe granary, and delivered ... manor to another, as they needed it The accounts also stated what days' works were due from each tenant according to the season ofthe year, and at the end of each year there was a careful valuation ... from the manor; and the officers ofthe manor failed to catch them This was common in other manors, and the 'withdrawal' of villeins played a considerable part in the disappearance of serfdom and...
... map covered the area from the southeastern tip of England and the Pyrenees to India, Sri Lanka (called Insula Trapobane), and China and the coast ofthe imagined eastern ocean in the east, as ... really he had lost the argument Picard was right: The Earth is oblate ANAXIMANDER—AND THE FIRST MAP Mapmakers usually draw their maps on paper or animal skin These are perishable materials that ... Mapping the Earth The Hecataeus map is clearly derived from the map of Anaximander, but Hecataeus had corrected the earlier map and added more detail The illustration shows what the Hecataeus...
... the application of sacral law such as the regulation ofthe calendar, but at the same time they supervised secular law Furthermore, archaic law—like the law of nearly all primitive peoples—was ... in Italy south ofthe river Po 4.2.2 The conquest ofthe Mediterranean area Ofthe great powers in the Mediterranean area Carthage (a town on the coast of present-day Tunisia) was the one that ... such as the emancipation the making ofa mancipatory will and property transfer by mancipatio of res mancipi (land in Italy, slaves and cattle); these acts were also called acts per aes et libram...
... elements: the idea ofthe autonomy of art, first formulated by Johann Joachim Winckelmann; the value ofthe artwork over and above its material craft character; and the ideal of an aesthetic community ... important was the founding of Al-Ahram in 1876 by two brothers of Catholic Lebanese origin, Salim and Bishara Taqla A daily since 1881, Al-Ahram made reliable and up-to-date information available ... chapters of Part Two then unfurl a panorama of eight spheres of reality The term panorama refers to the fact that although no pedantic claim is made to represent all parts ofthe world equally,...
... with the unacceptable conclusion of an argument that has acceptable premises and an acceptable inference pattern J L Mackie says the paradox is the whole argument The remaining philosophers say a ... Is the moon closer to the earth when 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 ... lengths ofthe sides ofthe base ofthe pyramid and n is the height ofthe pyramid Yet the Rhind Papyrus also makes it evident that the Egyptians relied heavily on trial and error in their calculations...
... matters of apparent fact Add all the facts up in as great a detail as you like and you still will not reach a qualitative total that adds up to interpersonal regard and moral concern The sum ofthe ... about Marx How can a materialist have moral indignation? Kant’s approach provides a relatively simple answer Marx can be angry at the bourgeoisie because, arguably, they commit the fundamental ... indignation is a paradox A materialist has no standard of comparison for how things could be other than the way they are Logically, a materialist is a well-adjusted realist S/he has no measure...
... wrixlan—to weave together words There was a fabric of language for the Anglo-Saxons, a patterning of sounds and sense that matched the intricate patterning of their visual arts: 20 Caedmon Learns ... mannslagan and mægslagan and mæsserbanan and mynsterhatan, and her syndan mansworan and morþorwyrhtan, and her syndan myltestran and bearnmyrðran and fule forlegene horingas manege, and her syndan ... first appearance, to the vengeful visit of his mother, to the final waking ofthe dragon The poem operates through a vocabulary of anticipation, vision, light, and darkness At the heart ofthe word...
... that seemed fixed to the vault of heaven, reappearing each night in the same place And they saw shapes in the constellations and gave them names, just as we when we speak ofthe Great Bear But the ... Charlemagne’s battles in Gaul, Italy and Spain – The Avars – Battles with the Saxons – The Heldenlieder – The crowning ofthe emperor – Harun al-Rashid’s ambassadors – The division and decline ofthe ... also small once, and so was your grandfather, and your grandmother, a much longer time ago, but you know that too After all, we say: ‘They are old.’ But they too had grandfathers and grandmothers,...