in the nineteenth century the term floaters referred to
Regional diversity in the nineteenth century
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southern africa
During the early nineteenth century the African peoples of southern Africa
used two strategies in attempting to overcome segmentation ... during the 1860s. In the north, the Ngoni role was taken
by the pastoral Maasai. After gaining control of the Rift Valley, Maasai groups
spent much of the nineteenth century fighting one another ... of Oman on the Persian
Gulf to convert into real authority the nominal overlordship of the coast that
they had claimed since leading opposition to the Portuguese there in 1698.
They took control...
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Tài liệu How the poor (and not-so-poor) saved : savings banks in mid- Nineteenth Century Ireland and America pdf
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...
eye to personal gain. This was certainly more a factor in the U.S. than in the
U.K. Some of the main movers behind the New York Bank for Savings
(established in 1819) were also supporters of the ... in establishing and running banks in the New World setting than in
the Old. Even when—as in the case of the EISB—clergymen were
instrumental in a bank’s foundation, they tended to keep well ... males declaring
no occupation.
Whether the founders of the TSB ever intended to target the poor
specifically must remain a moot point. In evidence to the Irish Poor Inquiry
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in 1835 local...
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Growing from Crises. The Portuguese Saving Bank Montepio Geral in the nineteenth-century docx
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... habits? The dilemma was whether to increase incentives to large
depositors in the CEMG and invest in the booming market, running the risk of
illiquidity, or to persist in the policy of favoring ... the
Growing from Crises. The Portuguese Saving Bank Montepio Geral in the
nineteenth- century
Introduction
We started in the last fall a doctoral thesis dedicated to savings banks in Portugal ... to the advance of these queries.
Indeed, by analyzing the behavior of CEMG during the two major economic events that
occurred in Portugal in the second half of nineteenth century, we intend to...
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A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century pdf
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... Rimini in which the lovers used to meet
CHAPTER III. 43
A History of English Romanticism in the
Nineteenth Century
The Project Gutenberg eBook, A History of English Romanticism in the
Nineteenth ... exaggerating to say that there is more public mention of Dante now in a single year than in all
the years of the eighteenth century together. It would be interesting, if it were possible, to count the ... is the pretty
turn which Hunt gave to the story. In the original it had a coarser ending. There are also, among these
translations from mediaeval sources, the Latin drinking song attributed to...
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France in the Nineteenth Century pptx
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... o'clock in the morning they were
awakened by screams; but they lay still, imagining that the noise came from the Champs Elysées. Then they
heard the loud ringing of a bell, and starting from their ... about to do the most audacious thing in modern history; but no
man can deny them the praise awarded to the unjust steward. If the thing was to be done, or, in the language
of Victor Hugo, if the ... as
they grew up to fulfil their appointed destinies. The second son went into the Church, and rose to be a bishop.
The third son, M. le Chevalier, went into the army. The sisters adopted the...
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As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century docx
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... rice
planter in South Carolina. The beautiful Christmas flower, the poinsettia, was named in compliment to Mr.
Poinsett. These interesting women for many years were in the habit of leaving what they ... MARRIAGE AND CONTINUED LIFE IN WASHINGTON 256
XII SOJOURN IN CHINA AND RETURN 288
XIII THE CIVIL WAR AND LIFE IN MARYLAND 312
XIV VISIT TO THE FAR SOUTH AND RETURN TO WASHINGTON 335
XV TO THE PRESENT ... in London and that George Astor, an elder brother
of John Jacob Astor, was associated with the latter in their sale. Indeed, one of them, formerly owned by the
Clinton family and now in Washington's...
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A POPULAR HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY pot
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... in science. It was the first earnest
attempt to bring solar phenomena within the compass of a rational system; to put
together into a consistent whole the facts ascertained; to fabricate, in ... conspicuous in the living kingdoms of Nature, was seen to
prevail no less in the celestial spaces; and some faint preliminary notion was afforded
of the indefinite complexity of relations underlying the ... heaven to the model of our insignificant planet,
and to extend the brotherhood of our system and our species to the farthest limit of the
visible or imaginable universe.
In later times we find...
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alexander mcfarlane lectures on ten british physicists of the nineteenth century
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... time
entered
on
the
study
of
the
Conic
Sections,
and
he
took
up
the
problem
in
his
laboratory.
He modified
the
manner of
tracing
an
ellipse
by doubling
the cord
from
the
tracing-point
to
one of
the
foci;
the ... of
examples
on
Quaternions.
There
were, however,
to
Tait's
mind numerous obscure
points
in
the
theory,
and
to
elucidate
them
he
wished to
correspond
with Hamilton
directly.
His
friend
Andrews wrote to Hamilton
asking
the
favor;
in
this
way
a
correspondence
originated
which
was
kept ... the
city
of
Edinburgh
is
defective.
While
engaged
in
engineering
work
in
Ireland,
he had
thought
much on the
mechanical nature of
heat,
a doctrine
which was
then
engaging
the
attention
of the
scientific
world.
In
reading
the
Principia
of
Newton,
Rankine
must
have
observed
how...
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routledge history of philosophy volume vii the nineteenth century - c.l.ten
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... sentence
containing those terms would be translated into one explaining for what the law makes us
liable to punishment, for doing or not doing, and punishment is then further explained in
The early ... least their influential
advisers. In the 1780s he spent two years in Russia with some hope of convincing
Catherine the Great, but with his failure to gain influence amongst the powerful, whethe
r
over ... reference to their context the sentence; whether o
r
not the sentence can be paraphrased into one which contains real terms is the deciding
factor with regard to its sense or nonsense. In a sense the...
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the transformation of the world a global history of the nineteenth century - jrgen osterhammel
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... impact on the Others” as Britain and France did
in the nineteenth century. The history of the nineteenth century was made in and by Europe, to an
extent that cannot be said of either the eighteenth ... searching for the roots of their own culture; others, most prominently Mark
Twain, went in the assurance of belonging to a younger and better world. In the second half of the
nineteenth century, ... the opening of the first large Western-style theater.
14
The figure of the itinerant stage celebrity active in various parts of the world also originated in
the nineteenth century.
15
In 1850...
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