... remember to keep the -e with soft c and soft g words It’s the e that keeps them soft (courageous, traceable) (See SOFT C AND SOFT G.) Don’t keep the -e with these eight exceptions tothe rule: truly, ... all together or altogether? There is a difference in meaning Use these exemplar sentences as a guide: They were ALL (= everybody) huddled TOGETHER for warmth His situation is ALTOGETHER (= totally) ... tail? Put the apostrophe after the owner Add -s Add what is ‘owned’ the dog the dog’ the dog’s the dog’s tail The smile ofthe princess The princess’s smile Who ‘owns’ the smile? Put the apostrophe...
... up just above the cutoff The growth in skill is likely to be less than the average difference in skill of those above and below the cutoff The current version ofthe paper replaces the change in ... primary goal is to estimate the effect of English and Hebrew proficiency on wages If the covariates were randomly assigned, then the regression would recover the causal effect of these proficiencies ... at the College of Management in Israel under the direction of one ofthe authors The survey is not intended to be representative ofthe Israeli or immigrant populations but instead targets the...
... However, the Special Rapporteur reminds all States of their positive obligation to promote or to facilitate the enjoyment ofthe right to freedom of expression and the means necessary to exercise ... views regarding the compatibility of blocking child pornography on the Internet with the right to freedom of expression in the context of discussions on the proposal for a directive ofthe European ... addendum to this report (A/HRC/17/27/Add.3) 14 From to April 2011, the Special Rapporteur visited the Republic of Hungary, at the invitation ofthe Government, to provide expert advice tothe Government...
... own story to tell What makes a plant name The scientific name of any plant consists ofthe name ofthe genus followed by the species epithet, which together with the genus makes the name ofthe ... given for the genus includes the name ofthe genus followed by the author and then, parenthetically, the family, which links the genus to related plants The suggested pronunciation, with the stressed ... by the common name, if there is one, and the derivation ofthe scientific name Finally, the number of species currently accepted, the type of plant and the distribution is given The number of...
... from the wreck ofthe Sultana. Effect ofthe arrival ofthe Diana on the negotiations for their release. Outrage and oppression of Macota. Fate ofthe Sultana and her crew. Mr Brooke made Rajah of ... and these advantages have attracted the vessels of all the neighboring nations to bring their produce to this market in order to exchange it for the manufactures of England "The extent ofthe ... Another 1/2 Another Another 10 Another Another "The following is a specimen of their names, and some few words of their dialect, the only ones I could get not Malayan The fact, indeed, appears to...
... In the analyses of landscapes, the distance from the bottom ofthe picture tothe location ofthe horizon was measured.4 In the analyses of portraits, we measured the ratio ofthe area ofthe ... Ratio in Percentage ofthe Height ofthe Horizon tothe Height ofthe Entire Frame and the Average Ratio ofthe Area ofthe Face tothe Area ofthe Entire Frame for Paintings of People in a Scene ... Percentage ofthe Height ofthe Horizon tothe Height ofthe Entire Frame and the Number of Additional Objects Drawn Western Drawings East Asian Drawings M Ratio ofthe horizon tothe frame Number of...
... chimney on the roof of a house One side ofthe chimney makes an angle of 110◦ with the roof Find the size ofthe angle the other side ofthe chimney makes with the roof, marked x in the figure ... Example Now find the area ofthe house Solution To find the area ofthe ground floor ofthe house, we need to divide the shape up into two rectangles, find the area of each, and add them together (see ... we find the slope ofthe curve at the point on the graph where t is 20 seconds, and this slope gives the acceleration at that instant The slope ofthe curve is the slope ofthe tangent tothe curve...
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... Batsford, 1977 Cameron, Kenneth The minor names and field-names ofthe Holland division of Lincolnshire.” In The Vikings: Proceedings ofthe Symposium ofthe Faculty of Arts of Uppsala University, June ... 107–118 Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1978 Greene, David The evidence of language and place-names in Ireland.” In The Vikings: Proceedings ofthe Symposium ofthe Faculty of Arts of Uppsala ... Historiska Museer, 1994 Sørensen, John Kousgård “Toponymic evidence for administrative divisions in Denmark in the Viking Age.” In The Vikings: Proceedings ofthe Symposium ofthe Faculty of...
... 2003 The A to Z ofthe Korean War by Paul M Edwards, 2005 The A to Z ofthe Cold War by Joseph Smith and Simon Davis, 2005 The A to Z ofthe Vietnam War by Edwin E Moise, 2005 The A to Z of Science ... Pas, 2006 The A to Z ofthe Renaissance by Charles G Nauert, 2006 The A to Z of Shinto by Stuart D B Picken, 2006 The A to Z of Byzantium by John H Rosser, 2006 The A to Z ofthe Civil War by ... 2009 29 The A to Z ofthe “Dirty Wars,” by David Kohut, Olga Vilella, and Beatrice Julian, 2009 30 The A to Z ofthe Vikings, by Katherine Holman, 2009 31 The A to Z from the Great War tothe Great...
... hooked or nasal a as ã The forms of personal and place-names are a further source of headaches for the person seeking to provide a work of reference such as theThe A to Z ofthe Vikings In this ... under Book ofthe Icelanders, but those who look up Íslendingabók will be referred tothe correct place in the dictionary) All entries are provided with either a translation ofthe title into English ... Blue-Tooth, king of Denmark, converted to Christianity by missionary Poppo 974 Otto II of Germany invaded and occupied southern Denmark 978 Ỉthelred II crowned king of England 980 Vikings of Dublin...
... personalities, and culture ofthe Viking Age comes from the medieval period Although the value of these sources to historians ofthe Viking Age is not straightforward, to omit references to Icelandic sagas ... importantly, the part of southwestern Sweden that is today the province of Skåne was, in fact, part ofthe kingdom of Denmark throughout the Viking Age Denmark (“Land [March] ofthe Danes”) At the beginning ... (see Viking) The activities of these people led historians to name the period in which they undertook raiding, trading, and colonizing as the Viking Age As with all historical epochs, the Viking...
... beginning ofthe Viking Age Yet in the course ofthe Viking Age they were converted to Christianity; they gradually abandoned their old writing system, runes, in favor ofthe Roman alphabet; and they ... the area between the lower stretches ofthe River Elbe and the shores ofthe Baltic Sea, tothe north and northeast of Hamburg, in West Mecklenburg and East Holstein, in present-day Germany The ... able to impose tribute on them, and so to exercise a sort of economic power Certainly the desire to acquire wealth—either moveable wealth in the form of loot or fixed wealth in the form of land...
... she is followed by one ofthe Vanir goddesses, Freya ỈTHELRED II THE UNREADY (d 1016) 21 ặTHELRED II THE UNREADY (d 1016) King of England 978–1016, Ỉthelred was the son ofthe English king, Edgar ... and their collective name, Æsir, meant “men of Asia” (it is in fact the plural form ofthe Old Norse noun áss “god”) Gylfaginning describes how these “men of Asia” tricked the people of northern ... northern Europe into believing that they were gods Although Snorri mentions the other family of gods, the Vanir, he also includes the Vanir in his list of Ỉsir at the very beginning of Skáldskaparmál,...
... note in one 32 • ANNALS OF ST-BERTIN ofthe manuscript groups (group 1) They cover the history ofthe part ofthe Frankish or Carolingian kingdom that lay tothe east ofthe River Rhine and that ... and there is also a change in the date that the years begin at around the same time: in the second half ofthe century, they begin on 25 September, while the years in the earlier part ofthe ... account ofthe reconquest ofthe Danelaw by Alfred’s children, Edward the Elder and Ỉthelflỉd, Lady ofthe Mercians, before 920 However, for the 50 years or so following these campaigns, none of the...
... However, the Bayeux Tapestry is primarily a secular “document” and the connection with the Cathedral may be secondary The tapestry is of interest to historians ofthe Vikings because ofthe picture ... Håkonshallen) at the entrance tothe town’s harbor Bergen thrived on the profits of exporting stockfish to England and the Low Countries, and the Hanseatic League established a “counting house” there in ... crossed the bridge to confront the gods BIRKA Viking-Age town on the island of Björkö, Lake Mälaren, in the Swedish province of Uppland (to the north ofthe modern capital, Stockholm) Archaeological...
... BOOK OFTHE MEASUREMENT OFTHE EARTH on Viking-Age rune-stones (see rune) with the meaning of “husband.” Later on, in the medieval period, with the development of towns and trade, the word also took ... the discovery and settlement of Greenland However most space is devoted to a discussion ofthe conversion of Iceland to Christianity and the early history ofthe Icelandic church Ari refers to ... led by Rögnvald took control ofthe province in 919, prompting many of its nobility and clergy to flee tothe safety ofthe English court of Athelstan Although Viking control of Brittany lasted...
... king ofthe Franks The Carolingian Empire was the creation of Charlemagne and included much ofthe former territory ofthe western part ofthe Roman Empire It reached its greatest extent during the ... if they actually resided in these towns However, the official conversion ofthe individual Scandinavian countries followed the formal conversion of their rulers and these rulers’ promotion ofthe ... CONVERSION TOThe first recorded Christian mission to Scandinavia took place before the beginning ofthe Viking Age, when St Willibrord visited the kingdom of Angantyr of Denmark c 700 According to the...
... given tothe payments made in England tothe Viking armies during the reign of Ỉthelred II at the end ofthe 10th and the beginning ofthe 11th century The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records a series of ... along the following boundaries: “First as tothe boundaries between us: up the Thames, and then up the Lea, and along the Lea to its source, then in a straight line to Bedford, then up the Ouse to ... ofthe Empire, Constantine Porphyrogenitos wrote a number of other works relating to, among other things, the provincial administration ofthe East Roman Empire (De Thematibus), and the protocol...
... the Viking armies ofthe Danelaw, Edward secured the final submission of East Anglia in 920 In Norfolk, the Viking presence appears to have stimulated the growth ofthe towns of Thetford in the ... the story of his death tothe English king, Athelstan; the audience at Athelstan’s court included St Dunstan, who in turn told the story tothe Frankish scholar and cleric, Abbo of Fleury At the ... Ireland, and the town grew out ofthe longphort or fortified camp established on the banks ofthe River Liffey, on the boundary ofthe kingdoms of Brega and Leinster, in 841 The site of this longphort...