... nominal peace had fought the marauders of Europe or whipped the corsairs of Barbary in the Strait of Gibraltar. Never was a race of seamen so admirably fitted for the daring trade of privateering ... one of the fascinating autobiographies of the old school of shipmasters who had the gift of writing. Captain Amasa Delano, "Narrative of Voyages and Travels" (...
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... an original idea, rather than abandoning a concept to the scrap heap of history or reinventing an old concept with a new name. Nevertheless, there are a number of alternative goods classification ... boundaries of a given trading area: A trading center and a town in . . . its trade area divide the trade of the town approximately in direct proportion to the population of...
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Tài liệu A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 pptx
... these are _Âcâra, Sûtrak@rta, Sthâna, Samavâya Bhagavatî, Jñâtadharmakathâs, Upâsakadas'âs, Antak@rtadas'âs Anuttaraupapâtikadas'âs, Pras'navyâkara@na, Vipâka_. In addition ... (e.g. _Samarâicca-kahâ, Upamitabhavaprapañca-kathâ_ in Prâkrit, and the _Yas'astilaka_ of Somadeva and Dhanapâla's _Tilakamañjarî_); Jaina Sanskrit poems both in the Purâ@na and Kâvya st...
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Tài liệu A History of the European Economy, 1000–2000 pdf
... 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 of ... densities—especially the overcrowding of towns, the lack of hygiene, and the proliferation of rats and fleas—made contagion easier. 60 Historians have no basis to assert that a Ma...
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Tài liệu Beddall - A History of Britain [Penguin Readers L3] doc
... England. (c) He was a Norman. He became King of England. (d) He was a great Roman leader. (e) He defeated the Vikings and sent them away from Britain. (f) He was a Viking king of England. 2 Read ... began the process of changing Britain from a Catholic nation to a Protestant one, mainly because he was tired of his wife and wanted a new one! Despite attempts by Mary...
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Tài liệu A COLLECTION OF ENGLISH ESSAYS pptx
... planet and even death of many other living creatures. For example, the disappearance of bats will cause the huge increasing of insect population and this will reflect on all animals and plants. Another ... example is that if the population of bats increases, the population of insects will decrease significantly, and this will cause the disappearance of many plants because inse...
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Tài liệu Father’s Involvement as a Determinant of Child Health pptx
... States (n=1286 fathers; 19% Hispanic, 70% African American, and 8% Caucasian) with a comparison sample of married parents (n=473 fathers; 25% Hispanic, 37% African American, and 32% Caucasian). ... parent’s names. Increased risks remained after stratifying by maternal race, age, adequacy of prenatal care and medical risks, and congenital malformations, birthweight, gestational a...
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Tài liệu A Survey of BGP Security pptx
... destination path at all. —BGP does not ensure the authenticity of the path attributes announced by an AS. Altering the path attributes is another way that a malicious AS can impair or manipulate the ... defense against attackers the same number of hops away, as those packets will pass unfiltered. Additionally, if an attacker tunnels an IP packet by encapsulating it within another IP pack...
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Tài liệu Plain language and patient education: A summary of current research pptx
... than African Americans (Dowe). Findings The question most studies tried to answer was “What can we change about this material, manual or form so that the average person Plain language and patient ... in a series of briefs that focus on evaluative research into the use of alternative means of health communication; they include plain language, audiotapes, videotapes, interactive media...
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Tài liệu A Dictionary of Neurological Signs pptx
... an answer, may be observed. Dynamic aphasia may be conceptualized as a variant of transcortical motor aphasia, and may be seen with lesions of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (“frontal aphasia”). References Alexander ... dysarthria: combination of any of above. Treatment of the underlying cause may improve dysarthria (e.g., nasal dysarthria of myasthenia gravis). Baclofen has bee...
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