A to z of silent letters

... a direction, a sports area, and part of a meal: an advanced COURSE to change COURSE agolfCOURSE the main COURSE codeine (not -ie-) colander (not -ar) collaborate collaborated, collaborating collaborator ... as they are pronounced identically. authoritative (not authorative) autobiography or An AUTOBIOGRAPHY is an account of biography? his or her life by the author. A BIOGRAP...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2012, 13:46

... addition, Aryabhata gave a value for pi that was accurate to eight decimal places, improving on ARCHIMEDES OF SYRACUSE ’s and APOLLONIUS OF PERGA ’s approximations. Scholars have argued that ... PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA is con- tained a summary of Apollonius’s other mathe- matical works: Cutting off of a Ratio, Cutting off of an Area, Determinate Section, Tangencies, Inclin...

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Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 11:51

... through an angle of 114.6 ◦ . For an alternative method using radians refer to the entry Radian. References: Arc, Circumference, Radian. AREA The area of a surface is a measure of the two-dimensional ... angles are equal z = 60 ◦ Corresponding angles are equal From the results of the above calculations it can be seen that the sum of the three angles of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 11:32

... Scandinavian studies and assistant director of European Studies at the University of Hull. Her research interests are in the Viking-Age and early medieval history of Britain and Scandinavia, particularly ... Fyrkat-Hobro Fyrkatvej 37b DK-9500 Hobro Uppsala (Gamla) Gamla Uppsala Historiskt Centrum Disavägen SE-754 40 Uppsala Visby, Gotland Historical Museum of Gotland (Gotlands...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... Buchanan, 2009. 60. The A to Z of Scandinavian Literature and Theater, by Jan Sjåvik, 2009. 61. The A to Z of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif, by Jean Michaud, 2009. 62. The A to Z of ... 2005. 13 . The A to Z of Taoism by Julian F. Pas, 2006. 14 . The A to Z of the Renaissance by Charles G. Nauert, 2006. 15 . The A...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... dictionary is, of course, organized alphabetically, but when it comes to the Vikings, this is not as easy a task as it may sound: there are a num- ber of additional characters in the Scandinavian and ... conventions of the Scandina- vian and Icelandic languages, I have chosen to anglicize these charac- ters. Thus, å and ä, are treated simply as the letter a; ỉ as the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... dictionary will actually focus on the archae- ological, art historical, epigraphical, historical, linguistic, and literary ev- idence for Scandinavia and Scandinavians in the Viking Age. It has also been ... that they spent much time there. At the beginning of the Viking Age, Iceland was of course not part of the Scandinavian world, but it was colonized by a Scandinavian- sp...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... ã11 The Dictionary 17 – A – ABBASID CALIPHATE. The Abbasids were an Arab dynasty, de- scended from al-Abbas, the uncle of the Prophet Mohammed. They displaced the ruling Umayyad dynasty and came ... which it lasted and across the vast distances of Scandinavia. The only real agreement today is that many different fac- tors played a part in triggering this wave of outwa...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... Poet and ambassador from Andalusia in Spain sent by Abdurrhaman II, Moorish emir of Cordoba, to the court of the king of the Majus in the North. Al-Ghazal’s journey is said to have taken place ... in 8 65. Alfred had married Eahlswith (d. 902), the daughter of a Mer- cian ealdorman, in 868, probably as part of a West-Saxon-Mercian al- liance made in that year after...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... that the first phase of the Danevirke fortification across the base of the Jutland Penin- sula, the construction of the Kanhave Canal on the island of Samsø, and the foundation of the town of ... to Scandinavia and the Baltic and made him Archbishop of Hamburg (the see was amalgamated with that of Bremen and elevated to the archdiocese of Hamburg-B...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... family came to be known by the name Laxdale and was the subject of a 13th-century saga, Laxdæla Saga. – B – BAFFIN ISLAND. See HELLULAND. BALDER (ON Baldr). God of the ặsir family. Balder was ... Viking-Age pagan burial from the southern parish of Arbory on the Isle of Man. The burial mound contained the remains of a man and a woman, although the grave goods...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... of a chieftain (see go ðð i) and to accompany him to the springtime assembly and to either pay a thing-attendance tax or to at- tend the Althing with their chieftain each summer. These laws also stated ... tutor and is characterized by William as a “very deceitful man.” Together, they attacked the Spanish (see Spain), southern French, and North African coasts, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... city, also refer to the attacks by Askold and Dir. From the end of the 10th century, the emperor of Byzantium had a famous Scandi- navian bodyguard, known as the Varangian Guard, which attracted mercenaries ... Byzantium was the capital of the eastern half of the Roman Empire and was still the center of a large eastern empire in the Viking Age. It was visit...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21

... a late autumn sacrifice, the dísablót, that took place in Norway, and Snorri Sturluson associates this with the pagan rituals performed at Gamla Uppsala in his Ynglinga Saga on the basis of the ... Lake Ladoga (see Staraja Ladoga) and the rivers Lovat and Volkhov in the north or via the Baltic Sea in the east. The most important Scandinavian trading stations and settleme...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 04:21