... cereal andwater, inthe local vernacular and barbaric speech inthe provinces of Dalmatiaand Pannonia it is called sabaium’. Jerome, as a native of Dalmatia (from the city of Stridon), was ... widely of all non-Greeks)overindulging in drink. In his Acharnians, the Athenian comic poet Aristophaneshas the ambassador to the Persians say to the Athenian assembly that in Persiahe was ‘forced’ ... The causes of beer prejudice A striking aspect of Aeschylus’s attack on beer as an effeminate drink is that the Argives are spoken of as manly since they eat cereal rather than papyrus as the...
... chairs: her father and the boys came in, and dinner began. It was a hastymeal, as early dinner has to be when half ofthe day's work lies beyond it, and in less than half an hourKatherine ... Dave!"That was all they could hear, for the wind carried the words away, and a great block of ice crashed against the front of Oily Dave's abode, making the wooden hut shiver with the force ofthe ... out, and the snow banked, at the beginning of winter.There were a large number of sealing and walrus boats laid up in ice between Roaring Water Portage and SealCove. Most of these had men living...
... groups inhabit the island: aboriginal peoples, Fujianese, Hakka, and main-landers. The latter three belong to the same Han-speaking family of immigrants. The eastern part of Taiwan has the highest ... chatting. The occasion be-comes a small social gathering. In the clubhouse players rarely use Mandarin, the island’s of cial language, but rather speak Taiwanese, which is a dialect of Chinese. ... qualms about baseball. Ichizuo Mura-matsu, a Japanese banker working in Taiwan, recorded the transforma-tion ina journal: “Now in Taiwan, even cats and dogs talk about balls, bats, and baseball-related...
... some kind of project-management software. At the time, the latter was a tool called RAID (as in the bug spray) that primarily maintained a huge categorized list of feature requests and known ... of any individual. Employees were en-couraged to maintain an expansive outlook in their work, seeing it in terms of offering something of real value to the world rather than merely making ... all, my Calculator program was going into the flagship product of what was rapidly becoming the crème de la crème of software companies! All I had to do was finish this little formality called...
... speaking this is notquite true, as at the timecinemas had to show a certain'quota' of British films a yearunless they were a 'specialvenue cinema'. That was a cinema showing ... in 1896 and gave a demonstration at an exposition in 1900 featuring SarahBernhardt reading Hamlet.Both Pathe and Gaumontwere also working on disksystems based on the phonograph.Eugene Lauste ... todevise an instrument whichshould do for the eye what the 8 Cinema Technology July / August 1998 The History of Sound inthe Cinema A fascinating article by Dion Hanson of DolbyLaboratories, Chairman...
... have been justified in feeling that Landsmaal is equal to Shakespeare's most airy passages. The slightinaccuracy of one ofthe lines:Av Maanestraalanne paa Vatn er Selen,for Shakespeare's: The ... hev' vore hjaa deg ho gamle Mabba, Nærkona aat Vettom. So lita som ein Adelstein iRingen paa fremste Fingren paa ein verdug Raadsmann, ho kjøyrer kring med smaa Soldumbe-Flokar paaNasanna ... least often appreciated. The next chapter in Norwegian Shakespeareana is a dull, unprofitable one a series of articles on the Baconiantheory appearing irregularly inthe monthly magazine, Kringsjaa....
... plateau of Asia Minor, and ended at the coasts ofthe ặgổan and the Euxine; others passed through Assyria intoMedia, and through the Caspian passes up to the central plateau of Asia and into ... of Africa, Arabia, and India.There are, if we may use the expression, natural capitals and capitals that are artificial. The sites ofthe firstare determined by the configuration ofthe earth. ... in greater request than any other, was used again and againuntil no trace of its original destination or ofthe buildings in which it was found remained. In Assyria long chains of hills traversed...
... hehad been appointed to a Chair in Roman Law at Breslau in Prussia; inthe same year heachieved his aim of being put in charge of editing all known Latin inscriptions by the Berlin Academy of Sciences, ... 40’. They contain thehistoryof Rome from Caesar’s war in Africa, regarded by Mommsen as the ‘beginning ofthe monarchy and the end ofthe Republic’ [MH.I, 1] up to the Batavian revolt of AD ... war against France.Mommsen applies the same principle when he likens the arduous Romanization of the rural population in Gaul to the experiences ofthe French in Alsace, or ofthe Prussians in Pozen...
... planning, organ-izing, leading and controlling. Planning involves defininggoals and mapping out ways to reach them; organizingentails arranging and coordinating human, material andinformation ... that eachmanager received for each ofthe seven factors was calcu-lated from the mean ofthe summed items for that varia-ble. This allows one to treat the data as interval datameasuring a latent ... formal evaluation ofthe capacity of hospi-tal managers, as well as their needs for future training, in South Africa. Schaay [11] emphasised the importance of determining the level of current management...
... mine.'His fathers have slain thy fathers in war or in single strife.Thy fathers have slain his fathers, each taken a life for a life.Thy father had slain his father: how long shall the murder last?Go ... health ofthe invalid rapidly improved; the remembrance of past injuries melted away before the sunshine of Christian love; and, before the ship reached Australia, Ruatara was once again a man, ... description ofthe missionary period is also an admirable piece of work, but he had not the advantage ofthe stores of material which are now available. Through the indefatigable enthusiasm ofthe late...
... longitudinally in two halves, and filling the one half with plaster; then the skin was fixed to a backboard, an eye was inserted, and the beak and legs were imitated by painting: and this was then ... the inclemency ofthe weather, and also inthe case of the luxurious Greeks and Romans, who used skins inthe adornment of their persons or homes. In fact, the conversion of skins into leather ... wit, in Simon, the tanner — in fact, the ancient historyof all nations teems with the records of leather and of furs; but ofthe actual setting up of animals as specimens I can find no trace....
... interpreters of Dante. Here is a part of what hesays ofthe paintings inthe Campo Santo at Pisa: " ;The best idea, perhaps, which I can give an Englishman of the general character ofthe painting ... found in manyballads and ballad burdens, in 'William and Margaret,' in 'Binnorie,' inthe 'Wife of Usher's Well,' inthe 'Rime of the Count Arnaldos,' ... the sea towards Bristol or Linton, and now and then ofthe skeleton masts andgossamer sails ofa ship against the declining sun, like those ofthe phantom bark in " ;The Ancient Mariner."The...
... the claim was never afterwards raised again. The Estates had often been obliged to contend against the King and the Roman See at the same time; now the King was allied with them against the Papacy. ... course of authentic history, the fact that the seats ofthe predominant power and culture have been transplanted to the Western lands and the shores ofthe Atlantic Ocean. Not merely the abodes ofthe ... certain how far these had gone; one word of discussion may be allowed on the matter. The historians ofthe time have maintained that the right of voting the taxes was granted to the Estates, and...