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the barbarians beverage - a history of beer in ancient europe - nelson

the barbarians beverage - a history of beer in ancient europe - nelson

... cereal and water, in the local vernacular and barbaric speech in the provinces of Dalmatia and 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 Aristophanes has the ambassador to the Persians say to the Athenian assembly that in Persia he 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...

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A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods doc

A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods doc

... chairs: her father and the boys came in, and dinner began. It was a hasty meal, as early dinner has to be when half of the day's work lies beyond it, and in less than half an hour Katherine ... 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 of the ... 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 Seal Cove. Most of these had men living...

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Playing in Isolation: A History of Baseball in Taiwan ppt

Playing in Isolation: A History of Baseball in Taiwan ppt

... 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 in a journal: “Now in Taiwan, even cats and dogs talk about balls, bats, and baseball-related...

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Mystic Microsoft - A Journey of Transformation in the Halls of High Technology pptx

Mystic Microsoft - A Journey of Transformation in the Halls of High Technology pptx

... 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...

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The History of Sound in the Cinema pot

The History of Sound in the Cinema pot

... speaking this is not quite true, as at the time cinemas had to show a certain 'quota' of British films a year unless they were a 'special venue cinema'. That was a cinema showing ... in 1896 and gave a demonstration at an exposition in 1900 featuring Sarah Bernhardt reading Hamlet. Both Pathe and Gaumont were also working on disk systems based on the phonograph. Eugene Lauste ... to devise an instrument which should do for the eye what the 8 Cinema Technology July / August 1998 The History of Sound in the Cinema A fascinating article by Dion Hanson of Dolby Laboratories, Chairman...

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An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway doc

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway doc

... have been justified in feeling that Landsmaal is equal to Shakespeare's most airy passages. The slight inaccuracy of one of the 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 i Ringen paa fremste Fingren paa ein verdug Raadsmann, ho kjøyrer kring med smaa Soldumbe-Flokar paa Nasanna ... least often appreciated. The next chapter in Norwegian Shakespeareana is a dull, unprofitable one a series of articles on the Baconian theory appearing irregularly in the monthly magazine, Kringsjaa....

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A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 ppt

A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 ppt

... plateau of Asia Minor, and ended at the coasts of the ặgổan and the Euxine; others passed through Assyria into Media, 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 of the first are determined by the configuration of the earth. ... in greater request than any other, was used again and again until no trace of its original destination or of the buildings in which it was found remained. In Assyria long chains of hills traversed...

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a history of rome under the emperors

a history of rome under the emperors

... he had been appointed to a Chair in Roman Law at Breslau in Prussia; in the same year he achieved his aim of being put in charge of editing all known Latin inscriptions by the Berlin Academy of Sciences, ... 40’. They contain the history of Rome from Caesar’s war in Africa, regarded by Mommsen as the ‘beginning of the monarchy and the end of the 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 of the French in Alsace, or of the Prussians in Pozen...

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báo cáo sinh học:" Managerial competencies of hospital managers in South Africa: a survey of managers in the public and private sectors" docx

báo cáo sinh học:" Managerial competencies of hospital managers in South Africa: a survey of managers in the public and private sectors" docx

... planning, organ- izing, leading and controlling. Planning involves defining goals and mapping out ways to reach them; organizing entails arranging and coordinating human, material and information ... that each manager received for each of the seven factors was calcu- lated from the mean of the summed items for that varia- ble. This allows one to treat the data as interval data measuring a latent ... formal evaluation of the 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...

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A History of the English Church in New Zealand pot

A History of the English Church in New Zealand pot

... 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 of the 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 of the missionary period is also an admirable piece of work, but he had not the advantage of the stores of material which are now available. Through the indefatigable enthusiasm of the late...

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PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION TO THE AMATEUR IN COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND SETTING UP NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS OF ALL KINDS doc

PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION TO THE AMATEUR IN COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND SETTING UP NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS OF ALL KINDS doc

... 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 of the weather, and also in the case of the luxurious Greeks and Romans, who used skins in the adornment of their persons or homes. In fact, the conversion of skins into leather ... wit, in Simon, the tanner — in fact, the ancient history of all nations teems with the records of leather and of furs; but of the actual setting up of animals as specimens I can find no trace....

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A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century pdf

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century pdf

... interpreters of Dante. Here is a part of what he says of the paintings in the Campo Santo at Pisa: " ;The best idea, perhaps, which I can give an Englishman of the general character of the painting ... found in many ballads and ballad burdens, in 'William and Margaret,' in 'Binnorie,' in the 'Wife of Usher's Well,' in the 'Rime of the Count Arnaldos,' ... the sea towards Bristol or Linton, and now and then of the skeleton masts and gossamer sails of a ship against the declining sun, like those of the phantom bark in " ;The Ancient Mariner." The...

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