... 'Vengeance is 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 ... by the faithful Ruatara, to whom they presented a small hand-mill as a gift from his friend at Parramatta This machine played its part in preparing the way for the mission Ruatara's wheat had ... reached Australia, Ruatara was once again a man, and now almost a Christian This meeting was momentous in its results "Mr Marsden and Ruatara," as Carleton says, "were each necessary to the other;...
... and colonialists: a realisation that colonialism in Singapore and its Malayan hinterland was at least as much Asian as it was European, that Asian elites were among the leading stakeholders in ... (1914), pp 149-159 Regarding Asian capital inthe colonial era, see: Rajat Kanta Ray, “Asian Capital inthe Age of European Domination: The Rise ofthe Bazaar, 1800-1914,” Modern Asian Studies, Volume ... by a crowd of local Asian and European elites, including Maharajah Abu Bakar of Johore Meanwhile, in 1873, many Chinese merchants in Singapore, including Tan Kim Cheng, Hoo Ah Kay Whampoa, Tan...
... they are in fact distinct conceptual entities Chinese historian Rebecca Karl is adamant about this distinction in her critique of Duara’s book as a prime example ofthe “conflation of statism and ... fight against communism inthe realm of publishing ran parallel to the its military struggle against the CCP, to which equation the Japanese were added after their invasion of China began in 1937 ... ofthe state and the market Processes of this interaction are still underway and play a central role in defining the character of popular reading today 53 Xin, Publishing in China, p 18 Yu Ming...
... may already be my accountant, or rather my accountant's accountant, thanks to the explosion inthe outsourcing of tax preparation "This is happening as we speak," said Rao, a native of Mumbai, ... satisfying for them to work hard in Bangalore than to pack up and try to make a new start in America Inthe flat world they can stay in India, make a decent salary, and not have to be away from families, ... karaoke, in northeastern China, particu larly around the northeastern port city of Dalian Dalian has become for WHILE I WAS SLEEPING 33 Japan what Bangalore has become for America and the other...
... Japan to Dalian, and then type them into a digital database in Japanese characters Ohmae's company has developed a software program that takes the data to be entered and breaks it down into packets ... images and provide a diagnosis 24/7, apparently the smaller hospitals are shipping CAT scan images to radiologists abroad The advantage is that it is daytime in Australia or India when it is ... Empire in celebrating the fall ofthe wall-and claming credit for it Someone else was raising a glass-not of champagne but of thick Turkish coffee His name was Osama bin Laden and he had a different...
... spread In 1907 branch banking wasn’t yet legal, so bankers practiced what was known as chain banking Charles Morse, an acquaintance of Heinze, was the king of chain banking, in which a little cash ... the catalyst that will set it off In 1907 it was as random as an earthquake, while in 2010 it was a riot ina place far away Each ofthe catalysts initially seemed to have little, if anything, ... constrained traditional banks, trust companies started to accept savings deposits The trust company’s primary advantage was the lack ofa legal requirement that they maintain any reserves on hand...
... by an encroaching urban industrialism, was more authentic than the chaste language of classical decorum or the more sensational language of Gothic Romanticism His leading critic, the lawyer and ... Security Administration, conceived as a way of bringing home the unthinkable pain of rural poverty to urban Americans If the FSA photographs give us the naturalistic art ofthe Depression at its ... political and social gains ofthe thirties,” and that their poverty was insular, politically invisible, and resistant to the old forms of individual incentive and government assistance “These are the...
... Long-distance trade inthe Mediterranean was mainly a transit trade in goods that came from far away—from India, Southeast Asia, and China —and that Italian ships loaded at Alexandria and other ... raids in Germany and as far as central France The Vikings (mainly from Denmark) started raids against England and then Ireland in 793 and attacked the Continent from 810 onward; they plundered and ... inthe North and Baltic Seas Inthe Adriatic, the island of Rialto (part of Venice) rose by trading in salt, slaves, and timber Located at the center ofthe lagoons, it attracted population at...
... Islands He died in 1460 His great work was training seamen Many men afterward famous as discoverers and navigators, as Dias (dee'ahss), Da Gama (dah gah'ma), Cabral (ca-brahl'), Magellan, and Columbus, ... the great river of Canada CHAPTER III FRANCE AND ENGLAND ATTEMPT TO SETTLE AMERICA THE FRENCH IN SOUTH CAROLINA. After the failure in Canada twenty years passed away before the French again attempted ... corn dance, the thanksgiving ofthe Eastern tribes; the sun dance ofthe plains Indians; and the fish dance by the Indians ofthe Columbia River country at the opening ofthe salmon-fishing season...
... dreadful Indian war inthe annals of Acadia All the tribes east ofthe Merrimac took part in it, including the Maliseets and Micmacs This war is known inhistory as King William's war, from the ... the Indian learns the vices of civilization The native races naturally play a leading part in early Acadian history, nor they always appear ina very amiable light The element of fierceness and ... their family In proof of this fact, the distinguished Acadian genealogist, Placid P Gaudet, has shown that among the Acadians residing at the Islands of St Pierre and Miquelon in 1767 (according...
... her ofthe kingdom.] The year 1588 is memorable in English history for the defeat ofthe Spanish Armada, impiously called the Invincible Armada Several years were occupied in its preparation; and ... and that the wood and coals were the property of that gentleman At this stage ofthe examination, the lord chamberlain saw a man standing ina corner ofthe cellar, who stated that he was Percy's ... Tresham sent Thomas Winter into Spain, with a view to obtaining assistance from the Spanish monarch against England It was always found inthe projected invasions of England, that one ofthe chief difficulties...
... cash users and the long lead times for printing banknotes and minting coins The date of January 2002 had both advantages and disadvantages The peak period for banknote use is at the end ofthe ... printing – an Italian word meaning “to cut in – gives banknotes their special feel. The initials ofthe ECB inthe five linguistic variants, thevalue numerals and the windows and gateways can ... year: circulation is around 10% higher than average because ofthe Christmas season and the first few days of January are traditionally a sales and stocktaking period for retailers A number of...
... these into the following classes: the evaluation ofthe healing arts; a picture display ofmedical men prominent in American history; [11] a materia medica display including thehistoryof pharmacy; ... by the author of this paper as associate curator in charge ofthe Section of Pharmaceutical History and Health Dr Blake, as curator ofthe Section ofMedical and Dental History, acquired a large ... Lilly and Company donated an exhibit on themedical treatment of various types of anemia Inthe same year, a diorama including a hypochlorinator for purification of water on a farm was installed in...
... testing Shinawatra Datacom, a local Datakit operator, donated some of its leased line circuits to Thaisarn During that time, Thailand had neither aTHEHISTORYOFTHE INTERNET IN THAILAND 13 local ... most Thais, due to the lack of Thai language software and the lack of computer standardization “Networking in Thailand was just impossible during those days,” said Kanchana Kanchanasut, a professor ... time, the University of Melbourne was an email gateway in Australia with links to the United States and many other Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore...
... Anglo-Saxon race in England, in most parts of Scotland, inthe larger part of Ireland, inthe United States, in Canada, in Australia and New Zealand, in South Africa, and in many other parts ofthe world ... language The alteration inthe meanings of words, the changes inthe application of them, the variation inthe use of phrases, the falling away ofthe inflexions all these things become plain ... as many ofthe African languages, many inthe South Sea Islands, and other parts ofthe globe But in all cases, every language that we know anything about English, Latin, French, German existed...
... from the Falls of St Anthony to the Gulf They had traversed a region including what is now known as Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, the Canadas and Acadia [Footnote: ... Miami River St Lawrence River Locate Manhattan Island Alleghany Mountains Cape Breton Massachusetts Bay Albemarle Sound Chesapeake Bay.] VIRGINIA THE CHARACTER ofthe colonists was poorly adapted ... the North American Review contain a great deal of interesting historical matter The American Cyclopaedia and Thomas's Dictionary of Biography are exceedingly serviceable in preparing essays and...
... expense, a copy ofthe etext in plain ASCII LIMITED WARRANTY; DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES This etext may contain a "Defect" inthe form of incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright ... number of our institutions, and even some ofthe people who run them, are against this kind of easily available information they either want to control it-or they want to maintain their "leadership" ... on the Internet End ofthe Preface to "A Brief Historyofthe Internet." Chapter Introduction Michael Hart is trying to change Human Nature He says Human Nature is all that is stopping the Internet...
... rest ofthe world The invasion had been launched against the advice of several xiii xiv Occupying Iraq: AHistoryofthe Coalition Provisional Authority of America’s most important allies Many of ... include, in particular, the unclassified archives ofthe CPA Because the CPA was a hastily improvised multinational organization, an unusually high por- iii iv Occupying Iraq: AHistoryofthe Coalition ... occupation reflects the general lack of clarity characteristic ofthe administration’s planning for and early management of its intervention in Iraq Given that neither the President nor anyof his...