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... bc, while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000 bc, they reached the eastern edge of the equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes. There they ... of the economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge of the West African forest in modern Ghana. This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... eight million years ago with the separation of the hominins (ancestral to human beings) from their closest animal relatives, the ancestors of the chimpanzees. The skull of the first known hominin,...

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... per day of ethanol, utilizing Saccharomyces for the pro- cess (Harris 1946). This yield of 50 gallons per ton of wood was approximately 50% of the theoretical yield. The indicated loss of sugars ... engineering topics. The content reflects the interests or personal experience of the authors. It offers a limited view of the history of biochemical engineering. History, as always, has to be told ... blockage A View of The History of Biochemical Engineering 81 Because of the mild reaction conditions, the hemicellulose hydrolysate con- taining xylose was not contaminated by furfural and other degradation...

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... part of the war effort; they turned lipstick into a symbol of resilient femininity in the face of danger, a symbol that would boost the morale of both the women wearing the lipstick and the male ... or devices, or cosmetics because of the use of the additive, (ii) the cumulative effect. . .of such additive in the diet of man or animals, taking into account the same or any chemically or pharmacologically ... (explaining that: “often the public toilette was a carefully staged replay of the dressing of the hair and applying of make-up to a woman w ho had already been through the expert hands of her maids...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 22:20

... was the readiest way of converting them to the principles of the Christian religion. These, then, were the first forerunners in the great cause of the abolition of the Slave Trade: nor have their ... held the reigns of the government of Spain till Charles the Fifth came to the throne, for the establishment of a regular system of commerce in the persons of the native Africans. The object of ... nature of it; and of the extent of it; and of the difficulty of subduing it.—Usefulness also of the contemplation of this subject. I scarcely know of any subject, the contemplation of which...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 09:20

... to their love of adventure, their hope of enjoying some of the advantages of their civilized neighbors, or the need of new lands for their increasing numbers. And the Romans, by means of their ... time formed the northern boundary of the kingdom of the West Goths. Clovis then enlarged his empire on the east by the conquest of the Alemanni, a German people living in the region of the Black ... in either Emerton or Oman. [Pg 1] INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPE CHAPTER I THE HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW The scope of history. 1. History, in the broadest sense of the...

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... agreeable to the majority of the house of commons, and suited their religious principles. But as the impatience of the people, the danger of delay, the general disgust towards faction, and the authority ... expressed by the parliament, there prevails a story, that Popham, having sounded the disposition of the members, undertook to the earl of Southampton to procure, during the king’s The History of England, ... two months, the parliament met, and proceeded in the great work of the national settlement. They established the post-office, wine-licenses, and some articles of the revenue. They granted...

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... refuses the offers of the army. Which marches to London. Enters the city. And gives the law to the parliament. The king listens to the counsels of the officers. And intrigues against them. Rise of the ... to the maintenance of the true Protestant religion, with due consideration to the just ease of tender consciences, to the settling of the rights of the crown and of parliament, the laws of the ... continued by the papists, for the sole purpose of the establishment of popery on the ruins of Protestantism. The constant repetition acted on the minds of the people as a sufficient proof of the charge;...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... by his son of how, on the visit of à Beckett, Charles Dickens, and the rest, he would throw off his clothes and swim with them in the sea, or challenge them to a game of leap-frog on the sands ... his father, and sat for another seven years at the tail of the Table by right of proprietorship, the business was reinforced by the inclusion of the house of Agnew. It then became Bradbury, Agnew ... at all!" Another result of the constant search for freshness was the changing of the design on the cover of each consecutive volume. Any change from that of Henning could only be a change for the better,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... between the promoters of the various sorts of history of science. Then and only then, will the history of knowledge retain the central role it should have in the history and philosophy of science. CNRS: ... Descartes’ vortex theory in dealing with problems such as the return of Halley’s comet, the orbit of the Moon, and the shape of the Earth, that the Continentals shrugged off their antipathy to ... study the reception of scien- tific theories are best able to answer this question because they have the evidence right in front of them; but unless they recognize the importance of the question they may...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:21

... architecture. In the North and West, meanwhile, under the growing institutions of the papacy and of the monastic orders and the emergence of a feudal civilization out of the chaos of the Dark Ages, the ... phases of Western art; one under the influence of Mohammedan civilization, another in the Brahman and Buddhist architecture of India, and the third in China and Japan. The first of these is the ... are gathered some of the results of recent investigations and of the architectural progress of the last few years which could not readily be introduced into the text of this edition. The General...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 14:20

... room as they grew older, the place they spent much of their time, the more formal rst oor being the domain of their mother. Eloise still felt like that part of the house didn’t quite belong ... AM The History of Us 17 you could look at the fabric, at the room, at the house and for that matter the city, and see reminder upon reminder of all that had been lost. Eloise had lived in the ... cry. Eloise listened to her mother’s weeping for a moment, won- dering with detachment if the sound of it would make her cry. Then she closed the door. Theo met her at the top of the stairs, her nger...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... MACQUARIE. In the early days of the colonies their destinies were, to a great extent, moulded by the Governors who had charge of them. Whether for good or for evil, the influence of the Governor ... possession of the country on behalf of His Britannic Majesty, giving it the name, “New South Wales,” on account of the resemblance of its coasts to the southern shores of Wales. was no hope of defending ... curious to know whither he had gone; but Australians of these days have learnt to honour the memory of the man who first, in company with his friend, laid the foundation of so much of their geography....

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:21

... the advantage of erecting the standard of the cross, the emulation of his successor assumed the merit of subduing the Arian heresy, and of abolishing the worship of idols in the Roman world. Theodosius ... Egypt; and the Part II. 45 visions, which attested the presence, or at least the protection, of the Mother of God. ^32 The pulpit of the Anastasia was the scene of the labors and triumphs of Gregory ... over the soul and body of the guilty. The decrees of the council of Constantinople had ascertained the true standard of the faith; and the ecclesiastics, who governed the conscience of Theodosius,...

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