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A summary of a convention of delegates in Virginia.
The following piece was intended to convey to the late meeting of Delegates the sentiments of one of their body, whole personal attendance was prevented by an accidental illness. In it the sources of our present unhappy differences are traced with such faithful accuracy, and the opinions entertained by every free American expressed with such a manly firmness, that it must be pleading to the present, and must be useful to future ages....
Journal article on UFOs and the CIA.
A complete list in alphabetical order of all the items of the United States Library.
A complete list in alphabetical order of all the items of the United States Library (Volume 2)
Article on extraterrestrial life in relation to the world.
Newspaper article on UFOs.
World Factbook is similar to an encyclopedia or almanac.
A document relating certain Central Intelligence Agency operations.
In this series of books we look at a single type of crane, in this case the Rail Steam Crane. We give details of how it was contruncted and some the other types it lead to. ...
we see some of the original photographs that were taken some time after 1898 when Coles had moved to Derby. They are taken of completed cranes standing outside the works at Slack Lane. They show the diversity of variations on the standard pattern. The close up of the platform showing the operator gives a good idea of just how big some of these cranes could be. By this time they were able to make cranes lifting upto 36 tons....
A book which describes the false information presented in the 1911 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.
Французский пророк Мишель Нострадамус, предсказывая будущее на многие века вперёд, хотел предупредить человечество о надвигающихся бедствиях. Чтобы не попасть на костёр инквизиции, он завуалировал смысл пророчеств и зашифровал года. Вот уже 500 лет многие пытаются разгадать его загадки, но мало кому удаётся. Периодически появляются сенсационные заявления, что Нострадамус расшифрован, но оказывается это не так. Предлают сложнейшие схемы. Все оказалось намного проще... ...
To Sail Beyond the Sunset: Natural History in Australia 1699-1829 by Colin M. Finney provides fascinating reading on the development of natural history in Australia beginning with the first incredulous reactions by Dampier to the kangaroo. All of the 100+ color and black and white illustrations included in the book are reproductions of original drawings and paintings of Australian plants and animals as they were first depicted by the early natural history draughtsmen and convicts who collected or described them. Many of these illustrations had never been published before. The book includes many anecdotes and little-known facts as a result of the extensive scholarly research by Dr. Finney, who is a scientist with a profound sense of history. To Sail Beyond the Sunset won the Royal Zoological Society’s Whitley Award for the Best Historical Book when it was published in Australia in 1984. It also formed the basis for an exhibition, 'First Impressions', staged by the British Museum (Natural History) in celebration of the 1988 Australian Bicentenary. The book includes fascinating reading on the development of Australian natural history ...
Early on the morning of 1 August 1699, a small vessel, the Roebuck, tacked back and forth over the shoals off the western coast of New Holland awaiting daylight and the sight of land. Having suffered a long journey from Brazil, Captain William Dampier sought a harbour on the coast to replenish his dwindling supplies of water and fresh vegetables for his malnourished crew. Making landfall on that August morning, he was unable to locate a sheltered anchorage and consequently sailed north for five days until he could drop anchor in a sound he was later to name Shark’s Bay due to the abundance of sharks his men caught with hook and line. Accompanying his men ashore during their fruitless searches for water, Dampier observed and noted in his journal the plants and animals of the area. Of the land animals, Dampier complained that there were few to be seen. The description of those he did observe was usually accompanied by an evaluation of their gastronomic merit, for most organisms that fell prey to his gun were considered as food. Lizards, snakes, ‘beasts like hungry wolves’, which were undoubtedly dingoes, were seen and '...a Sort of ...
PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Discovery: 1699–1777 CHAPTER TWO Van Diemens Land and the western coast of New Holland: 1788–93 CHAPTER THREE Establishment of the British Colony, the initial years: 1788–92 CHAPTER FOUR Establishment of the British Colony—survival assured: 1793–99 CHAPTER FIVE The Continent Defined: the voyage of the Investigator 1800–01 CHAPTER SIX French Exploration—Nicholas Baudin and Le Géographe: 1802 CHAPTER SEVEN Settlement and Expansion in Van Diemens Land: 1803–10 CHAPTER EIGHT Penetrating the Interior: 1811–18 CHAPTER NINE Coastal Exploration—British and French: 1819–12 CHAPTER TEN The Infrastructure of Natural History: 1821–28 EPILOGUE Scientific index: hard copy only General index: hard copy only ...
This is the story of one Unitarian Universalist congregation founded in 1833 and housed in a magnificent building which was designed by Minard Lafever and completed in 1844. It is a tale of scandals and sorrows, of the rough Brooklyn waterfront intertwined with the elevated airs of affluent Brooklyn Heights, and sharp theological differences that, at one time, rendered the church into four congregations. This book is for historians and lovers of the borough of Brooklyn. Containing over 50 photographs, it is a thoroughly documented, extensively researched view of a major metropolitan church and its times. For those familiar with the church and its neighborhood, Brooklyn Heights, it is an inexhaustible scrapbook, a complete compendium of those thousands of lives that have been touched by this center of Unitarian Universalism in Brooklyn....
"Although Unitarianism, with its rejection of the deity of the Son and the Holy Ghost, is an ancient tradition, churches professing it were quite new in America when ten displaced New Englanders met in 1833 to found the First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn."...
I: A Miracle of Elegance & Grace II: Acceptance & Division III: Service & Glory IV: Commitment & Notoriety V: Good Words and Works VI: Chance & Change VII: Windows & Memorials VIII: Dignity & Daring IX: A Willing & Generous Congregation Appendix References Bibliography Index...
Τα πρώτα σπέρματα της οδοντιατρικής θεωρίας και πράξης στον αρχαίο ελληνικό κόσμο εντοπίζονται στην αρχαιοελληνική ιατρική γραμματεία. Γι’ αυτό το λόγο παρουσιάζεται η προσφορά 26 ιατρικών προσωπικοτήτων από τον Ιπποκράτη (5ος αι. π.Χ.) έως τον Γαληνό της Περγάμου (2ος αι. μ.Χ.). Ταυτόχρονα εξετάζεται η προσφορά του Αριστοτέλη ο οποίος επηρέασε καταλυτικά την οδοντιατρική θεωρία, αλλά και του λεξικογράφου Ιούλιου Πολυδεύκη που καταγράφει στο έργο Ὀνομαστικόν ένα εκπληκτικά μεγάλο αριθμό λημμάτων σε οδοντοστοματολογικά ζητήματα, γεγονός που επιβεβαιώνει ότι η επιστήμη του στόματος και των δοντιών στα μέσα του 2ου αι. μ.Χ. είχε εξελιχθεί αρκετά ώστε να διαθέτει ένα εξειδικευμένο λεξιλόγιο. Παράλληλα εξετάζονται ειδικά θέματα της αρχαίας οδοντιατρικής πράξης όπως η εξαγωγή δοντιών και οι περίτεχνες οδοντικές προσθετικές κατασκευές. Τέλος διερευνάται η δράση ειδικευμένων ιατρών οι οποίοι έφεραν τον τίτλο ὀδοντικοί ἰατροί, αλλά και η ύπαρξη πρώιμων οδοντιατρείων τουλάχιστον στη Ρώμη και την Αλεξάνδρεια της Αιγύπτου....
Αναντίρρητα η απαρχή της σύγχρονης δυτικής οδοντιατρικής παράδοσης εντοπίζεται στην Αρχαία Ελλάδα και στην αρχαία ελληνική ιατρική γραμματεία. Ωστόσο παρά τον σφιχτό εναγκαλισμό της Οδοντιατρικής με την Ιατρική όπου θα ήταν αναμενόμενο η άσκηση της πρώτης να αποτελεί προνόμιο αποκλειστικά των ιατρών, εντούτοις παρατηρείται η εμφάνιση των πρώτων οδοντιάτρων. Επανειλημμένα στην ελληνική, αλλά και τη λατινική γραμματεία, γίνεται αναφορά σε ὀδοντικούς ἰατροὺς και dentales medicos δηλαδή ιατρούς οι οποίοι ήταν επιφορτισμένοι με την ίαση των νόσων της στοματικής κοιλότητας, όπως αυτές περιγράφονται σε ιατρικές πραγματείες όπως το έργο Περὶ συνθέσεως φαρμάκων τῶν κατὰ τόπους του Γαληνού της Περγάμου ή το νόθο έργο του Διοσκουρίδη Περὶ ἁπλῶν φαρμάκων. Ένας από τους πλέον εντυπωσιακούς τομείς της Αρχαίας Οδοντιατρικής αφορά τις κατασκευές για την αντιμετώπιση οδοντικών προβλημάτων, όπως η σταθεροποίηση εύσειστων δοντιών ή η προσθήκη τεχνητών δοντιών σε θέσεις ελλειπόντων είτε για καλλωπιστικούς είτε για λειτουργικούς σκοπούς. Μέχρι σήμερα υπολογίζεται ότι έχουν ανακαλυφθεί περίπου 29 αρχαίες οδοντικές προσθετικές κατασκευές στην Ευρώπη κα...
Προλογικό σημείωμα Ιπποκρατική οδοντιατρική Αριστοτέλης Διοκλής Καρύστιος Απολλώνιος Κιτιεύς Κράτιππος Ηρακλείδης ο Ταραντίνος Ήρας ο Καππαδόκης Απολλώνιος ο Ηροφίλειος Αριστοκλής Μέλιτος Ανδρόμαχος ο νεώτερος Αντώνιος Μούσας Αφρόδας Δαμοκράτης Σερβίλιος Η συμβολή του Διοσκουρίδη στην οδοντιατρική Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Μενεκράτης Τιμοκράτης Ρούφος ο Εφέσιος Αρχιγένης ο Απαμεύς Ασκληπιάδης Φαρμακίων Τίτος Στατίλιος Κρίτων Αριστοκράτης ο Γραμματικός Αυρήλιος Πύθιος Σωρανός ο Εφέσιος Αντιφάνης ο Δήλιος Χεραίας Η οδοντιατρική στον Γαληνό Η εξαγωγή δοντιών στον αρχαίο κόσμο: οδοντάγρες, φάρμακα και τεχνικές Οι οδοντικές προσθέσεις στον αρχαίο κόσμο Οδοντιατρικοί όροι στο Ὀνομαστικόν του Ιούλιου Πολυδεύκη Οδοντίατροι στην αρχαιότητα ΠΕΡΙΛΗΨΗ SUMMARY ΒΙΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ...
A brief autobiography of Don Larson with valuable historical information about Gowrie, Iowa and Clay Township, Webster County, Iowa.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Home: Location, History, etc. Family: Genealogy, History, Youth, College Church: Sunday School, Baptism, Confirmation, Pastors School: Elementary, High School, College, Extra credits Military: Draft, Iowa National Guard, Training Public Service: 4-H, Township, Fire Board, Coop Board Seed Business: 1974 on, Companies, Trips Old & new neighbors: Two mile radius, Old Friends Farming: First farm, Landlords, Cattle, Machinery, Changes, Technology Childhood Memories of Farm Cars, Trucks, Airplanes Other Events: Health, Mud, Fire Great Mechanics, Mowing Current Activities: Family, Windmills, Pipe-lines...
《地寶迷霧》 作者:俞小明 概述 《地宝迷雾》是一部精彩万分的悬疑谍战网络文学,故事讲述了梁复生虽大难不死却身负重伤,幸运的是捡回一条性命,为了完成建丰先生的嘱托,梁复生重新披挂上阵,并打入孚中公司内部,在探访中发现一个惊人的密室,密室里不仅关押着虞时英,还有留在大陆的「一0六」地仓财宝,与此同时隐蔽战线斗争日趋激烈,双方互相派出重量级的人物来到香港,摆出了一副决战态势,梁复生和他的同仁们将会面临怎么样的命运?藏匿在孚中公司的地宝又会花落谁家?香港抢救学人计划是否会化为泡影?这些故事即将会在下一部作品中介绍到。《地宝迷雾》的前传是铁血除弊事,需要对故事了解更加透彻的读者,请先阅读完毕前传。 (一)梁复生折臂大难不死 黄埔诚奉命前来探望 汗水在梁复生的脸上,如珠如豆,渐渐侵着结痂的伤口而下流。麻药过后产生的剧痛撕裂了他的心肺,梁复生的眼睑皮颤抖着,眼皮随着神经一跳一跳的抖动着,牙齿疼的咯咯作响,复生的潜意识里似乎感知到自己还活着,一只还没残废的手揪住床单猛的一拉,硬是让自己在昏迷中挺了过来,他缓缓地睁开双眸,余光打量了下周遭的环境,看到周围四处寂静,只剩下自己孤零零地躺在病床上,内心不免泛起一阵涟漪,心中默念:真乃英雄落寞! 很快一阵剧烈的疼痛从神经末梢传递至心头,他甩头望了一眼身体的右侧,发现一只手被炸没了,见到此景,梁复生的眼神中顿生绝望之情。 他饥肠辘辘浑身无力,后背的汗滴黏着湿漉的木板床,在冰冷的湿气作用下直往骨髓里透,钻心一般的疼痛使得他的眼角里闪现出泪花来,梁复生仰天长啸大喝了一声:起来! 这个时候外面的门“吱呀”一声被一股莫名的外力弹开,只闻见”嗖“地一声,走廊上搐起一股阴森之风,那阴风夹着几片树叶直径卷入屋内。 粱复生下意识地瞭起眼皮,露出一条细缝来,隐隐约约地见到黄蒲诚穿着一件素不考究的深蓝粗布衣裳,从门外缓缓步入屋内,朝着他的方向走来。 黄蒲诚走近看来,见到血色的,近血色的床单布满了一道道刻骨铭心的抓痕,就知道梁复生经历了多少磨难,蒲城瞅了瞅梁复生残臂上扎着的绷带,然后又仔细瞧了瞧他脸上的气色,只见梁复生的脸色真像一张秋天晒成的干菜,纠皱,脸色丝毫没有任何血气,头发蓬乱着,也不知道几天没洗澡了。 梁复生用一只手撑住了床板,硬是依靠身体的支点站了起来,黄蒲诚见到眼前这一幕反倒从心中油然升起一股敬畏之情,心中暗想:没想到他深受重伤居然还能靠自己站起来,不愧是建丰先生的得意门生。 梁复生定定的看了一眼蒲城,忍俊住剧痛,硬是松了死死咬牙的口,然后询问道:你怎么会在这里,不是在基隆监狱管事吗? 黄蒲诚迟疑了一会,回答...
《地寶迷霧》 作者:俞小明(台湾-1985.10.21-至今) 概述 《地宝迷雾》是一部精彩万分的悬疑谍战网络文学,故事讲述了梁复生虽大难不死却身负重伤,幸运的是捡回一条性命,为了完成建丰先生的嘱托,梁复生重新披挂上阵,并打入孚中公司内部,在探访中发现一个惊人的密室,密室里不仅关押着虞时英,还有留在大陆的「一0六」地仓财宝,与此同时隐蔽战线斗争日趋激烈,双方互相派出重量级的人物来到香港,摆出了一副决战态势,梁复生和他的同仁们将会面临怎么样的命运?藏匿在孚中公司的地宝又会花落谁家?香港抢救学人计划是否会化为泡影?这些故事即将会在下一部作品中介绍到。《地宝迷雾》的前传是铁血除弊事,需要对故事了解更加透彻的读者,请先阅读完毕前传。 (一)梁复生折臂大难不死 黄埔诚奉命前来探望 汗水在梁复生的脸上,如珠如豆,渐渐侵着结痂的伤口而下流。麻药过后产生的剧痛撕裂了他的心肺,梁复生的眼睑皮颤抖着,眼皮随着神经一跳一跳的抖动着,牙齿疼的咯咯作响,复生的潜意识里似乎感知到自己还活着,一只还没残废的手揪住床单猛的一拉,硬是让自己在昏迷中挺了过来,他缓缓地睁开双眸,余光打量了下周遭的环境,看到周围四处寂静,只剩下自己孤零零地躺在病床上,内心不免泛起一阵涟漪,心中默念:真乃英雄落寞! 很快一阵剧烈的疼痛从神经末梢传递至心头,他甩头望了一眼身体的右侧,发现一只手被炸没了,见到此景,梁复生的眼神中顿生绝望之情。 他饥肠辘辘浑身无力,后背的汗滴黏着湿漉的木板床,在冰冷的湿气作用下直往骨髓里透,钻心一般的疼痛使得他的眼角里闪现出泪花来,梁复生仰天长啸大喝了一声:起来! 这个时候外面的门“吱呀”一声被一股莫名的外力弹开,只闻见”嗖“地一声,走廊上搐起一股阴森之风,那阴风夹着几片树叶直径卷入屋内。 粱复生下意识地瞭起眼皮,露出一条细缝来,隐隐约约地见到黄蒲诚穿着一件素不考究的深蓝粗布衣裳,从门外缓缓步入屋内,朝着他的方向走来。 黄蒲诚走近看来,见到血色的,近血色的床单布满了一道道刻骨铭心的抓痕,就知道梁复生经历了多少磨难,蒲城瞅了瞅梁复生残臂上扎着的绷带,然后又仔细瞧了瞧他脸上的气色,只见梁复生的脸色真像一张秋天晒成的干菜,纠皱,脸色丝毫没有任何血气,头发蓬乱着,也不知道几天没洗澡了。 梁复生用一只手撑住了床板,硬是依靠身体的支点站了起来,黄蒲诚见到眼前这一幕反倒从心中油然升起一股敬畏之情,心中暗想:没想到他深受重伤居然还能靠自己站起来,不愧是建丰先生的得意门生。 梁复生定定的看了一眼蒲城,忍俊住剧痛,硬是松了死死咬牙的口,然后询问道:你怎么会在这里,不是在基隆监...
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The years of World War I, 1914-1918, were years of change for Canada. Canada made a place for itself in world affairs, and the country found its stride. Women in Canada too found their stride, making significant contributions to Canada’s war efforts, and becoming fully engaged in the social, economic, political and cultural life of the country. Canada and the place of women, in all their diversity of origin, race and class, would be transformed by the actions of women and like-minded men. It Was Their War Too, by Pat Staton, is a unique book that brings these women and their contributions alive and connects them to the present. Written for students and the general reader, the book richly sets the background, tells the stories of the times through the voices of the women themselves, and brings the period to life with stunning visuals. This book is not a memorial to war. It is a doorway to understanding the critical, but often invisible, contributions made to the 20th century development of Canada by women. It includes suggested student activities and a resource list for further exploration. Even though women were prohibited in ...
Preface Most accounts of the 1914-18 war, commonly referred to afterward as the “Great War,” the “war to end all wars,” as though such a disaster could or would ever be repeated, focus on the political causes and horrifying loss of life in the bombings and trench warfare. The aftermath is usually described in terms of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and the devastation wrought by the worldwide flu epidemic, which added to the death toll. The contributions of, and consequences for, women’s participation in the war effort are not well documented. A number of published diaries of nursing sisters who saw service on the battlefields in France (see Bongard, Gass) and the National Film Board’s “And We Knew How to Dance” do provide some details of the daily lives of these courageous women. The objective of this book is to bring together documents, posters, photographs, diaries, short essays and brief biographies to present a range of experiences of Canadian women. “The Great War changed the lives of Canadian women as well as the men. The lives of those men who did return from war service were forever altered and they returned to...
Sayyid Ahmad was among the foremost visionaries who realized the scale of British conspiracies and diplomacies, and launched a systemic struggle to counter the effects. He communicated with political figureheads of that time to make them realize of British intrusion. He also worked for social reformation of Muslim communities in far-off places in subcontinent. Sayyid Ahmad traveled throughout the Subcontinent, into Afghanistan and North West region of Subcontinent to create awareness for the cause. He eventually lost his life in a battle against Sikh army at Balakot in May 1831. This in-depth inquiry provides insights on Sikh & British alliance established at that time and how British pursued their colonial agenda in India....
We see from the life of Sayyid Ahmed that he disrupted the status quo of society at various levels. He was not a passive preacher or a Sufi living in isolation. He not only challenged the oppressors but also the oppressed. For this he faced opposition from both. When Sayyid Ahmed stepped out to reform socio-religious thought in India, that included matters related to general ignorance of basic tenets of Islam, sufi ideologies and pilgrimage; he met with resistance from those “internal” agents whose interest relied on the then state of affairs. Similarly, when he refused to compromise with the political hostility of colonizers and their allies, he faced challenges. This makes the study of his movement a very special case in history of South Asia. A keen researcher thus needs to understand the context of every comment that is placed in favor or opposition of Sayyid Ahmed. In this study, I have kept focus on the macro aspects of the life of Sayyid Ahmed and his movement and its historical context....
List of illustrations Introduction Chapter 1 Early Life of Sayyid Ahmed and Political Chapter 2 Colonization of India during life of Sayyid Ahmed Chapter 3 Anti-Colonial Struggle of Sayyid Ahmed and Reformation Efforts Conclusion Bibliography ...