In later Middle Ages i.e. around 11th century Italy emerged as a major center of trade. This led to not just the economic development of city-states such as Florence and Venice but also laid seeds for the emergence of nation states such as France, England, Spain and Portugal. By the ti...
The flag of Kosovo looks complicated but is quite simple: it has a blue background, with the outline of the country’s map overlaid, and six white five-point stars that represent the ethnic and religious groups that live there (Albanian, Serbs, Turks, Gorani, Romani, and Bosniaks). Som...
Frank, for example, just posted a letter advocating for the expulsion of one permanent EU member and one "candidate country"--both sovereign nations--whose existence undermine th "development of a greater and more democratic EU" symbolized by "lethal aid" for Ukraine, a nation situated just be...
A map accompanying one report noted Sydney was only 3,100 miles from ground zero. Residents as far away as Perth were warned if their houses shook on July 1, "it may be the atom bomb test". Australia was "included in the tests" as a site for recording blast effects and monitoring for...
The map also shows the Si vs. Altot ratio of all the measurements for white mica in each of all investigated samples (all with Bt + Kfs + Qtz) as well as a Si vs. Altot ratio diagram with all the measurements plotted (upper right). for the Leventina Gneisses (for ...
Hydro power has been instrumental for Vattenfall and for Sweden as a nation ever since Vattenfall was founded in 1909 to manage the Swedish state's hydro power assets. Hydro power will continue to play a crucial role in achiev- ing an environmentally sustainable energy system for the future. ...
Fig. 1: Physical features of Europe. Published in 1906 by W. & A. K. Johnston Limited, Edinburgh and London. Available from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. According to theBP Statistical Review of Energy 2017, the world’s proved oil reserves (excluding self-sourced shale plays)...
L. crotaloides can be differentiated from all other viperid snakes by the com- bination of the following characters: very large vertebral size (CL equal or larger than 15 mm); centrum propor- tionally short and broad in ventral view; cotyle much wider than the neural canal; condyle stout...
Indeed, it was this diverse background that formed the basis for their ambitious goal of fusing “European” and “American” visions to produce a roadmap for a new global order. The driving force behind the Declaration’s genesis was Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, the Italian literary critic and ...
immigration policy has been used as a means by both Conservative and Labour governments to manage inflation and labour; secondly, successive governments have sought to depoliticise immigration policy through reference to external forces; thirdly, this strategy of depoliticisation ultimately failed, polit...