(1197), Amalric, a widower, was induced to marry Henry’s widow, QueenIsabella I, because the emperor’s German advisers were hoping to get the Latinkingdom of Jerusalem(then only a thin strip of the Palestinian coast) as a fief like Cyprus. Amalric, however, decided to administer ...
Located on Scotland’s east coast, Dundee established itself as a key trading port from the 12thcentury. The Industrial Revolution saw Dundee expand as an industrial city producing linen, jute (fibre used to make twine and rope), marmalade, whale oil and journalism (publishing paper and magazine...
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200 m. (220 yds.) from the coast of Üsküdar, has a café and restaurant with views of the former Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman capital at Sarayburnu. Private boats ply back and forth between the tower and the shore throughout the day. The tower appeared on the reverse of the Turkish...
The types of TCH in villages, towns, and cities were mostly distributed. This spatial distribution feature is closely related to the political, economic, and social-cultural activities of human beings in this period, and Chu-Han culture and Wu-Yue culture have significant characteristics. In the...
A more comprehensive catalogue of town views is Reps, John W., Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of their work, 1825 - 1925, University of Missouri Press, 1984...
Instead, New Hampshire established the Literary Fund, which it divided every year among the towns. The money was to be spent for the “support and maintenance of common free schools or other purposes of education.” The Town of Peterborough decided to spend it on a municipal library. ...
The types of TCH in villages, towns, and cities were mostly distributed. This spatial distribution feature is closely related to the political, economic, and social-cultural activities of human beings in this period, and Chu-Han culture and Wu-Yue culture have significant characteristics. In the...
On President-elect Trump’s glaring conflicts of interest…. “During his first administration, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s global business empire created an unprecedented number of conflicts of interest for a sitting president. Ethics experts worried that opportunists could try to curry favor...
Overseas Chinese archaeology has flourished over the past few years, with archaeological investigations into Chinese shipwrecks and maritime culture (Layton 2002; Van Tilberg 2007), mining ventures (Norman 2012), urban communities known as Chinatowns (Costello et al. 2008; Fosha and Leatherman 2008;...