As the Globe noted in 1924, “it was not an unusual thing on a Saturday afternoon to meet in the shop professors, judges, eminent counsel, leading ministers, and always some politicians.” Among early regular customers were prime minister Wilfrid Laurier and Ontario premier Oliver Mowat. A let...
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whose westernmost tip is namedFinistère(end of land), and the surrounding region ofPays-de-la-Loire. The region is bordered by the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south, and is crossed by the Loire River - the largest river in France....
Founded by Oliver Chace in 1839 as a textile manufacturing company, it was eventually taken over by Warren Buffett in the mid-1960s, transforming it into a diversified powerhouse with investments in a vast range of sectors including insurance, utilities, rail transportation, and consumer goods, am...
South Africa has the largest population of people with HIV of any country in the world, at 5.9 million. South & South East Asia has an estimated 4 million cases, with about 250,000 deaths in 2010. Approximately 2.5 million of these cases are in India, where however the prevalence is ...
normal distributed clock rate (mean: 6.8629E-3, sigma: 5.9743E-4) and lognormal distributed MRCA prior (mean: 2.318, sigma: 0.3031). The result was plotted with log-scale population size by time (Ma) using R package57based on 'plotEBSP' function provided in BEAST. The likelihood of his...
In 1993, the African hero Nelson Mandela was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, which he jointly shared with Willem de Klerk. Mandela is commonly referred to as the father of Africa and peace. His works across the continent and his country South Africa, significantly contributed to his consideration...
In fact, Henry's words were most likely closer to "What miserable drones and traitors have I nurtured and promoted in my household who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric!" At any rate, Henry's followers interpreted his words as instructions to ...
Important events in Earth's geological history shaped aquatic insect macroevolution. • Phylogenetic variation is dependent on the geographical and environmental context. • This ‘Tree of Life’ contains a great deal of useful information for biogeosciences. Abstract The extent to which the sequence...
Besides these nomenclatural and taxonomic aspects, our sampling of mitogenomes of type specimens and fresh material allow some additional insights. Chelid turtles represent an iconic part of the extant fauna of South America and Australasia and are a prime example of a group of animals of Gondwana...