economic constraints, and the personal endeavours of individual petroleum geoscientists, as much as it does the development of technologies and the underlying geology of the region. Europe and Europeans played a disproportionately large role in the development of the modern global oil and gas industry...
Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria in the seventh century BC, is considered by historians to be the first great librarian. His House of Tablets wasdivided into two sections: one, an archive of government documents, business records, and correspondence; the other, a collection of literature and scholar...
Barrow Iron Industries I stopped to chat with a local lad – I had thought Barrow to be a hard town, he thought not. There’s not much trouble, though we have hard times – how so? The Tories – now my kids have all got jobs for the next twenty years. There were no reported cri...
This report was prepared under the provisions of the permanent census act, approved March 6, 1902, as amended by the act of June 7, 1906. Its purpose is to present statistics of the number of organizations, members, etc., of the different religious denominations of the country and to give...
Late Roman sources show three separate commands respectively under the dux Britanniarum (commander of the Britains), the comes litoris Saxonici (count of the Saxon Shore), and the comes Britanniarum, though the dates of their establishment are unknown and may not have been identical. The 4th ...
Politically, it is known that Britannia Prima included Cirencester. Within the army organization the command was divided between the dux Britanniarum, or “duke of the Britains,” responsible for York and Hadrian’s Wall, while the comes litoris Saxonici, or “count of the Saxon Shore,” was...
Added new images to cableship pages CSBritannia (2), CSMirror (2), CSPatrick Stewart (2) 20 February Added notes onHenry Clifford’s model ofGreat Eastern 16 February Added new material to the the page on1858 Atlantic Cable Souvenir Advertisements ...
By the time of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, the country was feeling quite pleased with itself. Britannia ruled the waves, and anything seemed possible.The 20th century: But all good things come to an end. The Boer War of 1900 ended in victory for the British in South ...
-Auspice Britannia liber, A History of Louisiana, Robert Myers, 2022 “When America intervened in the Haitian War, Jackson was at the forefront at criticising the Jefferson administration. He had a severe hatred of Napoleon, even 25 years before the Barbour Conspiracy, and accused Jefferson of...
Investigating the villain Albion (Earth-70518’s Bran Bardic), Sage once again went undercover, joining his Shadow Corps under the alias Diana Fox, but an energy discharge affected Sage’s mind, allowing “Fox” to take on a life of her own, becoming Albion’s loyal agent Britannia. They...