It also pinpoints the specific paths through which colonial legacies influenced integration policies, while rejecting the thesis that colonial institus have broadly informed integration policies in Britain or France. The article thus challenges a series of received ideas, replacing them with a more ...
This post is the final part of a three-part series transcribing the manuscript memoirs of my third great grandfather Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy (1816 – 1880). He was writing in 1877, recalling events of the year 1839. Philip had decided to emigrate to South Australia. He describes his pr...
From the ancient Romans, through the Middle Ages, to the late of the nineteenth century, the Aristotelian doctrine of spontaneous generation was one of the most basic laws. Even the invention of the microscope and investigations of Leeuwenhoek and Hook d
2 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF INVOLUNTARY SEXUAL MUTILATION IN THE UNITED STATES Frederick Hodges For the past 130 years, the American medical industry has been involved in the busi- ness of removing part or all of the external sexualorgans of male and female children. While ...
In 1971 the Times became the centre of controversy when it published a series of reports based on the “Pentagon Papers,” a secret government study of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War that had been covertly given to the Times by government officials. The U.S. Supreme Court found that...
Sparta, ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese, southwestern Greece. The sparsity of ruins from antiquity around the modern city reflects the austerity of the military oligarchy that ruled the Spartan city-state from the
Neuroscience, like most other divisions of natural philosophy, emerged in the Hellenistic world following the first experimental discoveries of the nerves connecting the brain with the body. The first fundamental doctrine on brain function highlighted th
Sounds were generated by a conventional VCO/VCF/VCA architecture reminiscent of the earliest SH-series synths, but with a number of very important bonuses. For example, the VCA was 'touch sensitive', and the output from the Poly-ensemble was an input in the solo synth's mixer, so you cou...
'Convergence history' refers to the progression of a computational algorithm's performance over time, typically shown in plots depicting the reduction of residuals with respect to the number of iterations or CPU time. AI generated definition based on: Handbook of Numerical Analysis, 2017 ...
Following the frenzy created by the first Air Jordan was a tall order, but designer Bruce Kilgore - who also designed the classic Nike Air Force 1 - took the reins for the second shoe in the Air Jordan series and, as intended, went in a new and different direction. ...