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Excluding the subtitle, the book actually avoids the words Byzantium and Byzantines as "misleading modern terms," but this is the period between Emperor Constantine's move of the Roman capital to the city that is now Istanbul in 330, and its fall to the Turks in 1453. This is a serious...
The word hot dog refers either to the sausage that you buy squeezed in a plastic package with 7 or so of its kind, or to the same sausage heated and served in a long split roll. When it's served in the roll, it's also a sandwich. We know: the idea that a hot dog is a sa...
She starts with the theme or purpose of an installation, then brainstorms images or words that might help her convey that message. She then sketches the final piece to scale, and finally builds it out of sandpaper or cardboard. Hevesh’s largest creations take a nail-biting few minutes to...
words and together with music), sung not with a human voice, but created on a computer, since the human voice is not able to master such a range, characteristic of the legend of the film for Voices of Plavalaguna (at the time of filming, no person was found with the ability to ...
British Empiremilitary medicineOpium WardisciplinehygieneNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.2011.01212_3.xANT?NIO R. M. SIM?ESJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.The Modern Language Journal
He reprised Winston Churchill’s words on the new energy “long mercifully withheld from man”, and called for atomic technologies to be harnessed in peace time “to the needs of industry”. Gale went on to suggest that the lay public, not politicians, must direct governments on how to ...
Address MigrationTest#test_create_table_with_query_from_relation error [#1543] Follow the new interface of AR::ConnectionAdapters::IndexDefinition#initialize [#1295] Remove lengths, where, using from IndexDefinition [#1529] Arity change in insert method [#1382] Restore the ability that SQL with...
The sound system of Chinese is marked by its use oftones to indicate differences of meaning between words or syllables that are otherwise identical in sound (i.e., have the same consonants and vowels). Modern Standard Chinese has four tones, while the more archaic Cantonese language uses at ...
Sunnah(“a well-trodden path”) was used by pre-Islamic Arabs to denote their tribal orcommon law. In Islam it came to mean the example of the Prophet—i.e., his words and deeds as recorded incompilationsknown asHadith(in Arabic, Ḥadīth: literally, “report”; a collection of sayi...