In 1951 when the Norwegian company Selmer started construction on the first major project of the Snowy Mountains Scheme , their construction camp became known as ‘Little Norway’ as it housed the largest number of Norwegians living outside of Norway at the time. Road to Guthega still under co...
Projected coordinate systems, map projections, parameters, and linear units of measure Current as of ArcGIS version 9.3 Map Projection parameters Name Sphere-only Aitoff Albers Equal Area Conic Azimuthal Equidistant Azimuthal Equidistant Auxiliary Sphere Behrmann Bonne Cassini Craster Parabolic Cube ...
as it came to be known, proclaimed the freedom of all Russian peasants from serfdom and virtual slavery to their aristocratic masters. Halfway across the world, the opposite transpired when seven American states seceded and thereafter united to form the Confederate...
2014). GBS enabled the construction of high-density linkage map and QTL analysis in maize, wheat, barley (Poland et al. 2012; Chen et al. 2014), oat (Huang et al. 2014), and chickpea (Jaganathan et al. 2015). In rice, GBS has been applied in QTL mapping for leaf width and ...
Salinity is one of the many abiotic stresses limiting rice production worldwide. Several studies were conducted to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for traits associated to salinity tolerance. However, due to large confidence interval for the posi
the fact the peasantry had traditionally been free meant that more of the economic benefits flowed back to them rather than going to a feudal landowning class. This was not the case in other countries of Europe like Poland were the peasantry was still bound by serfdom and a strong feudalist...
Poznan, city and capital of Wielkopolskie province, west-central Poland, located on the Warta River near its confluence with the Cybina. For a time, the city served as the capital of Poland, and it was a major hub of European trade in the 15th and 16th c
Silesia, historical region that is now in southwestern Poland. Silesia was originally a Polish province, which became a possession of the Bohemian crown in 1335, passed with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1526, and was taken by Prussia in 1742.
Poland-Lithuania, Sweden, and the encroachment of Russia Poland, 1634Poland's territory in 1634, during the reign of Władysław IV Vasa. In 1561 the Latvian territory was partitioned: Courland, south of theWestern Dvina, became anautonomousduchy under the suzerainty of the Lithuaniansoverei...
1 of 2 Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler reviewing German troops in Poland, September 1939. 2 of 2 See how German troops parachuted behind the Maginot Line as part of the blitzkrieg against Allied forcesThe German invasion of France, May 1940; fromThe Second World War: Triumph of the Axis(1963), ...