Roughly 660 tight-knit buildings make up the Boston-area campus, showcasing Romanesque, Colonial Revival, Federal, High Victorian Gothic, Greek Revival, Collegiate Gothic, Art Deco and modernist architecture. "A walker can sample almost 300 years of innovative designs in an easy stroll," The ...
Gametes are haploid, which means they each have only one copy of the 23 chromosomes that make up the human genome. (The word “haploid”comes to us from the ancient Greekhaploos, or “single, simple, once”.) When the haploid egg and sperm cells unite, they eventually create a person ...
Indo-European linguists like Hamp compare the modern languages with one another to reconstruct the common ancestor spoken some thousands of years ago, long before any language was recorded. That means observing patterns of relationships among hundreds of current languages. To do this properly means st...
I was brought up on books like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; the 19th century US dialect was integral to the colour and sense of place, and there was never any question of anglicising them. Just imagine: She … looked out among the tomato vines and “jimpson” weeds that constituted ...
Greek exposure of $432 million (October 31, 2012 – $426 million) related primarily to secured loans to shipping companies. Securities exposures to European sovereigns and banks (excluding GIIPS) was $4.4 billion as at October 31, 2013 (October 31, 2012 – $3.5 billion), predominately ...