the empire of glass

... Around them, the Tavern of St Theodore and of the Crocodile was empty of patrons Its buttressed timbers, and the smell of damp wood that underlay the smell of spilled wine, reminded Speroni of Trang ... perhaps The scrabbling of their claws kept him awake at night as they ran across the floor, scuttled behind the walls and scrabbled between the joists of the ceiling Rats were the bane of Venice ... this Doge the leader of Venice then?" he said, trying to make out what the object was by the flickering light of the flambeaux The Doctor nodded sagely "The Doge heads the Council of Three,

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2018, 14:40

... ability in the making of glass bottles, and many of the city’s craftsmen left Italy to set up glassworks throughout Europe A major milestone in the history of glass occurred with the invention of lead ... that the first hollow glass container was made by covering a sand core with a layer of molten glass Glass blowing became the most common way to make glass containers from the first century BC The ... by the addition of colouring materials The secret of glass making was taken across Europe by the Romans during this century However, they guarded the skills and technology required to make glass

Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2018, 22:38

... dreamed of the utopia of the right to the city for all.Therefore, the third part of the book is more than an essay on the theoretical-methodologicalapplication of the hypothesis developed in the ... neoliberal politicians at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s, thechange in the economic role of housing was further powered by the fall of the Berlin Wall and thefree market hegemony ... Teresa, the two ends of theribbon of strength and love that unites us Trang 6The Global Financialisation of HousingThe Mortgage System Exporting the Model Post-Crisis Measures: More of the Same? The

Ngày tải lên: 08/01/2020, 09:52

... µm6 0.000254077 µm6 The other property of the PCF is confinement loss (Lc) created from the leakage of the modes and the structure of the PCF [32] It can be calculated by the following equation ... possible to tailor the range of the effective mode area to be suitable to the needs of a specific application via varying the size of air hole diameters and the kind of liquid The PCF with a large ... increasing of the wavelength and increases with decreasing of the diameter of the air holes from 1.42 µm to 1 µm As observed, the curves present a different shape for the two cases of diameters

Ngày tải lên: 17/08/2020, 20:49

... judge the ideas which the Romans of thetime had of their growing control of the Mediterranean, but there is at least some The comedies of Plautus and Terence, the ing fragments of the works of Cato ... written on what theRomans thought their empire was as opposed to what they did tocreate it.14 Trang 186 The Language of EmpireThe reasons for the lack of such attention to the ideas of theRomans are ... is these two factorswhich shape the process of this investigation and its possibleoutcome Trang 142 The Language of Empirei The first is the notion of ‘empire’ itself The idea of what an empireconsists

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 08:20

... Holmes's comments to Watson at the end of The Hound of the Baskervilles: Trang 6"The whole course of events," said Holmes, "from the point of view of the man who called himself Stapleton ... the end of the story providing the explanation for the myriad details and diversions along the wayCity of Glass presents a new complication Toward the end of the novel we realize that the story ... critique on the function of the author in the discourse of detective fiction Like other reflexive or self-conscious novels, City of Glass incorporates a formal and thematic questioning of authorship

Ngày tải lên: 14/04/2016, 18:02

... remarkedabout the hegemony of Europeans over their colonies in the heyday of the British Empire: “We havethe Gatling gun, and they have not.”In 1992, the neoconservative Paul Wolfowitz, undersecretary of ... worked for a trust company on the offshore banking haven of Jersey, one of Britain’s Channel Islands There he found himself at the center of the EHM world, part of a globaloffshore banking industry ... Had the post-postwar world—the new order emerging since the Berlin Wall came down in 1989—turned full circle to a new Age of Empire? The victory of the Allies in 1945, confirming the right of

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 13:55

... The women, of course, did all thevalue-added work: preparing the hides and decorating the robes The men of the plains soon realizedthat the more wives they had, the greater their production of ... back gate of the fort in the direction of the cornfields The Indians caught them, too, forced Lucy to surrendertwo of her children, then dragged her, the two remaining children, and one of the men ... in horrible agony In the aftermath of the raid, there were two groups of survivors, neither of which knew of theother’s existence Rachel’s father, James Parker, led a group of eighteen—six adults

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2018, 14:37

... 2Empire of the FundTrang 4Empire of the Fund The Way We Save Now W I L L I A M A B I R D T H I S T L E Trang 5Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford It furthers the ... Trang 28 ANATOMY OF A FUNDBecause of the unique structure of this industry … the forces of arm’s- length bargaining do not work … in the same manner as they do in other sectors of the American economy. ... tumultuous months, these un- midwestern displays by the citizens of Wisconsin captivated the front pages of newspapers across the United States Yet they were surpassed by the enormities of the state itself

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2018, 09:36

... Trang 25In the group of GFRP, there are many classes such as E glass, S glass, S-2 glass, C glass, D glass, A glass, prepreg, chopped strand mat (CSM), woven roving etc They were synthesized for ... is a challenge [23] The straightforward technique of manual Trang 35mixing falls short of the degree of dispersion of the nanocomposite provided by other methods [29] Most of the above results ... nanotubes The Graduate School of the University of Ulsan Department of Mechanical Engineering Van-Tho Hoang Trang 2An experimental study on the enhancement of mechanical properties of glass fiber

Ngày tải lên: 15/10/2018, 23:58

... the elite men, the father of the country From the time of Augustus, the emperor held thistitle; he was the living embodiment of these virtues He, in fact,could be seen as the “Father” who generated ... brutalized themind of men – this was not possible Thinking that the aggres-siveness of the people might be mitigated by the disuse of arms, he built the temple of Janus at the foot of the Aventine ... destruction of Carthage (201 BCE).13 The more Romansembraced the fruits of empire and succumbed to luxury, Sallustreasoned, the more they lost their moral verve The “rhetoric of empire,” analogous

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2019, 20:56

... and a Note on the Text Introduction: Enlightened Empire? 1 Britain’s Controversial Empire 2 Taxing America 3 The Seven Years’ War and the Politics of Empire 4 The Rise and Fall of the Stamp Act ... of the Enlightenment’s finest minds, the shots fired at Lexington and Concord, the storming of Bunker Hill, and the signing of the American Declaration of Independence signaled that the age ofimperial ... “not anempire, but the project of an empire; not a gold mine, but the project of a gold mine.” Britain, Smith Trang 17believed, ought to awaken from the “golden dream” of empire and “accept the

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2020, 09:29

... qualified in the light of the prevailing customs of royal investiture and reception of the supplicant's offering The enactment of exchange in front of the assemblage at the ruler's court (darbar)-the ... sweep of the alluvial lower Gan-getic plains connected the revenue-rich territories of the Nawabs of Bengal and the Rajas of Banaras, nominally dependent on the ruling house of the Nawabs of Awadh ... administrative and official accounts of the markets of eastern and northern India, on the other hand, belong to a very different register Here, years of conflict with the agents of the Mughals and their successors,

Ngày tải lên: 09/01/2020, 09:00

... some of its conclusions could serve asworking hypotheses for the study of euergetism in other regions of theEmpire The boom in elite public giving visible in the cities of the RomanEmpire from the ... himself was the son of a high priest of Asia, father of the senator Carminius Athenagoras, grandfa- ther of the senators Carminii Athenagoras, Claudianus, Apphia and Liviana, treasurer of Asia, ... occurred in the west There too the political structure of thecities, the cogs in the wheel of the Roman imperial machine, was stronglyoligarchic And yet there too the cities needed the political–ideological

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2020, 19:18

... in the street at the sight of imported butter: ‘This is the kind of thing that makes one gloom over the prospects of England The deterioration of English butter is one of the worst signs of the ... Committee and the Office of the Dean ofArts and Sciences Nor would I have completed it without the support of my students and colleagues in the Department of English I have benefited from the professional, ... guardthe autonomy of his work, was also one of the ways in which the artist andthe businessman were both, in spite of their self-conceptions, boundtogether’ (101).7As Harold Perkin explains in The

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2020, 19:49

... the elite men, the father of the country From the time of Augustus, the emperor held thistitle; he was the living embodiment of these virtues He, in fact,could be seen as the “Father” who generated ... brutalized themind of men – this was not possible Thinking that the aggres-siveness of the people might be mitigated by the disuse of arms, he built the temple of Janus at the foot of the Aventine ... destruction of Carthage (201 BCE).13 The more Romansembraced the fruits of empire and succumbed to luxury, Sallustreasoned, the more they lost their moral verve The “rhetoric of empire,” analogous

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2020, 20:01

... murdered." Around them, the Tavern of St Theodore and of the Crocodile was empty of patrons. Its buttressed timbers, and the smell of damp wood that underlay the smell of spilled wine, reminded Speroni of the ... perhaps. The scrabbling of their claws kept him awake at night as they ran across the floor, scuttled behind the walls and scrabbled between the joists of the ceiling. Rats were the bane of Venice. ... sword as he did so. The rest of the youths rushed forward to help. Galileo took advantage of the distraction to take a couple of steps backwards, out of the nominal circle of the fight. Time to...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... outbreak of the Great War was to them a complete surprise, as it was also to the greater part of the representatives of the people in the government of the United States and in the government of the ... Australia, Union of South Africa and New Zealand, who between them have only 13% — almost the total white population of 68,000,000 of the Empire — of the people of the British Empire, from the utterly ... deprecated the diplomatic action of the other Powers in the affairs of the Ottoman Empire. " Russia then asked what was the drift of England's policy; what were her ideas in the matter?...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 11:20

... three years of age. By the will of the dying monarch, the regency, during the minority of the child, was placed in the hands of the youthful mother, the princess Hélène. The brothers of Vassili ... barbarism. They enriched the libraries by the books which they had rescued from the barbarism of the Turks, and contributed much to the eclat of the court of Moscow by the introduction of the pompous ... Upon the Roman Empire Irruption of the Alains Conquests of Trajan The Gothic invasion, The Huns their Character and Aspect The Devastations of Attila The Avars Results of Comminglings of these...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... Bohemia The Trap of the Monks Invasion of the Turks Their Defeat Coalition with Sigismond Sale of Transylvania Rule of Basta The Empire captured and recaptured Devastation of the Country Treatment of ... place them in possession of the whole of Hungary, and then, in their alliance they could defy all the power of the emperor, and penetrate even the very heart of his hereditary dominions of Austria. ... woes, and the land was filled with the dying and the dead. The Turks marched to the aid of Botskoi to expel the Austrians. Even the sway of the Mussulman was preferable to that of the bigoted...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20