The context of an event includes the circumstances and conditions which "surround" it; the context of a word, sentence, or longer utterance or text includes the words that "surround" it. Within specific academic disciplines, it has the following meanings: In archaeology, the context (physical location) of a discovery can be of major significance. See stratification. More precisely, an archaeological context is an event in time which has been preserved in the archaeological record. The cutting of a pit ...

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Context - Conferences and Workshops

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In a context switch, the state of the first process must be saved somehow, so that, when the scheduler gets back to the execution of the first process, it can restore this state and continue normally. The state of the process includes all the registers that the process may be using, especially the program counter, plus any other operating system specific data that may be necessary. Often, all the data that is necessary for state is stored in one data structure, ...

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Context switch, Context switch - When to switch?, Context switch - Multitasking, Context switch - Interrupt handling, Context switch - User and kernel mode switching, Context switch - Context switch: steps, Context switch - Software vs hardware context switching

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Hosea prophesied in a difficult period of Israel's history, the period of the Northern Kingdom's decline and fall in the 8th century BC. Hosea was himself a native of the Northern Kingdom, and wrote in a distinctive northern dialect. During Hosea's lifetime, the kings of the Northern Kingdom, their aristocratic supporters, and the priests had led the people in falling away from the Law of God, as given in the Pentateuch. Forsaking the worship of Yahweh, they worshipped other gods, especially Baal, the Canaanite fertility god. Other si ...

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Hosea, Hosea - Context, Hosea - Themes

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The Battle of Pavia was a continuation of "The Italian Wars" which began in 1494. Renaissance Italy was divided into several rival states, hostage to European powers, principally France and Spain. Swiss mercenaries held the balance between two great civilizations, that of the south and that of the north. (A relic of this historic position is the continuation of the Pope's Swiss guard down to this day.) Francis I, King of France, in alliance with Venetians, had achieved a great victory over Swiss mercenaries in the Battle of Marignano, ...

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Battle of Pavia, Battle of Pavia - Context, Battle of Pavia - The battle

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The Princess Bride is considered an example of reconstructivist art. The book affects to be an abridgement of an older version by "S. Morgenstern", which was originally a satire of the excesses of European royalty. Goldman "remembered" the book as it was narrated to him by his father as an exciting adventure tale, without the complex political overtones. His work is a recreation of the abridgement of his father. The book, in fact, is entirely Goldman's work, and Morgenstern and his "original version" never existed. Nor is Goldm ...

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The Princess Bride, The Princess Bride - Context, The Princess Bride - Buttercup's Baby

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Hosea prophesied in a difficult period of Israel's history, the period of the Northern Kingdom's decline and fall in the 8th century BC. Hosea was himself a native of the Northern Kingdom, and wrote in a distinctive northern dialect. During Hosea's lifetime, the kings of the Northern Kingdom, their aristocratic supporters, and the priests had led the people in falling away from the Law of God, as given in the Pentateuch. Forsaking the worship of Yahweh, they worshipped other gods, especially Baal, the Canaanite fertility god. Other si ...

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Book of Hosea, Book of Hosea - Context, Book of Hosea - Themes, Book of Hosea - Contribution

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The 1970s had been rife with allegations of corruption within London's police forces, and numerous dismissals had already taken place, in particular after some high-profile scandals involving bribery of officers in the vice squad by Soho criminals. Worse was to come, however, as further allegations of collusion between armed robbery gangs and high-ranking officers in specialised units such as the Flying Squad, the Regional Crime Squad and the C ...

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Operation Countryman, Operation Countryman - Context, Operation Countryman - Operation Countryman, Operation Countryman - Aftermath

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For several years Edward had been taxing the Jewish money lenders in England, to finance his campaign against Wales. When the Jews were finally unable to pay Edward's ever increasing taxes, a pogrom ensued. The statute forced Jews over the age of seven to wear an identifying Yellow badge, and making usury illegal (linking it to blasphemy), in order to seize their assets. Scores of English Jews were subsequently arrested, some 300 hanged and their property given to the Crown. In 1280 Edward ordered Jews to be present at Dominicans preaching conversion. In 1287 King Edward arrests heads of Jewish families and demands their ...

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Statute of Jewry, Statute of Jewry - Context, Statute of Jewry - The Text of the Statute

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The book affects to be an abridgement of an older version by "S. Morgenstern", which was originally a satire of the excesses of European royalty. Goldman "remembered" the book as it was narrated to him by his father as an exciting adventure tale, without the complex political overtones. His work is a recreation of the abridgement of his father. The book, in fact, is entirely Goldman's work, and Morgenstern and hiscribed in the book. He has two daughters, not a son, and his wife is not a psychologist. The countries Florin and Guilder do not e ...

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The Princess Bride, The Princess Bride - Context, The Princess Bride - Reunion Scene, The Princess Bride - Buttercup's Baby

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In September 1941 Heydrich was appointed Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, replacing Konstantin von Neurath whom Hitler considered insufficiently harsh. During his role as de facto dictator of Bohemia and Moravia, Heydrich often drove alone in a car with an open roof — a show of confidence in the occupation forces and the effectiveness of their repressive measures against the local population. Due to his cruelty, Heydrich was nicknamed The Butcher of Prague, The Blond Beast or The Hangman. ...

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Operation Anthropoid, Operation Anthropoid - Context, Operation Anthropoid - Strategic context, Operation Anthropoid - The operation, Operation Anthropoid - The assassination, Operation Anthropoid - Consequences, Operation Anthropoid - Legend, Operation Anthropoid - Trivia

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Perplex City is an Alternate reality game being run by Mind Candy, a London based private organization. Perplex City is an attempt at treading entirely new water in the field of Alternate reality games. Typically, ARGs are built on one of two construction types: Commercial, or Grassroots. Where the grassroots variety of games tend to be entirely not-for-profit hobbies among the interested, Commercial games are specifically aimed at getting an audience interested in a particular product through the use of story telling and puzzle solvi ...

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Perplex City, Perplex City - Context, Perplex City - Story Concept, Perplex City - Puzzle Cards, Perplex City - Web Pages

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The circumstances of The Garden of Eden, its creation and its subsequent treatment by Hemingway's publisher, Scribner, is curious. Even up until his suicide in 1961, Hemingway was producing works of literature. Mary Hemingway, his widow, was responsible for retrieving his unpublished material and presenting it to his publisher. Of this collection, the notable novel Islands in the Stream, Hemingway's bullfighting journal The Dangerous Summer, and various other short stories, have since been published. The third major posthumous work that was uncovered ...

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The Garden of Eden, The Garden of Eden - Context, The Garden of Eden - Summary, The Garden of Eden - Theme, The Garden of Eden - Reaction

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Oda Nobunaga was at the height of his power, having destroyed the Takeda family earlier that year. He had central Japan firmly under his control, and his only rivals were the Mori clan, the Uesugi clan, and the Late Hojo clan, each weakened by internal affairs. After the death of Mori Motonari, his grandson, Mōri Terumoto only strived to maintain the status quo, aided by his two uncles, as per Motonari's will. Hojo Ujiyasu, a renowned strategist and domestic manager, had also died, leaving his less prominent son Ujimasa in place. Finally, t ...

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Incident at Honnoji, Incident at Honnoji - Context, Incident at Honnoji - Akechi's Treachery, Incident at Honnoji - Reasons for the coup, Incident at Honnoji - After the incident

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Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1824 - 1886), during which three Anglo-Burmese Wars took place, and incorporated it into its Indian Empire. Burma was administered as a province of India until 1937 when it became a separate, self-governing colony; independence was attained as a result of the Aung San–Attlee agreement which guaranteed Burmese independence. Aung San was assassinated before Bur ...

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Shooting an Elephant, Shooting an Elephant - Context, Shooting an Elephant - Synopsis, Shooting an Elephant - Symbolism

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In 1811, Sense and Sensibility was the first published novel of the English author Jane Austen (1775–1817). The first version of the novel was probably written in 1795 as an epistolary novel (novel in letters) entitled Elinor and Marianne. At this point, Austen was still living in the home of her father, George Austen, a local Anglican rector and the father of eight children. She rewrote the early manuscript in 1797–98 as a narrated novel and then further revised it in 1809–10, shortly after she moved with her mother and ...

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Sense and Sensibility, Sense and Sensibility - Overview, Sense and Sensibility - Context, Sense and Sensibility - Summary, Sense and Sensibility - Principal characters, Sense and Sensibility - Film and television adaptations

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In the beginning of the 1970s, the authoritarian regime of the Estado Novo continued to weigh heavily on the country, after a half-century of rule under António de Oliveira Salazar. After the military coup of May 28, 1926, Portugal implemented an authoritarian regime of fascist inspiration. In 1933, the regime was recast and renamed Estado Novo ("New State"), and Oliveira Salazar came to control the country until 1968, when he was incapacitated. Marcello Caetano replaced him, and led the ...

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Carnation Revolution, Carnation Revolution - Context, Carnation Revolution - Events, Carnation Revolution - Consequences, Carnation Revolution - Freedom Day, Carnation Revolution - External References

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Introduced by cognitive linguist Leonard Talmy in 1981, Force Dynamics started out as a generalization of the traditional notion of the causative, dividing causation into finer primitives and considering the notions of letting, hindering, and helping. Talmy further developed the field in his 1985, 1988 and 2000 works. Talmy places Force Dynamics within the broader context of Cognitive Semantics. In his view, a general idea underlying this discipline is the existence of a fundamental distinction in language ...

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Force Dynamics, Force Dynamics - Context, Force Dynamics - Theoretical outline, Force Dynamics - Basic concepts, Force Dynamics - More complexity, Force Dynamics - Psychological basis, Force Dynamics - Limitations and criticism

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The work was written at a time of major change in Rome, both political and social. The Republic had fallen, civil war had ripped apart society, and the sudden return of prosperity and peace after a generation of chaos had badly eroded traditional social roles and cultural norms. In reaction, the emperor Augustus was trying to re-introduce traditional Roman moral values, and the Aeneid is thought to reflect that aim. Aeneas was depicted as a man devoted and loyal to his country and its prominence, rather than personal gains. He went of ...

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Aeneid, Aeneid - Form and tradition, Aeneid - Influence, Aeneid - Story, Aeneid - Context, Aeneid - The history of the Aeneid

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The Battle of Austerlitz took place on 2 December 1805, exactly one year after Napoleon's crowning as Emperor of the French. It was the next and final step in his "Campaign of Austria" against the Austrians and Russians, after Napoleon's significant victory over the Austrian General Mack at Ulm. In an unprecedented rapid concentration of French forces, Napoleon essentially had defeated Mack by manoeuvre, resulting in the surrender of a major Austrian army protecting the northern approach to Vienna, and subsequently ...

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Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Austerlitz - Context, Battle of Austerlitz - The Battle, Battle of Austerlitz - Aftermath, Battle of Austerlitz - Napoleon's Speech, Battle of Austerlitz - English, Battle of Austerlitz - French Original, Battle of Austerlitz - Trivia, Battle of Austerlitz - Cultural References

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