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Norwich - Roman. The Romans had their regional capital at Venta Icenorum on the river to the south which is now at modern day Caistor St Edmund. No sign of Roman influence can be seen in Norwich. Norwich - Early English/Norman Conquest. Norwich was a construct of the Anglo-Saxons, the Danes and the Normans. The word Norvic appears on coins minted during the reign of King Athelstan (early 10th century AD). The ancient city was already a thriving centre for trade and commerce in East Anglia when Swein Forkbeard ...

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Born of a Corsican father and Genoese mother, he grew up in Sète, a town on the Mediterranean coast of the Hérault. After a good traditional Roman Catholic education, he studied law at university, then resided in Paris for most of the remainder of his life, where he was for a while part of Stephane Mallarme's circle. He published some dialogues, articles, and a study of Leonardo da Vinci, but no poems before his long La Jeune Parque saw the light of day in 1917. In 1922, he published Charmes (from Latin carmina, meanin ...

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Paul Valéry, Paul Valéry - Life, Paul Valéry - Quotations, Paul Valéry - Selected works

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Having so many characters from the original Nedor comics at his disposal, Moore tried not to miss any out when reviving them for his story. Because of this there are lots of characters in Terra Osbcura. The following characters are described in their state when the spin-off series begins (in order to minimise spoilers), as such it can be used as a reference for new readers of Terra Obscura. Members of the science-hero team Society of Major American Science-Heroes. Dr. T ...

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Posidonius (also spelled Poseidonius), nicknamed "the Athlete", was born to a Greek family in Apamea, a Roman city on the river Orontes in northern Syria, and probably died in Rome or Rhodes. Posidonius completed his higher education in Athens, where he was a student of the aged Panaetius, the head of the Stoic school. He settled around 95 BCE in Rhodes, a maritime state which had a reputation for scientific research, and became a citizen. Pos ...

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Philosophy of language - Composition and parts. A major question in the field - perhaps the single most important question for formalist and structuralist thinkers - is, "how does the meaning of a sentence emerge out of its parts?" Much about composition of sentences is addressed in the work of linguistics of syntax. More logic-oriented semantics tend to look towards the principle of compositionality in order to explain the relationship between meaningful parts and whole sentences. The princ ...

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He was born in Budapest, Hungary as Erdős Pál. (Erdős is pronounced as IPA /ɛrdøːʃ/, similar to "Air-dersh" if you say the second syllable non-rhotically.) His parents were both Jewish mathematicians. The Budapest Jewish community of that day produced at least five remarkable thinkers besides Erdős: Eugene Wigner, the physicist and engineer; Edward Teller, the physicist and politician; Leó Szilárd, the chemist, physicist and politician; John von Neumann, the mathem ...

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see also A Roster of Physician Writers The most famous writers: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) - Russian playwright Erasmus Darwin - English poet Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) - known as a writer, but also discovered de Musset's sign, an indicator of syphilitic aortitis John Keats (1795-1821) - British poet. François Rabelais (1483-1553) - French author of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German writer, poet, essayist and dramatist. See also:

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Although the mathematical notion of function was implicit in trigonometric and logarithmic tables, which existed in his day, Leibniz was the first, in 1692 and 1694, to employ it explicitly, to denote any of several geometric concepts derived from a curve, such as abscissa, ordinate, tangent, chord, and the perpendicular (Struik 1969: 367). Only later did "function" lose these geometrical associations. Leibniz was the first to see that the coefficients of a system of linear equations could be arranged into arrays, now called determina ...

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In China, the polymath Shen Kua (1031 - 1095) formulated a hypothesis for the process of land formation: based on his observation of fossil shells in a geological stratum in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by erosion of the mountains and by deposition of silt. The work on rocks Peri lithon by Theophrastus, a student of Aristotle, remained authoritative for millennia. However, its interpretation of fossils was not overturned until after the Scientific Revolution. It was translate ...

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HM Nautical Almanac Office - Superintendents of the Nautical Almanac. Thomas Young (1818–1829) — physicist and polymath John Pond (1829–1831) — Astronomer Royal W. S. Stratford (1831–1853) — set up a central bureaucracy to replace the system of home-based computers John Russell Hind (1853–1891) — discovered a number of asteroids in the earlier part of his career A. M. W. Downing (1891–1910) Philip Herbert Cowell (1910–1930) — best remembered ...

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The keystone to Administrative Behavior 1 is the behavioral and cognitive process of making rational human choices, ie. decisions. Prior to Professor Simon’s contribution , much of management theory was dedicated to developing an organizational chart with the major nodes representing the hierarchical location of the official who made ever increasingly more important decisions. “ Who makes the decision?” was the important question, and where did he or she appear on the chart. Subtexts may have been added to describe th ...

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Herbert Simon, Herbert Simon - DECISIONS, Herbert Simon - NOTES, Herbert Simon - Interesting quotes, Herbert Simon - Selected bibliography, Herbert Simon - Reference

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"We can all think clearly, more or less, some of the time, but von Neumann's clarity of thought was orders of magnitude greater than that of most of us, all the time. For von Neumann it seemed to be impossible to be unclear in thought or in expression." --Paul Halmos The oldest of three children, von Neumann was born Neumann Margittai János Lajos (two surnames, two given names respectively) in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia) to Neumann Miksa (Max Neumann), a lawyer who worked in a bank, and ...

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Muir was born in the historic royal burgh of Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland to Daniel Muir and Ann Gilrye. He had two brothers, Daniel and David, and, after 1850, five sisters, Margaret, Sarah, Mary, Anna, and Joanna. In his autobiography, he described his two main boyhood pursuits that would later prove important to his later life. He and his friends played relay running games that lasted for hours, covering tremendous distances, yielding physical endurance. He also sadly recalled the wanton slaughter of immense amounts of local birds by himself and his fr ...

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John Muir, John Muir - Biography, John Muir - From studying to protecting, John Muir - Quote, John Muir - Reference

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Jack London - Short stories. Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes[4]: London's true métier was the short story....London's true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed. His stories that run longer than the magic 7,500 generally—but certainly not always—could have ...

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Jack London, Jack London - Personal background, Jack London - Early life, Jack London - Early literary career 1898-1900, Jack London - First marriage 1900-1904, Jack London - Accusations of plagiarism, Jack London - Beauty Ranch 1910-1917, Jack London - Political views, Jack London - Alleged racialist views, Jack London - Death, Jack London - Works, Jack London - Short stories, Jack London - Novels, Jack London - Nonfiction and autobiographical memoirs, Jack London - Apocrypha, Jack London - References and other sources, Jack London - Biographies and books about Jack London, Jack London - References, Jack London - Novels, Jack London - Autobiographical memoirs, Jack London - Nonfiction and essays, Jack London - Stories, Jack London - Plays

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His most celebrated work remains Deschooling Society (1971), a critical discourse on education as practised in 'modern' economies. Full of detail on then current programmes and concerns, the book can seem dated, but its core assertions and propositions remain as radical today as they were at the time. Giving real world examples of the ineffectual nature of institutionalised education, Illich posited self directed education, supported by intentional social relations, in fluid, informal arrangements: Universal education thr ...

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Ivan Illich, Ivan Illich - Personal life, Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich - Quotes, Ivan Illich - Bibliography

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Son of Emily Prince and itinerant school teacher John Burton Newcomb, Simon soon became disillusioned with Dr Foshay and walked the 120 miles to the coast to work his passage on-board ship to Salem, Massachusetts so that he could join his father. Newcomb studied mathematics and physics privately and supported himself with some school-teaching before becoming a computer at the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1857. At around the same time, he enrolled at the Lawrence Scientific School of H ...

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The name “Sanquhar” comes from ancient Gaelic words San Caer meaning “Old Fort”. There is an impressive ancient ruin of a castle that over looks the town, but the name predates even this ancient fort. With its location along the river Nith Sanquhar has been a major crossroads for centuries. Artifacts have been found here from Neolithic times. Several prehistoric British forts can be found in the area as well as traces of an ancient Roman outpost. Some of the earliest recorded settlers in the area came from Ireland in the 9th and 10th ...

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There are currently four books in the series: Artemis Fowl, in which the twelve-year old Artemis attempts to steal fairy gold; Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, in which Artemis discovers that his father is still alive and, with help from the fairies, tries to rescue him from the Russian mafia; Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, in which Artemis, in what he considers to be his last criminal act before his father completely recovers, attempts to create a device using fairy technology he stole in the first book, and to use ...

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Gray was born in Riddrie, east Glasgow. His father had been wounded in the First World War and worked at the time in a factory, while his mother worked in a shop. During the Second World War, Gray was evacuated to Perthshire and then Lanarkshire, experiences which he drew on in his later fiction. The family lived on a council estate, and Gray received his education from a combination of state education, public libraries and public service broadcasting: "the kind of education British governments now consider useless, especially for British wo ...

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Alasdair Gray, Alasdair Gray - Life, Alasdair Gray - Quotes, Alasdair Gray - Literary Works, Alasdair Gray - Novels, Alasdair Gray - Short stories, Alasdair Gray - Poetry, Alasdair Gray - Non-fiction, Alasdair Gray - Dramatic Works very incomplete, Alasdair Gray - Theatre

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Bastian is remembered as one of the pioneers of the concept of the 'psychic unity of mankind' -- the idea that all humans shared a basic mental framework. This became the basis of notions of cultural relativism and influenced Carl Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. He also argued that the world was divided up into difference 'geographical provinces' and that each of these provinces moved through the same stages of evolutionary development. According to Bastian, innovations and culture traits tended not to diffuse across areas. Rather ...

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Danny DeVito plays Bill Rago, a divorced advertising executive down on his luck. When he loses his job in Detroit, the unemployment agency finds him a temporary job; teaching in the U.S. Army training base, Fort McClane. Initially unenthusiastic about this assignment, Rago finds that he has only six weeks to teach a group of "squeakers", who are especially low achievers, the basics of comprehension and use of English language. Most of the soldiers are only s ...

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Renaissance Man, Renaissance Man - Plot, Renaissance Man - Primary Cast of Characters, Renaissance Man - Quote, Renaissance Man - External Link

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