HENRY VI’s inability to function as an effective monarch, which became total in 1453 with the onset of chronic mental illness, was a main cause of the WARS OF THE ROSES. In early August 1453, while staying at the royal hunting lodge at…

(PCNC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Philippine Central Depository, a corporation established to improve operations in securities transactions and to provide a fast, safe and highly efficient system for securities settlement in the…

OldEngl. for a Welshman; the plural wealas gives modern English Wales . Cf. Welsh

сокр. [horizontal takeoff] горизонтальный взлет

Translation — нерка — from russian — to english — 1

ἡ, ΜΑ βλ. χελώνα

(n.) 1660s, long speech by one person, from Fr. monologue, from Late Gk. monologos speaking alone, from Gk. monos single, alone (see MONO (Cf. mono )) + logos speech, word, from legein to speak (see LECTURE (Cf. lecture

   In the prehistoric periods, a great variety of burial practices existed side by side: inhumation of the whole skeleton, partial inhumation and possible secondary burial after exposure of the body, and cremation. Bodies could furthermore be…

(T’ao Ch’ien, T’ao Yüan ming) (365–427)    Born in the turbulent period of the late Qin (Chin) dynasty, Tao Qian became the most important writer of his age. He gave up a career in the imperial bureaucracy to live a simple rural life, and has…