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The first step in providing a proper analysis of the dramatic view Lucius Anneus Seneca held, in regards to his tragedy works, is to investigate his language and precise use of high and pregnant words.
“It’s hard for me to imagine someone dedicating themselves to producing page after page of what looks like writing without it being writing, just for that purpose,” Jackson said.
The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978.[1] The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, a thus-far undeciphered alphabetic writing.
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Let readers attempt to build up their own numeracy in a very simple way. All they need to do is to get a sheet of paper and write down on it the numbers 1 to 20. Then they should proceed to think a bit about some large numbers that seem of interest to them, and try to estimate them within one order of magnitude (or two, for the larger ones). By "estimate" here, I mean actually do a back-of-the-envelope (or mental) calculation, ignoring all but factors of ten. Then they should attach the idea to the computed number.
The goal of Lybba is to create an online central repository of medical information, a "Wikipedia" for the health care industry. Lybba is a non-profit organization that is committed to transforming health care using the principles of the open source movement.
Learning to program is like learning to write good natural language. The best way to do it is to read some stuff written by masters of the form, write some things yourself, read a lot more, write a little more, read a lot more, write some more ... and repeat until your writing begins to develop the kind of strength and economy you see in your models.
The much-anticipated—and dreaded—report outlines the coalition government's plans to address the largest budget deficit Britain has faced outside of wartime. Almost all government departments, excluding health and overseas aid, will see their budgets cut by an average of 19 percent over four years, according to the so-called spending review. Cuts of 83 billion pounds (about $131-billion) are expected to result in the elimination of 490,000 public-sector jobs.
The news for British universities is particularly bad: Excluding research support, which will remain flat, the amount of money going to higher education will decline by 40 percent over the next four years, from 7.1 billion pounds (about $11-billion) to 4.2 billion pounds (about $6.6-billion).
"Could you actually take your oath that you are the son of the father of whom she says that you are? Telemachus, you know, did not care at all to insist in support of Penelope, the daughter of Icarius, who was regarded as a very chaste woman, that she spoke the truth when she declared that Odysseus was his father.
Nel fondo manoscritti sono compresi: codici del sec. XV, Cronache, Statuti e ordinamenti, Archivi familiari, blasonari e genealogie, raccolte di iscrizioni, altri manoscritti di argomento faentino.
Tra i più conosciuti si citano:... Felice Feliciano Veronese [Sylloge inscriptionum latinarum veterum] (riconosciuto da Augusto Campana come in parte autografo).
Per "letteratura italiana" intendiamo un campo vastissimo di opere, autori, testi e scritti che coprono un larghissimo arco cronologico, che va dal Duecento
LEAD: In Kennebunkport, Me., the Vice President is known to one and all as ''George.'' And why not? George Herbert Walker Bush started hanging out in Kennebunkport before he could spell c-a-t, let alone c-h-a-r-i-s-m-a. They know him up there. But what's the rest of America's reason for turning surnames, complete with Mrs., Mr., Ms.
What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. This book was a smash hit when it first came out in 1939, and yet it went out of print, and hasn't been in print in half a century.
An analysis of 10,000 porn stars' careers and demographic profiles that uncovers what they really look like, what they do, and how their role has changed
Upravo odsutnost iz kanona čini Josipa Horvata svojevrsnom neispisanom pločom, likom razmjerno čistim od sedimenata “ocjena i mišljenja” prethodnih generacija, i stoga privlačnim za nas. Neinterpretirani, “neobrađeni” Horvat postaje točka s koje možemo početi drugačije razgledavati onu prošlost čijim su nas “ispravnim interpretacijama”; razgledavati je, na primjer, sa sviješću da uz glavni, dominantni akord uvijek postoje i drugačiji suzvuci
We’ve been claiming information overload for decades, if not centuries. As a species, we’re pretty good at inventing new tools to deal with the problems of increasing information: language,...