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- Architecture of traces and ascriptions: interpreting the vanished Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors in Constantinople
- Beneath history, memory and oblivion. Beneath memory and oblivion: life. But the writing of life is another history. Incompleteness. --Paul Ricoeur (1) This paper was prompted by the 2000 proposal to develop the site of the...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
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- Efficient Byzantine-Tolerant Erasure-Coded Storage
- This paper describes a decentralized consistency protocol for survivable storage that exploits local data versioning within each storage-node. Such versioning enables the protocol to efficiently provide linearizability and wait-freedom of read and write operations to erasure-coded data in asynchronous environments with Byzantine failures of clients and servers. Measurements of a...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- London gallery previews major Byzantine exhibition
- LONDON AFP — A major exhibition on the Byzantine Empire featuring icons, wall paintings and mosaics dating back to the fourth century AD was unveiled by a London gallery Friday. "Byzantium 330-1453" is going on show at the Royal Academy of Arts from October 25 to March 22 next...
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- The Reluctant Emperor: A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, c.1295-1383. (book reviews)
- J.J. Norwich says that he would like `to make some small amends for a centuries-old conspiracy of silence' concerning the Byzantine history (p. xxxvi). Is it really necessary, however, to lead Byzantium into the limelight? Byzantine studies have been flourishing for some considerable time; the scholarly...
- Research articles 1997-05-01
- Byzantine Style, Religion, and Civilization: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman
- Medieval Byzantine Style, Religion, and Civilization: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman. Edited by Elizabeth M. Jeffreys. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007. Pp. M, 436. $145.00.)Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman is a collection of twenty-two specialized and eclectic and disparate contributions in addition to...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- The Reluctant Emperor: A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk c. 1295-1383
- The Reluctant Emperor: A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, c. 1295-1383. By Donald M. Nicol. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1996. Pp. xiv. 203. $39.95.) Some dozen years ago I met Donald M. Nicol at a conference. Reflecting on our mutual interest in the late Byzantine period,...
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- The Byzantine Rules of Press Pools
- When I started on the White House beat in January, no one handed me a "Press Pool Protocol" booklet. Sure, I understood that the "pool" was the small group of reporters who rotate the duty of flying on Air Force One, that it shadows the president to places the whole...
- Research articles 2001-03-14
- Israeli archeologists unveil Byzantine mosaic, table
- CAESAREA, Israel AFP — Israeli archaeologists unveiled a Byzantine mosaic that had been buried under sand dunes for 50 years, along with a newly discovered, highly rare table dating from the same era. The so-called mosaic "carpet" measuring 16 metres (53 feet) by 14.5 metres (48 feet), was uncovered...
- Research articles 2005-09-19
- St. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology
- St. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology. By Andrew Louth. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xviii + 327 pp. $74.00 cloth. While the Venerable Bede longed with nostalgia for a Christian Rome in faraway Northumbria, a contemporary subject of the Umayyad caliph was...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- St. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology
- St. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology. By Andrew Louth. [Oxford Early Christian Studies.] (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 327.L45.)This book reminds me of the merchant finding a pearl of great price, and selling everything to possess it. For many years, Professor Louth has dedicated all...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Learn to live with the European EMC directive (it won't go away). (Electromagnetic-Compatibility)(includes related articles on EMC directives)
- The EMC Directive embodies some sound ideas. Unfortunately, it also involves a Byzantine and quintessentially Old World bureaucracy. The EMC Directive embodies some sound ideas. Unfortunately, it also involves a Byzantine and quintessentially Old World bureaucracy.
- Research articles 1996-10-24
- Pru puts mutual fund unit under same roof as brokers: move seen as effort to put disjointed house in order.
- Prudential Financial Inc. is coming closer to putting its house in order. Since going public last December, the Newark, N.J., insurance and financial services giant has had its share of criticism for its Byzantine business structure. ...
- Research articles 2002-08-12
- REMAINS OF SETTLEMENT THAT EXISTED FOR 700 YEARS UNCOVERED
- Excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the west Kerem el- Ras sector of Kfar Kana in Lower Galilee uncovered remains of a settlement that existed for 700 years - throughout the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods. Building remaiExcavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the west Kerem...
- Research articles 2004-12-21
- 3 measures good for business.(Viewpoint)
- There is a new sheriff in albany, and it is just possible that he will force action on three important issues that have languished because of the Byzantine ways of state government. All three went nowhere in the Pataki era, but Gov. Eliot Spitzer is ...
- Research articles 2007-06-11
- THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: ON THE ROAD TO DOHA.(Qatar meeting)
- A BYZANTINE ORGANIZATION A BYZANTINE ORGANIZATION
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- Beware of hackers.(computer access crimes on the rise)
- Computer crime and other information security breaches are on the rise It's a Byzantine subculture with its own jargon, aliases, Web sites, publications, and covert organizations. Its members use "handles" like "Candyman," Computer crime and other information security...
- Research articles 1998-11-01
- Beware Turks bearing phones; Nokia and Motorola in Turkey.(Nokia and Motorola sue Telsim)(allegations of fraud)(Brief Article)
- A salutary tale of Byzantine borrowing A salutary tale of Byzantine borrowing
- Research articles 2002-02-02
- Microsoft Rolls Out Taxsaver, but Intuit's Turbotax Still Champ.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Feb. 6--As someone who has done my own taxes every year for the last decade, I firmly believe that everyone should do their own taxes at least once. You learn a lot about the Byzantine turns of the U.S. tax code, and you get a real appreciation...
- Research articles 2000-02-07
- ISRAEL: REMAINS OF SETTLEMENT THAT EXISTED FOR 700 YEARS UNCOVERED.(Brief Article)
- Excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the west Kerem el- Ras sector of Kfar Kana in Lower Galilee uncovered remains of a settlement that existed for 700 years - throughout the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods. Building Excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities...
- Research articles 2004-12-21
- E-Champs: RealNames advocates clarity over chaos.
- To Steve Barrett, there's nothing worse than a print advertisement with a Byzantine Web address as the call to action. The former advertising executive, who presided over some of the largest names in the pharmaceutical industry, is out to abolish the To Steve Barrett, there's nothing...
- Research articles 2001-01-22
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