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- What caused the Viking Age?
- Introduction The Scandinavian diaspora of the late eighth to mid-eleventh centuries AD known as the Viking Age was both widespread in scale and profound in impact. Long-range maritime expeditions facilitated a florescence of piracy, trade, migration, conquest and exploration across much of Europe--ultimately extending to western Asia and the...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Storm data and unusual weather phenomena
- Storm data and unusual weather phenomena Time...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Building a populist coalition in Texas, 1892-1896
- THAN A HALF CENTURY HAS PASSED SINCE C. VANN WOODWARD argued that the success of the People' s or Populist Party of the 1890s hinged on construction of three somewhat improbable coalitions of the dispossessed: southerners and westerners, farmers and laborers, and blacks and poor whites in the South. (1)...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Reading Baron Pierre de Coubertin: issues of gender and race
- Baron Pierre de Coubertin, like many other Frenchmen, wanted revenge for the defeat and the lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian war. As a descendant of an aristocratic family, Coubertin might have felt a special responsibility 'to seek revanche for the debacle at Sedan' (Guttmann, 1992, 8)....
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- The second fifty: in which the LRC completes its list of the 100 most important Canadian books
- "A land of wonks obsessed with politics and national identity." That was The Globe and Mail's pronouncement on the Canada that emerged from a close reading of the LRC's list of The 100 Most Important Canadian Books, which we unveiled last November. "An eclectic mix," opined the Ottawa Citizen, "ranging...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Kant: let us compare
- Every thing in this world is judg'd of by comparison. (1) It is impossible to continue in the practice of contemplating any order of beauty, without being frequently obliged to form comparisons between the several species and degrees of ...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Israeli Firms To Bid On Australian TUAV Tender Call
- By B.C. Kessner TEL AVIV, Israel--Officials here confirmed that Israel's Elbit Systems [ESLT] and Israel Aircraft Industries IAI will participate in bids on Australia's potential $107 million tactical unmanned aerial vehicle TUAV program when a Request for Tender is released later this month. Australia will spend about $71-$107...
- Research articles 2004-07-07
- Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit
- Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit. By LESLIE HILL. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. 277 pp.The subtitle of Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot designates the terrain which Leslie Hill's several books (on Beckett, Duras, Blanchot) have explored, constituting through this body of work a now recognizable and important voice in French...
- Research articles 2002-10-01
- Paul Taaffe Named Chairman and CEO, Hill and Knowlton, Inc.; Howard G. Paster Joins Parent Company, WPP Group plc.
- NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Aug 9, 2002 Hill and Knowlton, Inc. today announced that Paul Taaffe, 40, has been promoted to chairman and chief executive officer. Taaffe, named president of the firm in 1998, replaces Howard Paster, who joins parent company WPP...
- Research articles 2002-08-09
- C. Vann Woodward and the burden of southern populism
- IN THE SPRING OF 1939 C. VANN WOODWARD WAS BASKING IN THE GLOW of critical acclaim for his first book, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel and casting about for a new subject. (1) He had already done some reconnaissance on a biography of Eugene V. Debs but had decided to lay...
- Research articles 2001-11-01
- Family study in Canada during sociology's shifts from RC to PC to DC
- It might be argued that the sociological study of families has a longer history than that of any other feature of Canadian society. Shortly after sociology emerged in Europe in the mid-19th century a Quebecois family was the subject of sociological analysis (Gerin, 1964), and a lively interest in the...
- Research articles 1996-02-01
- Kuwaitgate - killing of Kuwaiti babies by Iraqi soldiers exaggerated
- On October 10, 1990, 15-year-old Nayirah was the most influential girl in the world. Tearfully relaying to Congress how she had witnessed Saddam's soldiers removing Kuwaiti babies from incubators and leaving them to die on a hospital floor, she added a crucial emotional rationale to the economic argument for U.S....
- Research articles 1992-09-01
- Relationship between measures of adaptive functioning and community adjustment for adults with mental retardation
- * The construct of adaptive functioning is relatively old; its contemporary roots can be found in the early social competency research and definitions of mental retardation (Doll, 1934, 1953; Kanner 1964; Scheerenberger, 1983). During the past two decades, however, adaptive functioning has been the object of considerable activity. This activity...
- Research articles 1992-05-01
- Alexco Resource Corporation Wall Street Analyst Forum Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Unidentified Participant Inaudible Question Clynton Nauman That is a good question actually. The great majority of the mines in this district are less than 200 meters deep and there are no mines that persist below the topographic level of the valley. So, what happens...
- Earnings calls 2009-06-11
- Wallstrip: Bailout
- Our ship's sprung a leak. Now it's up to the House of Reps to decide if she should sink or swim.
- Videos 2008-10-02
- Hill of Influence
- Team meetings can be tricky. You want everyone to participate, but no one to dominate. So, how do you determine the amount of interaction and how do you shift the balance? Ed Muzio offers up the self-regulating "Hill of Influence" model.
- Videos 2008-10-02
- In-Home Daycare Center: Northwest Ohio
- In the Spring of 1992 Larry and Lois Hill were a little skeptical about the promised benefits of the GeoExchange geothermal heating and cooling system proposed for their new home. The GeoExchange installation in the Hill house featured a couple of challenges. There are three different beams running at different...
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- McGraw Hill Companies Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (MHP)
- Earnings Call Excerpt The McGraw Hill Companies MHP Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call January 25th 2006, 8:30 AM. Executives: Donald Rubin, SVP Investor Relations Harold Terry McGraw, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Bahash, EVP and Chief Financial Officer Analysts:...
- Earnings calls 2006-01-27
- Chapel Hill Brokers Acquired by APB Energy, Founder to Join Executive Team of Chapel Hill Broadband
- Business Editors CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 21, 2000 Chapel Hill Broadband a carrier-neutral broker of wholesale telecommunications, today announced that its affiliate, Chapel Hill Brokers, has been acquired by APB Energy, a leading broker in energy and energy related products. Henry Kaestner, who founded both Chapel Hill...
- Research articles 2000-06-21
- William Hill on Track to Meet FY View
- By Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters UK) - Bookmaker William Hill WMH said profit expectations at its retail business had been unaffected by a run of punter-friendly football results, reassuring investors and sending its shares up by 9 percent. William Hill, which has 2,300 betting shops in Britain and Ireland, said...
- News items 2009-10-19
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