In World War I, the West Asia Bureau of the UK’s Foreign Office had felt that an operation initiated and funded by external powers supporting the insurgent tribes would be beneficial to the British Empire.
Evidence about the activities of the Maya has been gathered through archeological excavations although they may never be completely authenticated because of difficulties in applying carbon dating tests to the fragile remains of the ancient civilization.
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The growing meteorite business, if they are supported by adequate government resources, can help meteoriticists find many scientifically valuable specimens in the arid mountains and deserts of northwest Africa
It has, from time to time, been specified in treaties between countries that vessels of any country should first be given a respectful warning if they ignoring a blockade, and it would only be on a second attempt to enter port that it would be liable to be seized.
Extreme reliance on metrics that have brought success in the past is likely to make a company miss opportunities that are created by disruptions in technology and consumer behavior.
Paleontologists believe that the Clovis community used sophisticated tools to hunt such huge elephant-like animals as mammoths and gomphotheres in an era when doing that was almost impossible for lack of sharpening devices.
The National Geographic Channel employs rigorous scrutiny procedures that may go on for weeks before airing any documentary since it believes that not doing it will expose them to the risk of accepting unreliable or factually incorrect programs.
For virologists who in deciphering a virus’s genetic code may take months to determine how fast it might spread, identifying possible treatments, and even finding effective vaccines, the newly found process to identify an unknown virus in just less than two hours is definitely a medical victory.
Stonehenge, the most famous of the English megalithic monuments, has excited the attention of historians since early times, and according to some medieval historians it was erected by Aurelius Ambrosius in memory of a number of British chiefs whom Hengist and his Saxons treacherously murdered in A.D. 462, some believe that Ambrosius himself was buried there.
In the financial year 2010-11, the increase in demand due to the relatively stable economy after the recession increased India’s service exports to $133 billion, nearly 38 percent more than that of 2009-10.
Citing relevant evidence of fluctuating product demand and reduced bargaining strength of employees, the World Economic Forum putting employers in the fore for contributing to the rise in temporary employment.
The specific classification and exact description of the term “Romantic” were the subject of dispute throughout the twentieth century, but it was someone who was part of the Counter-Enlightenment, a response against the Augustan or Neoclassical Age.
In the climax of the film Braveheart, Mel Gibson’s character William Wallace defiantly exclaims “Freedom!” as they sharpen the axe intended to be used to execute him.
A seasoned bookie betting heavily on a high percentage hitter, especially one who has a good average and has performed consistently in the past, makes it likely to miss the decline in his performance, especially if it is interspersed with brilliant innings.
The recent rise of United States and the rise of United Kingdom in 1900s starkly resemble each other, not only because the latter was at the forefront of science and technology using its natural resources to shore up production and because it simultaneously used a high percentage of its GDP to shore up its defenses.
The height of handle of the cricket bat is one-third the total length, creating a sweet spot at the lower end of the bat, but now per the new design it is constructed such that the sweet spot spans across its entire length.
It consists of over ten thousand lines of blank verse and Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem, was first published in 1667 in a volume of ten books and deals with the Biblical story of the ‘Fall of man’.
Previously adopted as the basis of classical economics, Adam Smith’s ‘The Wealth of Nations’ proposed a theoretical framework, and it is consistently being reworked by contemporary economists.
Just before its return to Earth from Mars, the “sick” robotic rover missed revealing the existence of significant organic compounds when it was present and indicated that they existed when they were actually absent.
Engadget just reported that Nokia has launched the Lumia 1020 with 41 megapixel camera, and that it has 20 million more pixels than any other smartphone with a camera launched this year.