F[rancis] H[anson], A Short Account of the Island and Government thereof (1683)

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Carla Gardina Pestana ◽  
Sharon V. Salinger
Keyword(s):  
Short Account

Investigating Burnt Mounds in Clydesdale during Motorway Construction

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
John A Atkinson ◽  
Camilla Dickson ◽  
Jane Downes ◽  
Paul Robins ◽  
David Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Short Account ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Bronze Age

Summary Two small burnt mounds were excavated as part of the programme to mitigate the impact of motorway construction in the Crawford area. The excavations followed a research strategy designed to address questions of date and function. This paper surveys the various competing theories about burnt mounds and how the archaeological evidence was evaluated against those theories. Both sites produced radiocarbon dates from the Bronze Age and evidence to suggest that they were cooking places. In addition, a short account is presented of two further burnt mounds discovered during the construction of the motorway in Annandale.

JOHN BISHOP OF NIKIOU’S CHRONICON (SEVENTH CENTURY A.D.): AN INDISPENSABLE SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE ARAB CONQUEST OF EGYPT AND ITS AFTERMATH*

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 748-768
Author(s):  
V. Christides
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Local People ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Coptic Church

John, Bishop of Nikiou’s Chronicon is the oldest preserved work dealing with the Arab conquest of Egypt (639 A.D./H. 18–645 A.D./H. 25) and its initial aftermath. This little known author, who lived in Egypt in the seventh century, was a high official in the Coptic Church. His accurate depiction of all the relevant historical events, based mainly on his own remarkable observations, proves him to be a simple but well–balanced historian. My article focuses on three aspects of the Chronicon: (a) landholding under the early years of Arab dominion compared to the parallel information of the Greek papyri of Apollonopolis in a special appendix; (b) the attitude of the Arab conquerors of Egypt towards its population, and the reaction of the local people as perceived by John, Bishop of Nikiou; and (c) a short account on the elusive role of the Blues and Greens during the Arab conquest of Egypt as recorded by John of Nikiou.

scholarly journals XXXI. A short account of Dr. Maty's illness, and of the appearances in the dead body, which was examined on the 3d of July, 1776, the day after his decease

1777 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 608-613 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dead Body ◽  
Short Account ◽  
The Dead ◽  
As If

About two weeks before he died, he was taken with a fit of violent oppressive pain, just above the pit of the stomach, which made him feel as if he was very near dying. He was bled, and gradually recovered; yet so imperfectly, that any motion of his body, or any pressure upon that part with the point of a finger, instantly brought on such oppressive pain, that he was convinced the least addition to what he had several times felt, must have put an end to his life. He had an idea that there might be a collection of matter behind the sternum, which might be discharge by some chirurgical operation.

On the Structure of the Spiracles of a Tick—Haemaphysalis punctata, Canesteini and Fanzago

Parasitology ◽  
1908 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. F. Nuttall ◽  
W. F. Cooper ◽  
L. E. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Ixodes Ricinus ◽  
Detailed Structure ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Haemaphysalis Punctata ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Single Figure

The detailed structure of the spiracles in the Ixodoidea has hitherto received little or no attention at the hands of zoologists; at the same time, these organs are sufficiently extraordinary to make it a matter of surprise that, so far as our knowledge of the literature goes, not one of the numerous contributors to the subject of tick anatomy has found it worth while to undertake a complete description or to publish figures to illustrate it. Batelli (1891) gives a short account of the structure of the spiracle of a tick, presumably Ixodes ricinus, with a single figure, but with this exception we have been unable to find any further information on the subject.

scholarly journals James Keir of the Lunar Society

1967 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-154 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Phlogiston Theory ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Modern Chemistry ◽  
Lunar Society Of Birmingham

THE long career of James Keir (born in Edinburgh on 20 September 1735, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 8 December 1785, died at West Bromwich on 11 October 1820) effectively covered the period of the scientific revolution out of which modern chemistry evolved. Keir himself played a significant part in that revolution, as writer, experimenter, and industrialist—and, by no means least, as a frequent ‘chairman’ at meetings of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which he helped to hold together by his tact and force of character. Although there are frequent references to Keir in books and articles dealing with the period (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), he remains relatively unknown, partly because he was overshadowed by men like Priestley and Watt, partly because he adhered too long to the phlogiston theory, and perhaps also because of his own modesty. A short account of his life, and an appreciation of his contributions to science and technology, may therefore not be out of place, particularly in view of the marked revival of interest in the Lunar Society in recent years.

I. The Cortes of Castile

1956 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Byrd Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Collective Behavior ◽  
Group Actions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Short Account ◽  
History Of

This will be a short account of the origin, growth, and death of the great parliament of Castile, the Cortes. That sounds a bit dramatic, but there’s nothing to be done about it, for the history of the Cortes of Castile has the elements of a proper tragedy: the self-destruction of a nation by pride, parochialism, and arrogance. One of my colleagues, now deceased, used to account for the aberrations of Spanish collective behavior by ascribing them to “Spanish individualism.” I can only guess that what he had in mind was that Spaniards, when they act in groups, act differently from the rest of us—in which he was certainly correct. Now, when group actions become consistent, formalized, and ritualistic, I call that pattern of conduct an institution, regardless of whether or not someone has taken the trouble to codify it. Institutions, then, have their origin and their being in the minds of men acting collectively.

scholarly journals XV. A short account of Mr. Kersseboom's essay [intituled, verhandeling tot een proeve om te weeten de probable menigte des volks in de proventie van Hollandt en Westfrieslandt. Hage 1738. In 4 to . door W. Kersseboom] upon the number of people in Holland and West-Friezland, as also in Harlem, Gouda and the Hague; drawn from the bills of births, burials, or marriages, in those places

1738 ◽  
Vol 40 (450) ◽  
pp. 401-406
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Short Account ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The City

Every body knows to what useful Purposes the Bills of Births and Burials at the City of Breslau , the Capital of Silesia , have been applied, by a very learned and sagacious Member of the Royal Society; as also what curious Observations have been made, both Moral, Physical and Political, by Sir William Petty , upon the same Argument, several Years before, and Dr. Arbuthnot and others since.

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