Little Round Top

parts of a 13th-century motet, combined with other texts in French or Latin and set over a tenor derived from plainchant (or, rarely, from a song or dance). But polyphonic compositions in which all the voices sing the same lyrical poem (or where the top line, intended to be sung, is accompanied by one or two newly invented subordinate lines) are extremely rare before the middle of the 14th century. Guillaume de Machaut is the earliest musician to have written an extensive collection of polyphonic songs;

leafy Surrey or gridlocked Islington. That was the machine’s job. Like an insurance company with its call centre or a local council with its bin collections, they confidently outsourced the job of knowing this stuff, or of finding it out, to that little computer on the dashboard. Here is another story. A former winner of the BBC quiz show “Mastermind” recently took part in a pub quiz which came down to a tiebreaker between his team and a group of young people who were relying on BlackBerrys. Anyone

5. The great fire in London started in the city, in a baker shop. Everything inflamed and  about 15 000 houses were burst. In between all this, there was a war between the crown and the parliament, and it was  between the “cavaliers” and the “round head”. And this civil war resulted in a parliamentary victory for Cromwell, and it lead to the  dramatic execution of James the 1st. 1701 : Act of settlement. After the Stuarts, there was the Hanoverines (1714­1901). For this vast period of the 18th century

malaria is the first killing disease in the world. 90 countries are suffering from this disease that kills one person every 30 seconds (1 million to 3 million of death per year). Among them, 80% are countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is on the top of the agenda and the World Health Organization (WHO) founded the Global Fund against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in 2001. Parts of the world where Malaria is endemic High level of Chloriquino-resistance or multi-resistance Chloriquino-resistance

all, it is free. The rainwater harvesting system created by International Development Enterprises uses pipes to collect water from the tops of buildings. The pipes stretch from the buildings to a two-meter tall storage tank made of metal. At the top of the tank is a so-called “first-flush” device made of wire screen. This barrier prevents dirt and leaves in the water from falling inside the tank. A fitted cover sits over the “first-flush” device. It protects the water inside the tank from evaporating

In fact there are absolutely no reasons for the prohibition of cannabis, other than: 1) It is hard to tell if someone is under the influence of cannabis. Driving/working with machinery is a problem here. 2) People might smoke too much and become a little lazy. 3) Many governments have prohibited it for over 70 years and it would seem very stupid if they told everyone that they where wrong about it. Now let us look at these points for a moment. 1) Yes it is hard to tell and make no mistake - if you

chastise with the valour of my tong / All impedes thee from the golden round, / Wich fate and metaphysical aid doth seem / To have thee crowned withal” (377-381). Un serviteur annonce l‟arrivée du roi pour ce soir. LMCB, seule: “The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan / Under my battlements… Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full / Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, / Stop up th‟access and

shown at FOB i.e. without import tariff or tax or the margins made by the importer, the distributor and the retailer or restaurateur. 1.1.1 Italy Italy and France are the two largest wine producers in the world. It is a fragmented market with the top 18 companies accounting for just 8% of volume (2007). Per capita, Italians drink 46 litres per annum (source: Euromonitor, Economist). Still wine accounts for 95% by volume and 88% by value of the market. Red wine is the most popular with 48% volume

one: 1. When did the processing centre of Ellis Island open? .............................................................................................................................................................. 2. When did it close? (a little bit of arithmetic here!) .............................................................................................................................................................. 3. Did all passengers coming out of the ship had to pass through

what reality do his novels imitate, or can we still speak here of an “imitation of reality”? To suggest an answer, we must turn to Notes from Underground, published in 1864, just a year before he began work on Crime and Punishment. This paradoxical little novel marked a break, a new beginning in his art, and in a sense all his later works grew out of it. It seems to have come almost as a surprise to Dostoevsky himself. He had been attempting to write a critical response to the Utopian communist N.