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Since then, papyrus finds have greatly added to the store of Ibycean verses-notably, and controversially, forty-eight continuous lines addressed to Polycrates, whose identification with Polycrates of Rhodes ( son of Polycrates, the Samian tyrant ) requires a careful selection of historical sources.
The downtown features a series of historical murals and Eclipse Square Park as well as an interesting selection of stores and dining possibilities.
On 26 March, the company presented its latest aircraft which has been painted in the 1960s livery and the crew was wearing a selection of the historical uniforms.
The growing size of the archives held by the PRO and by government departments led to the Public Records Act 1958, which established standard procedures for the selection of documents of historical importance to be kept by the PRO.
The museum houses the Academy's collections, including a major collection of Cremonese stringed instruments dated between 1650 and 1740, a selection of historical English pianos from 1790 to 1850, from the famous Mobbs Collection, original manuscripts by Purcell, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms, Sullivan and Vaughan Williams, musical memorabilia and other exhibits.
The province is popularly known for its historical sites ; nostalgic old houses and churches ; idyllic ecological attractions ; religious attractions ; colorful and enchanting festivals ; swimming and various themed attractions ; and a wide selection of elegant native crafts and sumptuous delicacies.
A selection of historical and modern photographs of Clitherall, Minnesota, which was founded by the Cutlerites in 1864.
The selection process usually consists of an invitation to submit an original piece of historical, literary, artistic or musical work covering one of several pre-designated topics, followed by an interview.
A selection from a historical election poster describing Andrew. When Andrew took office on January 2, 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, the Albany Argus called him " a lawyer of a low type and a brutal fanatic " who " proposes to maintain the condemned statutes of, and to force upon the South by arms, an allegiance to the Constitution thus violated.
The Colloquium is an intellectual conversation among four people: the student, the student's adviser, and two other members of the faculty about a selection of books representing several academic disciplines and historical periods.
Complete purchasing audit control with comprehensive selection of reports to track and analyze purchase activity ( full historical and performance reporting ).
These books, the result of an enormous labor in collation and selection in very unfavourable circumstances, entitle Hontheim to the fame of a pioneer in modern historical methods.
Mostly used for historical gaming in part do to a wide selection of 1 / 72 scale models.
The historical context of natural selection: the case of Patrick Matthew.
Even in those few studies that do contain a large number of patients, the quality of the evidence is limited due to pooling patients from many centers, selection bias ( only patients with health problems coming from treatment are included ), and historical bias ( the patients reported are from a time before advances in the diagnosis of treatment of Peutz – Jeghers syndrome were made ).
Inevitably, a limited selection of historical empires had to be chosen for inclusion in the game.
In the third edition of On the Origin of Species Darwin provided a historical sketch of his predecessors in writing of descent with modification or natural selection, including those who he had only learned of after the 1859 publication of The Origin.
The kin selection theory predicts that a gene may promote the recognition of kinship by historical continuity: a mammalian mother learns to identify her own offspring in the act of giving birth ; a male preferentially directs resources to the offspring of mothers with whom he has copulated ; the other chicks in a nest are siblings ; and so on.
When no parliamentary business is conducted, the station broadcasts a selection of films, plays, classical music concerts, opera and ballet performances and historical documentaries.

selection and novels
Although any selection of James's novels as " major " must inevitably depend to some extent on personal preference, the following books have achieved prominence among his works in the views of many critics.
* Stories to Remember ( 1956 ) a selection of novels and short stories chosen by Costain and John Beecroft.
Rucker often uses his novels to explore scientific or mathematical ideas ; White Light examines the concept of infinity, while the Ware Tetralogy ( written from 1982 through 2000 ) is in part an explanation of the use of natural selection to develop software ( a subject also developed in his The Hacker and the Ants, written in 1994 ).
A selection of 34 novels translated by Martin Chalmers.
Idlewild received a starred review from Kirkus, a Book Sense 76 pick, and selection from both Borders and Barnes & Noble as one of the best science fiction / fantasy novels of the year.
As well as holding academic stock for students, there is a great selection of novels, non fiction and talking books available for all ages.

selection and set
Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.
But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.
The `` pocket-size '' company set records with $2,170 in sales of its products, a selection of barbecue spices, and paid stockholders a 20 per cent dividend on their investment.
Headquarters has also set up a central juvenile book-review and book-selection center, to provide better methods of purchasing and selection.
A small selection was issued on a 1971 LP and a 2-cassette set of the series ' soundtrack was made available in the late 1990s.
" According to Steven Pinker, EP is " not a single theory but a large set of hypotheses " and a term which " has also come to refer to a particular way of applying evolutionary theory to the mind, with an emphasis on adaptation, gene-level selection, and modularity.
In essence, two objects are isomorphic if they are indistinguishable given only a selection of their features, and the isomorphism is the mapping of the set elements and the selected operations between the objects.
Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.
Government Phonology, which originated in the early 1980s as an attempt to unify theoretical notions of syntactic and phonological structures, is based on the notion that all languages necessarily follow a small set of principles and vary according to their selection of certain binary parameters.
Little is known about what training may have been required of priests, and the selection of personnel for positions was affected by a tangled set of traditions, although the pharaoh had the final say.
In a personnel selection example, test content is based on a defined statement or set of statements of knowledge, skill, ability, or other characteristics obtained from a job analysis.
However, a small selection of countries have set up a national body to govern the sport.
A complete sample is a set of objects from a parent population that includes ALL such objects that satisfy a set of well-defined selection criteria.
An unbiased sample is a set of objects chosen from a complete sample using a selection process that does not depend on the properties of the objects.
Designing a good selection policy has an added difficulty: it must work with partial information, as the complete set of Web pages is not known during crawling.
model selection, test set, minimum description length, Bayesian inference, etc.
In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels in San Francisco, California to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events.
Neo-Darwinism is the ' modern synthesis ' of Darwinian evolution through natural selection with Mendelian genetics, the latter being a set of primary tenets specifying that evolution involves the transmission of characteristics from parent to child through the mechanism of genetic transfer, rather than the ' blending process ' of pre-Mendelian evolutionary science.
Again, a selection of different bands were generally available with a different mix of characters so a character set best matched to the characters commonly printed could be chosen.
In mathematics, statistics, empirical sciences, computer science, or management science, mathematical optimization ( alternatively, optimization or mathematical programming ) is the selection of a best element ( with regard to some criteria ) from some set of available alternatives.

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