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It is certain that the Venetians and others were active traders in Constantinople, making a living out of shipping goods between the Crusader Kingdoms of Outremer and the West, while also trading extensively with Byzantium and Egypt.
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William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.
Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.
With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.
regarded from the inside, it is the carrying into action of a certain thought The historian's business is to penetrate to the inside of the actions with which he is dealing and reconstruct or rather rethink the thoughts which constituted them.
The knowledge in virtue of which a man is an historian is a knowledge of what the evidence at his disposal proves about certain events ''.
Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.
A tragedy, by his definition, is an imitation of an action that is serious, of a certain magnitude, and complete in itself.
There is now substantial evidence from several major studies of college students that the experience of the college years results in a certain, selective homogenization of attitudes and values.
As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
His may typify a certain kind of postwar New York experience, but his experience is certainly not typical of his `` generation's ''.
I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.
The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary General -- at this writing, the choice appears to be certain -- offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends.
Independence Day is the appropriate date as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.
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* 1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.
Contarini emphasizes this, saying that he is “ with exceeding honour solemnized of the Venetians ”.
Regional differences can be recognized by various factors: the openness of vowels, the length of the consonants, and influence of the local language ( for example, in informal situations the contraction annà replaces andare in the area of Rome for the infinitive " to go "; and nare is what Venetians say for the infinitive " to go ").
During the Crusades, the " Franks " ( Catholic Western Europeans ) settled it, while in the 13th century AD, the Venetians annexed the isle to the Duchy of Naxos and renamed it " Santorini ", that is " Saint Irene ".
The statute, i. e. the law establishing and regulating the regional institution, which was first promulgated on 22 May 1971, uses the term popolo ( people ) for Venetians, but, like in the case of Sardinians, this is not a legal recognition of any differences from other Italian citizens.
In a ceremonial formula for consulting the Venetians, when a new doge was chosen, before he took the oath of investiture he was presented to the people with the formula: " This is your doge, if it please you.
A competing theory holds that the name is derived from the district of Malevizi, near the city of Heraklion ( known to the Venetians as Candia ) on Crete.
The story passed around after the Fourth Crusade ( which is the version told by modern Venetians and accepted by many historians ) was that he had been blinded by the Byzantines during his 1171 embassy, although it is possible that he suffered from cortical blindness as a result of a severe blow to the back of the head received sometime between 1174 and 1176.
The most famous of these events is the Brazilian Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, while the Venetians celebrate carnival with a masquerade.
The center of Udine is dominated by the Castle, built by the Venetians from 1517 over a Lombard fortification ruined by an earthquake in 1511.
The battle is mentioned in Machiavelli's " The Prince ", noting that in one day, the Venetians " lost what it had taken them eight hundred years ' exertion to conquer.
Little is known of his career for the next fifteen years beyond the fact that he held a high position at court ; but in the year 1669, when France sent a contingent to assist the Venetians in the defense of Crete against the Turks, Frontenac was placed in command of the troops on the recommendation of Turenne.
This venerable and famous image, which was certainly at Edessa in 544, and of which there is an ancient copy in the Vatican Library, was brought to the West by the Venetians in 1207 following the Fourth Crusade.
He was hired by the Venice | Venetians to fight against the Ottoman Empire | Turks ( unsuccessfully ) in 1465, and was patron of Leone Battista Alberti, whose Tempio Malatestiano at Rimini is one of the first entirely classical buildings of the Renaissance.
An influence from the Venetians is his occasional use of the concertato style, with groups of voices in dialogue.
Near the small seaside town of Sutomore, there is the partially preserved fortress of Nehaj, used by both Venetians and Ottoman Turks.
Hóra Sfakíon is famous as one of the centers of the resistance against the occupying forces of both the Venetians and the Turks.
It is dedicated to Moses as, like the Byzantines, the Venetians tended to canonise Old Testament prophets.
The word sequin is said to be the French derivation of the Italian zecchino, a pure gold coin minted by the Venetians in 1284.
This " father of the Croatian novel " ( and modern national literature ) is at his best in his mass Cecildemillean scenes and poetic description of oppressed Croatian peasantry, nobility struggling against foreign rule ( Venetians, Austrians / Germans and Hungarians ) and romanticised period from the 15th to the 18th century.
The old city of Trogir is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and contains a mixture of influence from the Hellenistic period, Romans, and Venetians with its Greek architecture, Romanesque churches, Renaissance and Baroque buildings.
The text of the constitution is prefaced by the report of the committee that drafted it, which states that: " the noble, rich and harmonious Hellenic dialect, having been exiled by the Venetians, should be recalled to the dominion and become the language of administration and the interpreter of the active citizens.
Today the café is frequented by gondoliers, Venetians and tourists alike.
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While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.
In some areas, the progress is slower than in others.
But he is more interesting than the others, the ones who come from the highroad to watch him, more interesting than Life considered as a cyclist.
These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.
The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.
Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.
The discrepancy between what we commonly profess and what we practice or tolerate is great, and it does not escape the notice of others.
I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.
Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.
No one is to judge others ''.
what is new and compelling is that the West is now but one of several powerful civilizations, or `` systems '', and that one or more of the others may pose a mortal danger to the West.
While some think we move too fast and others too slowly, Florida's record is a good one and stands out among the 50.
the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.
This is that autistic people don't enjoy physical contact with others -- for instance, my children and I.
His proposal is opposed to that of Richard Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, past chairmen Strauss and McCone of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Edward Teller and those others now enjoying their hour of triumph in the exacerbation of the cold war.
Secondly, a whole series of addresses and actions by the Pope and by others show that concern for Christian unity is still very much alive and growing within the Church.
my only hope is that it will be shared by many, many others.
In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.
Since broadcast frequencies are very limited in number, these objectives are to some extent inconsistent in that not all of them can be fully realized, and to the extent that each is realized, there is a corresponding reduction of the possibilities for fullest achievement of the others.
A busy president, conversant with a problem and its ramifications and beset by pressures to meet deadlines, tends naturally to assume that others must be as familiar with a problem as he is.
Fundamental to the difficulty of creating the desired prestige is the fact that, in the business community, prestige and status are conferred in proportion to the authority that one man has over others and the extent of which he participates in the management functions ''.
Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.
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