Its native civilization is decadent and the various city-states and desert tribes squabble as the canal system slowly falls apart and Earthmen arrive to carve out colonial holdings.

Its holdings include many local family histories, photos and other artifacts.

Its holdings include biographical documents, works, designs and diagrams as well as Greek sculptures or casts, along with other small artworks from antiquity.

Its name came from 213, when Cao Cao's feudal holdings were given the name Wei ; historians often add the prefix Cao ( 曹, from Cao Cao's family name ) to distinguish it from the other states in Chinese history also known as Wei, such as the earlier Wei state during the Warring States Period, and the later Northern Wei state.

Its British portraits collection is exceeded in size only by that of the National Portrait Gallery and its holdings relating to Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson and Captain James Cook, among many other individuals, are unrivalled.

Its holdings include more than 100, 000 works spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present.

( Its holdings totaled around 1, 025, 000 koku.

Its Canadian holdings, notably the National Post, several smaller papers, and a majority stake in the Southam newspaper chain, were sold to CanWest in 2000 in connection with Conrad Black renouncing his Canadian citizenship to gain a British peerage.

Its holdings are non-contiguous and do not include the Indiana Dunes State Park ( 1916 ), a separate, parcel of protected dune land on the lakefront near Porter, Indiana.

Its customers may, however, choose to become Co-operative Group members and hence indirectly acquire an ownership interest in the Bank, earning dividend on their account holdings and borrowing with the Bank.

Its permanent holdings contain an important collection of Old Masters and 19th-century and 20th-century artwork, as well as some of the nation's best collections of German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, American decorative arts, and post-1960 American art.

Its diversified holdings included Champagne Taittinger, Société du Louvre and Concorde Hotels, whose flagship is the famed Hotel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France as well as the Loire Valley wine producing firm of Bouvet-Ladubay, and a partnership in Domaine Carneros in California, until it was sold to Starwood Capital in 2005.

Its main holdings were the networks and assets of the Big Four national regional railway companies: Great Western Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway.

Its art holdings comprise more than 1. 6 million works.

Its holdings also include numerous illustrated works from as early as the 15th century, including Konrad Gessner's Historia animalium, Maria Sibylla Merian's Insects of Surinam, Edward Lear's Psittacidae or Parrots, and a double elephant folio of John James Audubon's The Birds of America.

Its holdings now include 28, 639 electronic periodicals in Chinese and other languages and more than 1 million electronic books.

Its holdings originate in the private collection of Charles ( 1858 – 1940 ) and Emma ( d. 1934 ) Frye.

Its collection, which includes Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, and Alexander Calder, contains historical samples of 1940s – 1970s late surrealism, pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art ; notable holdings 1980s postmodernism ; as well as contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and related media.

Its total holdings include about 1. 3 million pieces, as well as twenty-four historic buildings.

Its holdings comprise more than 100 languages with 17, 000 volumes in Persian, 15, 800 in Arabic, and 14, 500 in Spanish.

Its holdings incorporate the collections of four older libraries, namely the Ashmolean library, the Classics Lending Library, the Eastern Art Library, and the History of Art Library.

Its holdings include significant works of Austrian Secession art, German expressionism, 1920s abstraction, and material related to the Bauhaus.

Its vineyard holdings include Clos Vougeot, Echezeaux, Grands Echezeaux, and the monopole La Grande Rue.

Its holdings include R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, American Snuff Company ( formerly Conwood Company ), Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company and Niconovum AB.

Its radar screens would register Soviet missiles shortly after they are launched against the United States.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

Its massive contours are rooted in the simple need of man, since he is always incomplete, to complete himself.

Its elimination would result in the saving of interest costs, heavy when short-term money rates are high, and in freedom from dependence on credit which is not always available when needed most.

Its figures are a half inch high and very easy to read, even into tenth gallons.

Its clarity and good optical properties are other important factors.

Its findings are reported each year in its Rapport Sur l'activite Pendant annee ( Bruxelles ).

Its folklore and legend, usually disguised as history, are allowed to account for group actions, to provide a focal point for group loyalty, and to become a cohesive force for national identification.

Its people are agreeable friends.

Its contents are another matter, for they reveal the kinds of interests pursued by the congregation.

Its size is determined by its function as a glycogen and fat storage unit, and may change with the seasons as these reserves are built or used up.

Its eggs are laid on the forest floor and when they hatch, the tadpoles are carried one by one on the back of an adult to a suitable water-filled crevice such as the axil of a leaf or the rosette of a bromeliad.

Its other main uses are for bituminous waterproofing products, including production of roofing felt and for sealing flat roofs.

Its primary symbols are only 4: the directed arrow showing program flow, the rectangle ( SEQUENCE, GOTO ), the diamond ( IF-THEN-ELSE ), and the dot ( OR-tie ).

Its most common isotopes are < sup > 241 </ sup > Am and < sup > 243 </ sup > Am.

Its chemical and physical properties are so similar to that of natural amethyst that it can not be differentiated with absolute certainty without advanced gemnological testing ( which is often cost-prohibitive ).

Its chemical composition makes it difficult to match the amber to its producers – it is most similar to the resins produced by flowering plants ; however, there are no flowering plant fossils until the Cretaceous, and they were not common until the Upper Cretaceous.

# Its seeds are a good source of protein.

Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-preserved than neighboring Kourion.

Its functions are thought to include tasks such as lipid and heme biosynthesis, and it appears to be necessary for survival.

Its preparation involves digging a hole about 150 cm deep in the ground, within which incandescent stones are placed inside a bonfire.

Its purgative properties are important ( known as la purga or " the purge ").

Its partners for movement towards a solid object and for being next to that solid object are the allative case and the adessive case respectively.

Its partners that correspond to movement away from, or out of, something are the delative case ( for movement from a surface or from a Hungarian city ) and the elative case ( for movement out of a container or from out of an international city ).