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 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 are largely devoted to relics of the Silla kingdom, of which Gyeongju was the capital.

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 other principal members are Romanian, Greek and Albanian, all of which belong to different genetic branches of the Indo-European family of languages ( Romanian is a Romance language, while Greek and Albanian each comprise their own separate branches ).

Its 28. 1 million people ( July 2011 estimate ) comprise nearly half the region's total population.

Its 3, 900 ha ( 9, 600 acres ) comprise a wide range of habitats, including grazing marsh, woodland, salt marsh, sand dunes and foreshore.

Its other architectural features comprise a projecting two-storey porch with oak post-and-rail fence inscribed with a number of sayings on either side, lateral bay with four-light mullioned window in the lower storey and a three-light mullioned window in the upper storey, a tall rubbed brick chimneystack, and the inn sign located diagonally from the right corner The inn continues to function as a public house and restaurant.

Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise nearly three million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world.

Its activities comprise mainly banking services, but SEB also carries out significant life insurance operations and also owns Eurocard.

Its helicopter fleet will comprise Z-15 and Mi-17 troop transporter, and the WZ-10 attack helicopter for its ground forces.

Its dialects are thoroughly Franconian and comprise the parts of the Rhinelandic continuum located south of the Benrath line isogloss, including the following sub-families:

Its trustees comprise Mark Almond, Anthony Daniels ( who writes for the Daily Telegraph under the pseudonym Theodore Dalrymple ), John Laughland, Christine Stone and Mary Walsh.

There are six essays that comprise this compilation: " Response to a Question from the Novy Mir Editorial Staff ", " The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism ", " The Problem of Speech Genres ", " The Problem of the Text in Linguistics, Philology, and the Human Sciences: An Experiment in Philosophical Analysis ", " From Notes Made in 1970-71 ," and " Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences.

Its current grounds comprise a built area of 75662 square meters, corresponding to 8 buildings ( labeled C1 through C8, where C stands for Ciências — Sciences ) which host the classrooms, offices, cafeterias, libraries, book shop and leisure areas.

Its members comprise Jake Shears and Ana Matronic as vocalists, Babydaddy as multi-instrumentalist, Del Marquis as lead guitar / bassist, and Randy Real as drummer ( who replaced Paddy Boom ).

Its objectives comprise:

Its mission is to " create a safe and enjoyable environment for the students, community members, and visitors who comprise our patrons, and to provide swift, efficient, and appropriate emergency medical care and rescue services to those who become our patients.

Its elements comprise of hatred and regret for ones sin, a desire for God over sin, and faith in Christ's atonement on the cross and its sufficiency for salvation.

Its size is surprising, its roads and stone walls, by its patios and ballgame courts, but more surprising of all is to learn that, all visited in the site ( 3 km ), and the structures available comprise only 10 % of the total of this prehispanic City.

Its purpose was to display the history of the local medieval manors which comprise Birmingham.

Its members comprise national thought leaders with a common interest in patient safety whose expertise and influence are brought to bear as the Institute calls for the innovation necessary to expedite the work and create significant, sustainable improvements in culture, process, and outcomes critical to safer health care.

Its nocturnal attacks can comprise simple physical assault and / or poltergeist-like phenomena ; but most feared is sexual assault and the sodomising of adult men and women.

Its coasts comprise two surviving ecosystems: the mangrove, consisting of trees and shurbs that occupies the landward portion of its coastal areas ; the seagrass, or grasslike plants, that thrive on it shallow nearshore area.

Its programmes comprise approximately of 50 hours of in house productions, 6 hours of programmes purchased from another broadcaster and 20 hours of special occasions.

Its ten electric utility operating companies comprise the nation ’ s largest investor-owned electric system, based on serving 6 million customers within a area of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey and New York.

Its key constituents comprise practitioners, policymakers, and academic researchers in all the social sciences, related professions, and the humanities and natural sciences.