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 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 planners, Clarence Stein and Henry Wright, and its landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley aimed to incorporate modern planning principles, which were then being introduced into England's Garden Cities, following ideas advocated by urban planners Ebenezer Howard, Sir Patrick Geddes and Clarence Perry.

Its serious lack of luggage space, however, resulted in production being delayed until the next year when the tail was restyled to incorporate a generous boot.

Its production also enjoys significant economic advantages over traditional cheesemaking processes, most often through the ability to incorporate any of a wide variety of less expensive ingredients.

Its grammatical structure seems to incorporate both European and Asian elements.

Its goal was to incorporate African folklore and rhythm into traditional modes of art.

Its all-seater capacity was recently reduced from 67, 800 to 67, 130 to incorporate the largest permanent " big screens " in the country, though it remains the largest stadium in Scotland and one of the largest in the United Kingdom overall.

Its projected size was 24. 500 square kilometers, and it was to incorporate 20 or 21 powiats.

The association was set up in 2004 mostly by parents who had been involved with the establishment of Ballyhea Childcare Ltd. Its function has been to fundraise for the national school but in recent years it has expanded to incorporate information evenings for parents and to encourage healthier lifestyles by supporting the school's health eating policy and organizing events to encouraging children to exercise more.

Its worst characteristic is that every blocking ( synchronous ) system call is potentially interruptible ; the programmer must usually incorporate retry code at each call.

Its development followed an unsuccessful attempt by members of the Anglican church to incorporate the earlier St James's College within the new University of Sydney, and was led by Sir Alfred Stephen ( Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ).

Its Provisions Library houses special collections focusing on social change and the arts.

Its collections encompass diverse cultural items such as Ashanti Empire sculptures, Buddhist art, Dutch Golden Age painting, works by Albrecht Dürer, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Auguste Rodin, among others.

Its aims were to complete the Pacific discoveries of James Cook ( whom Lapérouse greatly admired ), correct and complete maps of the area, establish trade contacts, open new maritime routes and enrich French science and scientific collections.

Its participants – Piotr Buchkin, Rudolf Frentz, Alexander Samokhvalov, Isaak Brodsky, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Kazimir Malevich, Nikolai Dormidontov, Mikhail Avilov among them – became the founding fathers of the Leningrad school while their works formed one of its richest layers and the basis of the largest museum collections of Soviet painting of the 1930-1950s.

Its first section discusses the ten Sandman collections sequentially, analyzing their meaning, explaining some of Gaiman's myriad references and sometimes providing information on the writing of the comics.

Its permanent collections consist of paintings by Birger Sandzén and the wood engravings of local artist E. Hubert Deines.

Its collections include Egyptian, Medieval, Renaissance, Contemporary, and Native American.

Its main collections were held in a building on Naamsestraat dating back to the 17th century.

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 development flourished after 1900 when Carnegie grants began to aid in building construction and the expansion of collections and services.

Its mission is to constitute collections, especially the copies of works published in France that must, by law, be deposited there, conserve them, and make them available to the public.

Its collections include over 1. 6 million rolls of microfilmed records onsite and access the total collection of more than 2. 4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records ; 727, 000 microfiche ; 356, 000 books, serials, and other formats ; 4, 500 periodicals ; 3, 725 electronic resources including subscriptions to the major genealogical websites.

Its special collections include an image collection and 35mm slides.

Its collections include the Maps, Data and Government Information Centre ( MADGIC ), the Geographic Information Systems ( GIS ) Collection, and Special Collections & Archives.

Its collections of Hebraica and Judaica are the largest in the world.

Its Asian and Melanesian collections are also of strong interest.

Its extensive historical and special collections are nationally and internationally recognized.

Its collections, comprising more than 90, 000 musical scores, books, periodicals and recordings, are housed in a state-of-the-art facility that opened in October 1997.

Its collections include more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images on medicine and related sciences including some of the world's oldest and rarest works.

Its collections, which were started by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1856, include all aspects of the intersection of human society and nature, from gardening to gene-splicing.

Its functions mainly include audit and collections.

Its collections focus on images of famous individual Americans.

Its collections were created by donations initially from Dr Forrester who had been a President of Derby Philosophical Society.

Its collections include over 2. 4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records ; 742, 000 microfiche ; 310, 000 books, serials, and other formats ; 4, 500 periodicals ; 700 electronic resources.