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 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 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 front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

Its most important source of revenue, the textile industries, have been dead for almost half a century now.

Its political importance now ended, but its temple of Adonis and Aphrodite Amathusia remained famous in Roman times.

The island now forms the Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge and is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the U. S. Its defense is the responsibility of the United States ; though uninhabited, it is visited annually by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Its oldest layer, called the Yahwist, may date from the time of Solomon, although many scholars now believe that it should be dated considerably later.

Its popularity since the 1970s is due to a promotional campaign by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, known now as NYC & Company.

Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts ; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now lost mural in the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424-25.

Its superiority over earlier treatments was rapidly recognized, with the result that there was little interest in preserving the earlier ones, and they are now nearly all lost.

Its upkeep is now overseen by a group of students and staff known as the Raven Society.

Its fortunes have risen since the Red Sox ' 1967 " Impossible Dream " season, and on September 8, 2008 with a game versus the Tampa Bay Rays, Fenway Park broke the all-time Major League record with its 456th consecutive sellout, surpassing the previous record held by Jacobs Field ( now Progressive Field ) in Cleveland, Ohio.

Its first use was in the development of medical applications for the Veterans Administration, now called the Department of Veterans Affairs, a branch of the United States Government.

Its ruins are now located at the bottom of the Koprinka Reservoir near the city of Kazanlak.

Its boundaries are now often limited only to its southern, smaller part controlled throughout the 19th century by Austria as western Galicia.

Its Alamo Plaza Restaurant is gone, its pool long since filled in, its original color scheme painted over, its front desk now behind bulletproof glass and its rooms infested with roaches, vermin and a clientele engaged in enough criminal activity that the property averages more than one call for service to police daily.

Its roots go back to the establishment of the original founding of the Agudath Israel movement in 1912 in Katowitz, Prussia ( now Katowice, Poland ).

Its jewelry technologies department, now known as The Texas Institute of Jewelry Technology at Paris Junior College, is internationally recognized.

Its borders are not described in the poems, but some modern scholars have suggested that it included what is now Cumbria in North West England and possibly extended into Lancashire and Scotland.

Its earlier North Shoreline headquarters is now occupied by the Computer History Museum ; the newer Amphitheater Parkway headquarters was sold to Google.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

Its age had previously been estimated to be about but is now thought to be around half that at.

Its stone was used to construct the pillars outside the British Museum in London, and to build London Bridge ( now in Arizona ).

Its basic, and equally grandiose idea, was that, as the French Revolution of 1789 had enlarged the concept of individual liberty, another revolution would now be needed for national liberty ; and his vision went further because he hoped that in the no doubt distant future free nations might combine to form a loosely federal Europe with some kind of federal assembly to regulate their common interests.

The earliest known presentation of the knot was in A. A. Burger's 1914 work Rope and Its Uses, included in an agricultural extension bulletin from what is now Iowa State University.

Its height is now: the cylindrical portion, the pyramid The base, in diameter, is ornamented with 60 engaged Ionic columns.

Its former political head Hashim Thaçi is now the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo and the Prime Minister of Kosovo since January 2008.