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 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 most important tributary is the Tungabhadra River, which is formed by the Tunga River and Bhadra River that originate in the Western Ghats of Karnataka State.

Its current name is believed to originate from Matsuura Takeshiro, an early Japanese explorer of the island.

Its programmes originate from Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney and has bureaus in Tokyo and Seoul.

Its characteristics include a notched edge and the stone itself is thought to originate from Tangiwai, New Zealand.

Its graphical style and cast of characters originate from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

Its iconoclastic style and world-view originate with its assertion that “ the meaning

Its elements originate from personal insignias for the royal house in the High Middle Ages, thus being among the oldest in Europe.

Its headwaters originate in the Selkirk Mountains, and flow in a southerly direction to the river ’ s mouth at the northern tip of Lake Pend Oreille.

Its name is said to originate from its location at the end point of the Parkland of Wentworth Woodhouse.

Its function is to separate from the base ruled mass, among whom private ownership prevails, the governing warrior elite.

Its constitution argued for " the fostering of a strong public sector and a strong private sector without frequent frontier changes ".

Its growing rarity increased interest from European museums and private collectors in obtaining skins and eggs of the bird.

Its magnificence has impressed heads of state, and it has witnessed many different types of events, from formal civil ones to record launches, fashion shows, children's Christmas parties and private functions.

Its business and government customers consisted mainly of wireless voice and broadband systems ( used to build private networks ), and, public safety communications systems like Astro and Dimetra.

Its three different namesconflict of laws, private international law, and international private laware generally interchangeable, although none of them is wholly accurate or properly descriptive.

Its school choice system is one of the freest in the world, allowing students to use state funding for the public or private school of their choice, including religious and for-profit schools.

Its mission was to support the formerly communist countries in the process of establishing their private sectors.

Its functions had been fully absorbed into official government machinery in the British Raj and its private army had been nationalised by the British Crown.

Its private owners restored the fort early in the 20th century.

Its significance as a symbol of private equity in the United States may be compared to that of Wall Street in the stock market.

Its membership consists mainly of the intelligentsia, and it espouses Christian values, nonviolence, pluralism, private property, and peaceful relations among ethnic groups.

Its spacious fertile lands were investments for these stars, who were relatively isolated from the hassle that was Hollywood for these fan-plagued people, some of whom genuinely wanted to live private lives away from Tinseltown.

Its stated mission is " to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism — limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate ".

Its public funding is supplemented by private donations raised through the San Marino Schools Endowment Foundation.

Its largest lake is Lake Kinnelon, which is within Smoke Rise, a private gated community of 900 homes located on.

Its highly ranked swim team competes against other private swim clubs in the area in meets held mostly in July.

Its facilities are used for public events, such as music performances, and can be reserved for private events, such as weddings and other occasions.

Its public and private K-12 schools make Bexley a very sought-after city for families.

Its Classic Revival style, fashionable for private residences in the Bay Area at the time, was unusual for naval base housing.

Its economy has been booming as private enterprises dominate after the economic reform began in late 1970s.

Its stated objective was to open up markets to competition by removing regulatory barriers to entry: The conference report refers to the bill “ to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition ....” Congress attempted to create a regulatory framework for the transition from primarily monopoly provision to competitive provision of telecommunications services.

Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic growth and structural change but also on improving the potential for the mass of the population, for example, through health and education and workplace conditions, whether through public or private channels.

Its theater would include three tiers of private boxes in which the scions of New York's powerful new industrial families could display their wealth and establish their social prominence.