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    Gladiator Diary

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    6:00 am     My life as a gladiator started early morning‚ as soon as our cells were unlocked we walked to the eating area to have breakfast. I was used to eating my three meals a day‚ my breakfast was cereal‚ dried fruits and goat cheese and water. We were only allowed to drink water and occasionally goat milk‚ but never wine. During meals speaking was not allowed‚ and eating was somehow relaxing to me. 7:00 am    I walked towards the center of the barracks to start my training of the day‚ it was

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    years in music history during the 18th and 19th centuries and is often associated with the movement called the Age of Reason. It is defined by a return to symmetry and simplicity not only in music‚ but also in architecture and fine art. The excavation of Pompeii began in 1748‚ and the visible remains which were drawn and engraved became a template for the aesthetics of the time. The best known composers from the Classical period are Mozart‚ Beethoven and Haydn. Time Period Most musicologists mark

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    Uluburun Shipwreck

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    1310 B.C. When the ship was found‚ it was nearly 3‚300 years of age. They knew this because of the dating of a branch‚ which was a piece of fresh cut firewood aboard the boat. It took ten years to complete the excavation‚ an entire decade! Mehmed Cakir found the boat in 1982 and the excavation happened two years later. It was a hard job‚ and required eleven consecutive campaigns of three to four months. But all that work paid off‚ as the archaeologists found many spectacular treasures. They found

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    commercial activities. Job description: Archaeologists examine ancient sites and objects to learn more about their past and history. Most archaeologists specialise in particular geographical areas‚ historical periods and types of artefacts found. Excavations are the archaeologist’s main means of recording and researching archaeological remains‚ but makes up only a portion of his work. Other work includes working for local authorities ‚advising on the implications of planning archaeological digs‚ keeping

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    youth then attended the university college London followed by forced military service during WWI. Mortimer’s first excavation took place in Essex Searching for roman remains during 1819-1920. This excavation in search for roman remains continued and was conducted in Wales and in Hertfordshire where he proudly unearthed a lost roman settlement near St Albans. Wheeler conducted more excavations

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    as well as cultural context in which it formed- most archaeologist find it necessary to employ a variety of surveying and sampling techniques just to locate and define the parameters of the site. Once a site has been outlined‚ the next step is excavation. For the modern archaeologist‚ the objective of this research is to maximize the preservation and minimize the destruction‚ all the while abstracting as much information as possible at the time of digging but leaving the site open for future archaeologist

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    Feotechnical Engineering

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    Assignment No. 3 CE 332: Geotechnical Engineering 1. Calculate the vertical stress in a soil mass at a depth of 5m vertically below a point load of 5000 KN acting near the surface. Plot the variation of vertical stress with radial distance (up to 10 m) at a depth of 5 m. 2. Three point loads 10000 KN‚ 7500 KN and 9000 KN‚ act in line 5 m apart near the surface of soil mass. Calculate the vertical stress at a depth of 4 m vertically below the centre (7500 KN) load. 3. Determine the vertical

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    eastern nation of Obscurata. There are approximately 10 islands in between the peninsula on the west and Obscurata to the east. There have been16 sites‚ from both nations and the islands that have been found‚ with four of them having undergone excavations. The four excavated sites are Foggy Bottom on Drygalski Island‚ Echinus Bay on Helios Island‚ Hecate beach on Erebus‚ and Lingula Inlet on the mainland of Illysium. (Fig.1) Some of the typical artifacts found from the Nebulosa Islands include; Bone

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    religious centers of ancient Egypt and ritual place of Thoth‚ god of wisdom. The main sources of the project are the mostly unpublished findings of Guenther Roeder’s (former director of the RPM) excavations from 1929–1939 in HM‚ which came by official find division to Hildesheim as well as his excavation records. They will be compared with the material excavated and documented by Sami Gabra (former professor at the University of Cairo)‚ who worked from 1931–1952 in the necropolis of HM Tuna el-Gebel

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    rather focused on decorative composition and patterns and how they might be grouped into certain period ’styles ’. So these styles marked the shifting point in the chronology of painting from 2nd century BC to the final eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii in 79 CE as there are the most wall paintings that have survived. The ’styles ’ were identified as follows: the 1st ’style ’ is called Incrustation style (2nd - 1st BC); the 2nd was Architectural style (c. 100- 15 BC); the 3rd was Ornate style (c

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