old materials together into their present form were Christians and that his poem reflects a Christian tradition. The first scribe copied three prose pieces and the first 1‚939 lines of Beowulf while the second scribe copied the rest of Beowulf. In 1731‚ a fire swept through the Cottonian Library‚ damaging many books and scorching the Beowulf codex. In 1786-87‚ after the manuscript had been deposited in the British Museum the Icelander‚ Grinur Jonsson Thorkelin‚ made two transcriptions of the poem
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LITERATURE TIMELINE Date | Literary Period | Authors/Works | 800-400 BC | This period was dominated by Homer and other Greek tragedians | The Iliad and The Odyssey by HomerOedipus the King by SophoclesMedea by Euripedes | 250 BC - AD 150 | Writers of the Roman Empire are most noted in this time period | Famous authors from this period: Virgil‚ Horace‚ and Ovid | 450-1066 | Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period | Beowulf The rise of haiku poetry Tale of Genji by Japanese writer Murasaki
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1. Although Pope worked on this poem from 1729 and had finished the first three epistles by 1731‚ they did not appear until between February and May 1733‚ and the fourth epistle was published in January 1734. The first collected edition was published in April 1734. The poem was originally published anonymously‚ Pope not admitting its authorship until its appearance in The Works‚ II (April 1735). The Essay on Man was originally conceived as part of a longer philosophical poem (see
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Pure & Appl. Chern.‚ Vol. 64‚ No. 11‚ pp. 1731-1737‚1992‚ Printed in Great Britain. @ 1992 IUPAC Biosurfactants in industry N. KOSARIC Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering University of Western Ontario‚ London‚ Ontario‚ Canada‚ N6A 5B9 ABSTRACT Biosurfactants (Microbial Surface Active Agents) have become recently an important product of biotechnology for industrial and medical applications. Thereason for their popularity‚ as high value microbial products‚ is primarily in
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Clayton‚ S. & Myers‚ G. (2009). Conservation psychology. Hoboken‚ NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. DeVries‚ S environments -- healthy environments? An exploratory analysis of the relationship between green space and health. Environment and Planning A‚ 35(10)‚ 1717-1731. doi: 10.1068/a35111 Dyson-Hudson‚ R.‚ & Smith‚ E the human amygdala. Nature Neuroscience‚ 12(10)‚ 1226-1227. doi: 10.1038/nn.2381 Maller‚ C.‚ Townsend‚ M.‚ Pryor‚ A.‚ Brown‚ P Sommer‚ R. (1969). Personal space; the behavioral basis of design. Englewood
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History of Drama Ancient Drama The origins of Western drama can be traced to the celebratory music of 6th-century BC Attica‚ the Greek region centered on Athens. Although accounts of this period are inadequate‚ it appears that the poet Thespis developed a new musical form in which he impersonated a single character and engaged a chorus of singer-dancers in dialogue. As the first composer and soloist in this new form‚ which came to be known as tragedy‚ Thespis can be considered both the first dramatist
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Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17 1706 to the parents Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger. Benjamin Franklin was the tenth son born to his father who was on his second wife‚ which in total his father had seventeen children. Benjamin Franklin father wanted him to become a clergy but can afford only to send him for one year in order to become a clergy you needed years of schooling. But that didn’t stop him from becoming an apprentice at his brother printer company. At only 12 years old Benjamin
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FOLKLORE AND LITERATURE The studies of the British culture and therefore understanding of the national character of the English cannot stand apart from the research of its important product – folklore. The folklore and folk customs of England developed over a long chain of centuries. Some ancient customs were passed from Celtic to Germanic generations and further. Invaders and settlers brought with them their own beliefs‚ which mixed with older traditions. The main reason to uniqueness of British
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WHITE P AP E R WHAT IS PACKET MICROWAVE? EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This white paper provides a definition of Packet Microwave radio systems and demonstrates how these systems along with Hybrid radio systems are providing an ideal solution for wireless backhaul for next generation mobile broadband networks. Packet Microwave platforms offer highly scalable solution that leverages new technology features to enable higher throughputs to keep pace with expected growth in demand. Hybrid microwave solutions
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Have you ever wanted to know more about Benjamin Franklin? I mean we learn about him in our history books‚ for the kite experiment‚ and help develop the Declaration of Independence‚ but there is so much more. Like his early childhood‚ what he did when he was a child‚ some of his favorite hobbies. Or have you ever wondered what else he did‚ because he has invented to so many machines‚ and helped change America. Even though Franklin is gone‚ there are still some people who share some traits with him
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