Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-104) and index; The Dawn -- An Outline of Maya History -- Religion -- Quiche Legends -- The Calendar -- Religious Ceremonies and Human Sacrifice -- Social Life -- Warfare, Art, and Architecture -- The Maya Collection of Field Museum -- Chronological Table of Maya History; Fieldiana, Popular series, Anthropology, was published by Field Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Anthropology as Leaflet (no. 1-14, 1922-1924) and Anthropo...

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Introduction: This course is a quick tutorial on C Programming language. We assume that you are familiar with at least one of famous operating systems. For this course you can use the following compilers or Programming Environments: // - cc in Unix or gcc in Linux operating systems // - Borland C or Turbo C in DOS operating system // - Visual C++ (create a simple win32 console application.) in Windows // - C++Builder (create a console application using console app wizard) in windows...

Do you know that an empowering word can spark ideas, open doors, change attitudes, and create solutions? Words can do all these things and much more. They have the potency to redefine personalities, lives, and entire communities. Just think of some of the things words are used for every day: To communicate a message To express a feeling To interact with others To associate meaning, intention, and tone To record history To tell stories And so much more! When used the righ...

Text partly in Latin ; Bibliography: p. 5-[8]

Methodius, Saint, Apostle of the Slavs, ca. 825-884 or 5 ; Cyril, Saint, Apostle of the Slavs, ca. 827-869 ; Orthodox Eastern Church

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There was a longish period -- the dense duration of a London winter, cheered, if cheered it could be called, with lurid electric, with fierce 'incandescent' flares and glares -- when they repeatedly met, at feeding-time, in a small and not quite savoury pothouse a stone's-throw from the Strand. They talked always of pothouses, of feeding-time -- by which they meant any hour between one and four of the afternoon; they talked of most things, even of some of the greatest, i...

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I EVERY ONE asks me what I 'think' of everything, said Spencer Brydon; and I make answer as I can -- begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn't matter to any of them really, he went on, for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-and-deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my 'thoughts' would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself. He was talking to Miss Staverton, with whom for a couple ...

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It was not till many days had passed that the Princess began to accept the idea of having done, a little, something she was not always doing, or indeed that of having listened to any inward voice that spoke in a new tone. Yet these instinctive postponements of reflection were the fruit, positively, of recognitions and perceptions already active; of the sense, above all, that she had made, at a particular hour, made by the mere touch of her hand, a difference in the situa...