_INTRODUCTION_ ExxonMobil Corporation is the second largest integrated oil company in the world. In 2011 it ranked 3rd in the world’s largest companies with a revenue of $354‚674 million and total profit of $30460 million. ExxonMobil has evolved from a regional marketer of kerosene in the U.S. to the largest trader of petroleum and petrochemical enterprise in the world. They are best known by their familiar brand names: Exxon‚ Esso and Mobil and they supply to more than 40‚000 service stations
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Chicago‚ like all great cities‚ contains the best and worst of humankind. Man’s great dreams and achievements stand like shadows next to man’s great failures. Devil in the White City by Erik Larson captures the essence of man’s greatness in the contrast between the Columbian World Exposition of 1893 and the murders conducted in the summer of the fair’s reign by a man known as Dr. H. H. Holmes. The World’s Fair‚ as the Columbian Exposition became known‚ represents one of the crowns in Chicago’s
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History 4A Lecture Notes Fall 2012 The Origins of Western Civilization: The Ancient Mediterranean World 8/24/12 Introduction (power point on bspace contains images if desired) * Instructor: Carlos Norena * GSI: Patrick Clark‚ Brendan Haug‚ John Olmsted‚ Norman Underwood * historia (history) – Greek‚ lit. “inquiry‚ learning by inquiry; a [written] account of what has been learned by inquiry” Resources of History (example) * clay prism (Sumerian King List) * marble etchings
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Egyptian Architecture It is as difficult to condense in one short chapter the sequence of architectural history in Egypt as it is impossible to over-estimate the interest that it offers to artists and historians. For there is not one period in History that is not richly represented here by characteristic and wonderful monuments. --In order to refrain from becoming absorbed by one or other of those periods‚ we will arrange the monuments under six chronological headings: The Pharaonic Times.
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İngiltere tarihi‚ 5. yüzyılda Britanya Adasına Anglosaksonların ayak basmasıyla başlar. Anglosaksonlar kendi adını verdikleri adaya yerleşip‚ 6 ve 7. yüzyıllarda birbirine rakip küçük krallıklar kurdular. Sekizinci yüzyılda Roma ve İrlanda’nın etkisiyle Hıristiyanlığı kabul eden Anglosaksonlar‚ Avrupa’yı da etkileyen bir medeniyet meydana getirdiler. 795’te başlayan İskandinav istilası 11. yüzyılın başına kadar birkaç defa tekrarlandı. Daha sonra Danimarkalı Büyük Knud‚ adayı tamamen fethetti. Anglosakson
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________CIPA 2005 XX International Symposium‚ 26 September – 01 October‚ 2005‚ Torino‚ Italy________ DOCUMENTATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND MONUMENTS: ANCIENT THEATRES IN JERASH N. Haddad‚ T. Akasheh Dept. of Conservation Science‚ Queen Rania’s Institute of Tourism and Heritage‚ the Hashemite University‚ Zarqa 13115‚ Jordan‚ E-mail naifh@hu.edu.jo‚ takasheh@index.com.jo KEY WORDS: documentation‚ immovable cultural heritage‚ 3D laser Scanner‚ Photomodeler‚ theatres of Jerash. ABSTRACT Modern
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LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY THE INTERTESTAMENTAL PERIOD A Paper Submitted to Dr. James F. Davis In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course New Testament Introduction (NBST 525) By Charles Koomson March 3‚ 2013. TABLE CONTENT INTRODUCTION 3 THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD 4 THE GREEK PERIOD 5 The Ptolematic Period……………………………………………………………………...6 The Seleucid Period………………………………………………………………………..7 PERIOD OF JEWISH SELF-RULE
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International Destination Trends VATICAN CITY Introduction Europe is one of the continent that has a well-developed tourism industry. It has for some time dominated the international travel scene in terms of numbers of arrivals and receipts. Western Europe is accessible‚ with major transportation routes both within the region and outside the region. Countries of Western Europe combined with the nations of Southern and Northern Europe form the most important tourist region in the world. In 2005‚ Europe
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New Old Libya For decades Libyans lived under a dictator who twisted their past. Now they must imagine their future. By Robert Draper Photograph by George Steinmetz The bronze likeness of Muammar Qaddafi’s nemesis was lying on his back in a wooden crate shrouded in the darkness of a museum warehouse. His name was Septimius Severus. Like Qaddafi‚ he was from what is now Libya‚ and for 18 years bridging the second and third centuries A.D. he ruled the Roman Empire. His birthplace‚ Leptis Magna—a
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Greek Classicism Greek Civilization: • Greek sages concluded “Man is the measure of all things.” • Greeks supremely self-confident and self-aware • Greeks developed this concept of human supremacy and responsibility into a worldview that demanded a new visual expression in art. • Artists studied human beings intensely‚ than distilled their newfound knowledge to capture in their art works the essence of humanity—a term that‚ by the Greeks’ definition‚ applied only to those who spoke Greek; they
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