Belgian Democracy: Its Early History

Democracy and Its Critics

Early History EARLY FORESTS

Primalforests.-Accol-dillg to fossil records from coal beds, primeval forests of the South eons ago were complex forests of club moss trees and ferns (Uurdette 1995). Since that time forest composition and dixtl-ihu-tion have changed in response to natural phenomena and later, to the influences of man. Over a long period 01' time primeval forests evolved from club ~nosses 2nd ferns to gymnosper...

The early history of tendo Achillis and its rupture.

Tendo Achillis does not occur in the great apes, our immediate ancestors, but is a hallmark of bipedal man. Its presence may be related to the greater relative length of the tarsal bones in man. The name is derived from the description in the Iliad by the Greek poet, Homer, written between 750 and 650 B.C. Achilles was a magnificent warrior and, according to myth, was made invulnerable in infan...

The early history of veterinary literature and its British development

The Weight of History and the Rebuilding of Brazilian Democracy*

Nation-states, like their citizens, are dependent on their peers for cues about what passes for appropriate behavior. With respect to the evolution of political institutions, the result is the proliferation of political fads among certain clusters of countries, a process which scholars describe in terms of “waves”, “contagion”, “isomorphism”, and “refl ection”. The idea that the adoption of a p...