Abstract Two damaged and partially restored Roman portraits in the collection of British Museum, previously identified as either emperor Caligula or an unknown “Julio-Claudian prince,” are here reassessed Agrippa Postumus, youngest grandson adopted heir Augustus. The first portrait, from southern Britain, may have come a temple dedicated to worship Julio-Claudian house, while second was probabl...

Abstract Renowned as a historian, Flavius Josephus enjoys little reputation political thinker. As heir to the classical historical tradition of Thucydides, however, considerations regime remained primary for him. All more so given his most important task not inherited from them: defense Jewish law and people against their pagan detractors. defended having specified best (which he called “theocr...

The author is analyzing the circumstances surrounding planning, launching and carrying out expedition intended to transfer Charles Robert from Southern Italy Eastern Adriatic so that he could realize his inherited right Crown of St. Stephen throne Kingdom Hungary-Croatia. Contrary conventional wisdom in historiography, advocates a thesis was organized not enable claim, but remove him Naples whe...

Soon after the sudden and simultaneous deaths of Francesco I de’Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his wife, Bianca Cappello, in October 1587, rumours spread that the two had been murdered by Francesco’s brother, Cardinal Ferdinando. 2 Apparently, Ferdinando had a very good motive to kill his brother and the woman that Francesco had loved and then married after the death of his first wife the G...

Johnson et al. (1996) presented evidence that Lake Victoria as dry before 12,800 C years ago. Broecker et al. (1998) oncluded from water-balance calculations that the precipitaion rate when the lake was dry must have been smaller than it s now by a factor of at least four. The apparent magnitude of he change in precipitation and its near simultaneity with other hanges elsewhere on the globe wer...

cute decompensated heart failure is among the most ommon indications for hospitalization in the U.S. and esults in approximately one million hospitalizations annully (1). Although consensus guidelines provide evidenceased strategies for the treatment of chronic heart failure, he current therapy of acute heart failure is largely empirical. he first priority of management is relief of symptoms. A...

In order to achieve interoperabiliiy among heterogeneous systems, markup languages such as XML and DAML are being used to describe distributed systems and data. The abiliiy lo successfully interoperate based on semantic markup depend on the abiliiy to create, use and manage shared onfologies of concepts and !heir interrelationships. Specifically, communicating systems in a nehvorked environment...

This paper presents an approach for monitoring several important aspects related to user behaviour during the execution of Web tasks. The approach includes the tracking of user interactions with the Web site and exploits visual data mining to highlight important information regarding Web application usage. In particular, our approach intends to be a natural heir of the approaches based on click...

In 1984 the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland celebrates the 200th anniversary of the granting of its charter by George III in 1784. To mark this historic occasion the council of the college under the president, Professor Eoin O'Malley, will meet on 6 March 1984 in the board room of the Rotunda Hospital, where the first council sat with its president, Samuel Croker King. The bicentenary will...