I should like to start by thanking Professor Gibson and all members of the Programme Committee for asking me to give this Millennial Lecture. I am, of course, greatly honoured at having been chosen for this, a once every one-thousand years event. One of the things Professor Gibson refrained from saying in his overly flattering introduction is that I actually started my medical career back in th...

The aim of this contribution is to introduce three livestock species of Oman – camels, goats and horses. Even though cattle and sheep are nowadays very numerous in Oman, too, the three mentioned species were identified as being part of the country’s long tradition of nomadic and semi-nomadic livestock keeping and can thus be called the most important livestock species of Oman. FAO data from 200...

In Germany, the recording of causes death has had a long tradition and goes back time in history, but remained unsystematic nonuniform as it was an autonomous matter different German states. This article pursues question how cause-of-death statistics developed Prussia, largest territorial state later Reich. It is asked these statistics, organized by Prussian Statistical Bureau, have been relate...

Life is evolving fast (at least in the first world) and the latest technological gadget becomes outdated even before we have learnt how to use it. In this respect, science is no exception. The new buzzword ‘Systems Biology’ entered the vocabulary of the scientific community only a few years ago. Now that every biologist is aware of it and almost everyone seems to be doing it, an even newer buzz...

it is generally recognised that ‘zero’ as we understand the concept today originated in two geographically separated cultures: the maya and indian. however, if zero merely signified a magnitude or a direction separator (i.e. separating those above the zero level from those below the zero level), the egyptian zero, nfr, dating back at least four thousand years, amply served these purposes. if ze...

The article is devoted to the consideration of qualities Napoleonic and Alexanderian empire as a “style empire” their manifestation in musical historical tradition France Russia first half XIX century. typology this style directly associated with essence concept “empire” universal state, pursuing goals world domination or leadership possessing kind cultural civilizational mission. For French ab...