1. INTRODUCTION. " Difference boxes, " also known as " diffy boxes, " are the basis for a simple mathematical puzzle that provides elementary-school students with subtraction practice. The idea's original author is unknown, although among many Texas teachers it is traced back to Professor Juanita Copley of the University of Houston, who introduced it as a problem-solving activity in professiona...

Despite the profound impact of airpower on the course and outcome of the Gulf War, its employment has not escaped controversy. The coalition quickly cleared the skies of Iraqi aircraft, neutralized Iraqi medium and high altitude air defenses, brought Iraq’s entire command structure and military under attack, and systematically struck at the Iraqi field army in the Kuwait theater of operations. ...

The article analyses the Belarusian and foreign historiography of problem finding Italian internees in Masjukowshchyna 1943–1944. authors introduce new information into scientific circulation, relying on personal archive E. Bordignon, whose own grandfather was Stalag-352 as a prisoner. living conditions prisoners war are considered, well about their further fate example Domenico Arzani.

the present survey covers a number of 91 iranian repatriated war prisoners who, six months after their freedom, approached three psychiatric clinics in tehran during 1989 and spring 1990. of these, 34 persons (37.4%) who showed higher symptoms of disorders were hospitalized and 57 (62.6%) who showed milder signs of disorders were carefully diagnosed mentally and psychologically as outpatients. ...

“state of war” is the most significant consequence of war declaration. “dār al- harb” is considered as the land against which islam has declared the state of war. sometimes it may be as the same as “ma’rekeh” (the theater of war). declaration and beginning of war influences the entire world and especially puts effects on political and commercial relations which may lead to their suspension, rev...

It was in his Quartet for the End of Time that Olivier Messiaen began a life-long process of discovery, not only into his inner world of colour but, also, into a sound world which eliminated conventional notions of musical time. He regarded himself as a composer and rhythmatician and the task he set himself, in his Quartet, was to produce a rhythmic system that could emulate the patterns of nat...