the hoard of kalmakarra cave that includes hundreds of golden and silver objects has been unearthed in 1989 in pol-e dokhtar located at loristān province by villagers. in addition to aesthetical values, these objects bear archeological significance. their unique value, with respect to inscriptions in old aramaic, neo- assyrian and neo- elamite on some of them. deciphering these inscriptions by ...

In many belief systems throughout history, holiness has been attributed to the water element. Turkish system, too, appears as a purifying element which sacrifices are made, wishes and representative of abundance fertility. sources, we see that Turks prefer places close their living space, is address protection from evil diseases, purification cleaning, in short, healing. It possible traces plac...

the geographic location of the elamite terrain which lies in parts of today's khuzestan caused a middle-man-role for this region situated in between water-ways leading to the head of the persian gulf and iranian plateau and mesopotamia. in addition to the fact that this territory, possessing several rivers, was very fertile, the reality that of one of the most important iranian trade-route...

The UK Worshipful Company of Information Technologists organised two high-level colloquia to debate ethical & spiritual implication of the new IT & Telecoms Environment in 1997. The colloquia were hosted in the UK House of Lords. This paper summarises the debates of those colloquia, and discusses some of the ethical and cultural issues that arise.

In 1974 J.A.G. Griffith published his Parliamentary Scrutiny of Government Bills, a meticulous study of the parliamentary impact on legislation. Since then little such detailed work has been done. Yet Griffiths' study interpreted 'Parliament' largely as the House of Commons. He included only limited analysis on the legislative impact of the House of Lords, and no analysis of the interactions be...

SIR JOHN HILL (1714-1775), the mid-Georgian entrepreneur, man of letters and science, must have written at least ten times the approximately two hundred letters that survive.' Disappearance of the other nine-tenths is not mysterious: Hill was vilified by most of his contemporaries, who enjoyed little, if any, sense that the documents pertaining to his life could ever be of any interest to poste...

While the decision of the House of Lords in Re F in [1990] clarified somewhat the law concerning the treatment of the mentally incapacitated adult, many uncertainties remained. This paper explores proposals discussed in a recent government green paper for reform of the law in an area involving many difficult ethical dilemmas.

The Vice Chancellor, Deputy Vice Chancellor, The Ag. Registrar and other Principal Officers, Deans of Colleges and Directors of Centres, Ag. Head of Department of Horticulture and other Heads of Departments, Fellow Colleagues (Both Academic and Non-Academic), My Lords Spiritual and Temporal, Friends of the University and Special Guest, Gentlement of the Press, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen...