...This chapter discusses the demise of bull-baiting. It describes and explains the eventual disappearance of bull-baiting. It states that it is unlikely that the reforming endeavours of the middle classes were the reason of this happening. Social conflicts in Birmingham and the west Midlands due...

...0 09 03 2006 The Native Occupants of the Arctic had little interest in the endeavours of the explorers to which history has accorded such great importance. The quest for sea-passages to the north of Asia and America, the search for Franklin and the race to the Pole, brought relatively few...

... Patrick Steptoe, was-the first to persevere in the face of both peer and public ridicule as well as seemingly insurmountable technical problems. We should recall that, early on, public tolerance for such endeavours was slight indeed. The situation changed dramatically in the summer of 1978 with the birth...

...0 29 06 2006 The period at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth was one of great importance in the philosophy of the natural world. What had been, up to this point, a single discipline of ‘natural philosophy’ gradually split into two different endeavours...

...The introduction puts Elyot’s work into the historical, cultural, and linguistic context of Tudor England. It provides a brief review of Elyot’s professional life, his published oeuvre and the guiding ideas informing his educational endeavours. A critical survey of recent historical studies...

... on the problem. As in all such endeavours, the appropriate starting point was to establish a case definition of the new syndrome. This was recognized with the publication in 1988 of what became known as the CDC or Holmes’ criteria1• This was a milestone in the acceptance of the syndrome and the beginning...

... that, in many human endeavours, the outcomes we are interested in are not determined by the information-processing ability of the individual, but by countless forces in the environment....

...) in fulfilling their ‘best endeavours’ undertaking, and traces the efforts of the IASC to secure recognition and, even more important, acceptance of its standards by national regulators and standard setting bodies. It presents evidence of progress towards fulfilling this obligation in board-member countries...

... her natural fertility and then emulate it as Science. And that it is respectable local women such as nurses who are particularly enlisted in his endeavours. midwives endeavours continue childbirth universal This content is only available as a PDF. ...