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The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Jerusalem. [PDF]
Ground WaterAbstract Jerusalem, a city held sacred by three of the world's great religions, is located in a semi‐arid climate, and its occupation through the millennia has only been made possible by the construction of an extensive and ingenious water supply infrastructure. The settlement of Jerusalem was first made possible by water from the Gihon Spring.
Deming D.
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Is a good reputation a dangerous thing? A multimethod assessment of regulator culture and the implications for risk regulation. [PDF]
Risk AnalAbstract Regulator culture has a significant influence on dutyholder safety in high‐risk industries, but there is currently limited research that has explored its nature and implications for effective risk regulation. Building on existing cultural theory and literature on reputational risk, we aim to address this hiatus by exploring regulator culture ...
Clarke S, Siegl L, Holman D.
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Welsh Chwant ‘Desire’ and Trisantona ‘River Trent’ in Tacitus
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The article deals with the ancient name of the longest river solely in England, the Trent, flowing past Stoke-on-Trent and Nottingham to the North Sea. In a passage that has raised debate and led to a number of misinterpretations in literature, Tacitus ...
Andrew Breeze
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Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language - HLT '89, 1989 TACITUS is a general and domain-independent natural language processing system, used so far primarily for message processing. It performs a syntactic analysis of the sentences in the text, producing a logical form. Next, inferential pragmatics processing is applied to the logical form to solve problems of schema recognition, reference resolution ...
Jerry R. Hobbs +4 more
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Tacitus’ Germania and the Limits of Fantastic Geography
Histos, 2020 This article explores Tacitus’ careful, simultaneous positioning of geographical boundaries and the limits of his own writing at the opening and close of the Germania.
Jessica Lightfoot
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Antoninianus - RIC V Tacitus 17 [PDF]
, 2019 M·CL·TACITVS·P·F·AVGCONSERVAT·MILITBust of Tacitus to right, radiate and draped; around, M·CL·TACITVS·P·F·AVGTacitus standing right in armor, holding spear, receiving globe from Jupiter, standing left holding scepter; around, CONSERVAT ...
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THE GERUND AND GERUNDIVE IN THE WORKS OF TACITUS AND PLINY THE YOUNGER
Filolog, 2021 The gerund is a defective verbal noun and the gerundive is a passive verbal adjective in -ndus, -a, -um with necessitative meaning. This paper presents some results obtained from a comparison of the various uses gerunds and gerundives in the ...
Slobodanka S. Prtija
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Philosophy According to Tacitus: Francis Bacon and the Inquiry into the Limits of Human Self-Delusion [PDF]
, 2012 Bacon belonged to a cultural milieu that, between the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, proved to be especially receptive to infuences coming from such continental authors as Machiavelli, Bodin, Duplessis-Mornay, Hotman, and, through Lipsius, a ...
Giglioni, Guido
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A violação de Britânico (Tac. Ann. 13.17) = Britannicus’ Rape (Tac. Ann. 13.17)
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2020 Este estudo foca-se na biografia de Britânico, filho de Cláudio e Valéria Messalina, analisando em particular as informações transmitidas por Tácito nos Annales.
Nuno Simões Rodrigues
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Tacitus, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, New York, 2019 [PDF]
, 2019 Due to the relative sparseness of Parthian sources, Tacitus’ data on Parthia, chiefly included in the Annals, but scattered also in his other works (the Historiae and Germania), is of particular importance (Walser; Sonnabend; Ehrhardt; Thommen; cf ...
Marek Olbrycht (6814832)
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