67 résultats pour "tees"

• LA TÊTE DE JEMAA

  Têtes Nok, 500 avant notre ère - 200 de notre ère (Lagos, National Museum). aussi soucié de modeler sa tête selon une forme géométrique : en l'occurrence une sphère, de préférence aux deux autres volumes en usage, le cône et le cylindre. Le visage, dont la surface est lisse, se compose d'un front bien dégagé, de sourcils très légère­ ment incurvés et entaillés de petits traits, d'yeux incisés en forme de triangle , d'un nez...

• tableau.

  C'est un document de la comptabilité nationale, présentant de façon synthétique, en colonnes, les comptes de flux des agents économiques (secteurs institutionnels et reste du monde) et, en lignes, les principales opérations financières et non financières. L'ordre dans lequel sont répertoriées les opérations permet de les regrouper en emplois et en ressources de chaque agent selon les comptes de production, d'exploitation, de revenu, d'utilisation du revenu, de capital et le compte financier. La...

• Glossaire

  PALINGÉNÉSIE : (du grec, genes1e: naissance, palin, de nouveau) concep­ tion antique selon laquelle le cosmos obéit à un éternel retour, bouclant l'Histoire du monde sur elle-même après une grande année cosmique. PERCEPTION : processus cognitif complet par lequel des informations sensorielles sont organisées en une syn­ thèse cohérente. Cette organisation peut être décrite à trois niveaux: l'organisa­ tion spatio-temporelle des sensations ( 1 ), l'...

• Declaration of Independence.

  communication networks to publicize British actions and encourage demonstrations of defiance. Soon these committees and some colonial legislatures issued a call for anall-colony congress to discuss other appropriate responses to Britain’s actions. The Continental Congress first met in Philadelphia from September to the end of October1774. This body did not plan for war; instead, it debated the extent to which the colonies should carry their resistance to Great Britain. The First Continental Cong...

• Declaration of Independence - U.

  communication networks to publicize British actions and encourage demonstrations of defiance. Soon these committees and some colonial legislatures issued a call for anall-colony congress to discuss other appropriate responses to Britain’s actions. The Continental Congress first met in Philadelphia from September to the end of October1774. This body did not plan for war; instead, it debated the extent to which the colonies should carry their resistance to Great Britain. The First Continental Cong...

• Nicklaus-Watson Match.

  until 1977, primarily because golf officials felt that there weren't enough hotel rooms in the area to attract and accommodate the crowds. But officials finally relented,deciding that the majestic course deserved to stage golf's most noble tournament. The sun shone brightly over this scene for the July event. Nicklaus and Watson were both on the leader board after the first two rounds with identical scores of 68-70-138. Their dramatic play began in the third round, on Friday. Nicklaus jumped...

• Malawi - geographie.

  Früchte, Gemüse und Erdnüsse sowie Getreide; exportiert werden vor allem Tabak, Tee, Zucker und Baumwolle. Fischfang und Fischverarbeitung dienen vorwiegend derEigenversorgung, entwickeln sich aber zu einem potentiellen Exportzweig. Die Fischindustrie hat ihren Hauptstandort in Nkhotakota am Westufer des Malawisees. Diejährliche Fangmenge liegt bei 59 595 Tonnen (2005). 6.2 Außenhandel und Währung Aufgrund seiner geographischen Lage ist Malawi beim Im- und Export auf Transportwege durch seine N...

• Pottery I INTRODUCTION Pottery, clay that is chemically altered and permanently hardened by firing in a kiln.

  basket, or a clay or plaster form. Liquid clay can be poured into plaster molds. A pot can be coil built: Clay is rolled between the palms of the hands and extended intolong coils, a coil is formed into a ring, and the pot is built up by superimposing rings. Also, a ball of clay can be pinched into the desired shape. The most sophisticatedpottery-making technique is wheel throwing. The potter's wheel, invented in the 4th millennium BC, is a flat disk that revolves horizontally on a pivot. Both...

• American Revolution.

  C1 The South Southern agriculture was founded on the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, and corn in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, and of rice and indigo (a blue dye) in SouthCarolina and Georgia. There was a large demand for these crops in Europe. These crops were cultivated with the help of black slaves imported from Africa. The whiteplanter class in the South was the most powerful, both politically and economically. C2 The North Wheat was the main cash crop of the mid-Atlantic colonies...

• American Revolution - U.

  C1 The South Southern agriculture was founded on the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, and corn in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, and of rice and indigo (a blue dye) in SouthCarolina and Georgia. There was a large demand for these crops in Europe. These crops were cultivated with the help of black slaves imported from Africa. The whiteplanter class in the South was the most powerful, both politically and economically. C2 The North Wheat was the main cash crop of the mid-Atlantic colonies...

• From Uncle Tom's Cabin - anthology.

  the evils of slavery from sketches like these, is not the half that could be told, of the unspeakable whole. In the northern states, these representations may, perhaps, be thought caricatures; in the southern states are witnesses who know their fidelity. What personalknowledge the author has had, of the truth of incidents such as here are related, will appear in its time. It is a comfort to hope, as so many of the world's sorrows and wrongs have, from age to age, been lived down, so a ti...

• The Alchimist

• Midnighters

• Qing Dynasty - History.

  The Manchus also dealt with the problem of Russian expansion into northeastern Asia. In 1689 the Treaty of Nerchinsk was signed by an envoy from the Manchu courtand a Russian representing Peter the Great. The treaty, the first between China and a Western country, established territorial boundaries and defined rules ofcommerce for the two powers. Through the mid-18th century, the Manchus continued to consolidate their power. In 1720 the Qing ruler sent forces to fight the Mongols in Tibet and the...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...

• On the road