(Table 1) Age control points of ODP Site 160-968

The astronomical timescale of the Eastern Mediterranean Plio-Pleistocene builds on tuning of sapropel layers to Northern Hemisphere summer insolation maxima. A 3000-year precession lag has become instrumental in the tuning procedure as radiocarbon dating revealed that the midpoint of the youngest sapropel, S1, in the early Holocene occurred approximately 3000 years after the insolation maximum. The origin of the time lag remains elusive, however, because sapropels are generally linked to maximum African monsoon intensities and transient climate modeling results indicate an in-phase behavior of the African monsoon relative to precession forcing. Here we present new high-resolution records of bulk sediment geochemistry and benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes from ODP Site 968 in the Eastern Mediterranean. We show that the 3000-year precession time lag of the sapropel midpoints is consistent with (1) the global marine isotope chronology, (2) maximum (monsoonal) precipitation conditions in the Mediterranean region and China derived from radiometrically dated speleothem records, and (3) maximum atmospheric methane concentrations in Antarctica ice cores. We show that the time lag relates to the occurrence of precession-paced North Atlantic cold events, which systematically delayed the onset of strong boreal summer monsoon intensity. Our findings may also explain a non-stationary behavior of the African monsoon over the past 3 million years due to more frequent and intensive cold events in the Late Pleistocene.

Sir Thomas Elyots̓ The defence of good women,

"The defence of good women was first published in 1540. The only known copy of this edition is in the Henry E. Huntington library; this copy is here reproduced in a line-for-line and letter-for-letter reprint."--Introd., p. viii.

Of the knowledge which maketh a wise man,

A page-for-page reprint of the Henry E. Huntington library copy of the 1533 edition. cf. Introd.

Sir David Lyndesay's Works ...

Henry Charteris's preface to 1568 ed. of Lindsay's Works, with reproduction of original t.-p.: 13* p. appended.

Inner Left Wing of an Altarpiece with the Wedding Feast of St Elizabeth and Louis of Thuringia in the Wartburg

Master of the Saint. Elizabeth Panels; 4 ft. 2 9/32 in.x 3 ft. 7 7/64 in.; oil on panel

Outer Left Wing of an Altarpiece with the St Elizabeth’s Day Flood

Master of the Saint. Elizabeth Panels; 4 ft. 2 1/8 in.x 3 ft. 7 7/64 in.; oil on panel

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Tending the Sick in Marburg, Death of St Elizabeth, inner right wing of an altarpiece made for the Grote Kerk in Dordrecht

Master of the Saint. Elizabeth Panels; 4 ft. 2 13/64 in.x 3 ft. 7 7/64 in.; oil on panel

The major organs and vessels

Leonardo da Vinci; 10 15/16 in.x 7 3/4 in.; pen and ink with brown and greenish wash, over black chalk on paper

Holy Face

Gerard David; 3 35/64 in.x 2 1/8 in.; tempera and gold leaf on parchment that has been trimmed and laid down on thin walnut

Charles de Bourbon : high constable of France "The great condottiere" /

Mode of access: Internet.

François Rabelais, tout ce qui existe de ses œuvres. Gargantua, Pantagruel, Pantagrueline prognostication, almanachs, Sciomachie, lettres, opuscules, pièces attribuées à Rabelais. Texte soigneusement collationné sur les éditions originales, précédé d'une vie de l'auteur d'après les documents les plus récemment découverts et les plus authentiques, et suivi d'une bibliographie, de notes et d'un glossaire,

"Bibliographie": p. [635]-650.

A dream of John Ball : and A king's lesson /

"A dream of John Ball" first appeared in the "Commonweal", 1886-87; issued in book-form, 1888. "A king's lesson", a story based on the life of Matthias Corvinus, also appeared in the "Commonweal", Sept. 18, 1886.

Practica Antonij Guainerij ... et omnia opera ...

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Trois anciens traictez de la philosophie naturelle.

Datos correspondientes a la segunda parte tomados de CCFR.

Quinti Sereni Sammonici ... De re medica, siue Morborum curationibus liber tum elegans tum humanae saluti perquàm utilis, & diligenter emendatus ; item Gabrielis Humelbergij Rauenspurgensis, medici, in Q. Sereni librum medicinalem Commentarii.

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