History of the conquest of Mexico : with a preliminary view of the ancient Mexican civilization, and the life of the conqueror, Hernando Cortés /

Vol. 3: 8th ed.

The history of the Christian religion and the church during the three first centuries,

II. The history of Christian sects and doctrines, and an account of the chief fathers of the church.

The history of Britain : that part especially now called England, from the first traditional beginning continued to the Norman conquest /

"The life of Milton, by Edward Philips, 1694": p. [xi]-xliii.

History of the Second Congregational church and society in Leicester, Massachusetts ...

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the conflict between religion and science / by John William Draper.

Includes index.

The memorial history of the City of New-York, from its first settlement to the year 1892.

seventeenth century. Hildeburn, C.R. Printing in New-York in the seventeenth century. Table of dates in New-York history.--v. 2. Vermilye, A.G. The Earl of Bellemont and suppression of piracy, 1698-1701. Stone, W.L. The administration of Lord Cornbury, 1702-1708. Wilson, J.G. Lord Lovelace and the second Canadian campaign, 1708-1710.

British India, 1600-1828 /

Mode of access: Internet.

The history of Greece from its commencement to the close of the independence of the Greek nation /

The translators of v. 1-3 are not known; v. 4 was translated by Frederick Clarke, who revised the translation of v. 1-3.

Rare American history, being the library of a well-known Philadelphia collector ... : to be sold Friday afternoon and evening, February 4th, 1910 ... Saturday morning and afternoon, February 5th, 1910 ... oder of slae, first sitting lots 1 to 350, second [sitting] [lots] 351 to 700, third [sitting] [lots] 701 to 1050, fourth [sitting] [lots] 1051 to end /

" ... comprising an extensive collection of works on the North American Indians; a large and select collection of genealogies, an unusual accumulation of church histories, and general American history, embracing state, county and town history, inland voyages and travels, narratives, biographies, bibliography, Revolutionary history, early poetry, &c."

History of the manufacture of iron in all ages, and particularly in the United States from colonial time to 1891. Also a short history of early coal mining in the United States ...

Mode of access: Internet.

India /

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Endangered ancestress revisited: Sarah's miraculous motherhood and the restoration of Eden

The paper examines the ‘endangered ancestress’ theme in Genesis, in which the matriarchs, Sarah and Rebecca, are passed off to alien rulers as the sisters of their respective husbands, in Sarah’s case twice. Rather than viewing these incidents as clumsy duplication, the paper reads them as a literary device in a continuous narrative. The paper argues that when read in this way, these incidents serve to underline the singular status of Sarah in contrast to Rebecca and subsequent matriarchs. Sarah is shown to be the unique foremother of Israel. Alone of all her sex, she represents a pristine new beginning, analogous to human beginnings in Eden.

(U-Th)/He and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Weathering, Hamersley Province, Australia: Implications for weathering history and landscape Evolution

(U–Th)/He dating of goethite, when combined with quantification of diffusive 4He loss by the 4He/3He methodology, provides reliable corrected ages for minerals precipitated in weathering profiles. We have combined (U–Th)/He dating of supergene goethite with 40Ar/39Ar dating of supergene manganese oxides to study the weathering history and landscape evolution in the Hamersley Province, northwestern Australia. Incremental heating 40Ar/39Ar analysis of 187 grains of Mn oxides from 65 samples (44 hand specimens) collected from weathering profiles at seven field sites across the Hamersley Province yield precipitation ages ranging from 63.4 ± 0.9 to 1.5 ± 0.2 Ma. These results, combined with previous results of 40Ar/39Ar dating of Mn oxides (Vasconcelos, 1998 Vasconcelos, P.V., 1998. Unpub. report, pp. 1–278.Vasconcelos, 1998 and Cochrane, 2003), reveal a protracted and episodic history of weathering and landscape evolution, which was already ongoing in Late Cretaceous and spans the Palaeogene and Neogene. Seventy-three grains of goethite from 39 samples extracted from 21 hand specimens, collected from the same field sites where the Mn oxides originated, were dated by the (U–Th)/He method. Internally consistent (U–Th)/He ages, which range from 84.3 ± 12.2 to 3.3 ± 0.5 Ma, have been obtained for most samples when corrections are applied for 10% helium diffusive loss. The geochronological results obtained show remarkable similarity in the distribution of ages associated with supergene mineral precipitation. The widespread occurrence of iron oxides such as goethite in soils and weathering profiles and the successful application of (U–Th)/He dating of goethite offers great opportunities for extracting the wealth of palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental information recorded by these profiles on the surface of terrestrial planets such as Earth and Mars.

Stand-alone groundwater desalination system using reverse osmosis combined with a cooled greenhouse for use in arid and semi-arid zones of India

In many areas of northern India, salinity renders groundwater unsuitable for drinking and even for irrigation. Though membrane treatment can be used to remove the salt, there are some drawbacks to this approach e.g. (1) depletion of the groundwater due to over-abstraction, (2) saline contamination of surface water and soil caused by concentrate disposal and (3) high electricity usage. To address these issues, a system is proposed in which a photovoltaic-powered reverse osmosis (RO) system is used to irrigate a greenhouse (GH) in a stand-alone arrangement. The concentrate from the RO is supplied to an evaporative cooling system, thus reducing the volume of the concentrate so that finally it can be evaporated in a pond to solid for safe disposal. Based on typical meteorological data for Delhi, calculations based on mass and energy balance are presented to assess the sizing and cost of the system. It is shown that solar radiation, freshwater output and evapotranspiration demand are readily matched due to the approximately linear relation among these variables. The demand for concentrate varies independently, however, thus favouring the use of a variable recovery arrangement. Though enough water may be harvested from the GH roof to provide year-round irrigation, this would require considerable storage. Some practical options for storage tanks are discussed. An alternative use of rainwater is in misting to reduce peak temperatures in the summer. An example optimised design provides internal temperatures below 30EC (monthly average daily maxima) for 8 months of the year and costs about €36,000 for the whole system with GH floor area of 1000 m2 . Further work is needed to assess technical risks relating to scale-deposition in the membrane and evaporative pads, and to develop a business model that will allow such a project to succeed in the Indian rural context.