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Cecil Pinsent: architecture and landscape design
… first detailed account of the life and work of Cecil Ross Pinsent (1884-1963), an English architect and landscape designer who lived and practised almost exclusively in Italy from 1907 to circa 1935. During this time he was involved in the restoration and renovation of many of the most …
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The commercial policy of William Cecil Lord Burghley
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of History, 1958
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The Value of Dress in the Cecil Household, (c. 1550-1612)
This thesis considers how William Cecil (1520-1598), Lord Burghley, his family, and his household dressed. It investigates how the Cecil household from the middle of the sixteenth century to the early seventeenth century perceived dress and how they demonstrated their political power and social …
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THE IMPERIALISM OF CECIL JOHN RHODES: METROPOLITAN PERCEPTIONS OF A COLONIAL REPUTATION
Cecil John Rhodes, the British mining-magnate, politician, and empire builder, epitomised the dynamism and controversy of late-nineteenth century imperialism. In his time he was regarded as a towering figure of the age, not only in Britain and its colonial empire, but throughout the world. He cast …
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Estrategias de diseño estructural en la arquitectura contemporánea : El trabajo de Cecil Balmond.
… valora el trabajo desarrollado por el ingeniero Cecil Balmond, de especial relevancia en el contexto arquitectónico y estructural actual al haber colaborado con algunos de los arquitectos contemporáneos de mayor influencia y repercusión, y representar una posición extrema de reivindicación del …
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The administration of Cecil John Rhodes as prime minister of the Cape Colony, 1890-1896
In his monograph, Sir Thomas Fuller divides Rhodes's public policy under three heads - the expansion of the Cape Colony; the federation, or, as it was frequently called, the union of South African States; and the Government of the Cape Colony itself when he became its Premier. Any such divisions …
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Effects of certain fertilizer and lime treatments on some chemical properties of Cecil sandy loam
An investigation of the pH, organic matter content, total nitrogen, and cation exchange properties of the soil of the l8-year-old rotation plots at Chatham, Virginia, was carried out. Individual soil samples were taken of each of the 36 sub-plots which compose the experiment. After the chemical …
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The variability and geomorphology of Appling, Cecil, and Davidson soils on sideslopes in the Virginia Piedmont
Delineations of Applinq, Cecil, and Davidson soils were sampled on a grid pattern (4 to 9 m spacings), using a bucket auger, to determine their modal character and variability with regard to various chemical and morphological parameters. Delineations were located on south-southwest facing, 5 to 12% …
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Field and laboratory characterization of soil water desorption properties and comparison of plant available water for two Virginia soils
… siliceous, thermic, Typic Paleudult) and the Cecil soil (a clayey, kaolinitic, thermic, Typic Hapludult). Water desorption properties were investigated in the laboratory and in situ. The soil water desorption curves developed in the laboratory for both soils were relatively uniform. This …
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Characterization, classification, and productivity studies of typic hapludult mapping units in the southern Piedmont of Virginia
… and productivity of soils mapped as Cecil-Pacolet (clayey, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Hapludults). Effects of erosion on Ap and Bt soil properties and soybean grain yields were studied in Pittsylvania and Lunenburg counties. Relationships between soil properties, soybean yields, and …
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On Competitive Adsorption of Oxyanions by Soils (Freundlich Equation, Enthalphy of Adsorption, Selectivity Coefficient, Anion Mixtures, Anion)
… molybdate, and phosphate) by three soil samples (Cecil clay, EPA-14, and Catlin silt loam) was investigated using batch equilibrium techniques. The adsorption of arsenate and molybdate by all three soils was significantly reduced by the presence of phosphate, while the adsorption of phosphate was …
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Development and Comparison of 17beta-Estradiol Sorption Isotherms for Three Agriculturally Productive Soils From Different Physiographic Regions in Virginia
… Virginia. Groseclose loam, Myatt sandy loam and Cecil loam were supplied by the Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences Department at Virginia Tech. All soils were collected from the plow layer (0 to 15 cm) except for an additional Cecil soil sample from the Bt horizon. The concentration of E2 in …
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Utopian fantasies of the perfected imperial prospect and fractured images of unresolved ambivalence and unsuppressed resistance : the Groote Schuur landscape considered as an imperial dream topography of Cecil John Rhodes, 1890-1929
… and 1929. At the end of the nineteenth century, Cecil Rhodes brought ideas of paternalism, imperialism and empire to the Estate and notions of creating a European space in Africa; Groote Schuur would be a meeting point where Africa and Europe would fuse in the same frame, where the wildness of …
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Soil-plant root relationships of herbaceous biomass crops grown on the Piedmont of Virginia
… though bulk density on all three soils (Appling, Cecil, and Davidson) appeared high enough to drastically limit rooting, such limitations were found only at the Appling sites and, to a much lesser extent, at the Cecil sites. Well-developed soil structure seemed to be instrumental in the success of …
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Imperial Splendor: Diamonds, Commodity Chains, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
… Chamberlain (University of Birmingham) and Cecil Rhodes (Rhodes House, Oxford), the records of the East India Company (British Library), travelogues of Britons in Brazil, and records on aesthetics and natural history consulted at the Natural History Museum Archives and the Archive of Art and …
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Plant growth regulators: an alternative to frequent mowing
… total annual mowing costs at Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Florida and Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida. The highest potential savings are in areas where the frequency of mowing is weekly of biweekly. In areas where the mowing frequency is one time per month, the saving approach …
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An investigation of the resources available for interpreting visual cultural production related to male homosexuality in Britain : 1940 to the present
… encounters with the work of Francis Bacon, Cecil Beaton, Keith Vaughan and David Sockney, detailed readings of popular fiction, literature and literary theory, research in the archives of The Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (1955-7), analysis of British health …
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Pinus taeda growth and phosphorus uptake as affected by interactions of mycorrhizae and supplemental phosphorus
… The seedlings were grown in pots containing a Cecil sandy clay loam amended with one of the following: 75% sand, 25% sand, enamended, 56 kg P ha⁻¹, 112 kg P ha⁻¹. They were harvested ten months after planting. Shoot lengths, root lengths, biomass, and total P of all plant parts including …
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