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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Port Royal"”.
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The Process of Colonial Adaptation: English Responses to the 1692 Earthquake at Port Royal, Jamaica
… destroyed half of the bustling harbor town of Port Royal. The earthquake dramatically changed the landscape of England's most successful Caribbean town and affected the colonists. </p> <p>Historian Richard Dunn contended that colonists did not adapt to their tropical environment for at least a …
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Scripture in the Vernacular in Seventeenth-Century France: Antoine Arnauld and the Defence of the New Testament of Mons
… published in 1667 by the theologians from Port-Royal, their ideas about the translation and vernacular Bibles and consists of Introduction, Seven chapters and Conclusion. The Introduction places the dissertation in the context of existing knowledge about Port-Royal and the cultural …
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Une amitié en Dieu : L’edition critique de la correspondance de la mère Angélique de Saint-Jean à Angélique Angran de Fontpertuis.
… Saint& Jean était la dernière abbesse Arnauld de Port&Royal et une femme aux dons intellectuels extraordinaires : un « prodige », selon une autre grande épistolaire du XVIIe siècle, Mme de Sévigné. Je propose une édition critique complète des lettres annotées de cette religieuse à Mme de …
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Determination and Manipulation of Leaf Area Index to Facilitate Site-Specific Management of Double-Crop Soybean in the Mid-Atlantic, U.S.A.
… available water holding capacity (PAWHC) at Port Royal in 2001. In 2000 at Suffolk, seed yield increased quadratically with increasing population and cultivar did not affect the response. In 2001, no relationship occurred between yield and plant population at either Suffolk or Port Royal, but …
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La théorie du langage et l'art d'écrire chez Condillac
… which follows an introductory study of the <em>Port-Royal Grammar</em>, focuses on Condillac’s <em>Grammaire</em> (1775), a work in which the author envisages the problem of language as a grammarian. The relationship between language and thought, one of the main interests of present-day …
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The design of an intelligent decision support tool for submarine commanders
… tanker just after the running aground of the USS Port Royal in Hawaii. Internationally, a French and British submarine collided in the Atlantic Ocean. The high frequency of these maritime accidents points to the need for a better decision support in ship and submarine navigation. Towards this end, …
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The Rise and Fall of Markets Along Bluefields Bay, Jamaica
… Jamaica in 1655, the bay served as a supply port for naval convoys and rivaled Port Royal as a haven for pirates. Markets in Belmont began by the early 1900s on beaches where fishermen and middlemen or higglers exchanged fish for crops. Market activity reached a height during the 1950s when …
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« Résistante de l’intérieur » : Portées critique et politique des écrits de Marie Guyart de l’Incarnation (1599-1672)
… mouvance des travaux qui visent à renouveler l’importance de l’histoire littéraire de Marie de l’Incarnation, non pas uniquement comme religieuse missionnaire mais également comme femme politiquement engagée et féministe avant l’heure. Elle met en valeur la représentation de l’ethos de la femme …