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...artificial lighting such as candles and oil lamps – and an array of smells and sounds provided by burning incense, chanting and bell ringing. In addition to the important role held by the embellishment of the walls in Byzantine churches, either in mosaic or fresco (or occasionally a combination of the two), an equally important role is given to panel paintings placed on...

...intelligence’ but ‘more than the average amount of tact’ (Wightman, 1912, p. 10). Private nursing slowly died out after 1918, at the same time as did the live-in domestic servant. By this time, few households had enough room to accommodate a live-in nurse, and patients wealthy enough to afford a private nurse could get the same services in a nursing home (discussed...

...artificial. For example, shifts in demographics and changes in the lives of women shaped health and welfare policies; the mass media was a vehicle through which to debate change, but also a tool to promote it; and the experience of all these features of modern life was arguably most intense within the urban environment. Two issues, derived from the historiography, will...

...artificially extending the athlete's arm), increasing the javelin's rotation (thus making it more stable in the air) and accelerating the projectile over a longer distance. Animation 5 javelin throw Please note that this animation contains nudity in order to give a more realistic representation of the Ancient Olympic games. Javelin throw Wrestling Wrestling (pale) was...