The Rise of Imperialism in Virginia

The survival of the Virginia colony hung for years by a hairbreadth. One major reason for the survival of this distressed colony was the changes that the Virginia Company Author(s): No creator set

Advanced Semantics, Spring 2005
Current work on semantics and questions of logic and meaning for syntactic systems in generative grammar.
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Top 10 Classes at USC: Students Pick Their Favorite Classes
Get the most out of your USC education with these student-recommended courses. For scheduling information and for a list of more great "courses of interest," check out the Schedule of Classes at www.usc.edu/soc.
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IDS350 Session 8 Spring 2012
Gardens of California with Jerry Turney 03/11/12
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Kwame Anthony Appiah on "Islam and the West"
Noted author and Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University Kwame Anthony Appiah visited the University of Rochester to spend three days with the campus community holding discussions on his work and the issues he addresses in his books. On February 23, he delivered his talk "Islam and the West" as part of the inaugural Distinguished Visiting Humanist Series. In his talk and during his discussions with students, Pro
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TechFest 2012: 3D Facial Animation

TechFest is one of my favorite conferences each year because we get a little insight into what the powerful mids at Microsoft Research are working on. In this demo, you'll see what the future of 3D facial animation holds and how we can get from our current state to a near perfect simulation all created digitally. Watch out James Cameron!

TWC9: SQL Server 2012, VS11, Win8 Metro, Bing Maps Metro and more

This week on Channel 9, Not Dan and Not Brian (Larry and Charles) discuss the week's top developer news, including:

• [0:44] SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event, Roger Doherty: Introduction to SQL Server 2012, Author(s): Charles, Greg Duncan, Larry Larsen
  
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BoxingBots at South by South West

The boys at Coding4Fun really out-did themselves this time. They created Kinect-Driven Pneumatic Boxing Robots and showed them off to the party-goers at last nights opening party for the SXSW Interactive track, host by Frog and Microsoft. Essentially 2 humans each use their own Kinect to control the boxing bots inside the ring. The crowd LOVED this party centerpiece and I must say I want a bot of my very own. You can read
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Positions at Geograph
About the jobs at geograph
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2012 MSU Excellence in Diversity Awards: Emerging Progress, Rebecca Farnum
Profile of 2012 Excellence in Diversity Awards: Emerging Progress award winner, Rebecca Farnum.
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Slam Poet Gayle Danley
International slam poet champion, Gayle Danley, breaks it down at the Artist Showcase and Family Festival. (08:50)
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Meet Stephanie Hanes: A Global Look at Statelessness
Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/stateless-citizenship-nationality-kenya-bangladesh-dominican-republic Pulitzer Center grantee Stephanie Hanes explains the difficulties confronted by stateless population—people who have no citizenship rights—and how they are distinguished from refugees. Using Kenya, Bangladesh and the Dominican Republic as a lens to look into this worldwide phenomenon of statelessness, Hanes emphasizes diversity within stateless people who are individualized b
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Orion: Exploration Flight Test-1 Animation (with narration by Jay Estes)
This animation depicts the proposed test flight of the Orion spacecraft in 2014. During the test, which is called Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), Orion will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., perform two orbits, reaching an altitude higher than any achieved by a spacecraft intended for human use since 1973, and then will re-enter and land in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of the United States. Narration by Jay Estes, Deputy for flight test integration in the Orion program.
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Microraptor: Live Chat with Mark Norell & Mick Ellison
On March 9, the American Museum of Natural History and io9 hosted a live webcast discussion about new dinosaur feather research. The study, by a team of researchers that includes Museum paleontologists, reveals the black iridescent color and detailed feather pattern of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago. Robert Gonzalez, a science reporter at io9, moderated the discussion with two of the new paper's co-authors: Mark Norell, chair of the Mus
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Bart De Smet: Inside Rx 2.0 Beta

Rx v2.0 Beta is here! Who better to tell us all about it - and in great detail at the whiteboard - than Bart J. F. De Smet. This is a long interview, so take your time. Watch it in parts or at one sitting. There was no easy way to dice this up into separate videos, so we give it to you as it happened - in one take. As usual, Bart's explanations are thorough and clear. Enjoy. Learn. Rx
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M. Vinaver et A. Meunier : Une œuvre universelle, ancrée dans la réalité (sous-titres japonais)

Dramaturge depuis les années 1950, Michel Vinaver occupe une place de tout premier ordre dans le théâtre français contemporain. Il a ancré son œuvre immense dans la réalité économique, le réel, l'histoire. Sa venue au Japon en 2009, à l'occasion des représentations de sa pièce Par-dessus bord sur une mise en scène d'Arnaud Meunier et une adaptation du texte en japonais par Oriza Hirata, un des plus importants metteurs en scène du théâtre contemporain japonais, a const
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