Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Religion

The Religion Romania constituted the main religion of the city in ancient times. However, a number of other religions and imported secrecy cults remained represented within its ever-expanding limitations, counting Judaism, whose presence in the city dates sponsor from the Roman Republic and was sometimes compulsorily confined to the Roman Ghetto, as well as Christianity. In spite of initial persecutions, by the early 4th century, Christianity had turn into so widespread that it was legalized in 313 by Emperor Constantine I, and later made executive religion of the Roman Empire in 380 by Emperor Theodosius I, allowing it to increase further and ultimately wholly replace the declining Religion Romania.

Rome became the most excellent Christian city based on the custom that Saint Peter and Saint Paul were martyred in the city throughout the 1st century, coupled with the city's political significance. The Bishop of Rome, later identified as the Pope, claimed dominance over all Bishops and consequently all Christians on the foundation that he is the successor of Saint Peter, upon whom Jesus built his Church; his status has been enhanced since 313 during contributions by Roman emperors and patricians, including the Lateran Palace and patriarchal basilicas, as well as the visibly growing influence of the Church over the failing civil regal authority. Papal authority has been exercised over the centuries with unreliable degrees of success, at period triggering divisions amongst Christians, until the present.

Friday, November 24, 2006

Lexicography

In American English usage, the name can be capitalized or spelled in lowercase interchangeably, either when used completely or prefixed with "the" (i.e. Earth, the Earth, earth or the earth). Many consciously spell the name of the planet with a capital, both as "Earth" or "the Earth". This is to distinguish it as a good noun, distinct from the senses of the term as a count noun or verb. Oxford Spelling recognizes the lowercase form as the most common, with the capitalized form as an alternative of it. Another convention that is very ordinary is to spell the name with a capital when occurring absolutely and lowercase when preceded by "the". The term almost completely exists in lowercase when appearing in common phrases, even without "the" preceding it.

Terms that refer to the Earth can use the Latin origin terr-, as in terraform and terrestrial. Another Latin root is tellur-, which is used in language such as tellurian and tellurium. Such terms derive from Latin terra and tellus, which refer variously to the world, the element earth, the earth goddess and so forth. Scientific terms such as geography, geocentric and geothermal use the Greek prefix geo-, from gē (again meaning "earth"). In many skill fiction books and video games, Earth is referred to as Terra or Gaia. Astronauts refer to the Earth as "Terra Firma".

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Leather in modern culture

Leather, due to its exceptional abrasion and wind struggle, found a use in rough occupations. The durable image of a cowboy in leather chaps gave way to the leather-jacketed and leather-helmeted aviator. When motorcycles were invented, some riders took to exhausting heavy leather jackets to protect from road rash and wind explosion; some also wear chaps or full fur pants to shelter the lower body. Many sports still use leather to help in live the game or protecting players: due to its stretchy nature it can be formed and flexed for the occurrence.
As leather can also be a metonymical expression for things made from it, the term leathering is as reasonable as tanning in the sense of a physical penalty applied with a leather whip.
Leather fetishism is the name commonly used to describe a fetishistic magnetism to people wearing leather, or in definite cases, to the garments themselves.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Volcanic activity

A trendy way of classifying magmatic volcanoes goes by their occurrence of eruption, with those that erupt regularly called active, those that have erupted in historical times but are now quiet called latent, and those that have not erupted in historical times called extinct. However, these popular classifications vanished in particular are practically meaningless to scientists. They use classifications which refer to a particular volcano's formative and eruptive processes and ensuing shapes, which was explained above.

There is no actual consensus among volcanologists on how to define an "active" volcano. The natural life of a volcano can vary from months to several million years, making such a distinction sometimes worthless when compared to the life spans of humans or even civilizations. For example, many of Earth's volcanoes have erupted dozens of times in the past few thousand years but are not at present showing signs of eruption. Given the long lifespan of such volcanoes, they are very vigorous. By our life spans, however, they are not. Complicating the definition are volcanoes that become restless but do not actually erupt.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Agriculture

Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other goods by the methodical raising of plants and animals.
Agri is from Latin ager, and culture is from Latin cultura, meaning "cultivation" in the strict sense of tillage of the soil. A literal understanding of the English word yields: tillage of the soil of a field. In modern usage, the word Agriculture covers all activities essential to food/feed/fiber production, counting all techniques for raising and processing livestock. Agriculture is also short for the study of the practice of agriculture more formally known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture is closely associated to human history, and agricultural developments have been crucual factors in social change, including the specialty of human activity.
42% of the world's laborers are working in agriculture, making it by far the most common occupation. However, agricultural production accounts for less than 5% of the Gross World Product.

Sunday, November 05, 2006

spear

A spear is an ancient weapon used for hunting and war, consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a sharpened head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be of another material fastened to the shaft. The most common design is of a metal spearhead, shaped somewhat like a dagger.
Spears were arguably one of the most common personal weapons from the late Bronze Age until the advent of firearms. They may be seen as the ancestor of such weapons as the lance, the halberd, the naginata and the pike. One of the earliest weapons fashioned by human beings and their ancestors, it is still used for hunting and fishing, and its influences can still be seen in contemporary military arsenals as the rifle mounted bayonet.
Spears can be used as both melee and ballistic weapons. Spears used primarily for thrusting tend to have heavier and sturdier designs than those intended exclusively for throwing. Two of the most noted throwing spears are the javelin thrown by the ancient Greeks and the pilum used by the Romans.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Indians

The Native American Indians who were in the southwest region lived in areas of Arizona and villages in New Mexico, mostly the southern states of USA, southern Colarado and Southern Utah. Those Pueblo people belonged to many different communities.They can also speak six different languages. They were previously named in the 1500 by Spanish explorers. The Spaniards who found them living in the villages that resembled the Spanish towns and the word Pueblo in spanish means town. Most of those people lived in New Mexico, the majority of the people lived in Rio Grande, in areas between Taos and Albuquerque. The Others were lived in deserts or high plateau areas that were called Mesas in Laguna and Acoma in west-central New Mexico. The climate of this region was cold in the winters with snow, and dry, hot summers because of the deserts.

Each one of the pueblo villages has their own government and their own organization. Obviously they were linked to one another in many customs that were similar. The Pueblo people who are very close to their homeland and their traditions. The natural resources which were available for housing were, stone or adobe structures that resembled apartment buildings. Therefore these homes had as many as four stories, and the indians used ladders to reach up to the upper levels.