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Spellbinding Performance: Poet as Witch in Theocritus' Second Idyll and Apollonius' Argonautica

From diyls to ylides to my idyll.

Chemical research and mountaineering have much in common. If the goal or the summit is to be reached, both initiative and determination as well as perseverance are required. But after the hard work it is a great joy to be at the goal or the peak with its splendid panorama. However, especially in chemical research as far as new territory is concerned the results may sometimes be quite different:...

Dr. Phillips: a Maida Vale idyll (1887)

FRANK DANBY, Dr Phillips: a Maida Vale idyll (1887), with an introduction by Stephen Lock, London, Keynes Press, British Medical Association, 1989, 8vo, pp. xii, 285, illus., £45.00, abroad £49.00, incl. (air) postage from BMJ (Keynes Press), PO Box 295, London WC1H 9TE. Few Victorian novels come as directly to the point as Frank Danby's story about Dr Benjamin Phillips, a Jewish doctor with a ...

38 CFR Part 17 RIN 2900 – AP 09 Health Care for Certain Children of Vietnam

This rule adopts as final a proposed rule of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to amend its regulations concerning the provision of health care to birth children of Vietnam veterans and veterans of covered service in Korea diagnosed with spina bifida, except for spina bifida occulta, and certain other birth defects. In the proposed rule published on May 15, 2015, VA proposed changes to mo...

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