The emergence of the Safavid Empire in early sixteenth century marked a significant change geopolitics Middle East. This momentous coincided with widening Ottoman expansion eastward and exploration by European powers, especially Venice, possibilities forming alliances against Ottomans involvement Safavids. Thus, threat commercial interests contributed to development diplomatic, cultural, trade ...

The Tullacondra Cu-Ag deposit is located on the southern margin of Lower Carboniferous Irish Midlands orefield and contains historical reserves approximately 4.2 Mt at 0.7% Cu 27.5 ppm Ag. hosted within hanging wall a feeder fault, EW-trending Fault, where sulfides sulfosalts containing elevated Cu, Ag, As, Sb deposited, whereas Zn Pb are nearly absent. deposition in took place along bedding be...

(Continued from Vol. x. page 775.) Venice possesses two public asylums?viz., one for males, occupying the small islet of St. Servilio, a sliort distance from the city; and the other for females, situated at one extremity of the town, and forming a department of the large civil hospital. Wieket W3.s open, and through it the enemy kept up a heavy fire upon tliem. Serj?. Carxnichael was killed whi...

He visited Venice annually as long as he could. He enjoyed musical concerts and opera. James’s first marriage was to Joan Farrall, who died in 1971. In 1974 he married Jane Bunch, lecturer in social work at the University of Southampton. James died peacefully at home in Saxmundham on 17 June 2015. He is survived by Jane and Timothy, son of his first marriage, now working in Cambodia. Gerald Rus...

The history of the production of glass paperweights is obscure as is the history of glass making, the latter being traceable back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries B.C. Though the idea of the glass paperweight originated in Venice the main decorative element, the millefiori cane, which ensured its popularity, was Egyptian in origin. The first glass paperweights contained ceramic figures...