THE history of anesthesiology is one commemorated by several monuments. The most recognized memorial is the Ether Monument, erected in the Boston Public Garden in 1868. While many anesthesiologists are familiar with this sculpture, there are other less-known memorials related to the introduction of surgical inhalation anesthesia and to the claimants to its discovery. This article discusses some...

In this project, the task of architecture classification for monuments and buildings from the Indian subcontinent was explored. Five major classes of architecture were taken and various supervised learning methods, both probabilistic and nonprobabilistic, were experimented with in order to classify the monuments into one of the five categories. The categories were: ’Ancient’, ’British’, ’IndoIs...

T h i s p r es en t a t i o n e xa m i n es s u r v e y m on u m e n t s in t h e c o n t e x t o f o u r l e ga l s y s t e m . I t b e g i n s by e s ta b l i s h in g f u n da m e n ta l t e r mi n o l o gy a n d c o n c e p ts t ha t h a ve b e e n m is u n d er s t o o d o r m is a p p l i e d b y s ur v e y o rs . T h e r e l a t i o ns h i p be t w e e n m o n u m e n ts a n d la n d t i...

Within the extensive plateau crossed by the upper Miño there are a vast number of tumuli. Their distribution is fairly homogeneous and they reach densities of up to 6 mounds per km 2. The grave goods recovered from some of these monuments bear little relation to those in the coastal areas, especially so by the later par! of the 3rd millenium BC. Recent surveys have found that some of the bigges...

For the antiquaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who studied the few broken monuments and obscure artifacts that survived from the earliest periods of human history there was a dawning realization that these remote epochs were not as inaccessible as had previously been believed. This attitude was mirrored in geological research where natural historians were using fossils and geol...