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"Inscriptions . collected by the late Dr. Forchhammer, government archæologist, at . the ancient capitals of Burma. They were editied by Mr. Taw Sein Ko . At his suggestion I took up the translation."--Introd. signed: Tun Nyein, Burma secretariat, 30th January 1899. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The great war developed many new weapons—the submarine, the aeroplane, the long range gun, the tank, the deadly gas; but one of the most novel and deadly was the propaganda—the psychological working on the war will of the enemy. It was developed first and effectually used by the Central Powers against France, England, the United States, and with terrible results in Russia and Italy. But the Allies were not far behind, and by the close of the war had caught up with their foes and probably surpassed them. In the summer of 1918, the German press complained of the relative weakness of their propaganda, and declared the enemy's pen and propaganda were worse than his sword.After the work of the Committee on Public Information, under Mr. George Creel, had been under way for a number of months in the United States, it was deemed advisable to establish branch offices of the committee in many European countries for the purpose of explaining the war aims and preparations of our country. Such offices were established in England, France, Italy, and eventually in some thirty-two foreign countries, in charge of Mr. Will Irwin and later of Mr. Edward Lisson. For the purpose of organizing the work in Italy, the writer was sent over by the committee, arriving in Rome about March, 1918, and returning in October.

Some issues accompanied by a DVD-ROM or an audio CD. ; Published: Rome, ; Individual issues for 1868-giugno 1911 called "fasc."; issues for luglio/ag. 1911-dic. 1976 called "n."; issues for genn. 1977- no longer have any caption, and bear the vol. numbering with month and year, and issue number on spine. ; Supplements, of a monographic nature, accompany some issues. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Issued by: Stato maggiore della Marina, 1868- ; by: Marina militare, ; Indice analitico: 1997-2000. 1 v.; 2001-2005. 1 v. ; Latest issue consulted: Anno 143 (apr. 2009).

Introduction -- Psychic phenomena in antiquity -- Modern spiritualism -- The societies for psychical research -- The problem of a future life -- The problems of evidence -- Human personality -- Telepathy -- Instances of telepathy and similar phenomena -- The process of communicating -- Experiences of well-known persons -- Spontaneous incidents -- Experimental incidents -- Robert Swain Gifford -- Professor James -- Mark Twain -- Dr. Isaac K. Funk -- Carroll D. Wright -- Explanations and objections -- The physical phenomena of spiritualism -- Mode of life after death -- Revelations of the other world -- Reincarnation -- Obsession -- Mediumship -- The subconscious -- Spiritualism, religion and science -- Psychology, religion and medicine -- Psychic research and the war -- Psychics and politics -- Summary and reflections. ; Mode of access: Internet.

I. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy.--II. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy [cont'd] A sentimental journey through France and Italy. A political romance. A fragment in the manner of Rabelais. Memoirs of the life and family of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne. ; Mode of access: Internet.

I. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy.--II. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy [cont'd] A sentimental journey through France and Italy. A political romance. A fragment in the manner of Rabelais. Memoirs of the life and family of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Cover title: The works of Sterne. ; I. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy.--II. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy [cont'd] A sentimental journey through France and Italy. A political romance. A fragment in the manner of Tabelais. Memoirs of the life and family of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Early in 1926, Premier Mussolini revived the long dormant office of podestà for the municipalities of Italy. Thenceforth the term has been frequently before the public. What is this office? And what is the significance of reviving a long forgotten term as its title?Divorced from the specialized significance that it had in Italy, the term was used in many places and times, ranging from the fringe of Roman antiquity down to the present day. The word itself, of course, is nothing but the Italian form of the good classical Latin potestas, with its simple meaning of "power." We may be inclined to believe that the use of such an abstract term to signify the officer who held the "power" in city administration is a late development; yet there is an isolated example in Juvenal (lst-2nd cent, A.D.) where such a usage occurs. Juvenal is discoursing on the vanities of human desires, and is pointing specifically to the downfall of Sejanus, when he asks, "Would you rather choose to wear the bordered robe of the man now being dragged through the streets, or to be a magistrate at (the little towns of) Fidenae or Gabii, rendering judgment on weights and measures?" Some three centuries later, Possidius, in his life of St. Augustine, uses the term in connection with the Donatist controversy.

Returning, in the early days of the war, from a belligerent Germany, through a mobilized Switzerland and a partly mobilized Italy, to an America that was still unperturbed and unprepared, I revisited the famous Museum of Naples. In one of the central corridors, I noticed an ancient mural inscription, which I had doubtless seen before without appreciating its significance—an inscription of the time of Augustus: "To perpetual peace." Thus even in warlike Rome, and more than nineteen centuries ago, after a series of wars that had shaken the then civilized world from the Alps to the African deserts and from the Pillars of Hercules to the Nile, as after every great war that has since devastated Europe, men's minds were turning with inextinguishable hope to the vision of a warless future.

Plates (vol. II) printed on both sides. ; Vol. II has half-title: The currency of the Farther East. vol. II. ; Title of vol. II reads: The plates of the Chinese, Annamese, Japanese, Corean coins; of the coins used as amulets, and of the Chinese government and private notes. Collected by the late Mr. G. B. Glover . and now in the possession of Mrs. Glover .; title of vol. III: A guide to the inscriptions on the Coins of the Farther East, with special reference to the Glover collection and a chronology of the dynasties and emperors of China, Annam, and Japan. ; "List of works consulted": vol. I, p. [217]-223. ; V. 1. A description of the Glover collection of Chinese, Annamese, Japanese, Corean coins : of coins used as amulets : and Chinese government and private notes -- v. 2. The plates of the Chinese, Annamese, Japanese, Corean coins : of the coins used as amulets, and of the Chinese government and private notes / collected by the late Mr. G.B. Glover of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, and now in the possession of Mrs. Glover -- v. 3. A guide to the inscriptions on the coins of the farther east : with special reference to the Glover collection and a chronology of the dynasties and emperors of China, Annam and Japan. ; Mode of access: Internet.

On May 4, 1936, the Emperor Haile Selassie departed from Djibuti aboard the British cruiser Enterprise, en route to Geneva by way of Palestine and England. On May 5, the victorious legions of the Second Roman Empire, commanded by Marshal Pietro Badoglio, entered Addis Ababa after what appears to have been a week of looting and pillaging in the Ethiopian capital. A few hours later in Rome, Benito Mussolini thunderously declared to a hastily-summoned Adunata: "Ethiopia is Italian! Italian in fact, because occupied by our victorious armies; Italian in law, because with the gladiators of Rome, civilization triumphs over barbarity, justice over arbitrary cruelty."At the behest of its Duce, a grateful Italy surrendered itself, between May 5 and May 9, to the most riotous celebration in the annals of Fascism. To climax the memorable jubilee, Mussolini appeared on the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia, after consulting successively and rapidly with the Fascist Grand Council and the Council of Ministers in the late evening of May 9, to read to the second Adunata of the week the substantive provisions of a new royal decree-law. Therein (1) Ethiopia was declared to be under the full and complete sovereignty of Italy; (2) the assumption by the king of Italy of the additional title, emperor of Ethiopia, was proclaimed; and (3) announcement was made that Ethiopia would be governed in the future by a governor-general, with the title of viceroy of Ethiopia.

Note c: the great inscription of Darius at Behistun -- v. 4. History of Herodotus: the seventh book entitled Polymnia -- Appendix to book VII -- On the obscurer tribes contained within the empire of Xerxes -- On the early migrations of the Phoenicians -- On the Alarodians of Herodotus -- History of Herodotus: the eight book entitled Urania -- History of Herodotus: the ninth book, entitled Calliope -- Note a: on the inscriptions upon the Delphic tripod. ; "The Egyptians before the reign of their king Psammetichus believed themselves to be the most ancient of mankind." / G.W. -- "The Egyptians were the first to discover the Solar year." / G.W. -- "The Egyptians first brought into use the names of the twelve Gods which the Greeks adopted from them." / G.W. -- "When Maris was king." / G.W. -- "They have two quite different kinds of writing, one of which is called sacred, the other common." / G.W. -- "Gymnastic contests." / G.W. -- "Geometry first came to be known in Egypt, whence it passed into Greece." / G.W. -- Historical notice of Egypt / G.W. -- History of Herodotus: The third book entitled Thalia -- Appendix to book III -- On the worship of Venus Urania throughout the east / G.W. -- On the Magian revolution, and the reign of the pseudo-Smerdis -- On the Persian system of Administration and government -- On the topography of Babylon -- Note a: standard inscription of Nebuchadnezzar -- Note b: Babylonian researches of M. Oppert -- ; v. 1. On the life and writings of Herodotus -- Outline of the life of Herodotus -- On the sources from which Herodotus compiled his history -- On the merits and defects of Herodotus as an historian -- The first book, entitled Clio -- Appendix to book I -- On the early chronology and history of Lydia -- On the physical and political geography of Asia Minor -- On the chronology and history of the great Median Empire -- On the ten tribes of the Persians / H.C.R. -- On the religion of the ancient Persians -- On the early history of Babylonia / H.C.R. -- On the chronology and history of the great Assyrian Empire -- On the history of the later Babylonians -- On the geography of Mesopotamia and the adjacent countries -- On the religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians / HC. R. -- On the ethnic affinities of the nations of western Asia -- v. 2. History of Herodotus -- Appendix to book II -- ; Mode of access: Internet.

On April 7, 1941, while the Axis Powers were invading Yugoslavia, Ante Pavelik, the well-known Croat terrorist, broadcast from Italy an appeal to the Croats to secede from the Serbs and to support Germany and Italy. Three days later, when the German troops entered Zagreb, Sladko Kvaternik, another Croat leader, proclaimed there an independent Croat state, and on April 12, a national committee declared Pavelik, who was still abroad, head of the new state. The following day he entered Zagreb, and two days afterwards he took effective power, receiving the title of Poglavnik, the Croat equivalent of Führer or Duce. Immediately upon his telegraphic request of April 15, Germany and Italy granted recognition of Croatia, subject to their joint determination of the new state boundaries. Pavelik at once dissolved the old political parties and on April 17 formed the first Croat government, in which he became president of the council of ministers and minister of foreign affairs; Kvaternik, his substitute and supreme commander of the armed forces; and a Dr. Kulenovich, vice-president of the council. An upper council of the Croat state was designated to function with the government.