The Seventh House shows us that partnerships can take many forms: marriage, business relationships, contracts, legalities, negotiations and agreements. We will cooperate to a greater or lesser extent in these varied partnerships. The quality of that cooperation, in essence how we relate to the other, is key to the Seventh House. Why do we choose this partnership? Is it for love or money? Practical reasons? Social considerations? There are many reasons for uniting with another. We may choose to fill voids we see in ourselves. We may simply want the company and companionship of another. The partnerships we form say a great deal about ourselves and also serve to teach us much. This house wants us to know that the quality of our partnerships will enhance our lives, make them fuller, more special and better for everyone. Investing in heritage means investing in the community it belongs to, which is why we are proud to support the Armagh Townscape Heritage Project, thanks to National Lottery players. This will not only preserve and rejuvenate the important built heritage in the city to be enjoyed by locals and visitors from further afield, but will also play a significant role in boosting the local economy and aiding the wider regeneration of the Armagh city region.” R. Mark Colburn, Peter C. Fenlon, John D. Ruemmler, Terry K. Amthor, Jessica M. Ney (1989), Lords of Middle-earth Vol III: Hobbits, Dwarves, Ents, Orcs & Trolls (#8004)

One of the oldest cities in Ireland, Armagh is famous for its Georgian façades and listed buildings which are instrumental in giving Armagh its distinctive, unique and historical feel. You won’t be able to sublet this home or enter a part exchange deal on your old home. You must not own any other property at the time you buy your new home with a Help to Buy: Equity Loan.It has been fantastic to see the work over the past few years, reconstructing the building from the ground up. We now have two great apartments and an office space in the heart of the city. A special thanks to Armagh Townscape Heritage Scheme, a wonderful heritage-led-initiative that has supported this property, and many others across the city, restoring and preserving historic buildings for many years to come.” The Rhind Papyrus certainly gives us no sense of maths as an abstract discipline through which the world can be conceived and contemplated anew. But it does let us glimpse - and share - the daily headaches of an Egyptian administrator. Like all civil servants, he seems to be looking anxiously over his shoulder at the National Audit Office, eager to ensure that he is getting value for money. So there are calculations about how many gallons of beer, or how many loaves of bread, you should be able to get from a given amount of grain, and how to calculate whether the beer or the bread that you've been paying for has been adulterated. But in between the beer and the bread, and the hypothetical foie gras, you can see the logistical infrastructure of an enduring and powerful state, able to mobilise vast human and economic resources for public works and military campaigns. The Egypt of the pharaohs was, to its contemporaries, a land of superlatives - astonishing visitors from all over the Middle East by the colossal scale of its buildings and sculptures, as it still does us today. Like all successful states, then as now, it needed people who could do the maths.

The lives of four generations of women whose family gained wealth and prestige through the production of silk -- then lost all as modernity dawned -- are chronicled in this intriguing and exotic novel. Their stories are told from the point of view of the houses they inhabit across time -- a house in Smyrna, a rambling silk plantation, a modern apartment building erected in a wasteland, a cottage -as Turkey emerges in the early 20th century from a misty Arabian Nights atmosphere of silks, spices, and genies in perfume bottles to duller secularization and Americanization. In the later eras, the younger generations scatter across Europe and the USA returning to retrieve what's left of a mythic, enchanted past enclosed in an amber egg. Daily details of the women’s lives across the decades are lovingly presented – food, clothes, traditions, superstitions, hairstyles and changing fads. Sally Montgomery, Northern Ireland Committee Member at The National Lottery Heritage Fund commented: Schweblin’s characters are often unsettled by their home environment or envious of others’ domesticity. In None of That, a mother and daughter visit wealthy residential neighbourhoods “to look at other people’s houses”. Initially, the mother moves the odd piece of garden furniture but, on this occasion, she drives across a carefully manicured lawn, enters the house and brazenly purloins the owner’s much-prized sugar bowl.

Episode 17 - Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

Its history was recorded, simply, as follows: ‘Could be 1768 George Ensor, architect, 6 of 2 Seven houses for seven daughters’. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, " Of Dwarves and Men", p. 301 But it was expensive - a 17-foot roll like the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus would have cost two copper deben, about the same as a small goat. So this is an object for the well-off. Schweblin is good at depicting the destabilising effects of grief and absence. Occasionally a story misses the mark or is too ethereal to fully satisfy, but her fractured worlds make compelling reading. Prior to the royal wedding, Lord Mace Tyrell gives King Joffrey I Baratheon a seven-sided chalice decorated with great Houses: ruby lion, emerald rose, onyx stag, silver trout, blue jade falcon, opal sun, and pearl direwolf. With the War of the Five Kings in mind, Joffrey suggests replacing the direwolf with a squid. [10]

While you're counting, I'll tell you that this is just one of nearly a hundred similar problems, all equally complicated, all carefully written out, with the answers, and showing the workings in best schoolbook manner, that are recorded in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus - the most famous mathematical papyrus to have survived from Ancient Egypt, and the major source for our understanding of how the Egyptians thought about numbers. Champollion did not just decipher a writing system: he uncovered one of the oldest written languages in human history. This achievement revealed how the Egyptians measured time, organised the year, and commemorated ancestors – or erased them from history. A wealth of written sources confirms a deep appreciation by the ancient Egyptians for their past. Spirituality and the afterlife Looking outside, and the existing retained roofs are to be repaired in what has been described as a “like for like manner”. A new conservation rooflight from ‘The Rooflight Company’ is to be installed over the stairwell to allow light to flood this dull space.”This volume features seven of his residential houses and looks at his approach to modernist suburban residences, including two new homes finished in 2017. Viewed as a collection, these houses serve to demonstrate the wide range of Holl's prodigious genius through lavish and striking photographs as well as Holl's own descriptions. Considered one of America's most important architects, Holl is recognized for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilize the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design. Time magazine declared Holl "America's Best Architect" for his "buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye." dDAB Commentary: The statement concludes: “We propose to carry out the minimum amount of work necessary to remove inappropriate modern interventions and to conserve the original fabric whilst making the building watertight and reducing rising damp. The papers reveal that, as a result of the recently constructed neighbouring building, a “narrow gap” has been formed between the extension and the new return of No 2 Seven Houses, making the maintenance of the rear roof slope and gutter “extremely awkward”. House Gardener of Highgarden, the Kings of the Reach, were extinguished at the Field of Fire by Aegon's dragons. Aegon granted Highgarden to House Tyrell, his new Wardens of the South. Despite being sworn to the Tyrells, the Hightowers of Oldtown are among the oldest and proudest of the great Houses of Westeros. [7] Transformative work on No. 1 Seven House on Upper English Street, an iconic Georgian building created in 1770, will breathe new life into this part of the city, with work on several others also well under way.

Another iconic part of Armagh’s history, restored by support from the Armagh Townscape Heritage Scheme was Armagh’s Golden Teapot. Consequently, we propose to demolish this later addition along with the external steps, which have been altered in the past, and to construct a wider extension with a lean-to roof which will sit more comfortably alongside the new return of No 43. The principality of Dorne, ruled by House Martell of Sunspear, resisted Aegon in the First Dornish War. The Martells later peacefully joined the Seven Kingdoms during the reign of King Daeron II Targaryen. [8]

by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell

As a family saga, it wasn't horrible. It interested me a little in what was going on, and the family at large. I assume it gave me some insight into Turkish society, or probably more accurately, a Turkish diaspora's or immigrant to another country's opinion of Turkey. Overall a big Meh from me. It wasn't terrible, but if it wasn't for the challenge I read it for, I wouldn't have finished it. Mesmerising new stories of a sprawling ancient multicultural society with colonial ambitions became accessible with the decipherment of hieroglyphs. Travellers and traders from the ancient Mediterranean to the Indian subcontinent came to Egypt, bringing their languages and cultures with them. Some left a profound and lasting impression on Egyptian culture and its writing system. But it was the introduction of Greek that would eventually lead towards the abandonment of ancient Egyptian scripts. The concept of time