The New Encyclopędia Britannica: L-ZEncyclopędia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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Page 154
... represented in the round . A very great variety of masks is found among the Igbo . The masks , of wood or fabric , are employed in a variety of dramas : social satires , sacred rituals ( for ancestors and invocation of the gods ) ...
... represented in the round . A very great variety of masks is found among the Igbo . The masks , of wood or fabric , are employed in a variety of dramas : social satires , sacred rituals ( for ancestors and invocation of the gods ) ...
Page 163
... represented , and mouflons , or wild sheep , and domesti- cated dogs appeared . The earliest chariots were carefully rendered with a single shaft and a horse on each side ; later chariots consist only of a shaft with two wheels , and ...
... represented , and mouflons , or wild sheep , and domesti- cated dogs appeared . The earliest chariots were carefully rendered with a single shaft and a horse on each side ; later chariots consist only of a shaft with two wheels , and ...
Page 444
... represented exactly by any one fraction , it could be represented as a limit of a sequence of fractions . Thus , √2 can be represented in the form of an infinite decimal : √2 1.4142 ... ; this amounts to speci- fying √2 as the limit ...
... represented exactly by any one fraction , it could be represented as a limit of a sequence of fractions . Thus , √2 can be represented in the form of an infinite decimal : √2 1.4142 ... ; this amounts to speci- fying √2 as the limit ...
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