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In 2012, the head of AP Grading, Trevor Packer, stated that the reason for the low percentages of 5s is that "AP World History is a college-level course, & many sophomores aren't yet writing at that level." 10.44 percent of all seniors who took the exam in 2012 received a 5, while just 6.62 percent of sophomores received a 5.
On 4 April 1648, encouraged by the Mughal reversal in Badakhshan, [5] Shah Abbas II marched from Isfahan with an army of 40,000. After capturing Bost, he laid siege to Kandahar on 28 December [6] and easily captured it after a brief siege on 22 February 1649, mainly owing to the failure of the Mughal commander Daulat Khan Mayi to maintain discipline within the troops under his command. [7]
In philology, a commentary is a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication usually attached to an edition of a text in the same or an accompanying volume. It may draw on methodologies of close reading and literary criticism, but its primary purpose is to elucidate the language of the text and the specific culture that produced it, both of which may be foreign to the reader.
Friedrich Heimler (17 February 1942 – 7 November 2018) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop. Heimler was born in Germany and was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. He served as coadjutor bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Umuarama , Brazil, from 1998 to 2002.
The Coimbra Commentaries, also known as the Conimbricenses or Cursus Conimbricenses, are a group of 11 books on Aristotle (only eight can be called commentaries). [1] They were produced as part of King John III of Portugal's efforts to make the University of Coimbra rival the University of Paris. [1]
Protocol I (also Additional Protocol I and AP I) [4] is a 1977 amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions concerning the protection of civilian victims of international war, including "armed conflicts in which peoples are fighting against colonial domination, alien occupation or racist regimes". [5]
A commission was formed, after consultation with the bishops, which divided the Bible into eight sections, and for each section chose scholars to provide commentary. The editorship of the whole work [4] (10 volumes), which became known as The Speaker's Commentary, was given to Cook, and it appeared 1871 to 1882. [3] [5]
The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide the same level of content and instruction that students would face in a freshman-level college survey class. It generally uses a college-level textbook as the foundation for the course and covers nine periods of U.S. history, spanning from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.