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A 16^th century Escherichia coli draft genome associated with an opportunistic bile infection. [PDF]

Commun Biol, 2022
Long GS, Klunk J, Duggan AT, Tapson M, Giuffra V, Gazzè L, Fornaciari A, Duchene S, Fornaciari G, Clermont O, Denamur E, Golding GB, Poinar H.   +12 more
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The Very Idea of Seriousness

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What norms govern aesthetic conversations? In Hansen and Adams (2024), we argue for a norm we call, following Stanley Cavell, “the hope of agreement”, along with a requirement of “seriousness”, the “discipline of accounting for one's judgments”.
Nat Hansen, Zed Adams
wiley   +1 more source

The human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in European perspective [PDF]

We trace the development of numeracy in Poland and Russia from the early 17th century onwards, and numeracy in Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania from the 18th century onwards. The fact that western Poland was doing relatively well during the 16th and early
Jörg Baten, Mikolaj Szoltysek
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Advice from the 16th Century: What Copernicus Can Teach Us Today [PDF]

, 2012
Bestselling author Dava Sobel shares insights from her most recent subject as part of the President’s Distinguished Speakers ...
Clark, Brian E.
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Critica textuală a Noului Testament între secolele XVI-XVII [Textual Criticism of the New Testament between the 16th and the 17th Centuries]

TheoRhēma, 2014
This article discusses the development of NT textual criticism from the 16th century all through the 18th century. This is the period that stretches from the beginnings of this discipline right to the early stages of its maturity.
Laurențiu Moț
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Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison [PDF]

In the 16th century, North America contained 25-30 million buffalo; by the late 19th century less than 100 remained. While removing the buffalo east of the Mississippi took settlers over 100 years, the remaining 10 to 15 million buffalo on the Great ...
M. Scott Taylor
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The C-14 Problem [PDF]

, 1990
William Shakespeare--the 16th-century dramatist and poet, not the 19th-century musical composer and pianist--is credited with using the longest English world faithfully alternating consonants and vowels: the 27-letter HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS.
Borgmann, Dmitri A.
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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
wiley   +1 more source

Depicting the Beginning of the World’s End: Iconography and Development of the “Rolling Up the Sky” Scene in the Ukrainian Icons of “the Last Judgment” of the 15th–17th Centuries

Meno Istorija ir Kritika
The article is dedicated to the iconography, development and symbolism of the “Rolling up the Sky” scene – a fragment of the complex multi-scene composition of “The Last Judgment” icons.
Lesiv Andriy
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