Fifty years of spellchecking [PDF]
A short history of spellchecking from the late 1950s to the present day, describing its development through dictionary lookup, affix stripping, correction, confusion sets, and edit distance to the use of gigantic ...
Blair CR +27 more
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Lucien Clergue, le photographe qui « coupait la tête » de ses modèles
The study of Lucien Clergue’s photographic nudes from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s questions their place and role in the photographer’s inclusion into the art sphere around the same period.
Jean Deilhes
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University Art History in Slovakia after WWII and its Sovietization in 1950s
In post-WWII Slovakia, art history was available only as a university field of study at Bratislava University (in 1954 regaining its name Comenius University) at the Seminár pre dejiny umenia / Seminar of Art History, a separate part of the Faculty of ...
Katarina Kolbiarz Chmelinová
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Representation of an absent space: construction of the United States and New York in 1950s and 1960s Czech travel writing [PDF]
Early postwar Czech travel writing was mainly concerned with representations of countries from the newly emerging Soviet Bloc and former European colonies in the developing world.
Solic, Mirna
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O (politycznych) mechanizmach selekcji tekstów literackich dla czytelnika zagranicznego
Political Mechanisms of the Selection of Literary Texts for Foreign Readers. Example of the Monthly Polska: czasopismo ilustrowane in the 1950s The monthly Polska: czasopismo ilustrowane [Poland: an illustrated magazine] was created in 1954 as a tool ...
Regina Solová
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Hooliganism as a problem of public order in the Ukrainian SSR in the early 1950s
The article examines the topical and insufficiently studied in historical and legal science issue of the factors that caused hooliganism in the early 1950s, the level of this type of crime in the main regions of Ukraine at that time and some steps taken ...
V. A. Grechenko
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Exploratory modeling: Extracting causality from complexity [PDF]
On 22 May 2011 a massive tornado tore through Joplin, Mo., killing 158 people. With winds blowing faster than 200 miles per hour, the tornado was the most deadly in the United States since modern record keeping began in the 1950s. ©2014.
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„Libušino proroctví přeměňujeme ve skutečnost!“ Komunistická vize Prahy v období stalinismu / ‘We are transforming the prophecy of Libuše into reality!’ The communist vision of Prague in the stalinist era [PDF]
The article focuses on the construction and symbolic encoding of Prague during the 1950s. After 1948 the political and professional elites constructed a suggestive propagandist image of the capital as a ‘new socialist city’.
Michal Kurz
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Nagana, big-game drives and the Zululand game reserves (1890s-1950s)
Zululand's world-renowned Hluhluwe and Umfolozi game reserves are today two of the most popular of their kind. But in the effort to establish and keep them, the cattle disease nagana and the accompanying use of big-game drives as a preventative measure ...
A. de V. Minnaar
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On the basis of archival, periodical and library records, the paper examines the role and relationship of state and art in implementation of a large number of commissions and buyouts of artwork for the interiors of public institutions in Croatia during ...
Patrica Počanić
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