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Hooked on a New Technology: The Automation Pioneers in Post-War Norway [PDF]

Modeling, Identification and Control, 2009
This paper presents the initial activities in servo engineering in Norway originating in the early 1950s based on contacts at the Massachusets Institute of Technology.
Stig Kvaal
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Hooliganism as a problem of public order in the Ukrainian SSR in the early 1950s

Law and Safety, 2023
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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Representation of an absent space: construction of the United States and New York in 1950s and 1960s Czech travel writing [PDF]

, 2015
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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Rock and roll et violence en Italie en 1956

Criminocorpus, 2019
Popular music histories have paid close attention to the connection between the rise of rock’n’roll in the United States in the 1950s, and a wave of “moral panic” spread by media all around the world.
Jacopo Tomatis
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Brother vs Brother: The Colonial Citizen Soldier in Natal during the Anglo-Boer War and the implications for later ACF Regiments in the 1950s and early 1960s

Contree, 1999
Daar is reeds baie geskryf oor die militére gebeurtenisse van die Anglo Boereoorlog, of die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, veral gedurende die huidige eeufees herdenking.
Mark Coghlan
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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]

Historie - Otázky - Problémy, 2016
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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Chanchadas and intermediality: On the musical numbers of Aviso aos navegantes (Watson Macedo, 1950)

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2020
This audiovisual essay investigates the intermedial nature of Brazilian film comedies produced during the 1940s and 50s by exploring the musical numbers of Aviso aos navegantes (Calling All Sailors, Watson Macedo, 1950).
Flávia Cesarino Costa, John Gibbs
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Exploratory modeling: Extracting causality from complexity [PDF]

, 2014
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.
Coulthard, Tom, Eppinga, Maarten, Larsen, Laurel, Thomas, C W, Thomas, Chris   +4 more
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Nagana, big-game drives and the Zululand game reserves (1890s-1950s)

Contree
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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Book review of "Sex Crimes in the Fifties" [PDF]

Salus Journal, 2016
"Sex Crimes in the Fifties" by Lisa Featherstone and Amanda Kaladelfos, Melbourne University Press, 2016, hardcover, 265 pages, ISBN 9780522870176, Reviewed by Dr Susan ...
Susan Robinson
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