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Changes in Atlantic major hurricane frequency since the late-19th century. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun, 2021
Atlantic hurricanes are a major hazard to life and property, and a topic of intense scientific interest. Historical changes in observing practices limit the utility of century-scale records of Atlantic major hurricane frequency.
Vecchi GA   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Story of the Starets Tsar as a Mental Phenomenon of Society in the 19th century [PDF]

open access: yesГуманитарный вектор, 2022
The legend of the Starets Tsar, known as Fyodor Kuzmich, is a unique fact of the folk mentality. Formed in the period of socio-political foreshadowing of social changes, it underwent a radical transformation in the process of existence.
The Story of the Starets Tsar as a Mental Phenomenon of Society in the 19th century
doaj   +1 more source

Secondary sources about calendar aspect of baptism and name choice in Medieval Rus’ [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2017
This article "Secondary sources about calendar aspect of baptism and name choice in Medieval Rus’" is devoted to the researches of the 19th - the beginning of the 21th centuries that cover the issue of the main customs of early days of babies’ lives ...
Lyudmila Goryushkina
doaj   +1 more source

Brexit, Trump and trade: Back to a late 19th century future?

open access: yes, 2020
There are striking similarities between today’s early 21st century trade political economy and its late 19th century equivalent. Ascendant populist nationalism, escalating trade protectionism and tariff wars, growing discontent over globalization’s ...
C. Dent
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A reportage at the end of the century. European economic journeys of Countess Cecylia Plater-Zyberk in the light of the „Kronika Rodzinna” (1899)

open access: yesPrzegląd Nauk Historycznych, 2017
The article was prepared on the basis of the „Kronika Rodzinna”, a biweekly published from 1867 in Warsaw. It was addressed to the gentry and intelligentsia, had a literary-social, as well as diary-travel character and often described the so-called ...
Ewelina Maria Kostrzewska
doaj   +1 more source

“Birdless Sky”. On one of the topoi in Lager literature (and its fringes)

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017
The aim of the article is to indicate a recurring motif in the writings devoted to Nazi concentration camps. In many of the accounts of male and female internees the camp was described as a place “where birds did not sing”.
Piotr Krupiński
doaj   +1 more source

Poor human olfaction is a 19th-century myth

open access: yesScience, 2017
Humans have a good sense of smell In comparison to that of other animals, the human sense of smell is widely considered to be weak and underdeveloped. This is, however, an unproven hypothesis.
John P. McGann
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trading Places: Mary Shelley’s Argument with Domestic Space

open access: yesABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2013
When Mary Shelley began writing The Last Man in 1824 in the wake of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley’s untimely death, she drew from her close circle of family and friends as models for her main characters.
Eve M. Lynch
doaj   +1 more source

Speech-bundles in the 19th-century English novel

open access: yesLanguage and Literature, 2019
We propose a lexico-grammatical approach to speech in fiction based on the centrality of ‘fictional speech-bundles’ as the key element of fictional talk.
Michaela Mahlberg   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

19th century glacier retreat in the Alps preceded the emergence of industrial black carbon deposition on high-alpine glaciers

open access: yesThe Cryosphere, 2018
. Light absorbing aerosols in the atmosphere and cryosphere play an important role in the climate system. Their presence in ambient air and snow changes the radiative properties of these systems, thus contributing to increased atmospheric warming and ...
M. Sigl   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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