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Changes in Atlantic major hurricane frequency since the late-19th century. [PDF]
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.
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The Story of the Starets Tsar as a Mental Phenomenon of Society in the 19th century [PDF]
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
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Secondary sources about calendar aspect of baptism and name choice in Medieval Rus’ [PDF]
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
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Brexit, Trump and trade: Back to a late 19th century future?
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
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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
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“Birdless Sky”. On one of the topoi in Lager literature (and its fringes)
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
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Poor human olfaction is a 19th-century myth
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
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Trading Places: Mary Shelley’s Argument with Domestic Space
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
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Speech-bundles in the 19th-century English novel
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
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. 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 ...
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