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Archaeology in a changing society [PDF]

, 1975
On the face of it archaeology should be the least politically sensitive of academic activities. The discipline however is a product of the intellectual movement in 19th century Europe and followed the flag of European imperalism into every quarter of ...
Golson, Jack
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Two Models of Radical Revelation in Austrian Philosophy [PDF]

, 2009
In this paper I highlight two opposing models of the notion of divine revelation: the propositional and the radical. The propositional understanding of revelation was central to theology and philosophy until the 19th century.
Mezei, Balazs
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The revision of baphetids from the Middle Pennsylvanian of the Czech Republic: Morphology, ontogeny, palaeoecology, and the reassessment of the phylogeny of Baphetoidea

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The baphetoids represent a clade of the Carboniferous stem‐tetrapods (Middle Mississippian—Middle Pennsylvanian) with a characteristic extension of the orbits into antorbital vacuities, which formed keyhole‐shaped openings on the skull. The more derived baphetids were crocodile‐like piscivores frequently occurring in coal‐bearing lacustrine ...
Pavel Barták, Martin Ivanov, Boris Ekrt
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Citare (e non) nei “Promessi Sposi”. Storia e invenzione [PDF]

Parole Rubate, 2015
This essay aims to analyse citations as an intentional practice in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (1827 and 1840-1842); in particular, I look at explicit quotations in the narrator’s comments.
Corrado Viola
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19th Century Writings on the Grand Tour

, 2017
Two collections of writings, found in the glass cabinet on the left wall of our Wonder Cabinet, contain the descriptions of two travelers’ times abroad during the Grand Tour.
Wilcox, Emily E.
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Hugh Miller: stonemason, geologist, writer [PDF]

, 2007
Hugh Miller was born in 1802 in Cromarty, Ross-shire. He started his working life as a stonemason’s apprentice; he later became a social commentator and crusader.
Taylor, Michael A
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Skeletal pathologies in extant crocodilians as a window into the paleopathology of fossil archosaurs

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Crocodilians, together with birds, are the only extant relatives to many extinct archosaur groups, making them highly important for interpreting paleopathological conditions in a phylogenetic disease bracketing model. Despite this, comprehensive data on osteopathologies in crocodilians remain scarce.
Alexis Cornille, Kyla Beguesse, Ewan Wolff, Clemens Zinner, Patrick Asbach, François Clarac, Florian Witzmann   +6 more
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Foscolo tra antichi e moderni. La citazione nelle “Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis" [PDF]

Parole Rubate, 2015
This article examines intertextual issues in Ugo Foscolo’s Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (1798, 1802 and 1817). Foscolo opted for a jigsaw technique inserting and gradually harmonizing elements from various prose and verse texts into its narrative ...
Cecilia Gibellini
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Reconciling reconstructed and simulated features of the winter Pacific/North American pattern in the early 19th century

, 2014
. Reconstructions of past climate behavior often describe prominent anomalous periods that are not necessarily captured in climate simulations. Here, we illustrate the contrast between an interdecadal strong positive phase of the winter Pacific/North ...
D. Zanchettin, O. Bothe, F. Lehner, P. Ortega, C. Raible, D. Swingedouw   +5 more
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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century White Body Mass Index Values [PDF]

Little research exists on the body mass index values of 19th century Americans of European descent. Using a new BMI data set and robust statistics, between 1860 and 1880, BMIs decreased across the distribution; however, after 1880, BMIs in the highest ...
Scott A. Carson
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