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The Syndrome of an Emigrant: Memory, Trauma, Longing, and Loss in the Art of Józef Czapski [PDF]
This article addresses the multilayered thematic area focused on the impact of trauma, caused by war and political oppression, on the attitudes of artists who followed combat trails and migration routes to ultimately settle far from their homeland.
Irena Kossowska
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Ukraine at the beginning of 20th century in the eyes of K. Paustovsky [PDF]
The beginning of 20th century was a very complicated period in the history of the Ukrainian territories. Konstantin Paustovsky spent his youth in the southern part of the Russian Empire and could observe all the historical processes happening to his ...
Bortnowski, Antoni
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Animacy in early New Zealand english [PDF]
The literature suggests that animacy effects in present-day spoken New Zealand English (NZE) differ from animacy effects in other varieties of English. We seek to determine if such differences have a history in earlier NZE writing or not.
Hundt, Marianne, Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt
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Development of pediatric oncology [PDF]
The first publication about surgical treatment of tumors in children in medical literature dates from the beginning of the 19th century. Operations were a method of choice to treat.
Dobanovački Dušanka +3 more
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The history of 20th century malaria control in Peru
Malaria has been part of Peruvian life since at least the 1500s. While Peru gave the world quinine, one of the first treatments for malaria, its history is pockmarked with endemic malaria and occasional epidemics.
S. Griffing, D. Gamboa, V. Udhayakumar
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Social change, ecology and climate in 20th-century Greenland [PDF]
Two great transitions, from seal hunting to cod fishing, then from cod fishing to shrimp, affected population centers of southwest Greenland during the20th century.
Hamilton, Lawrence C. +2 more
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Just and sustainable? : examining the rhetoric and potential realities of UK food security [PDF]
The dominant discourse in 20th century UK food and agricultural policies of a liberal, free trade agenda was modified at the turn of the 21st to embrace ecological sustainability and "food security." The latter term has a long international history; the ...
Dowler, Elizabeth, MacMillan, Tom
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The Press Depiction of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York on March 25, 1911
Na przełomie XIX i XX wieku, warunki pracy były przedmiotem gorącej debaty społecznej w USA. Niestety, nie najlepsze uwarunkowania przyczyniały się do występowania licznych tragedii, między innymi poważnego i tragicznego w skutkach pożaru w Shirtwaist ...
Ewa Wiśniewska
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A short history of ocean acidification science in the 20th century: a chemist's view
This review covers the development of ocean acidification science, with an emphasis on the creation of ocean chemical knowledge, through the course of the 20th century.
P. Brewer
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. Recent shifts in global forest area highlight the importance of understanding the causes and consequences of forest change. To examine the in fl uence of several potential drivers of forest cover change, we used supervised classi fi cations of historical
K. Rodman +3 more
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