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'That excellent sample of a professional': Dan Maskell and the contradictions of British amateurism in twentieth-century lawn tennis [PDF]
, 2016 This paper critically examines the life and career of Daniel “Dan” Maskell OBE CBE (1908-92), the much-loved British professional coach and BBC commentator for Wimbledon, and position his social ascendancy during the inter-war and post-war periods within
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‘The Most Famous Amateur Football Club in the World’: Creating and Curating the Corinthian Brand
History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 551-572, December 2024.Abstract Corinthian FC (1882–1938) was one of the world's most famous football clubs, despite never winning a league championship or a cup competition. At a time when association football, especially in Britain, was establishing itself as a form of commercialised entertainment with clubs organised as businesses and employing working‐class professionals,
CHRIS BOLSMANN, DILWYN PORTER
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 5, Page 1294-1334, September 2024.This article explains the broader stakes of contemporary British gambling reform debates, via an analysis of the White Paper High Stakes: Gambling Reform for the Digital Age (2023). I lay out the context to the White Paper, and I summarise its main proposals, focusing especially on efforts to reduce the harms caused by gambling. I also offer a critical
Kate Bedford
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek: Creation “Magnified” Through His Magnificent Microscopes [PDF]
, 2012 Although van Leeuwenhoek was not the inventor of the microscope, he advanced it more than anyone else for seeing living things. Antony van Leeuwenhoek1 (Fig. 1) found great joy in God’s smallest creatures. He first discovered protozoans in his youth. The
Gillen, Alan L., Oliver, Douglas
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In the attic of dreams. The personal archives of the father of paradoxical sleep
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 60, Issue 4, Fall 2024.Abstract Michel Jouvet (1925–2017) is one of the most important figures in the contemporary history of the neuroscience of sleep and dreams, and one of the most awarded French researchers of the last century. Yet this former CNRS gold medalist and winner of the Cino Del Duca World Prize remains little known—not to say unknown—outside the field of sleep
Michael Roelli
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A New Definition of ‘Treasure’ under the Treasure Act 1996: Watershed Reform or Missed Opportunity?
The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 2, Page 430-447, March 2024.A new definition of ‘treasure’ under the Treasure Act 1996 has been introduced by the UK Government providing for a significant change to our understanding of what legally constitutes ‘treasure’ in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Treasure Act 1996, which the new law amends, supports the preservation and protection of important archaeological ...
Chris Bevan
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, 2017 Background: Identification of genetic markers is one of the priority trends to perform in athletes for evaluation of their efficacy. PreviousstudieshaverevealedthatCK-MMmaybeusedasavaluablemarkertoreflectthemagnitudeof skeletalmuscledestruction in response ...
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Spartan Daily, June 6, 1939 [PDF]
, 1938 Volume 27, Issue 151https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/2941/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 2, Issue 1, Winter 2013 [PDF]
, 2013 Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning is a peer-reviewed, biannual online journal that publishes scholarly and creative non-fiction essays about the theory, practice and assessment of interdisciplinary education ...
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Spartan Daily, December 6, 1962 [PDF]
, 1962 Volume 50, Issue 51https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/4372/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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