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First Fossils of Hyenas ('Chasmaporthetes', Hyaenidae, Carnivora) from North of the Arctic Circle
Open Quaternary, 2019 The northern region of Beringia is ecologically and biogeographically significant as a corridor for biotic dispersals between the Old and New Worlds. Large mammalian predators from Beringia are exceedingly rare in the fossil record, even though carnivore
Z. Jack Tseng +2 more
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Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 With large expanses of open vegetation, airports serve as major attractants for numerous bird species, such as the American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos), which can lead to high risk of bird–aircraft collision.
Laura A. Kennedy, Ken A. Otter
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Brésil(s), 2021 This article examines the recognition of popular culture by Brazilian modernists, in relation to broader considerations of the popular for modernism in Latin America. This essay places discussions of the popular by Carlos Monsiváis, Marta Traba, and Jean
Adrian Anagnost
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The Boo of Viramontes’s Cafe: Retelling Ghost Stories, Central American Representing Social Death
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2013 Chicana author Helena María Viramontes’s culturally complex “The Cariboo Cafe,” renders a contemporaneous example of social death in the lives of undocumented migrants.
Karina Oliva Alvarado
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Hazards of wind turbines on avifauna - a preliminary appraisal within the Indian context
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2020 Wind farms are substantial sources of renewable energy in India; however, their spread across the country potentially present new hazards to local and migratory birds.
Himika Deb +3 more
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Black Im/Mobilization, Critical Race Horror, and the New Jim Crow in Jordan Peele's Get Out
Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2021 In the United States, people of color are not allowed to move around freely in spatial or social terms. Confronted with the everyday horrors of racial segregation, discrimination, and the legacies of slavery, African Americans continue to be excluded ...
Alexandra Hauke
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 To evaluate the role of Culex mosquitoes as enzootic and epidemic vectors for WNV, we identified the source of vertebrate blood by polymerase chain reaction amplification and sequencing portions of the cytochrome b gene of mitochondrial DNA.
Goudarz Molaei +4 more
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The Strange Career of a Black Utopia
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie OccidentaleThis essay presents archival information about Charles H. Holmes and argues that his understudied novel, Ethiopia, The Land of Promise (1917), represents an important chapter in the history of Afrofuturism and American speculative fiction.
Fabi, M. Giulia
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Age of Human Rights Journal, 2020 The Trump Administration and its mantra to ‘Make America Great Again’ has been calibrated with racism and severe oppression against Black people in America who still bear the deep marks of slavery.
Williams C. Iheme
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From the heart of the Crow country the Crow Indians' own stories
, 1992 Joseph Medicine Crow, respected elder of the Crow tribe, draws on more than sixty years of story collecting to offer readers this extraordinary look at American Indian culture from the Indian point of view. In his early boyhood, Joe Medicine Crow had the
Medicine Crow, Joseph
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