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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Youth media consumption and disordered eating practices have historically been subjects of moral panics, often resulting in protective, deficit-based interventions like content removal. We argue for interventions which instead equip youth to evaluate and
Amelia Hassoun +9 more
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Ingénierie et grands travaux. Les fondations du cirque d’Arles
The Roman circus at Arles, whose construction began in the years AD 148–149, required major investment in its building; it is, along with the amphitheatre and the forum, one of the largest “major projects” undertaken in the town. The building, on a knoll
Claude Sintès
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Early Holocene jökulhlaup chronology and deglaciation dynamics in central Iceland
Glacial lake outburst floods (jökulhlaups) have occurred throughout the Quaternary in glaciated regions worldwide. Reconstructing flood chronology yields insight into deglaciation processes, environmental change and the role of extreme events in landscape evolution.
Greta H. Wells +4 more
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La topographie de Metz durant l’Antiquité tardive
The city of Metz experienced significant growth up to the end of the 3rd century, stretching across nearly 120 ha with the development of three districts located outside the original urban core: Pontiffroy, Outre-Seille, and the Amphitheatre district. At
Gaël Brkojewitsch +3 more
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Walking With SAGE Clan Patrol: Practicing Empathy in the Indigenous Urban Landscape
ABSTRACT This article examines the work of a Blackfoot‐led, volunteer‐based outreach organization that patrols the urban core of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, providing support and connection to vulnerable community members. While settler colonialism maintains exclusionary racialized geographies which locate cities as spaces of “Whiteness” and reserves ...
Amy Cran +2 more
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On the Silurian and lowermost Devonian vertebrates of the Ufa Amphitheatre, the Central Urals, with emphasis on agnathans and correlations with the East Baltic [PDF]
The vertebrate microremains from the Wenlock (lower Silurian) to the Lower Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) of the Ufa Amphitheatre, on the western slope of the Central Urals, have been studied.
Tiiu Märss
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ABSTRACT Among the various theories of categorization, Eleanor Rosch's prototype theory stands out as both influential and contested. In contrast to the classical theory of concepts, prototype theory posits that humans conceptualize the world using category structures where exemplars vary in their degree of membership.
Zilong Liu +5 more
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Skeleton Islands of New Zealand and elsewhere [PDF]
Skeleton Islands are a variety of the class of islands resulting from subsidence of dissected land, subcategory 4a of a classification of islands here offered. Such islands are characterised by development of a sprawling outline with a narrow axial ridge
Cotton, C.A.
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The Silchester 'Nymphaeum' [PDF]
A carved coping stone found on the site of a spring near the amphitheatre, Silchester and first reported in 1873 was re-discovered in 2014. The stone does not compare in its carved detail with coping stones from the amphitheatres at Chester and London ...
Allason-Jones +11 more
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