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Functional Macrofield of Likening in Modern English. Structural Types of its Constituents [PDF]
Comparison (likening) is one of the main ways of cognizing the objective reality. On different language levels comparison (likening) as an operation of thinking, acquires a broad variety of material forms the totality of which makes up the functional ...
Сасіна, В. П.
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The Star Catalogue of Hevelius
The catalogue by Johannes Hevelius with the positions and magnitudes of 1564 entries was published by his wife Elisabeth Koopman in 1690. We provide a machine-readable version of the catalogue, and briefly discuss its accuracy on the basis of comparison ...
van Gent, Robert H., Verbunt, Frank
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The translation of a text with homoerotic content reveals complex political, social and cultural contestation in the transnationalization of sexual desire and identity.
Kadence Leung
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Icons of desire : the classical statue in later Victorian literature [PDF]
The sculptural trope enjoyed a revival in later Victorian literature, especially the classical sculptural nude. These ancient figures retain their function as mediators between the gods and their human votaries for their Victorian admirers, but they also
Thomas, Jane
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The untold death of Laertes: revaluating Odysseus's meeting with his father [PDF]
This article discusses the narrative function and symbolism of the Laertes scene in the twenty-fourth book of the Odyssey. By pointing out the scene’s connections to other passages (the story of Penelope’s web, the first and second nekuia, the farewell ...
Sels, Nadia
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Tagungsbericht "Das Geschlecht der Antike" : Nachwuchstagung des Integrierten Graduiertenkollegs im SFB 644 "Transformationen der Antike" an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 23.-25. Juni 2011 [PDF]
Die Antike bildet einen zentralen Bezugspunkt für Identitätskonstruktionen in den europäischen Kulturen. Das Wissen davon, was Antike ist, ist jedoch keineswegs statisch: "Die Antike" formiert sich historisch stets im Wechselspiel mit dem ...
Hildebrandt, Annika
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The Yarkovsky Drift's Influence on NEAs: Trends and Predictions with NEOWISE Measurements [PDF]
We used WISE-derived geometric albedos (p_V) and diameters, as well as geometric albedos and diameters from the literature, to produce more accurate diurnal Yarkovsky drift predictions for 540 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) out of the current sample of \sim
A. Mainzer +17 more
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Diva Paulina in Rome and in the East [PDF]
This paper reconsiders all the existing literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence about Diva Caecilia Paulina, the wife of emperor Maximinus Thrax. Because this evidence is extremely poor and Paulina was almost entirely regarded by the ancient sources
Calomino, Dario
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Antinoüs e Sandwina: encontros e desencontros na educação dos corpos brasileiros
Este artigo analiza la educación de los cuerpos brasileños del inicio del siglo XX. A través de las obras inaugurables de Fernando de Azevedo, de fuentes históricas y documentos disponibles on-line, analiza las formas de exaltación del ejercicio físico ...
Silvana Vilodre Goellner +1 more
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