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El estandarte y el frontal de sant Ot: ¿El ajuar del santo obispo de la catedral de la Seu d’Urgell?
El estandarte de sant Ot y el frontal bordado del Victoria and Albert Museum, dos bordados redescubiertos a inicios del siglo xx en la catedral de la Seu d’Urgell, son obras relevantes del románico peninsular al lado, por ejemplo, del famoso Tapiz de la ...
Laila Monge Siméon
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Climate change has been identified as one of the most imminent threats to the survival of the human species. In Ghana, the conversation about climate change has been accentuated by the perennial flooding of major urban centres, often leading to the loss ...
Godfred Nsiah
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Deconstruction of religious symbols of Minsk as national-cultural constants
Culture and its mental field are a complex interweaving of various attitudes and values that become stable, basic, of exceptional importance for understanding the essence and trends in the development of society and the state. Contradictory and bright in
Elina Usovskaya
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Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Austrian Councillor of Commerce Karl von Zinzendorf’s Stay in Moscow (Based on His Diary of 1774)
After a number of longer European journeys, Count Karl von Zinzendorf, the councillor of commerce of the Vienna court, visited Moscow in 1774. He was accompanied by the Portuguese Duke Don Juan de Braganza.
Éva Ring-Ághné
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Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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Breaking Barriers: The History of Women's Education and the Training of Female Surgeons
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Medicine and surgery have been practised by women since the earliest of times, but as these activities became professionalised, they became excluded by various barriers. The aims of this review are to identify these obstacles and how they were overcome.
John P. Collins
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The inhibitory-kappaB kinases (IKKs) IKKα and IKKβ play central roles in regulating the non-canonical and canonical NF-κB signalling pathways. Whilst the proteins that transduce the signals of each pathway have been extensively characterised, the clear ...
Christopher Riley +14 more
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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