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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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“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives
ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori +10 more
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En este trabajo se estudia la figura de Luis Garcés de Maluenda, un eclesiástico burgalés de ascendientes judeoconversos (emparentado con la familia Santa María) que vivió en la segunda mitad del siglo XV, y que llegó a ser canónigo y tesorero de la ...
Jorge Díaz Ibáñez
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THE STATUS OF CAPITAL IN THE “KYIV’S TEXT” OF THE BAROQUE EPOCH
Urban studies are a multidisciplinary area, but experts in different fields conclude that the city is worth considering in the categories of text. Moreover, urban studies in literary criticism are distinguished by the fact that the phrase “a city as a ...
Olha Petrenko-Tseunova
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Centre for Metropolitan History Annual Report 2003-4 [PDF]
The Centre produces a short report each year covering its activities.
Centre for Metropolitan History
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Out of the wilderness : a fourteenth-century English drawing of John the Baptist [PDF]
London, British Library, MS Royal 10 B XIV contains a large drawing of St. John the Baptist that is both exceptional for its quality and iconographically unique.
Luxford, Julian Marcus
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ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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ABSTRACT Ten timbers from the spire scaffold of Salisbury Cathedral were dated using a combination of ring‐width dendrochronology, stable oxygen isotopic dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating. Seven timbers were coeval and assigned a combined empirical felling date range of 1352–1378, which was further refined to 1351–1359 (OxCal 95.4%).
Kutsi D. Akcicek +5 more
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The National Singing Programme for primary schools in England: an initial baseline study [PDF]
The ‘Sing Up’ National Singing Programme for Primary schools in England was launched in November 2007 under the UK Government’s ‘Music Manifesto’.
Hill, Joy +9 more
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ABSTRACT Background Yoga has been shown to have physical benefits for people with learning disabilities. It is unclear whether the mental health and wellbeing benefits of yoga found in other populations are apparent in people with learning disabilities. This study was a pilot. Method The study comprised three stages.
Dale Metcalfe +3 more
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