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The Weakness of European Wales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Why did Wales vote to leave the EU and Scotland vote to remain? Richard Marsden and Penni Bestic argue that to answer this question we need to examine how the Welsh and Scottish people perceive their turbulent national histories, and how this informs ...
Bestic, Penni, Marsden, Richard
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Field Report on the Excavation of Indian Villages in the Vicinity of the Spiro Mounds, Leflore County, Oklahoma [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
A wealth of strikingly unusual and beautiful objects of Indian manufacture were excavated from the burials of the Spiro Mound, Leflore (sic.) County, Oklahoma during 1936-37.
Orr, Kenneth G.
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Aśvamedha - A Vedic Horse Sacrifice
Aśvamedha - vedsko žrtvovanje konja

open access: yesStudia Mythologica Slavica, 2005
The article investigates the ancient Vedic ritual of horse immolation, known as Aśvamedha. The ritual spans in time from a dawn of Hindu history to the early modern times. It explores its origins, and its cultural and social functions.
Roman Zaroff
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An Early Caddoan Period Cremation from the Boxed Springs Mound Site (41UR30) in Upshur County, Texas, and a Report on Previous Archaeological Investigations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The Boxed Springs Mound site (41UR30) is one of three major Early Caddoan (ca. A.D. 900- t 200) multiple mound centers in the Sabine River basin of northeastern Texas, the others including the Jamestown (41SM54) and Hudnall-Pirtle (41RK4) sites upstream ...
Perttula, Timothy K.   +2 more
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[Review of] Constance Wall Holt. Welsh Women: An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Wales and Women of Welch Descent in America [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
To be a Welsh woman, it seems, was to be doubly doomed to obscurity. Not only were women a less-public sector of society, but there was Welshness to contend with. It has been a case of Bibliographic Ethnic Discrimination.
Davies, Martha A.
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The construction of Scottishness in James Hogg's the Queen's wake : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
James Hogg was a Scottish Romantic, born in 1770 at Ettrick Farm in the Scottish Lowlands. Hogg became known as "the Ettrick Shepherd" as he had worked on local farms from the age of six, having had only six months of formal education.
Shanks, Bronwyn Ellen
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The real reason Yes Scotland avoids Braveheart nostalgia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In 1998 Alex Salmond dismissed doubts over Scotland’s Celtic lineage as “ignorance bordering on silliness”. In 2007 he expounded a vision of the country as a “Celtic lion” economy.
Marsden, Richard
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