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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.The siege of Tobruk is one of the most well‐known Australian actions of the Second World War, enjoying special attention on Anzac Day. Its elevation within Australian national memory is by no means accidental. Rather, it is the result of decades of lobbying by the Rats of Tobruk Association (ROTA), which positioned veterans of the siege as the ...
Nicole Townsend
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Their Sleep Is To Be Desecrated : California\u27s Central Valley Project and the Wintu People of Northern California, 1938- 1943 [PDF]
, 2007 The morning of July 14, 1944, was intended to be a moment of celebration for the City of Redding, California. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes had been scheduled to arrive in the booming city to dedicate Shasta Dam, a national reclamation ...
Farnham, April
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Interpretive Urban Cemeteries: Urban Cemeteries Reinterpreted
, 2022 Cemeteries - the oldest repositories of architecture and society - have until recently, 'quitely' been undergoing a technological as well as cultural revolution that is creating new opportunities for interacting not just with memorialisation but history and and our built environment as well.
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An early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Quarrington, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire : report on excavations, 2000-2001 [PDF]
, 2004 [FIRST PARAGRAPH] The early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in the Kesteven part of Lincolnshire form two distinct distribution patterns (Fig.1): a north-south line along, or just to the west of, the limestone edge between the former Roman towns of Lincoln and ...
Dickinson, T.M.
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Estudios Atacameños, 2011 Entre 1950 y 1970 el sacerdote Gustavo Le Paige excavó una de las mayores colecciones osteológicas de América Latina, que ha llamado la atención de muchos investigadores en los últimos 40 años.
Mark Hubbe +2 more
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Investigation of possible effect of cemeteries on groundwater
Journal of Taibah University for ScienceGroundwater, a vital source of fresh water for many, has been negatively impacted by human activities, climate change, and poor management. Human remains from cemeteries can contribute significantly to groundwater pollution if there is a potential ...
Bomkazi Vava, Abdon Atangana
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Innovación en productos turísticos. Dark tourism: concepto, situación actual y casos de estudio [PDF]
, 2016 En este trabajo se conceptualiza la práctica del Dark Tourism (Turismo Oscuro), por el cual ha aumentado el interés en la literatura y por parte de los turistas en los últimos años.
Carrasco-Santos, Maria Jesus +1 more
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Quality from Kent: Preliminary results from the analysis of fifth‐ to seventh‐century silver alloys
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores early results from the chemical and lead isotope analysis of 30 silver‐alloy objects from southeast England dating between the fifth and seventh centuries CE, presenting limited aspects of the three main analyses that were conducted. First, a comparison of the results gained from surface x‐ray fluorescence (pXRF) values and
Toby F. Martin, Matthew J. Ponting
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Paalksniai barrow cemetery and cemetery.
, 2012 Paalksniai archaeological complex is located in Kelmė district. It consists of barrow cemetery of the Roman period, late Iron age grave field and cemetery from a Christian period. 1993-1999, the archaeological sites of Paalksniai were investigated by the expedition of the Department of Archaeology (Vilnius University). The article discusses the results
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