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Watery Graves

California Italian Studies, 2010
Written in the style of a seventeenth-century Jesuit sermon, “Watery Graves” ( “Fluidi Feretri” in the original Italian) takes its title from a sonnet by Giacomo Lubrone, a distinguished Jesuit orator and poet of the period.
Alessandro Dal Lago
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 799-809, October 2026.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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When wine walked into grocery stores: Examining the (un)intended economic consequences of wine sale reform in Tennessee

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 108, Issue 5, Page 1255-1281, October 2026.
Abstract Alcohol policy liberalization is a contentious issue in the United States, including debates over whether grocery stores should be allowed to sell wine. This issue reflects a dilemma between accommodating consumer convenience, promoting wine industry growth, and generating tax revenue, versus concerns about potential harm to liquor stores ...
Jiayu Sun, Vincenzina Caputo, Aaron J. Staples, Achilleas Vassilopoulos   +3 more
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High Genetic Diversity in Geographically Remote Populations of Endemic and Widespread Coral Reef Angelfishes (genus: Centropyge)

Diversity, 2013
In the terrestrial environment, endemic species and isolated populations of widespread species have the highest rates of extinction partly due to their low genetic diversity.
Philip L. Munday, Geoffrey P. Jones, Jean-Paul A. Hobbs, Lynne van Herwerden, Dean R. Jerry   +4 more
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Serological evidence of a pararubulavirus and a betacoronavirus in the geographically isolated Christmas Island flying-fox (Pteropus natalis). [PDF]

Transbound Emerg Dis, 2022
Pulscher LA, Peel AJ, Rose K, Welbergen JA, Baker ML, Boyd V, Low-Choy S, Edson D, Todd C, Dorrestein A, Hall J, Todd S, Broder CC, Yan L, Xu K, Peck GR, Phalen DN.   +16 more
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A new species of Paramunida Baba, 1988 from the Central Pacific Ocean and a new genus to accommodate P. granulata (Henderson, 1885)

ZooKeys, 2014
The genus Paramunida belongs to the most diverse family of galatheoids and it is commonly reported from the continental slope across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Patricia Cabezas, Enrique Macpherson
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Koleda for the Future – Tanac Dances for All Generations. Intangible Culture in the Digital Age

Traditiones, 2015
The Koleda refers to the ritual event that takes place during the Christmas and New Year periods, with processions moving from house to house and participants expressing good wishes and collecting gifts.
Tvrtko Zebec
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The Ambassador and the Grotto: Landscape, Religion, and Indigeneity in Seventeenth-Century Cyclades

Architectural Histories
This essay examines the ceremonial visit of Charles-Marie-François Olier, Marquis de Nointel, Louis XIV’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, to the island of Antiparos in 1673.
Demetra Vogiatzaki
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Serpulidae (Annelida) of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories

Records of the Australian Museum
Research voyages onboard RV ‘Investigator’ in 2021 (IN2021_V08) and 2022 (IN2022_V04) sampled benthic communities of seamounts off Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also known as Indian Ocean Australian Territories (IOT).
Elena K. Kupriyanova, Beth Flaxman
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Reef fish hybridization: lessons learnt from butterflyfishes (genus Chaetodon)

Ecology and Evolution, 2012
Natural hybridization is widespread among coral reef fishes. However, the ecological promoters and evolutionary consequences of reef fish hybridization have not been thoroughly evaluated.
Stefano R. Montanari, Lynne van Herwerden, Morgan S. Pratchett, Jean‐Paul A. Hobbs, Anneli Fugedi   +4 more
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