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Churchill: The Continuing Story
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2005 The iconic position of Winston Churchill, the great statesman and orator (1874-1965), was confirmed in a very public and spectacular fashion when in 2 0 0 2 a popular B B C poll made him a clear winner of the title of the Greatest Briton ever. With 2 8 .
Jørgen Sevaldsen
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Funding the Arts and Humanities is Worth Fighting For
, 2017 There’s an old story about Winston Churchill that is not true but is worth repeating. When approached about cutting funding for the arts so the money could go to the war effort during World War II, Churchill supposedly replied: “Then what are we fighting
Powell, Dave
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Destroying Hitler’s Berghof: The Bomber Command Raid of 25 April 1945 [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines the Royal Air Force raid on Adolf Hitler’s Berghof on the Obersalzberg in April 1945. Arthur Harris, the head of Bomber Command, wanted to emphasize the air power’s decisive role in the defeat of Nazism. However, Winston Churchill and
Haller, Oliver
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Lipids, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increasing evidence suggests that dairy consumption may decrease the risk of chronic diseases. However, this association remains unclear due to methodological limitations. As a part of a secondary analysis, we used compound‐specific stable isotope analysis to increase the accuracy of the dairy FA biomarkers (15:0, 17:0), considering that each ...
Camilla Parzanini +8 more
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ORWELL A FOST MAI BINE CONECTAT LA POLITICA BRITANICĂ DECÂT CHURCHILL [PDF]
Revista de Știinţe Politice şi Relaţii InternaţionaleThere is a degree of congruence between Orwell and Churchill, a theme which forms the basis of Thomas Ricks’ book, Churchill and Orwell. In the 1930s, both Churchill and Orwell were outsiders, pursuing an agenda which failed to capture the public ...
Manolache, Viorella, Browne, Ian
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AI Epistemic Disengagement and Consumer Dependence: An Augmentation‐Substitution Framework
Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence has become consumers' primary decision‐making resource, raising two questions: how do consumers justify accepting AI as a trusted source of reasoning, and when does this acceptance maintain rather than forfeit their capacity to think independently?
Vasilis Theoharakis +1 more
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The Role and Work of Bomber Command: A Note by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris for the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 28 June 1942 [PDF]
, 2012 Editor’s Note: Few senior Allied Commanders have been criticized as strongly as Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris. And even those critics who recognize the vital contribution Harris and the Bomber Command made to the defeat of Nazi Germany are disturbed by ...
Harris, Arthur
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Despite longstanding research on human rights and the environment, scholarship has only recently moved towards an explicit connection to the marine environment. At the same time, research on human rights and oceans focuses on people at sea, not environmental protection.
Laura Major, Elaine Webster
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WHO DROPPED THE SWORD OF STALINGRAD? [PDF]
English Studies at NBUOn November 29, 1943, at a ceremony at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran in the presence of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill presented Marshal Stalin with a Sword of Honour as a gift from King George VI to the 'steel-hearted citizens of ...
Boris Naimushin
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The Pikwitonei granulite domain: A lower crustal level along the Churchill-Superior boundary in central Manitoba [PDF]
The greenschist to amphibolite facies tonalite-greenstone terrain of the Gods Lake subprovince grades - in a northwesterly direction - into the granulite facies Pikwitonei domain at the western margins of the Superior Province.
Weber, W.
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