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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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Refining Industrial Scale Systems in Circus [PDF]
, 2004 Circus is a new notation that may be used to specify both data and behaviour aspects of a system, and has an associated refinement calculus. Although a few case studies are already available in the literature, the industrial fire control system presented
Marcel Oliveira +5 more
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Ibis, EarlyView.The post‐breeding period is a critical yet overlooked phase in the annual cycle of migratory birds, where individuals must resolve competing bioenergetic trade‐offs between recovery from breeding, moult and migratory fuelling. Using GPS data from 54 adult Lesser Kestrels Falco naumanni tracked across Spain, we analysed 76 post‐breeding tracks to ...
Javier Hernández‐Cabello +5 more
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Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Cultura, 2019 The article discusses the issue of theatre education with the use of circus art elements in workshops for youth in the intergenerational and international context. Using as examples two Polish-French projects named „Shakespeare Project” and „MOON”, whose
Anna Krzemińska
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A Matter of Relationships: Dramatising, Staging and Planning Ecological Performances
Itinera, 2023 This article aims to explore patterns of the creative process in which performance faces ecological thought, placing about sustainability strategies. Many scholars have investigated the relationship between theatre and ecology since the end of the
Emanuele Regi
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The Legal Status of Conjoined Twins in Islamic Law: A Socio‐Legal Analysis
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conjoined twins are a rare congenital anomaly. Conjoined twins can occur in various morphological types. Conjoined twins are perceived not only as a physical difference but also as a subject of interest and curiosity in many areas of society.
Merve Yiğitoğlu
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, 2018 Photographic print of the big top circus tent, with entrance booth and living wagons, at Buff Bill's Circus.
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The Belief–Desire Appraisal Theory of Emotion
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I introduce the Belief–Desire Appraisal Theory of Emotion (BDA). BDA makes three main claims: (a) Emotions are psychological episodes whose paradigmatic instances are constituted by coordinated changes in appraisals, action tendencies, bodily responses, and subjective feelings; (b) appraisals—which are rapid, low‐level evaluations of ...
Constant Bonard
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Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article provides the first extensive investigation of President Gerald Ford's commemoration of the 1976 United States Bicentennial. Drawing on internal correspondence and Ford's public addresses, it highlights how his administration leveraged Bicentennial commemorations to situate Ford's Presidency as a reconciling and stabilizing force ...
Thomas Cryer
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Searching for the beasts in the archive as methodological praxis
Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, August 2026.This article offers searching for the beasts in the archive as a methodological tool available to researchers invested in both anticolonialism and antianthropocentrism. By focusing on three basic units of reference—categories, histories, and borders—the article shows how searching for the beasts unsettles some taken‐for‐granted assumptions that ...
Senel Wanniarachchi
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