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New View of Peter the Great’s Instructions to Vitus Bering in 1725 in the Context of Struggle for Colonies in the North Pacific

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Russian History, 2022
The study is devoted to the detailed analysis of Peter the Great’s handwritten instruction to the head of the First Kamchatka Expedition Vitus Bering dated January 6, 1725.
Aleksandr Yu. Petrov, Alexey N. Ermolaev
doaj   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Neuroanatomical diversity in Teleocichla with new volumetric and histological insights into the encephalon of Teleocichla monogramma Kullander 1988

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Teleocichla comprises small cichlids that inhabit the rapid streams of Amazonian rivers; however, there has been limited research on their encephalon morphology. This study examined the neuroanatomy of four species, focusing on volumetric measurements of their encephalon subregions, and providing a histological description of the encephalon of
Renan Leão‐Reis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arctic coral reefs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Recent expeditions to the cold, northern waters of the Arctic have revealed giant deep-sea coral reefs. In this article, Tina Kerby and Jason Hall-Spencer describe the latest findings from a project to study these surprising ...
Hall-Spencer, JM, Kerby, T
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Meta Ingognita: Canadian Museum of Civilization Announces Project to Investigate Frobisher’s Voyages to Canadian Arctic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In a July 26, 1991 communique, the Canadian Museum of Civilization announced a Canadian-led international project to investigate archaeological sites in the Baffin Island area, once known as Meta Incognita, or the Unknown Shore.

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Paleopathology of a putative colossosaurian caudal vertebra (Neosauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Presidente Prudente Formation, Brazil

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies investigating paleopathologies in sauropods remain scarce despite their relative abundance in the fossil record. In this study we report new occurrence of paleopathological features, corresponding to a neoplasm found in a middle caudal vertebra (MCT.R.2120) of an advanced titanosaur from the Presidente Prudente Formation (Bauru Basin ...
Maria Luiza Peres Bertolossi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soviet Archaeological Expedition as a Research Object

open access: yesBulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2011
Soviet archaeological expeditions are the main focus of my research. They provide us with very interesting examples of archaeological expeditions as a part of a society, and not only as a part of science.
Olga Sveshnikova
doaj   +1 more source

Book Review: A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Samuel Washington Woodhouse, a Philadelphia physician and avid ornithologist, was appointed surgeon-naturalist of two expeditions to survey the Creek-Cherokee boundary in Indian Territory.
Keener, Barbara
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