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Genealogy of Lady Sitting on Noah's Ark (AS), in Islamic Paintings [PDF]
زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2018 One of the oldest myths among many cultures is the flood story. Since its inception, this myth has attracted the attention of artists in a variety of cultures. In most images related to the flood, a lady is among the passengers of the ark whose character
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Jozef Oleszkiewicz as a Participant of an Academic Exhibition in 1814
Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетии, 2023 Jozef Oleszkiewicz, a native of the Polish-Lithuanian lands, was a talented portrait painter who settled on the banks of the Neva at the beginning of the 19th century and was elected academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Kseniia Egorova
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Gender &History, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This article explores male popular culture in Australia in the mid‐1940s, particularly men's magazines of the period, to illuminate aspects of the psycho‐sexual dimensions of Australian veterans returning to civil society. The sexual landscape of Australian society had undergone considerable transformation, especially through an increasing ...
Stephen Garton
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“Not Your Grandmother’s Bible”—A Comparative Study of the Biblical Deluge Myth in Film
Religions, 2019 The biblical story of the Flood, which portrays a humanity worthy of annihilation, is the fundamental myth used by generations of interpreters as they radically criticized the society and culture in which they lived.
Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro, Lila Moore
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KEARIFAN LOKAL BERBASIS ISLAM DALAM PELESTARIAN LINGKUNGAN HIDUP
IBDA': Jurnal Kebudayaan Islam, 2012 The disasters that are related to heavy rain such as flood, landslide and dry climate especially in Central Java are problems which need solutions. This article tries to explore the myth to preserve water resource as a local wisdom in Sempor society in ...
Sulaiman Alqomayi
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Area, EarlyView., 2022 In this paper, I suggest a new way of looking at the aesthetically motivated invitation of the putative wild into the inner sanctum of human artifice, the domestic sphere. I argue that the paradoxes of what I call “domestic rewilding” deserve particular attention, as they reveal the aesthetic and political preoccupations motivating such projects. I put
Olga Petri
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2013 The Sacrifice for (the) God(s) after the Flood in Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East: A New Interpretation. The experience of a large, devastating flood is part of the cultural heritage of mankind.
Gerlinde Baumann
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Le déluge sans le Japon : aléa naturel et catastrophe dans la culture japonaise
Ebisu: Études Japonaises, 2012 There is no philosophical notion of catastrophic events due to natural causes that structures Japanese culture. The “sinking of Japan” described in contemporary science fiction literature and movies has more to do with the cathartic process stemming from
Philippe Pelletier
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Reconstruction in ‘The Survivor’ by Julian Barnes
Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2018 The article turns to the narrative unfolding in the fourth chapter of Julian Barnes’ A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters (1989), a volume which retells and reconfigures the biblical Noah myth in a number of different ways.
Helen E. Mundler
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A Network Percolation-based Contagion Model of Flood Propagation and Recession in Urban Road Networks [PDF]
Sci Rep 10, 13481 (2020), 2020 In this study, we propose a contagion model as a simple and powerful mathematical approach for predicting the spatial spread and temporal evolution of the onset and recession of flood waters in urban road networks. A network of urban roads resilient to flooding events is essential for provision of public services and for emergency response.
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