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Keeping the Faith: Douglas Southall Freeman, 1886-1953. (Volumes I and II).

, 1990
This Is a study of the life and career of Douglas Southall Freeman , whose careful scheduling of every minute of every day allowed him to pursue two full-time careers — one as a historian and one as editor of a major daily newspaper.
Peacock, R. John
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Entanglement swapping for generation of heralded time-frequency-entangled photon pairs [PDF]

Physical Review A, 2018
Photonic time-frequency entanglement is a promising resource for quantum information processing technologies. We investigate swapping of continuous-variable entanglement in the time-frequency degree of freedom using three-wave mixing in the low-gain ...
D. Vitullo, M. Raymer, B. Smith, M. Karpi'nski, L. Mejling, K. R. D. O. Physics, Oregon Center for Optical, Molecular, Quantum Science, U. Oregon, F. O. Physics, U. Warsaw, Department of Photonics Engineering, T. Denmark   +13 more
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The supernova-regulated ISM. III. Generation of vorticity, helicity and mean flows [PDF]

, 2017
The forcing of interstellar turbulence, driven mainly by supernova explosions, is irrotational in nature, but the development of significant amounts of vorticity and helicity, accompanied by large-scale dynamo action, has been reported.
M. Kapyla, F. Gent, M. Vaisala, Graeme R. Sarson Max-Planck-Institut for Sonnensystemfors Excellence, Department of Materials Science, A. D. O. Physics, University of Innsbruck Institute for Mathematics, Statistics, N. University   +8 more
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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
wiley   +1 more source

Mujeres Públicas and women in public: Scrutinising the history of prostitution in eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Mexico

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
wiley   +1 more source

Chronicle of the congress on "Ferdinand II and the Crown of Aragon" [PDF]

, 2017
At the May 2015 meeting of the History-Archaeology Section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, the decision was taken to hold a congress on Ferdinand II in 2016 to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the death of the Catholic King, the nickname ...
Belenguer i Cebrià, Ernest
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