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The Xiong Family: A Documentary Photo Essay [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Focusing on a Hmong family I've known over the years, I decided last fall to begin documenting their daily lives at home. The Xiong family, consisting of a father, mother, and their twelve children, live in an apartment on Chicago's northside.
Joseph Davy
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Altan Khan (1507–1583) and his Role in Spreading Buddhism Among the Mongolian Peoples [PDF]

open access: yesГуманитарный вектор
Given the exceptional role of Buddhism in the countries of its spread, especially Tibet and Mongolia, where Buddhism was the state religion during its highest development and contributed to the creation of theocratic states in these countries, it becomes
Arseniy S. Vanchikov
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"’’ىاسا‘‘ کا تعارف اور ناقدانہ جائزہ Introduction and a Critical Review of 'Yasa' "

open access: yesالإيضاح, 2017
Genghis Khan (1162-1227), Mongolia’s great emperor, ruled over large parts of the world for a long period of time. Under his banner, he had nomadic tribes and desert people.
Sulaiman Shah , Prof. Dr. Rashad Ahmad
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“An apparently indissoluble clot of unwanted humanity”: “Non‑European” Displaced Persons in Postwar Resettlement

open access: yesDiasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
In 1951, around 800 Kalmyk DPs in postwar Germany were denied resettlement to Paraguay. Based on sources from the International Refugee Organization and the Arolsen Archives, this article shows how their portrayal as “Asiatics” and descendants of Genghis 
Jessica Wehner
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Quantitative dynamics of human empires [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Quantitative modeling of social systems shows a large component of automatic drives in the behavior of individual humans and human society. Studies of the formation and breakdown of twenty diverse empires operating over almost three thousand years ...
Ausubel, J.H., Marchetti, C.
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Surgical wisdom and Genghis Khan'sPax Mongolica [PDF]

open access: yesANZ Journal of Surgery, 2017
BackgroundThe unrivalled conquests of Genghis Khan (CE c.1162–1227) led to the establishment of the Greater Mongolian Empire. By 1279, the Mongol dynasty controlled a vast Empire which, for the first time in history, unified Europe and China via the famous Silk Road.
openaire   +2 more sources

Grotesque maternity: reading "happiness" and its eugenics in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child (1988) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper contexualises and reads Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child (1988) as a criticism towards the Family Acts conducted by Thatcher’s government in 1980s Britain. The article principally draws attention to the main and minor protagonist’s “annomalous”
Uematsu, Nozomi
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Church of St. Mary of the Mongols in Istanbul [PDF]

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение, 2014
Istanbul, throughout its history, has accommodated many states and civilizations. Therefore, the city besides having different names, also has monuments and places of worship belonging to various cultures and faiths.
Ilyas Kemaloglu (Kamalov)
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Secrets of Your Leadership Success: The 11 Indispensable E’s of a Leader [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Professor Rao has used his experiences in organizational systems to produce a “recipe” for true leadership. In developing the 11 E’s — from Enthusiasm to Ethics —this author attempts to identify the traits characteristically and uniformly found in great ...
Rao, M. S
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Pantheon 1.0, a manually verified dataset of globally famous biographies

open access: yes, 2016
We present the Pantheon 1.0 dataset: a manually verified dataset of individuals that have transcended linguistic, temporal, and geographic boundaries. The Pantheon 1.0 dataset includes the 11,341 biographies present in more than 25 languages in Wikipedia
Hidalgo, César A.   +4 more
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