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The Historical Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Style in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas [PDF]
The first section of David Mitchell’s genre-bending novel, Cloud Atlas (2004), purports to be set in 1850. Narrative clues approximately date the intra-diegetic diary object of this chapter to the period 1851–1910.
Martin Paul Eve
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On the example of our project on the creation of the historical web atlas on Czech history, we introduce the process of adapting originally printed historical maps for their presentation in the web environment, which overcomes the shortcomings of ...
Petra Justová, Jiří Cajthaml
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Plan of Kalisz by Andrzej Politalski from 1785 – a source edition in the Polish Historic Towns Atlas
The plan of Kalisz by Andrzej Politalski is the oldest geometrically accurate depiction of the town. Compiled in 1785, it has survived to this day in a redrawing by Ottomar Wolle in 1878 at the scale of 1:3,000.
Panecki Tomasz
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SELECTED POSSIBILITIES OF DATA EXCERPTION FROM THE DATABASE OF HISTORICAL ATLASES [PDF]
A large database of more than 400 existing historical atlases released after 1950 was created as a result of an extensive analytic research within thepreparation of cartographic workson the Czech Historical Atlas.
Petra Jílková, Tomáš Janata
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STRUCTURAL CARTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF A THEMATIC ATLAS WORK
The article introduces the Czech historiographical work called the Czech Historical Atlas and presents its analysis in terms of its concept, structure, and technical layout.
Tomáš Janata +2 more
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Cartographic modelling of administrative divisions in the “Historical Atlas of Poland”
The author’s aim is to reflect on the cartographic modelling of historical borders based on the example of the series “Historical Atlas of Poland. Detailed maps of the 16th century” (HAP).
Panecki Tomasz
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„Renamed” Middle Ages. The book entitled A középkori Magyarország településatlasza [Settlement Atlas of Medieval Hungary] or the 21th-century source of medieval places and names This article examines the historical and linguistic-onomastic aspects ...
Gábor Mikesy, Beatrix F. Romhányi
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A new large historical atlas on the Czech and Czechoslovak history of the 20th century is currently being prepared under the project of the Czech Historical Atlas.
Jan D. Bláha, Jitka Močičková
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The Practice of Composing Regional Complex Historical Atlases
This article is devoted to the methodology and practice of composition of regional complex historical atlases on the example of historical and thematic mapping of the Crimean Peninsula as part of the Taurida Governorate. As part of a comparative analysis
E. S. Grishin, D. A. Krutov
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This article introduces NOAA Atlas 14 and explains how to use it to help Extension agents and the general public estimate the frequency of any storm event of interest.
Young Gu Her +2 more
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