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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Martial Arts Training Effects on Health Markers in Adolescents and Children: A Systematic Review [paper] [PDF]

, 2023
Introduction: Childhood obesity has been a growing concern over the past 50 years in the United States. Healthcare providers have extensively studied childhood obesity, yet the rates continue to rise.
Haertner, Micah
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Aiki and Ido Swimming. Connections Between Swimming and Martial Arts

Sport i Turystyka
The historical connections between swimming and the art of war are unquestionable. The ability to swim is still valuable not only in the navy, which is quite obvious.
Wojciech J. Cynarski
doaj   +1 more source

A Look Behind the Scenes

Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
From the 4th – 7th of July 2016, the annual International Medieval Congress was held in Leeds, England. Among the many different sessions two specifically addressed historical European martial arts.
Claus Frederik Sørensen
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Martial Arts as Predecessors of Martial Arts: Historical Aspects of Development in Ukraine

Scientific Journal of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University Series 15 Scientific and pedagogical problems of physical culture (physical culture and sports)
The goal − The goal is to substantiate the historical patterns of the development of martial arts based on martial arts in our country. Methodology: analysis and synthesis of data from historical, modern scientific and scientific-methodological literature and the Internet on the problem being studied. Scientific novelty.
Аleksander Orlov, Evgeny Radishevsky, Oleg Bil’ko   +2 more
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

Martial Arts under the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Pragmatics of Creative Pedagogy

Sociología del Deporte, 2020
Martial arts organisations increasingly blend online and offline activity in order to cultivate specific qualities, skills and virtues. Students and instructors use blogs, chat fora, videos and podcasts to supplement their self- and shared cultivation ...
George Jennings
doaj  

Depictions of archery in Sassanian silver plates and their relationship to warfare

Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 2018
This article provides an examination of archery techniques, such as drawing techniques of the bowstring, the method of grasping the bow grip and placing the arrow, and their relationship to warfare as depicted on 22 Sassanian and early post-Sassanian ...
Kaveh Farrokh, Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani, Bede Dwyer   +2 more
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‘A Fairly Average “White Middle‐Class” Species of Lesbian’: Lorna Gulston, Ireland and the Early Anglophone Lesbian Press, 1965–1980

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
wiley   +1 more source