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‘“We do not live apart”: John Berger and the Radical Politics of Rural Life’
Berger’s essays on the 19th-century artists Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet and Ferdinand Cheval and his discussion of primitivism, class, labour, materiality and landscape are put in dialogue with important 21st-century ecocritical texts.
Maura Coughlin
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Abstract The baphetoids represent a clade of the Carboniferous stem‐tetrapods (Middle Mississippian—Middle Pennsylvanian) with a characteristic extension of the orbits into antorbital vacuities, which formed keyhole‐shaped openings on the skull. The more derived baphetids were crocodile‐like piscivores frequently occurring in coal‐bearing lacustrine ...
Pavel Barták, Martin Ivanov, Boris Ekrt
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Ivan Zabelin and the Development of Russian History Painting in the Second Half of the 19th Century
This article examines the relationship between historical scholarship and visual culture in the Russian Empire during the second half of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the work of the prominent Russian historian I.E.
Maria Chukcheeva
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Knowledge or intent: Contemporary world historiography on Serbs in 19th century [PDF]
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the destruction of Yugoslavia brought about a complete change of the political and social context in Europe and in the world. Consequently, history, as a scholarly discipline, was also significantly transformed. In this
Ković Miloš
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Congressional Careers: Service Tenure and Patterns of Member Service, 1789-2015 [PDF]
[Excerpt] This report presents data on Member tenure and a historical analysis of tenure trends. During the 19th century, the average service of Representatives and Senators remained roughly constant, with little or no change over time; the average years
Glassman, Matthew E, Wilhelm, Amber Hope
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Skeletal pathologies in extant crocodilians as a window into the paleopathology of fossil archosaurs
Abstract Crocodilians, together with birds, are the only extant relatives to many extinct archosaur groups, making them highly important for interpreting paleopathological conditions in a phylogenetic disease bracketing model. Despite this, comprehensive data on osteopathologies in crocodilians remain scarce.
Alexis Cornille +6 more
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Abstract Neandertals are known to possess very distinctive traits in their bony labyrinth morphology, such as an inferiorly positioned posterior canal and a very low number of turns in the cochlea. Hence, the inner ear has been often used to assess the Neandertal status of fragmentary fossils.
Alessandro Urciuoli +6 more
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Hugh Miller: stonemason, geologist, writer [PDF]
Hugh Miller was born in 1802 in Cromarty, Ross-shire. He started his working life as a stonemason’s apprentice; he later became a social commentator and crusader.
Taylor, Michael A
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Manowce polskiej egiptologii XIX wieku. Jerzego Ręczyńskiego „przekład” tekstu kamienia z Rosetty [PDF]
The paper is one of a number of publications devoted to perception of the history of ancient Egyptian civilization in Poland by the end of the 19th century.
Kaczmarek, Hieronim
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Abstract The ray‐finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic knowledge of ray‐finned fishes between paleontologists working on extinct animals and neontologists studying extant species has obscured the ...
Jack Stack
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