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A scientist’s walk through Hanoi Old Quarter Houses [PDF]

open access: yes
Hanoi – the capital city of Vietnam and the land of thousand years of civilization – invokes among both locals and tourists the image of the ‘Sword Lake’ with its ancient ‘Turtle Tower’ and the charming Old Quarter with its preserved old houses lying ...
Quynh, Bui Dieu
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Un periodo crucial en la construcción del medievalismo en Cataluña: de "La Historia de Cataluña y la Corona de Aragón" de Víctor Baklaguer (1863, a "Los orígenes de la revolución catalana" de Jaime Vicens Vives (1957) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Study of the evolution of the Catalan medievalism, from the origin in the Renaisance cultural movement, during the 19th century, to Jaume Vicens Vives in de half 20th century.
Fernández Trabal, Josep
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Ukraine at the beginning of 20th century in the eyes of K. Paustovsky [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The beginning of 20th century was a very complicated period in the history of the Ukrainian territories. Konstantin Paustovsky spent his youth in the southern part of the Russian Empire and could observe all the historical processes happening to his ...
Bortnowski, Antoni
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Re‐evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Hadrosaurid dinosaurs are generally regarded as “crested” or “non‐crested” depending on the presence or absence of a bony cranial crest. At least one supposedly “non‐crested” hadrosaur is known to have possessed a soft tissue cranial crest (or comb), based on an exceptionally preserved “mummified” specimen. Here we redescribe this specimen and
Henry S. Sharpe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodiesel: History of an innovation to keep the world moving

open access: yesSubstantia, 2019
The history of biodiesel dates back to mid-19th century when transesterification of vegetable oils was discovered. It took another half century for the world to realize its potential as fuel.
Narayanaganesh Balasubramanian   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A critical reappraisal of the carotid sinus and carotid bulb: Distinguishing neurohistological function from vascular geometry

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
This review redefines the carotid bulb (CB) as a variable geometric dilation shaped by hemodynamics and the carotid sinus (CS) as a conserved neurohistological baroreceptor field. Distinguishing these entities clarifies a century of anatomical confusion and links geometry, neurohistology, and clinical interpretation within a unified framework ...
Răzvan Costin Tudose   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Twentieth Century Historical Methods in Sri Lanka and S.G. Perera’s

open access: yesHistória da Historiografia
Twentieth-century pre-independence Sri Lanka saw the emergence of a new generation of historians that embraced “modern” approaches to writing history.
Josie Portz
doaj   +1 more source

Congressional Careers: Service Tenure and Patterns of Member Service, 1789-2015 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
[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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Integrating whole‐bone and regional analyses to understand human scapular growth

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates ontogenetic changes in human scapular morphology using three‐dimensional geometric morphometrics with whole‐bone and region‐specific analyses. The aim is to evaluate whether the scapula follows a regular developmental pattern and whether its functionally distinct components, the scapular spine (SS) and glenoid fossa ...
Azahara Salazar‐Fernández   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The educational effects of 19th century disentailment of catholic church land in Colombia. [PDF]

open access: yes
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of land concentration prompted by the distribution of disentailed Church land during the second half of the 19th century on the accumulation of human capital, in early 20th century Colombia1.
Antonella Fazio Vargas   +1 more
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