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Sport as Spectacle: Swimming in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 The development of sport during the Victorian and Edwardian period, from a predominantly rural activity pursued mainly by the landed gentry to a mass participation and spectator activity pursued in an urban setting by the middle and working classes, was ...
Win Hayes
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, 1997 The history of the American Revolution which most Americans have learned and which is everyday reinforced in the public media is essentially but one of several competing interpretations of that conflict.
Myers, James P., Jr.
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Experiences of a settler in the early days of Van Diemen's Land [PDF]
, 1935 The Reverend John West, author of The History of Tasmania, writing in 1852, made these observations (p. 66): 'The landing of settlers, direct from Great Britain, was an important event: their efforts were experiments, and their achievements were ...
Hudspeth, Wilfred Hugh
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L’art du paradoxe wildien : transgression, subversion ou inversion ?
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 Oscar Wilde’s works can be seen as paradoxical since they confront the ideology of his age. As an iconoclast, he exposes truisms, commonplaces and prejudices, which he examines from a decentered, possibly eccentric perspective.
Gilbert Pham-Thanh
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Role of the Recombination Zone in Organic Light‐Emitting Devices
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review summarizes the critical role of the recombination zone in organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs). We highlight that broadening the recombination zone in OLEDs based on emissive layers with balanced charge transport and high photoluminescence quantum yields provides a promising route toward achieving both long operational lifetime and high ...
Yungui Li, Karl Leo
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, 2010 This article commences with a brief overview of the history of dog racing in South Africa. It provides a synopsis of South Africa’s current legal position on dog racing and the betting thereon. The main question this article addresses is whether there is
Carnelley, Marita
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The magnetic survey of Tasmania [PDF]
, 1900 Read before the Royal Society of Tasmania, 13 August, 1900. Section 1. The History of Magnetic Observation in Tasmania. Section II. Magnetic work in Victoria and New Zealand. Section III. The work of the proposed Survey. From its southerly latitude,
Hogg, EG
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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 These two fin-de-siècle fantastic novels present music (opera-singing in Trilby and violin-playing in The Lost Stradivarius) as a supernatural agent enabling the singer or player to get access to a superhuman status and transcendental dimension. However,
Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Solvent‐mediated reactivity control of Lewis‐paired dopants enables highly efficient, finely tunable, and stable doping of organic semiconductors. The optimally doped semiconductor films exhibit superior thermoelectric performance and doping stability, feature delocalized polarons along structurally ordered polymer backbones, and outperform ...
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British labour movement solidarity in the 1913-14 Dublin Lockout [PDF]
, 2016 While most accounts of the Dublin Lockout of 1913-14 consider it primarily as an event in Irish history, it was also one of the most important struggles in twentieth century British history.
Darlington, RR
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