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The ionospheric response over the UK to major bombing raids during World War II [PDF]
The Earth's ionosphere is subject to disturbance from above (via solar variability and space-weather effects) and from below (such as tectonic activity, thunderstorms and sudden stratospheric warmings).
C. J. Scott, P. Major
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The response of churches to the challenges presented by the global COVID-19 pandemic invites a closer examination of the relationships between virtual and embodied religious communities during a time of social distancing.
Helen Parish
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The pages of early modern natural histories expose the plasticity of the natural world, and the variegated nature of the encounter between human and animal in this period.
Helen Parish
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The Development of Peasants’ Reading Habits in Courland and Livonia in the 18th Century*
The article explores the development of peasants’ reading habits over the 18th century in the Latvian-inhabited Lutheran regions of Russia’s Baltic provinces Courland/Kurzeme and Latvian Livonia/Vidzeme.
Pauls Daija
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Victorian penny press plagiarisms as transmedia storytelling
The Victorian period saw the proliferation of penny press plagiarisms—that is, transformations of middle-class narratives, typically for a lower-class audience.
Erica Haugtvedt
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Population abundance and density estimates provide key information for conservation assessment and prioritization of efforts and management. However, data are still largely unavailable for many taxa, including sea snakes, which appear to be facing global
Brooke L. Bessesen +4 more
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We describe a tanged point and a blade technology from Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay, Scotland that provides further support to a Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene presence in Scotland prior to the establishment of the narrow blade Mesolithic ...
Inger Marie Berg-Hansen +2 more
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This article explores the role played by the relationship between witch and familiar in the early modern witch trials. It positions animal familiars at the intersection of early modern belief in witchcraft and magic, examining demonologies, legal and ...
Helen Parish
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Climatological summaries of Thomas Hughes’ meteorological data, for Stroud, UK (1775–1813)
Thomas Hughes (1742–1813) kept a daily diary of weather and geoscience phenomena at Stroud in Gloucestershire, in the southern UK, between 1775 and 1813, following a short period of similar records made nearby from 1771.
Richard Giles Harrison +1 more
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Diffusion of the Discourse on Love of Reading in Europe from the 18th till the 20th Century
When reading in the 18th century became an activity common among an ever growing part of the European population and thereby a socially more visible cultural phenomenon, a need arose to create concepts and linguistic terms to refer to the new types of ...
Ilkka Mäkinen
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