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The Force Publique and frontier warfare in the late 19th Century Congo Free State

open access: yesHistorical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2023
During the late 19th Century, the Force Publique of the Congo Free State (1878-1908) found itself engaged in almost continuous fighting. Its campaigns against indigenous peoples, mutineers, interloping African Empires, and wars of expansion ...
Mario Draper
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The Contribution of Choral Cultural-Artistic Amateurism in Slavonia to the Development of the Cultural Life of Towns in Eastern Croatia, in the Past and Today

open access: yesDiacovensia, 2022
Since the times of intensive development of the movement of cultural-artistic amateurism in Croatia, in the late 19th century, choral cultural-artistic amateurism has been considered extremely important because of its considerable implications beyond ...
Antoaneta Radočaj-Jerković   +2 more
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neurosyphilis in italian psychiatry of the late 19th century

open access: yes, 2017
Based on Italian and international literature, the authors have studied nineteenth-century research into neurosyphilis in its main syndromic manifestations: tabes dorsalis and progressive paralysis. By examining some psychiatry handbooks of the time, it was possible to recover ample information about the symptomatology and the description of the ...
Aliverti, Massimo   +5 more
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Accounting in selected scientific and educational publications from the period of the Partitions [PDF]

open access: yesZeszyty Teoretyczne Rachunkowości, 2015
The aim of the article is to present scientific and didactic achievements of Polish accounting at the turn of the 19th century. The first part of the study addresses key issues in the development of accounting science and practice on Polish territory ...
Renata Biadacz
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History and evidence regarding hydrostatic shock [PDF]

open access: yesNeurosurgery, February 2011 - Volume 68 - Issue 2 - pp E596-E597 February 2011 - Volume 68 - Issue 2 - pp E596-E597, 2011
This paper reviews the history and evidence related to remote wounding effects of ballistic pressure waves imparted to tissue by the impact of a bullet. Such remote effects are often referred to as hydraulic or hydrostatic shock. In spite of considerable published evidence and a long history, some medical professionals continue to regard the ability of
arxiv   +1 more source

A Lewis Acid Stabilized Ketenimine in an Unusual Variant of the Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

open access: yesChemistry – A European Journal, Volume 28, Issue 67, December 1, 2022., 2022
By the action of a strong Lewis acid, isomerization of the tricyanomethane to the ketenimine, HN=C=C(CN)2, is triggered, which in turn directly attacks an aromatic species in an electrophilic aromatic substitution. Abstract Electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) can provide a straightforward approach to the efficient synthesis of functionalized ...
Jonas Surkau   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Finite p-Irregular Subgroups of PGL(2,k) [PDF]

open access: yesLa Matematica 2, 479-522 (2023), 2011
In the late 19th century, Klein inaugurated a program for describing the finite subgroups of $PGL_2(k)$ by treating the case in which the field $k$ is the complex numbers. Gierster and Moore extended Klein's arguments to deal with finite fields. In the past century, additional contributions to this problem were made by Serre, Suzuki, and Beauville ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Wood and Cellulose: the Most Sustainable Advanced Materials for Past, Present, and Future Civilizations

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Wood and cellulose are the most abundant and important sustainable materials on the planet at the disposal to solve major societal challenges. This perspective, written for all materials scientists, highlights how breakthroughs in cellulose nanotechnology combined with functional nanomaterials can revolutionize important areas like construction ...
Mahiar Max Hamedi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Searching for Jewish Ancestors before They Had a Fixed Family Name—Three Case Studies from Bohemia, Southern Germany, and Prague

open access: yesGenealogy
Anyone who traces their Jewish ancestors back to the 18th century and even further back in history encounters the challenge of looking for ancestry without the clue that a fixed family name provides.
Thomas Fürth
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The lost origin of chemical ecology in the late 19th century [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008
The origin of plant chemical ecology generally dates to the late 1950s, when evolutionary entomologists recognized the essential role of plant secondary metabolites in plant–insect interactions and suggested that plant chemical diversity evolved under the selection pressure of herbivory.
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