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Sites in Northern Louisiana with Major Collections of Historic Caddo and Other Native American Pottery [PDF]
Archaeological sites in northern Louisiana that date to the 18th and 19th centuries which have yielded significant amounts of Native American pottery are plotted on the accompanying map, and briefly summarized below.
Girard, Jeffery S.
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Grass functional traits reflect the long history of fire and grazers in the savannas of Texas
Abstract Premise Understanding relationships among grass traits, fire, and herbivores may help improve conservation strategies for savannas that are threatened by novel disturbance regimes. Emerging theory, developed in Africa, emphasizes that functional traits of savanna grasses reflect the distinct ways that fire and grazers consume biomass ...
Ashish N. Nerlekar+2 more
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Mountaineering as a specific form of recreation in the late 19th century [PDF]
Aim of this paper is to characterize mountaineering in the late 19th century as a specific form of recreation on the example of the Prague section of ‘Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenverein’ (DuÖAV). Alpinism developed in the second half of the 19th century in the context of the political and economic changes in Central Europe, which also gave rise
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ABSTRACT Non‐syndromic Retinitis Pigmentosa (NsRP) was well known as one of the causes of visual impairment already in the 19th century. Giuseppe Albertotti, Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Modena (Italy) in 1893, described a high prevalence of NsRP in a geographic isolate, the small village of Colloro, in northwestern Italy.
Andrea Guala+8 more
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Quelques défenseurs des droits de l’Homme face à la cause arménienne (fin xixe - début xxe siècles)
This article relates the commitment and actions of prominent French figures of the League for Human Rights – most of whom had been previously involved in the defence of Captain Dreyfus – in favour of Ottoman Armenians, from the late 19th century to the ...
Emmanuel Naquet
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“The Cloud of Unseeing”: Myths Transformed and Pseudo-scientific Interpretations of the Book of Genesis [PDF]
This paper, delivered at the Tolkien Seminar (Kalamazoo, MI) on May 9, 2018, traces the potential influence of popular late 19th-century Biblical commentaries on the Book of Genesis on Tolkien\u27s post Lord Of the Rings cosmologies, in particular the ...
Larsen, Kristine
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Scorch marks from the sky [PDF]
Daily sunshine duration is commonly reported at weather stations. Beyond the basic duration report, more information is available from scorched cards of Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorders, such as the estimation of direct-beam solar irradiance.
Baker+22 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Performativity and Financial Markets: Option Pricing in the Late 19th Century [PDF]
The paper revisits the performativity thesis in economics stressing the plural character of knowledge, which includes not only scientific models but also every form of practical knowledge that systematizes the visible and the articulable experience of ...
Rutterford, Janette+1 more
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The article is devoted to the study of the problem of migration processes in the late 19th – early 20th centuries from the territory of Austria-Hungary to America.
I. Malatsai
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