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Biblical Legends in the Folklore of the Turkic Peoples in Southern Siberia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The article deals with the ethnic specificity of biblical legends about the flood and the Tower of Babel in the folklore of the Turkic peoples of Southern Siberia (the Altai, Tuva, Khakassia and Shor).
Oinotkinova, Nadezhda
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"THE LEGEND OF THE DRAGON FROM OHRID LAKE" - INTERPRETATION OF ITS REGIONAL AUTHENTICITY

open access: yesEtnoAntropoZum, 2016
This article examines Macedonian folk legends, beliefs and images, that concern the existence of the dragon from Ohrid lake (the Lamia). Separate points of analysis of this topic are the universal and mythological notions that take part in the ...
Ermis Lafazanovski
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Legends and realities of Ukrainian alchemy: the Kyiv echo of legends of “philosophers’ dwellings”

open access: yesCхід, 2020
In the article, the social and cultural repercussion of the phenomenon of alchemy is considered using specific examples. The authors study the basis and motivation for the creation of modern-day alchemical legends within the “dwellings of philosophers ...
Kostiantyn Rodyhin, Mykhailo Rodyhin
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Choropleth map legend design for visualizing community health disparities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Background Disparities in health outcomes across communities are a central concern in public health and epidemiology. Health disparities research often links differences in health outcomes to other social factors like income.
Robert G Cromley, Ellen K Cromley
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Ferraris, the Legend [PDF]

open access: yesThe Cartographic Journal, 2012
At the end of the eighteenth century, a large-scale map of the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liege was manufactured, covering more or less the current territory of Belgium. The work for this Carte de Cabinet was carried out by artillerists under the guidance of count Joseph de Ferraris, who was commissioned for the task by the ...
De Coene, Karen   +5 more
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Place names in and around Gjellestad

open access: yesViking
The article examines place-names around the Gjellestad boat burial site in Norway, analyzing eleven settlements including Gjellestad, Huseby, Vik, and others.
Peder Gammeltoft, Krister S.K. Vasshus
doaj   +1 more source

ANCIENT RUSSIA IN FOLK HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF RUSSIANS AND BELARUSIANS: COMMON AND SPECIAL

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the historical ideas of Russians and Belarusians about the heritage of Ancient Rus. With the reference to toponymic traditions and legends, epic plots, spiritual poems, ritual poetry, the author ...
O. Matveyev
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High-harmonic generation from arbitrarily oriented diatomic molecules including nuclear motion and field-free alignment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We present a theoretical model of high-harmonic generation from diatomic molecules. The theory includes effects of alignment as well as nuclear motion and is used to predict results for N$_2$, O$_2$, H$_2$ and D$_2$.
C. B. Madsen   +4 more
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Studying kazakh versions of the legends about Edige

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение
This research aims to review and systematize archival and published Kazakh versions of the epic of “Edige” (Yedige) and compile a complete list of texts while inclu­ding their structural and textual analysis.
Ualiyev T.A., Kushkumbayev A.K.
doaj   +1 more source

The Vampires Our Age Deserves: 21st Century Forms of Ancient Evil [PDF]

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2018
Traditionally, the peoples of Southeast Asia have held beliefs in numerous forms of vampires often crossed with ghosts or other spirits, such as Pontianak of the Malay Peninsula, Phi Krasue and Phi Pop of Thailand and the Aswang and Manananggal of the ...
Michael James Joyce
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