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Enigmatic Indian Ocean Coastlines on Early Maps and Charts [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Maps by early non-Iberian cartographers tended to rely heavily on Ptolemy's hopelessly inaccurate maps, and on a literal acceptance of Marco Polo's unreliable, second-hand writings.
Richardson, W A R
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Sea Voyages and Occupancies of Malayan Peoples at the West Coast of South Sulawesi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper discussesthe sea voyages and trades in relation to the history of Malayan occupancies at West Coast of South Sulawesi in fifteenth century when Bugis and Makassar kingdoms started to emerge.
Hadrawi, M. (Muhlis)
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The struggle for the Bay : the life and times of Sandwip, an almost unknown Portuguese port in the Bay of Bengal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article places Sandwip, a lesser known salt trading island and port in the Bay of Bengal within the nexus of global trade and politics in the seventeenth century.
Rila Mukherjee
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Close and Dense Networks: Do They Lead to Maintenance of the Ethnic Language? Focus on the Telegu Community in Kuching, Sarawak

open access: yesMigracijske i etničke teme, 2006
This paper sets out to examine the issue of language shift among the closely-knit minority Telegu community in Sarawak. According to L. Milroy (1987) a closely-knit social network system is a significant device of language maintenance and can be applied ...
Caesar Dealwis, Maya Khemlani David
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Mining the Common Heritage of Our DNA: Lessons Learned From Grotius and Pardo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The Human Genome Project generated oceans of DNA sequence data and spurred a multinational race to grab the bounties of these oceans. In response to these DNA property grabs, UNESCO, drawing upon international law precedents addressing analogous grabs in
Bovenberg, Jasper A.
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