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The Generation of Memory: Reflections on the “Memory Boom” in Contemporary Historical Studies [PDF]
, 2012 Jay Winter delivered the following in the form of a lecture at the Canadian War Museum on 31 October 2000. A distinguished academic, Winter has been writing about the cultural history of the First World War for nearly three decades.
Winter, Jay
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East of the West: Repossessing the Past In India [PDF]
, 2018 Public history, as it is practised in India, defies easy attempts at classification. This is partially because hardly anything that would be recognised as public history is identified as such by its author(s).
Chowdhury, Indira, Mandal, Srijan
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Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Premise As the sister clade to angiosperms, extant gymnosperms are crucial for reconstructing ancestral gene regulatory networks in seed plants. This highlights the need for model systems representing each of their distinct lineages. However, tools to quickly and effectively investigate gene function in gymnosperms are still limited due to the
Anthony G. K. Garcia +4 more
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Научный диалогThis article examines the activities of provincial and regional statistical committees as centers for the establishment of provincial museums in pre-revolutionary Russia.
E. V. Igumnov
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Displaying Lives: the Narrative of Objects in Biographical Exhibitions [PDF]
, 2007 Biographical exhibitions are a museum practice that asks for critical consideration. Grounding the argument in critical theory, social studies and museum theory, the article explores the narrative function of objects in biographical exhibitions by ...
Albano, Caterina
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Functional morphology of the pharyngeal teeth of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Many fish use a set of pharyngeal jaws in their throat to aid in prey capture and processing, particularly of large or complex prey. In this study—combining dissection, CT scanning, histology, and performance testing—we demonstrate a novel use of pharyngeal teeth in the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), a species for which pharyngeal jaw anatomy had ...
Benjamin Flaum +3 more
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The canon of the author. On individual and shared authorship in exhibition curating [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2014 The writing of the history of exhibition curating in contemporary art has been largely based on the study of a few pioneer curators, such as Harald Szeemann, Lucy Lippard or Seth Siegelaub, who have been lent the status of authors, occasionally ...
Eva Fotiadi
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A study on social studies teacher candidates' views on museums and museum education
İlköğretim Online, 2020 The aim of this study is to determine the opinions of Social Studies Teacher Candidates on museums and museum education. The study group of the research consisted of social studies teacher candidates studying in the Undergraduate Program of Social Studies Teaching in Van Yuzuncu Yil University during the 2018-2019 academic year.
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Chapter II-2 - Edward S. Morse grows up [PDF]
, 1983 In which teenage Edward S. Morse of Salem, Massachusetts, begins a life-long love affair with shells, leaves home for Boston, studies with Louis Agassiz at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, and becomes the world's leading authority on ...
Rosenstone, Robert A.
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Invasive gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) have replaced the native red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) across much of Great Britain over the last century. Several factors have been proposed to underlie this replacement, but here we investigated the potential for dietary competition in which gray squirrels have better feeding performance than ...
Philip G. Cox, Peter J. Watson
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