William Walker and the Seeds of Progressive Imperialism: The War in Nicaragua and the Message of Regeneration, 1855-1860 [PDF]
, 2017 For a brief period of time, between 1855 and 1857, William Walker successfully portrayed himself to American audiences as the regenerator of Nicaragua.
Mangipano, John J.
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Mission Santa Clara in a Changing Urban Environment [PDF]
, 2015 Since its secularization in the 1830s, Mission Santa Clara de Asís and its associated grounds have seen major transformations. These changes include the gradual abandonment of the mission by its native inhabitants, the Californio and early Anglo-American
Panich, Lee M
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Junk News on Military Affairs and National Security: Social Media Disinformation Campaigns Against US Military Personnel and Veterans [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Social media provides political news and information for both active duty military personnel and veterans. We analyze the subgroups of Twitter and Facebook users who spend time consuming junk news from websites that target US military personnel and veterans with conspiracy theories, misinformation, and other forms of junk news about military affairs ...
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William Walker and the Nicaraguan filibuster war of 1855-1857 [PDF]
, 1973 The purpose of this paper is to show how William Walker was toppled from power after initially being so successful in Nicaragua. Walker's attempt at seizing Nicaragua from 1855 to 1857 caused international consternation not only throughout Central ...
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A re-evaluation of ideas, interests and politics in repeal: the case of the Belgian Corn Laws, 1834-1873. [PDF]
Economic interests, the influence of economic ideas and politics have been put forward in the literature as explanations for the British Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.
Truyts, Tom, Van Dijck, Maarten
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Party Development and Political Conflict in Maine 1820-1860 From Statehood to the Civil War [PDF]
, 2017 This dissertation is a history of politics in Maine during the state’s formative period, the years from statehood until 1860. The history focuses on party conflict and on the development of organized political parties, particularly the Democratic and ...
Webb, Lee D
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Site selection for the 3.4m optical telescope of the Iranian National Observatory [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The Results of the site selection campaign conducted for the proposed 3.4m optical telescope of the Iranian National Observatory are reported. During the first 3 years, among 33 nominated regions throughout the country, the potential regions were confined to four provinces, namely, Southern Khorasan located in the East, Kerman in the South East and Qom
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Optimizing Influence Campaigns: Nudging under Bounded Confidence [PDF]
arXivInfluence campaigns in online social networks are often run by organizations, political parties, and nation states to influence large audiences. These campaigns are employed through the use of agents in the network that share persuasive content. Yet, their impact might be minimal if the audiences remain unswayed, often due to the bounded confidence ...
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Taking the pulse of the shortest orbital period binary system RX J0806.3+1527 [PDF]
arXiv, 2004 RX J0806.3+1527 is thought to be a 321s orbital period (the shortest known) double white dwarf binary system. According to the double degenerate binary (DDB) scenario this source is expected to be one of the strongest gravitational wave (GW) emitter candidates. In the last years RX J0806.3+1527 has been studied in great details, through multiwavelength
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Lincoln’s Forgotten Middle Years
, 2017 It would be difficult to find two books on Abraham Lincoln published in the same year and yet more unalike in their conclusions than Sidney Blumenthal’s Wrestling with His Angel (the second installment in his multi-volume survey of Lincoln’s “political ...
Guelzo, Allen C.
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