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Are We Defended? Conflicting Representations of War in Pre-War France [PDF]
, 2008 This article examines contradictions in the way that war was represented to the French population in the interwar period. It argues that an ‘official’ representation of war gave an impression of France as a secure nation; people were discouraged from ...
Dodd, Lindsey
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International Journal of Climatology, Volume 46, Issue 2, February 2026.The CliDaR‐Africa project engages undergraduates in digitising historical African weather records, rescuing over 300,000 observations from Madagascar and the Central African Republic (1949–1966). Analysis of the Madagascar data reveals overlooked extreme events, including a sequence of tropical cyclones, highlighting the country's vulnerability to ...
Simon Noone +3 more
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Technological prerequisites for indistinguishability of a person and his/her computer replica [PDF]
, 2019 Some people wrongly believe that A. Turing’s works that underlie all modern computer science never discussed “physical” robots. This is not so, since Turing did speak about such machines, though making a reservation that this discussion was still ...
Efimov, Albert
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Newsreels from 1968 Communist Bulgaria: The Encompassing Us vs. the Different Them
On_Culture, 2017 This study provides an original interpretation of 53 newsreels, produced and projected in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria in the year 1968. Based on a thorough audio-visual analysis, the article shows that newsreels are prime examples for the power of ...
Lyubomir Pozharliev
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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.This study contributes to the ongoing historical examination of ecological and postcolonial questions in Latin America through the lens of new media genre narratives. Early 20th‐century documentary films of Argentine Patagonia institutionalised a natural binary opposition, positioning those challenging colonial power relations based on natural ...
Cielo Zaidenwerg, Mauricio Dimant
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The Official Student Newspaper of UAS [PDF]
, 2014 UAS Answers: Everybody's got one... -- What's the Scoop UAS -- The Deadline for National and International Exchange Applications is Quickly Approaching -- That was a thing! -- What's the Scoop UAS: Why recycle? -- Just One Year -- The Apocalypse is Nigh -
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On Emerging British‐Latinx Art: The Case of Art Ubicua
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT The historicisation of Latinx art has been consolidated as a field of study in the United States. While categorising art by specific communities or geographic regions can sometimes marginalise artists, such classifications have also opened up opportunities in spaces that might otherwise remain exclusive and inaccessible.
Clara Garavelli
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, 2013 Chris Marker’s portrait of Alexandre Medvedkine in the 1993 film Le tombeau d’Alexandre/The Last Bolshevik is highly instructive of his own relationship to Soviet cinema.
Keeney, Gavin
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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