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The network signature of constellation line figures. [PDF]
Bucur D.
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The SCOTS Corpus: a resource for language contact study [PDF]
The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) is an ongoing project in the Department of English Language, University of Glasgow. The ultimate aim of the project is to create a large electronic corpus of both written and spoken texts for the ...
Anderson, W.
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Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
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The Anglo Saxons and their gods (still) among us [PDF]
When Christian missionaries arrived in Canterbury in 597AD, they brought with them a new religion that sought to appropriate certain Saxon traditions before eradicating them completely: some of these traditions were discussed by the Venerable Bede. Saxon
Mackley, J S
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An endangered oral tradition of the North Atlantic [PDF]
Dr Leonard is a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall College, the Department of Linguistics and the Scott Polar Research Institute, all at the University of Cambridge.
Leonard, Stephen Pax
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Disaster-development interface and its impact on emerging vulnerability scenario in Ladakh region of northwestern Himalayas. [PDF]
Bhat MS, Khan AA, Akbar M, Mir S.
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Tolkien Among the Moderns (2015), ed. by Ralph C. Wood [PDF]
Book review by Robin Anne Reid of Tolkien Among the Moderns (2015) ed.
Reid, Robin A., Dr.
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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Rhoticity in English, a Journey Over Time Through Social Class: A Narrative Review. [PDF]
Costa D, Serra R.
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