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Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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Deep-blue emitting organic materials with low exciton lifetime are required to realize efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) at high brightness.
Jong Uk Kim +6 more
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Opera Audiences and Cultural Value: A Study of Audience Experience [PDF]
This project aims to better describe the cultural value of opera through a study of its most devoted audience members. Through qualitative surveys and in-depth, open-ended interviews with highly-engaged opera-goers, we identify and explore eight ...
Edelman, Joshua +2 more
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William Henry Fry’s Leonora: the Italian connection
On 7 June 1845, the New York Herald published a letter by an ‘occasional correspondent’ from Philadelphia concerning William Henry Fry's first grand opera, Leonora, which premiered three days before at the Chestnut Street Theatre.
Izzo, Francesco
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When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights
As Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Government, Herbert Vere Evatt played a pivotal role at the United Nations in securing the partition of Palestine and recognition of the State of Israel. These endeavours were represented by Evatt and in subsequent commentary as exemplifying Evatt's commitment to justice.
Jeff Rickertt
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OPERA(Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) is a new detector concept, iron(lead)-emulsion for a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment.
Iovane, G.
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Opera Workshop and Advanced Opera Workshop Scenes Program, Saturday, January 23, 1999 [PDF]
This is the concert program of the Opera Workshop and Advanced Opera Workshop Scenes Program performance on Saturday, January 23, 1999 at 8:30 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
School of Music, Boston University
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Crickets, myths and magic [PDF]
The paper discusses the relationship between fairy-tales, mythical stories, fiction for children and opera, with particular reference to Richard Ayres's opera 'The Cricket Recovers'.
Fox, C
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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