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Migratory Songbirds as Potential Ectozoochorous Protist Dispersal Vectors

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.
We demonstrate that migratory songbirds carry diatoms (Bacillariophyta) in their plumage, revealing an unexpected avian–algal association. All seven bird specimens we examined contained diatoms—224 frustules representing 25 genera and 9 orders, primarily freshwater, benthic pennates—some retaining chloroplasts prior to digestion and mounting (implying ...
Silas E. Fischer   +4 more
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“We All Live in One World”: Challenging Settler Mythologies With Sovereign Assertions

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The paper examines how settler colonial myths perpetuate systemic inequities in the education of Native students in Southern Utah. It critiques the “two‐worlds” narrative used to justify marginalization and explores how Native parents use sovereign assertions to challenge these injustices.
Cynthia Benally, Donna Deyhle, Beth King
wiley   +1 more source

The local injustice of bankruptcy: geographical variation in access to debt relief in England

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 606-627, December 2025.
Abstract Personal insolvency law offers a vital safety net for individuals in financial difficulty. Nonetheless, disparities arise in access to the benefits of debt relief offered by insolvency law. In a context of geographical inequality and local gaps in access to justice, our original empirical study explores the substantial variation in personal ...
JOSEPH SPOONER, SAUL SCHWARTZ
wiley   +1 more source

Space, Place, Border. Dante and the Horizon

open access: yesBetween, 2011
Once, Dante crossed Hell to arrive on the beach of the Purgatory island, somewhere on the opposite side of the world. Obviously, at this early stage, the Austral hemisphere was not known. At the most, some geographers and theologians speculated about its
Bertrand Westphal
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Infrastructure as archive: Examining the colonial geographies of rivers

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2025.
Short Abstract This paper begins by looking at a biodiversity conservation project on the River Severn (UK) and argues that dominant technocratic framings of it ignore the colonial legacies that shape the river. It then develops an original theory of infrastructure as colonial archive to interrupt dominant spatial imaginaries that conventionally ...
Austin Read
wiley   +1 more source

Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: Can linguistic and semiotic analysis clarify their contrasts?

open access: yesLingBaW, 2017
The western and eastern branches of Christianity, broadly speaking Roman Catholicism (RC) and Eastern Orthodoxy (EO), have been formally separate for almost a millennium.
William J. Sullivan, Sarah Tsiang
doaj   +1 more source

The festivities of Souls: the birthday of the confraternities of the Souls of Purgatory of Braga in the Modern Age

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Moderna, 2019
In this work we try to analyze the birthdays of the confraternities of Braga in the Modern Age, highlighting these festivities as promoters of these institutions in favor of the Souls of Purgatory. If each of the twelve confraternities of this invocation
Maria Marta LOBO DE ARAÚJO
doaj   +1 more source

Revenanti v exemplech českojazyčné literatury 17. a 18. století. Pokus o typologii exemplových narativů s tématy návratu mrtvých | [PDF]

open access: yesHistorie - Otázky - Problémy, 2019
The study deals with examples of revenants in the Bohemical Catholic early modern religious prose of the 17th and 18th centuries (postils, eschatological literature, catechisms).
Tomáš Havelka
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“The Path of Purgatory”: A metaphor for spiritual growth in the aesthetics of I.S. Shmelyov (the article “On Dostoevsky” and the novella “The Pilgrimage”)

open access: yesНеофилология
INTRODUCTION. An analysis of the sustained metaphor of “purgatory” is conducted, which unites I.S. Shmelyov’s later literary-critical essay “On Dostoevsky” with the novel “The Idiot” (1949) and his autofiction “Pilgrimage” (1931).
A. V. Markov
doaj   +1 more source

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