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Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 343-373, September 2026.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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Per un’interpretazione salvifica dei temi e delle iconografie dei mosaici della Villa del Casale di Piazza Armerina. Una proposta di lettura [PDF]

Papireto
Iconographic themes alluding to salvific parousia created in the mosaic floors depicting divinities and heroes of the Villa del Casale in Piazza Armerina, dating back to the 4th century AD, and attributable to the new forms of philosophies and mystery ...
Vincenzo Magro
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 541-553, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Natural philosophy and the development of mechanics and engineering from the 5th century B. C. to Middle-Ages [PDF]

FME Transactions, 2017
Development of logic into a science served as an instrument for the progress in natural philosophy and the scientific method in the 6th and 5th Centuries BC in China, India, and the Arabian world, the Middle East, the Ancient Greece and Rome.
Chondros Thomas G.
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Reconstructing post‐crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: A high‐resolution first‐millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye)

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 520-539, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola, Mustafa Doğan, Warren Eastwood, John Haldon, Alessia Masi, Neil Roberts, Çetin Şenkul, Adam Izdebski   +7 more
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Lion Statuette with Male Figure from the Anatolian Civilizations Museum

Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi
In 25 BC, Amyntas the king of Galatians bequathed his kingdom to the Roman Empire. Galatia became the new province of the Roman Empire and Ancyra served as the capital.
İbrahim Ethem Koçak
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Species composition and distribution of gallinaceous birds (Aves, Galliformes) in the south of eastern Europe during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene—a review

Boreas, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 308-326, April 2026.
This study investigates the species composition and distribution of gallinaceous birds (Galliformes) in the south of eastern Europe, specifically within the territory of present‐day Ukraine, during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. The research is based on the comprehensive revision of skeletal remains found at archaeological sites.
Leonid Gorobets, Tyt Volynskyi, Mykola Knysh, Oleksandr Kovalchuk   +3 more
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Peaches at Medieval Site Ras, Serbia: Unraveling Routes of Introduction and Local Cultivation in the Balkans

Studia Ceranea
The study combines archaeological evidence, written sources, and genetic studies to trace the routes of peach introduction to the Balkans and explore the local cultivation practices and it revisits the discovery of peach remains at the medieval site of ...
Ksenija Borojević, Krzysztof Jagusiak, Ksenija Gašić   +2 more
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THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI OF JULY 21, 365 AD IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA - Review of Impact on the Ancient World - Assessment of Recurrence and Future Impact [PDF]

Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2011
There is ample evidence indicating that on July 21, 365 AD a great earthquake near the west coast of the Island of Crete generated a mega-tsunami, which was responsible for extensive destruction throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, but particularly on ...
George Pararas-Carayannis
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