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Le Journal de Hendrik Hamel en Corée (1668) : Un savoir accidentel
Viatica, 2017 Surprisingly, it is thanks to a shipwreck that new knowledge about Korea, a country closed to Europeans, was constituted. Indeed, Hendrik Hamel, who ran aground on the coast of Cheju in 1653, where he remained a prisoner for thirteen years, wrote on the ...
Alain Génétiot
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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Kangaroo Island Shipwreck Shelter Huts
, 2020 During the 19th century maritime trade and traffic was expanding rapidly along South Australia’s coastline (Parsons, 1983: 5; Griffin & McCaskill, 1986: 20; Jeffery, 1989: 52; Coroneos, 1997: 19).
Andrea Smith +2 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Marine Environmental Research, 2020 Shallow shipwrecks, can have severe ecological and toxicological impacts on coral atolls. In 2012, a tuna longliner ran aground on the reef crest of St Brandon's Atoll, Mauritius, broke up into three pieces which was moved by currents and storms into the
V. van der Schyff +7 more
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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, 2021 This oil painting shows a shipwreck among the crashing waves.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/campus_art/1687/thumbnail ...
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Miscellanea Hadriatica et Mediterranea, 2016 Abundance of postmedieval glazed pottery was discovered in 1972 and 1973 at the underwater site of Mala Jana in the vicinity of Glavotok on the island of Krk.
Jasna Ujčić Grudenić
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Assessing the Utility of Open-Access Bathymetric Data for Shipwreck Detection in the United States
The Heritage, 2020 Investigation of submerged cultural heritage is an important area of archeological focus. However, the expense of acquiring the necessary data to conduct studies of underwater landscapes is often prohibitive to many researchers. Within the United States,
Dylan S. Davis +2 more
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Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 3, Page 1091-1119, June 2026.ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson +9 more
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