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0340 Il contesto biografico e creativo della veduta panoramica di Napoli di Jan van Stinemolen
Jan van Stinemolen (1518–1582) is an interesting artist who remains largely unknown. As he is not mentioned in Karel van Mander's Schilder-Boeck, his biography must be pieced together from archival sources and remains incomplete.
Martin Raspe
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Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion.
Andrew Atherstone
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La participation de Jean Puiforcat à l’Exposition internationale de 1925
Archival documents, photographs, drawings and a few objects all held in the heritage collections of the Puiforcat firm and, for the most part, never seen before, bring new light to the pieces exhibited by Jean Puiforcat in his pavilion at the ...
Guigone Rolland
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Summary In 1884, one of the burials discovered at El Argar, the eponymous site of the El Argar culture, revealed the remains of a woman wearing an unusual silver bangle. This ornament appears to be the first evidence of a silver object produced by lost‐wax casting in Bronze Age Iberia and, to date, in Western Europe.
Linda Boutoille
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Intensifying Hydroclimate Whiplash From a 3D Perspective
Abstract Understanding the consecutive occurrence of hydroclimate whiplash (HCW) extremes is critical for assessing global climate risks. However, most studies have focused on individual points or pixel scales, which fails to reveal the joint evolution of the extreme events over space and time, leading to potential underestimation. Here, we investigate
Jianyu Fu +7 more
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Abstract Convective storms cause significant atmospheric and hydrological mass changes through the rapid accumulation of water vapor, cloud water, and heavy precipitation over hours or days. Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE‐Follow‐On (GRACE‐FO) gravity field solutions enable holistic monitoring of terrestrial water storage ...
Christian A. Mielke +3 more
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Abstract We examine the number of sites with silver objects in China over a period of 3500 years to suggest that technologies that stimulated the indigenous exploitation of silver‐bearing ores were innovated during the Spring and Autumn period (c. 770–476 BCE), and that increased centralisation and bureaucratisation from the Warring States period (475 ...
Jonathan R. Wood, Yaxiong Liu
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Acute respiratory distress in a silversmith
A 25-year-old young male patient presented in casualty department with severe respiratory distress on the fourth day from onset of symptoms. The patient was nonsmoker and had no antecedent medical or drug history. Prior to admission, patient had dry cough and bilateral pleuritic chest pain for the last three days.
Parikh, Jignesh Mukeshkumar +5 more
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Abstract A wide production of ecclesiastical artefacts is traceable in Sicily between the 17th and 19th centuries, admirable in many diocesan museums. Nevertheless, these artefacts were never studied from an archaeometric point of view: Beyond their historical value, it is time to understand whether the information concerning the decorating gemstones ...
Maura Fugazzotto +4 more
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