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REVISITING THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING HISTORY AND EDUCACIONAL PROPOSALS

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de História da Matemática, 2020
There are blanks in the building of knowledge about Electrical Engineering history. Electricity has been latent in nature and human beings have discovered and developed its potential through millenniums.
Gilmar Barreto, Paulo David Battaglin
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Sexagesimal Calculations in Ancient Sumer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This article discusses the reasons for the choice of the sexagesimal system by ancient Sumerians. It is shown that Sumerians chose this specific numeral system based on logical and practical reasons which enabled them to deal with big numbers easily and ...
Muroi, Kazuo
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Sumerians [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Ovaj rad bavi se poviješću Sumera, njihovom nastanku i razvijanju kao prve poznate urbane civilizacije svijeta. Osvrće se na razvoj kulture, pisma i rane tehnologije, koja je uvelike promijenila ljudski pogled na svijet.
Štepanko, Toni
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Anecdotes et histoire d’une vie aliène

open access: yesImages Re-Vues, 2017
Gino de Dominicis has long been obsessed by the idea of the presence of extraterrestrial beings intervening in human life on Earth. From the 1980’s, his paintings are filled with strange ancient culture symbolic references, such as Sumerian ones.
Alessandro Ferraro
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The Sumerians and the Akkadians : The Forerunners of the First Civilization (2900-2003BC)

open access: yes, 2020
Sumerians were the first People in history to invent the cuneiform script, which made the reporting of their achievements possible. Therefore, this had marked the beginning of written history.
Al-Ansari, Nadhir, Adamo, Nasrat
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The Blue Anatolian Ideal as a Theory of Territorial Nationalism

open access: yesYakın Dönem Türkiye Araştırmaları, 2023
The founding nationalism of the Republic of Türkiye, while establishing the national identity imagination of the newly formed nation-state, centered on the idea of an ethnic continuity extending from Central Asia to Anatolia as embodied in the Turkish ...
Mehmet Fahri Danış
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City of Uruk 3000 B.C. : using genetic algorithms, dynamic planning and crowd simulation to re-enact everyday life of ancient Sumerians [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Virtual reality reconstructions of ancient historical sites have become a valuable technique for popularising science and visualising expert knowledge to general audiences.
Bogdanovych, Anton (R13982)   +2 more
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Medicinal potential of willow: A chemical perspective of aspirin discovery

open access: yesJournal of Saudi Chemical Society, 2010
The willow tree is a symbolic medicinal plant that has been associated with the discovery of aspirin, chemically known as acetylsalicylic acid, or salicylate, which still offers surprises as a revival drug.
Jassem G. Mahdi
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“Lahesõjad” 3. eelkristlikul aastatuhandel. Sumeri ja Akkadi kuningate sõjaretked Pärsia lahe kanti 2700–2150 eKr [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2014
War has always constituted an important part of politics in the Middle East. Evidences of wars in southern Mesopotamia (Sumer and Akkad) and in the region of the Persian Gulf can be found in written sources that date back to the Early Dynastic Period (in
Vladimir Sazonov
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

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