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Equatorial Guinea and Bioko 1903

, 1903
The island of Bioko is traditionally known as Fernando Po or Fernando Póo in Europe, also known as Isla de Bioko or Macias Nguema Biyogo (1973-1979).Color;1:1,000 ...
Great Britain. War Office;
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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East coast of Sumatra 1:100 000 [cartographic material].

, 1942
1st. ed. Map series of the east coast of Sumatra showing residency, province, administrative and plantation boundaries, transportation, ground and water features, vegetation, cultivation, religious sites and buildings.
Great Britain. War Office.
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THE FIGHTING LITERATURE

Научный вестник МГТУ ГА, 2016
The specifity of fiction in the reflection of social reality and her affecting the valued reference-points of defenders of Homeland in Great Patriotic war are investigated. Works of poets whose basic theme was Great patriotic war are considered. Position
T. I. Ivanova, A. S. Kozlov
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Persian Gulf and adjacent countries [cartographic material].

, 1908
Map of the Persian Gulf region (Persia and parts of Caucasia, Turkistan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, the Turkish Empire and Arabia), showing international boundaries, zones of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 31 August 1907, transportation, telegraphs ...
Great Britain. War Office.
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Map of part of the northern island of New Zealand shewing [i.e. showing] the scene of the military operations of 1863-4 [cartographic material].

Military map of the North Island of New Zealand in 1863-64 showing tribal districts, roads and British fortified posts. Relief is shown by hachures.; "Lithographed at the Topographical Depot of the War Office under the superintendence of Major A.C. Cooke,
Great Britain. War Office.
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Map of Singapore and adjoining territories [cartographic material] /

, 1939
2nd ed. 1939. Map of the area from Negri Sembila to Lingga Island showing state boundaries, transportation, water features and populated places. Relief shown by contours, spot heights and soundings.; "Geographical Section, General Staff, No.
Great Britain. War Office.
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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