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The Many Chemists Who Could Have Proposed the Woodward‐Hoffmann Rules But Didn't: The Organic Chemists Who Knew of the Smoking Guns**

The Chemical Record, Volume 22, Issue 8, August 2022., 2022
Michael J. S. Dewar, John D. Roberts, and Andrew Streitwieser, Jr. were three organic chemists who were also experts in molecular orbital theory in the 1950s and 1960s. They, and many of their colleagues could have, but did not, discover orbital symmetry control of pericyclic reactions.
Jeffrey I. Seeman
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WE HUMANS ARE THE WORST AND THE BEST AND …

Zygon®, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 5-24, March 2022., 2022
Abstract We humans have extended culture amplifying our powers. Our genotypes are differentially expressed in phenotypes, increasing our preferring us over them, escalating our worst and best. Our groups are more ruthless than individuals. Our brain/minds are hyperimmense, neuroplastic in advancing our powers in collective technology.
Holmes Rolston III
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The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 4, Page 531-561, July 2026.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
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Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship

History, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 237-254, March 2026.
Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
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‘Three Circles’: Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations

History, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 155-167, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a special issue that explores Winston Churchill's relationship with different countries. As its starting point, this piece takes Churchill's world view that Britain derived her status from its position at the focal point of three intersecting circles: Europe, the British Empire and the wider English‐speaking world ...
ALLEN PACKWOOD, RICHARD TOYE, JAYNE GIFFORD   +2 more
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
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Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War

The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 422-442, July 2025.
Abstract This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on ...
Sayana Namsaraeva, Vitaly Tsytsykov
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Perpetual banishment: The transcarceral crimmigration case of Mary Masako Akimoto

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 874-889, October 2024.
Abstract The case of Mary Masako Akimoto illuminates how carceral systems based on immigrant criminalisation, known as crimmigration, intersected with gendered notions of decent and indecent work in 1930s America. Mary Akimoto was deported from the USA in compliance with US anti‐sex trafficking law for the crime of selling sex in a brothel (indecent ...
Jessica R. Pliley
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Colonial trauma: Terrains of disappearance, traumatic reflexivity, and historicizing countertransference

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 384-400, September 2024.
Abstract This article analyzes trauma as an interplay of mass violence connecting imperial occupation in British Hong Kong, and an Anglo‐Chinese family in England. It takes Devereux's concept of countertransference to interrogate how killings in the author's family reverberate as traumatic transferences in fieldwork engaging the transgenerational ...
Nichola Khan
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The 1942 “Egg Expeditions” to Novaia Zemlia and the Struggle for Food in the Wartime Soviet Union

The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 2, Page 209-226, April 2024.
Abstract In 1942 over 150 schoolchildren from the northern Soviet cities of Arkhangel'sk and Murmansk took part in dangerous expeditions to the Arctic Archipelago of Novaia Zemlia. Their aim was to collect eggs from island bird colonies and hunt seabirds in order to supply famished cities with eggs and salted birds’ carcasses.
Liudmila Novikova
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