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European Cities in the Foreign Studies of Mykola Rigelman

Київські історичні студії, 2023
The article considers the range of subjects related to Mykola Rigelman’s travels to European countries in the 40-60s of the 19th century. The travelogues of this public figure and historian became the basis of our scientific research.
Oleh Ivaniuk, Yevheniia Bilodid
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Two Germans, a Swede, and a Giant kōkopu: The Background to the Earliest Documented Description of a New Zealand Freshwater Fish

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 60, Issue 2, June 2026.
Galaxiids are a family of scaleless and mostly small freshwater fish which are distributed across the temperate latitudes of the southern hemisphere. The largest member of this family is the giant kōkopu (Galaxias argenteus), which has the added distinction of being the first New Zealand freshwater fish of any kind to be scientifically described.
James Braund
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Paris or Moscow?: Warsaw Architects and the Image of the Modern City in the 1950s [PDF]

, 2008
This article sets out to explore the ways in which Polish architects and writers on architects imagined the future during the early Cold War period. During the Stalin years, Soviet cities were presented by communist ideologues as the future face of ...
Crowley, David
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Urban Space Securitization: Foreign Visits to Soviet Omsk in the 1920s–1960s

Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории
The First World War had an enormous impact on the perception by the sovereign national states of their own territorial space. For a number of countries, the end of the war was accompanied by a change in their policy towards national borders, including ...
Dmitrii M. Nechiporuk
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Discomforting Narratives: Teaching Eighteenth-Century Women’s Travelogues

ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830, 2014
In this essay, I describe an undergraduate course I designed and taught on eighteenth-century women’s travelogues and advocate for more courses that explicitly focus on noncanonical genres and authors.
Elizabeth Zold
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The Art of Family Reading: Adapting Mary Shelley's ‘The Mortal Immortal’ (1833) Into a Graphic Novel

Literacy, Volume 60, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT The popularity of children's graphic novels reflects a rising interest in multimodal literature, and the academic benefits of reading graphic novels have been widely documented. However, little research exists on the possibilities afforded by creating graphic novels.
Susan Civale, Rachael Stone
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Svět mezi řádky : prolegomena k výzkumu Čapkovy cestopisné tvorby

Bohemica Litteraria, 2013
The study analyzes several aspects of Čapek's travelogues: presentation of the space that is constructed as a system of archetypal universals (e.g. the mountain, the house, the sea, the city) and time that complements the first category.
Agnieszka Janiec-Nyitrai
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Correctable or not? The case of plant epithets derived from the Elbrus/Elburs Mountains in Iran, with further notes on taxonomic grey literature

TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Plant name epithets (as well as names of other organisms governed by the ICN), which are derived from geographic names, are not correctable when their original spelling was intentional and based on contemporary linguistic realities, even if it is currently considered outdated.
Alexander N. Sennikov, Irina V. Belyaeva
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When should firms watch for cross‐industry competition? A demand‐side perspective

Strategic Management Journal, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 893-941, March 2026.
Abstract Research Summary Research on competitor identification has primarily focused on intra‐industry competition. However, cross‐industry competitive threats are prevalent and consequential. We adopt a consumer‐oriented perspective to examine how consumer perceptions shape de facto competition across industry boundaries.
Ying Li, Samira Reis, Olga M. Khessina
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