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American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore

, 2016
Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived.
Dattolo, Danielle R., Fee, Christopher R., Fetters, Bronwen, Francisco, Emily A., Hillegonds, Jaime, Webb, Jeffrey, Wickersham, Andrew   +6 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

An ‘urban legend’ remains an ‘urban legend’

SSM - Mental Health, 2022
George Dawson, Ronald W. Pies
openaire   +2 more sources

Wealth portfolio of Hungarian households – Urban legends and facts [PDF]

As significant part of national wealth, households’ wealth is the central issue in both policy debate and academic literature. Nevertheless, in Hungary little effort has been made so far to conduct thorough evaluation of households’ wealth for the last ...
Gábor Vadas
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Spartan Daily, October 29, 2004 [PDF]

, 2004
Volume 123, Issue 43https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10047/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Cokelore (Fine and Best)

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
Urban legends as a part of folklore frequently refer to large corporations creating what is known as the "mercantile legends". "Coca-cola" as one of those companies that has drawn the biggest attention of the folklore thought, for whose staple product ...
Ivan Kovačević
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Hook or hatchet – Lover's Lane, love scene epilogue

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2009
Myth of a co­u­ple who esca­pe de­ath in a chan­ce en­co­un­ter with the psycho­path with a ho­ok in­stead of a hand, is one of the ten clas­sic ur­ban le­gends that ha­ve been bro­ught to pu­blic at­ten­tion by fol­klo­rists du­ring the sixth and se ...
Ivan Kovačević
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The Bahmani “currency reform” of the early fifteenth century in light of the Akola hoard [PDF]

, 2018
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Tandon, Pankaj, Wagoner, Phillip B.
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REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitants. Without hiding the paradoxes and risks of repair, based on years‐long ethnography in the Liberated Spaces in Naples, Italy, we demonstrate how
Martina Locorotondo, Adam Fishwick
wiley   +1 more source