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Forum, 2015 This article explores Charles Dickens’s unusual characterisation of vagrant figures in his novel Bleak House. Dickens conceived of the vagrant as a public entity without any recourse to private spaces — a thesis supported here by the novel and a series ...
Alistair Robinson
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The alien terrestrial invertebrate fauna of the High Arctic archipelago of Svalbard: potential implications for the native flora and fauna [PDF]
Polar Research, 2015 Experience from the Antarctic indicates that the establishment of alien species may have significant negative effects on native flora and fauna in polar regions and is considered to be amongst the greatest threats to biodiversity.
Stephen J. Coulson
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Wellcome Open Research, 2023 We present a genome assembly from an individual female Eupeodes corollae (the Vagrant Hoverfly; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Syrphidae). The genome sequence is 648.2 megabases in span.
Duncan Sivell +3 more
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A review of the recent records of pinnipeds (Mammalia, Carnivora) on the coast of Espírito Santo state, Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2016 To improve the knowledge of the occurrence of pinnipeds along the coast of Espírito Santo state, Brazil, we compiled occurrence data of pinnipeds from the period from 1987 to 2010 based on the scientific literature, newspapers and novel observations ...
Luis Felipe Mayorga +4 more
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Quêtes Littéraires, 2014 Throughout history, vagrancy appears as one of the notions of the Human Condition. Its artistic and poetical representations are drawn from multiple sources and offer various models.
Maïa Varsimashvili-Raphael
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Funeral for a Homeless Vagrant? Religious and Social Margins
Religions, 2021 A “homeless vagrant” was the term used by Protestant clergy of the first half of the twentieth century for a man without name, family or history who died on the street.
Lucy Bregman
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First documented records of Eastern Kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus Linnaeus, 1758 (Aves: Tyrannidae), in Uruguay [PDF]
Check List, 2017 The first documented records of Eastern Kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus (Aves: Tyrannidae), for Uruguay are reported. The species was recorded 4 times between 1993 and 2016 in southeastern Uruguay.
María José Rodríguez-Cajarville +2 more
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Pardo Soldiers’ Historical Claims in Late Eighteenth-Century Cuba
Latin American Research ReviewJosé Maldonado and Manuel José Castellanos were two Cuban pardo veterans who, in search of military status, rank, and salary, petitioned the court, making arguments that would prove subversive to the racial order.
Ana Hontanilla
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Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 2023 Four Pallas’s leaf warblers (Phylloscopus proregulus) were captured at Durankulak ringing camp, NE Bulgaria, in frames of four days between 12 and 16 October 2022. The species is a rare vagrant in Bulgaria and neighbouring Balkan countries.
Peter Shurulinkov +8 more
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Eriophyes urmiae sp. nov. (Acari: Eriophyidae) from spurge in Iran
Persian Journal of Acarology, 2023 In order to survey eriophyoid mites of northwest of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, samplings were done on spurges during summer 2021 and one new species, Eriophyes urmiae Lotfollahi & Mohammad-Doustaresharaf sp. nov.
Mojtaba Mohammad-dostaresharaf +2 more
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