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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
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Medieval poems dedicated to the celebration and praise of our Mother Virgin Mary
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2007 Medieval poems dedicated to the celebration and praise of our Mother Virgin ...
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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The Use of Pilates Training in Back Pain and Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Literature Review
Quality in SportIntroduction: Pilates is a type of physical exercise invented by Joseph Pilates. They aim to have a positive effect on the body and mind. Pilates can be performed with special machines called reformers or without any additional equipment, simply on a ...
Anita Ptak, Michał Szyc
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Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 1998 The article discusses the worship of Virgin Mary in Carmelite Fathers' monastery in Piasek, Krakow.
Benignus Józef Wanat
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The documentary evidence for Templar religion [PDF]
, 2017 The Templar Rule and statutes are also only of limited help when it comes to establishing what went on within the walls of Templar churches. The documentary evidence that captures the patchwork nature of Templar religion best is found in the Templar ...
Schenk, Jochen
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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The Sainte-Chapelle Ivory Virgin & Child: Rayonnant Style and Private Devotion [PDF]
, 2008 This paper examines a major shift in French Gothic sculpture of the second half of the thirteenth century, as exemplified by the Sainte-Chapelle Virgin and Child.
Harrington, Caroline
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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The Impact of Green Tea Consumption and Its Extracts on Fat Reduction and Weight Loss
Quality in SportIntroduction: Obesity and overweight are major health problems and challenges in the world today. It is the task of modern pharmacology, medicine and dietetics to search for new therapeutic methods to reduce body weight and body fat.
Anita Ptak, Michał Szyc
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