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DNA Di Nulla AcademiaStarting from ancient texts including examples of risk communication, this paper analyzes the famous speech (13 may, 1940) in which Prime Minister Winston Churchill promised to the United Kingdom «blood, toil, tears and sweat».
Luigi Spina
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Silence and Selection: the "trick cyclist" at the War Office Selection Boards [PDF]
, 2016 In 1939, psychiatrists wrote to the War Office of Britain to offer up their services in the likely event of war. The response? A resounding silence. This unpromising start marked the first words (and the first silence) in a discussion of psychological ...
Alice White
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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
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Seeking comradeship in the "Ogre's Den:" Winston Churchill's quest for a warrior alliance and his mission to Stalin, August 1942 [PDF]
, 2007 On 12 August 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Moscow to meet Soviet leader Josef Stalin, for the first time, a mission that Churchill’s wife, Clementine, had described to him as a “visit to the Ogre in his Den.” Churchill had, by
Folly, MH
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Medicina, 2000 <p>El 24 de enero de 1965 moría Sir Winston Churchill, unos dos meses después de haber cumplido su nonagésimo aniversario y a los 9 días de haber entrado en coma por un tercer y último accidente cerebro vascular.</p><p>Fue un hombre ...
Alfredo Jácome Roca
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No digas a Dios lo que tiene que hacer [PDF]
, 2005 El nombre de Albert Einstein evoca casi cuatro millones de entradas en la web, el doble de las correspondientes a Winston Churchill y unas veinte veces superior a las que genera Werner Heisenberg, otro de los grandes físicos del siglo XX. Tal visibilidad
García Olmedo, Francisco
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Private Land Ownership: Tax or Socialize?
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study compares the land reform concepts of Henry George and Silvio Gesell, both of whom rejected private appropriation of land rent as unjust. While George proposed to “hollow out” private land ownership through a comprehensive land value tax, Gesell aimed at full socialization of land combined with lease auctions and compensation of ...
Dirk Loehr
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Psychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 638-661, March 2026.ABSTRACT This study explores how positive and negative emotions influence online shopping‐related well‐being, purchase frequency, and word‐of‐mouth (WOM) behavior. Semi‐structured interviews and a consumer survey were used to identify emotions from online shopping experiences.
Sandra Miranda +2 more
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2007 Rudyard Kipling and Winston Churchill both covered the Boer War as newspaper correspondents, working respectively for the Friend of the Free State and the Morning Post, and in later days, both authors looked back on the Boer War in their autobiographies.
Laïli Dor
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