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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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Destroying Hitler’s Berghof: The Bomber Command Raid of 25 April 1945 [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines the Royal Air Force raid on Adolf Hitler’s Berghof on the Obersalzberg in April 1945. Arthur Harris, the head of Bomber Command, wanted to emphasize the air power’s decisive role in the defeat of Nazism. However, Winston Churchill and
Haller, Oliver
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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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Furniture manufacturing and marketing: Eight strategic issues for the 21st century [PDF]
, 2002 “Take change by the hand, or it will take you by the throat.” Attributed to Winston Churchill, this brief sentence emphasizes the need to understand and embrace change in general. What important “changes” will impact furniture production and marketing in
Bullard, Steven H, West, C. D.
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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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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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Breaking Barriers: The History of Women's Education and the Training of Female Surgeons
ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background and Aims Medicine and surgery have been practised by women since the earliest of times, but as these activities became professionalised, they became excluded by various barriers. The aims of this review are to identify these obstacles and how they were overcome.
John P. Collins
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Marc De Vos, Winston Churchill en de wetenschappen [PDF]
, 2010 Marc De Vos teaches labour law at Ghent University, and is also director of the 'independant' think tank Itinera. Citing Winston Churchill he predicts "blood, sweat and tears" because of the enormous budget deficit, economic crisis and aging population ...
Roels, Frank
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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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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.
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