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The \u27Angel of Marye\u27s Heights\u27 and Civil War Memory
, 2016 In 1862, the small Virginian town of Fredericksburg found itself between two opposing armies. The Federal Army of the Potomac sat restlessly, eagerly awaiting means with which to cross the Rappahannock River, while elements of the Confederate Army of ...
Danchik, Jonathan G.
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The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract In divided societies, can museums contribute to healing and recovery? While efforts to memorialize past violence typically aim to promote tolerance and reconciliation, remembering could exacerbate divisions in recovering societies where the past is deeply contested. We examine a transitional justice museum exhibit in Northern Ireland.
Laia Balcells, Elsa Voytas
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Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2008 Recently interest in monuments of the late medieval Crimea amplified. However their studying will be hardly possible while there is no clarity with localization of the settlements mentioned in written sources.
Mikhail Choref
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Tales from a Boston Customs House: “Living Monuments”
, 2014 The image of the amputee is a classic one in the memory of the American Civil War. Francis Clarke has argued that the long-suffering and sacrificial Union amputee became a national martyr to the righteousness of their cause.
Johnson, S. Marianne
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Geochemical data compiled from dried sediments from three water reservoirs at the ancient Maya city of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala, reveal low to undetectable fecal biomarker concentrations. These low concentrations may be the result of the aerobic decay of sterols combined with well‐managed waste disposal practices.
Jean D. Tremblay +3 more
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The poetic language of Zlatica Balas – dialectological notes on the local dialect of Grižane
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2011 This paper discusses the local dialect of Grižane on the basis of two books of poetry by Zlatica Balas. Vowels, consonants and prosodic features are analyzed.
Vida Barac-Grum
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The microbial biodiversity at the archeological site of Tel Megiddo (Israel). [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2023 Zhang Y +7 more
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Monumental amnesia: reading the spatial narratives written by contemporary urban landscapes.
, 2008 Monumental Amnesia: Reading the Spatial Narratives Written by Contemporary Urban Landscapes This thesis analyses the spatial stories inscribed into urban landscapes by monuments. Differentiating between officially sanctioned, symbolic, and everyday monuments, this thesis theorises the narratological space composed by these objects: static, imagined and
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot +2 more
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