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The London trade in monumental sculpture and the development of imagery of the family in funerary monuments of the period 1720-1760

open access: yes, 1992
PhDThe thesis is concerned with the use of family imagery in monumental sculpture commissioned from the major London workshops in the mid-eighteenth century.
Craske, M.J., Craske, Matthew Julian
core  

Beggars as Rational Choosers

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The lexical-semantic representation of horse coat colors in Turkic-Mongolian written monuments

open access: yesTurkic Studies Journal
The article is devoted to a lexical-semantic description of the names of horse coat colors in Turkic and Mongolian written monuments as a significant component of historical lexicology and ethnolinguistics.
Aizhan Baigazh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decolonizing the Archaeological Photograph: Photography of the Commission des Monuments Historiques de l'Algérie, 1880-1910

open access: yes, 2020
58 pagesThis thesis is a sort of “excavation” of the archaeological photograph. Although increasingly research is being done on classical archaeology’s colonial history and its implications for the discipline, much less has been written on the role ...
Carr-Howard, Taylor
core   +1 more source

Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
wiley   +1 more source

Valuation of immovable cultural monuments according to valuation regulations

open access: yes, 2015
The aim of my master´s thesis is the explanation of the terms which are in the connection with cultural monuments, the examples of the valuation of immovable cultural monuments according the valuation regulations, the description of the cultural ...
Vaculová, Lucia
core   +1 more source

Some aspects of the social structure and authority of the Ancient Turks in written sources of the 8th-11th centuries

open access: yesTurkic Studies Journal
The ancient Turkic script, which became the foundation for the writing systems of the Turkic-speaking peoples of the Eurasian steppes and Transcaucasia, was developed in the 6th-7th centuries. Written documents from the ancient Turks have been preserved
Nicolaus Boroffka, Ayagoz Sultanova
doaj   +1 more source

Forgotten antiquities of the Ugam River valley

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020
This paper is devoted to one of the urgent problems of modern archaeological research, i.e., to analysis of the discoveries of pre-revolutionary archaeology and to actualization of its achievements.
O.A. Kashchey, L.F. Nedashkovsky
doaj   +1 more source

The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
wiley   +1 more source

New Translations of Written Monuments of Caucasian Albania: Historical and Philological Analysis

open access: yesЯзык и текст
For many centuries, the history of the oldest state in the Eastern Caucasus was forgotten, there were no studies of Caucasian Albania, no mention of the fact that Albanians had their own written language, that the king of Albania was almost ...
S.M. Makhmudova, A.A. Muradyan
doaj   +1 more source

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