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Cioban, Andreea G., and Mihaela I. M. Agachi. "Suceava during the Habsburg rule – urban development and identity completions." MATEC Web of Conferences 396 (2024): 14004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202439614004.
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This paper is part of the doctoral research concerning the places of sites and church towers in the development of urban patterns in the city of Suceava. For this article, we will dwell on the 18th and 19th century, when, in 1755, Suceava became a Habsburg territory, being part of Bucovina, an area that included the North-East of Moldova. This situation was maintained for a century and a half, Suceava also fulfilling the role of an Austro- Hungarian border town. In this period we can also mention an urban development of the city, a period that left numerous institutional buildings representing the new power. This impressive buildings are, as they follow: the Suceava Prefecture and the Suceava County Council (City Administrative Palace, completed in 1903-1904 and which originally housed the city administration, the police, the fire brigade, a savings bank and the history museum), Bucovina Museum (which includes more buildings ) - initially the seat of the District Headquarters, dating from 1902- 1903, Ștefan cel Mare National College (The Greek-Oriental Gymnasium, built between 1893-1895 on the site of the old Wood Market), the Old Hospital (General public home for the sick from Suceava, built in the period 1891-1903), the old Suceava Water Plant and many others. Also in these years, the city is equipped with construction equipment (for example, in 1908, the Electric Plant is commissioned), modernizations specific to modern times. A major interest was the establishment of modern institutions, characteristic of the Habsburg administration.
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Śliwa, Joachim. "„Z żarów nad Nilem w ogień rewolucji nad Wisłą”. Izydor Kajetan Wysłouch (1869–1937) i jego działalność społeczna." Rocznik Biblioteki Naukowej PAU i PAN 65 (2020): 105–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/25440500rbn.20.007.14166.
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“From the Heats by Nile to the Fire of Revolution by Vistula”. Izydor Kajetan Wysłouch (1869–1973) and His Social Activity The paper reminds the profile of a respected religious reformer and social activist whose life was also connected to Egypt. From 1902 to 1904, due to ill-health, he visited Egypt twice as he required climatotherapy. At that time he stayed in Helwan, a popular resort near Cairo. During his treatment, he was probably residing in Wanda Bilińska’s guesthouse, where residents from the territories of former-day Poland met. The stay in Egypt made a huge impression on Wysłouch. An ample evidence of his fascination with heritage and monuments of ancient Egypt is the neatly published volume, issued soon after the author’s return to Poland, titled From the Land of Ruins (Warsaw 1906); what is also interesting is its graphic design, using Egyptian motives, created by Franciszek Siedlecki (1867–1934). The volume, containing the author’s reflections on existence and prose poetry, signals the state of his soul, which was filled with loneliness and bitter sadness. Its content also suggests that the author had visited most of the country, from the Giza Pyramid Complex to the city of Aswan. Egypt influenced him to such a great degree that he called the country his second homeland. He also took his pen-name “Szech” (ar. Sheikh) at that time. Having returned to his motherland, Wysłouch became a keen supporter of working-class protests (1905). He also strongly backed the reforms in the Ethical and Social Teachings of the Church; he published numerous brochures in which he described an utopian programme that would connect Christianity with Communism and Polish patriotism; he decided to leave Church in 1908. After Poland regained its independence in 1918, Wysłouch, as a public servant, played a vital role in organising and introducing the system of public disability pensions and retirement insurance in the reborn Poland.
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Fu, Poshek. "Trans-Pacific Cultural Connections." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 24, no. 1 (April 8, 2017): 27–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18765610-02401008.
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The University of Illinois has one of the largest international student populations from China in the United States. An u.s.-based journalist recently headlined it as the “University of China at Illinois” and the sobriquet has caught fire in China. Actually, the university has a long history of connection and engagement with China that stretches back to 1908–1909, at a time when the United States was not yet a significant global power in the Pacific. This essay looks at the dreams, hopes, and problems in this long history in the changing context of u.s.-China relations, which involved using American education to shape the hearts and minds of young Chinese before the idea of “soft power” became popular.
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Mäkelä, H. M., M. Laapas, and A. Venäläinen. "Long-term temporal changes in the occurrence of a high forest fire danger in Finland." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 12, no. 8 (August 16, 2012): 2591–601. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-12-2591-2012.
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Abstract. Climate variation and change influence several ecosystem components including forest fires. To examine long-term temporal variations of forest fire danger, a fire danger day (FDD) model was developed. Using mean temperature and total precipitation of the Finnish wildfire season (June–August), the model describes the climatological preconditions of fire occurrence and gives the number of fire danger days during the same time period. The performance of the model varied between different regions in Finland being best in south and west. In the study period 1908–2011, the year-to-year variation of FDD was large and no significant increasing or decreasing tendencies could be found. Negative slopes of linear regression lines for FDD could be explained by the simultaneous, mostly not significant increases in precipitation. Years with the largest wildfires did not stand out from the FDD time series. This indicates that intra-seasonal variations of FDD enable occurrence of large-scale fires, despite the whole season's fire danger is on an average level. Based on available monthly climate data, it is possible to estimate the general fire conditions of a summer. However, more detailed input data about weather conditions, land use, prevailing forestry conventions and socio-economical factors would be needed to gain more specific information about a season's fire risk.
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Mayhall, Laura E. Nym. "Defining Militancy: Radical Protest, the Constitutional Idiom, and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1908–1909." Journal of British Studies 39, no. 3 (July 2000): 340–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/386223.
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May some definition be given of the word “militant”? (Chelsea delegate Cicely Hamilton)Scholarship on the women's suffrage movement in Britain has reached a curious juncture. No longer content to chronicle the activities or document the contributions of single organizations, historians have begun to analyze the movement's strategies of self-advertisement and to disentangle its racial, imperial, and gendered ideologies. Perhaps the most striking development in recent scholarship on suffrage, however, has been the proliferating discourse on militancy among literary critics, a development with which few historians have engaged. Yet, while militancy has spawned a veritable subfield in literary studies, continually generating new articles and books, these accounts portray the phenomenon in similarly reductive terms. After 1903 the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), under the leadership of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, revitalized a genteel and moribund women's suffrage movement. The WSPU introduced the use of militancy, first interrupting Liberal Party meetings and heckling political speakers, then moving to the use of street theater, such as large-scale demonstrations, and ultimately to the destruction of government and private property, including smashing windows, slashing paintings in public galleries, and setting fire to buildings and pillar-boxes. Once the Liberal government introduced forcible feeding as an antidote to the suffragette hunger strike, militants created a visual activism, dependent upon the exhibition of women's tortured bodies as spectacle. By this account, the activities of the WSPU became exemplary of what critic Barbara Green has called “performative activism” and “visibility politics” in early twentieth-century feminist praxis, creating “almost entirely feminine communities where women celebrated, suffered, spoke with, and wrote for other women,” and that “allowed women to put themselves on display for other women.”
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Rocha, Alejandra, Daniele Camarda, Belen Ostertag, Irene Doma, Florencia Meier, and Oscar Lisi. "Actual State of Knowledge of the Limno-Terrestrial Tardigrade Fauna of the Republic of Argentina and New Genus Assignment for Viridiscus rufoviridis (du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944)." Diversity 15, no. 2 (February 3, 2023): 222. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d15020222.
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Limno-terrestrial tardigrades of Argentina had been studied starting in 1908 and for a long time by European researchers, most frequently in the Patagonian region (incl. the Land of Fire). Starting during the 1980s, Claps, Rossi and collaborators published many surveys, studying other regions also, but with taxonomic criteria at that time. Since the 2000s, methodical and continuous studies using more modern criteria, have been carried out at the National University of La Pampa, contributing to the faunistic, taxonomic and ecological knowledge (including new species descriptions). This paper provides a comprehensive list of the limno-terrestrial tardigrade fauna reported from Argentina, with pertinent evaluations, owing to a careful study of every pertinent piece of literature since 1908, also solving some problems of discordance between the main past checklists. Summarizing, 39 genera and 119 species are present; of these, 72 represent records accepted by the literature, while 47 are records questioned in the literature but which represent distinct taxa surely present in Argentina; 14 additional taxa, instead, are clearly dubious. The authors also report the correct genus assignment to Viridiscus rufoviridis (du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944), which now becomes Barbaria rufoviridis comb. nov.
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Gatch, Milton McC. "Miracles in architectural settings: Christ Church, Canterbury and St Clement's, Sandwich in the Old English Vision of Leofric." Anglo-Saxon England 22 (December 1993): 227–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675100004397.
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The ‘Old English Vision of Leofric, Earl of Mercia’ was first printed in a philological journal in 1908. It contains extremely interesting information about the arrangement and furnishings of two major Anglo-Saxon churches, Christ Church, Canterbury, and St Clement's Church, Sandwich. The Visio Leofrici is the only testimony, written or (apparently) archaeological, to the existence of St Clement's before the Conquest; it confirms and deepens aspects of our exclusively documentary knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon cathedral at Canterbury, which was destroyed by fire in 1067. Thus, it is particularly unfortunate that the Vision of Leofric, which has had but slight attention from students of language, literature or religious visions, has attracted even less notice from archaeologists, art historians and students of medieval liturgy.
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Ageev, B. G., V. A. Sapozhnikova, A. N. Gruzdev, and D. A. Savchuk. "Variations in ring width and gas components in wood of larch trees injured by the fire of 1908." Optika Atmosfery i Okeana 35, no. 9 (2022): 782–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.15372/aoo20220912.
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Ageev, B. G., V. A. Sapozhnikova, A. N. Gruzdev, and D. A. Savchuk. "Variations in Ring Width and Gas Components in Wood of Larch Trees Injured by the Fire of 1908." Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics 35, S1 (December 2022): S174—S180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s1024856023010013.
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Degli Esposti, Paola. "The Fire of Demons and the Steam of Mortality: Edward Gordon Craig and the Ideal Performer." Theatre Survey 56, no. 1 (December 29, 2014): 4–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557414000544.
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More than a century after Edward Gordon Craig published “The Actor and the Über-Marionette” (1908), the core of his conception of acting still poses a hermeneutical challenge to the theatre scholar. Many intriguing interpretations have stemmed from his statements on acting: from Denis Bablet's or Christopher Innes's argument that the Über-marionette is a metaphor for the perfect performer, to Irène Eynat-Confino's thesis that it is a real, oversized puppet; from the idea (Lindsay Mary Newman's or Cesare Molinari's, for instance) that the concept evolved with time along with the details of Craig's acting theory, to Patrick Le Boeuf's recent hypothesis that the Über-marionette is a full-body puppet. Le Boeuf's interpretation is somehow a telling example of the puzzling quality of Craig's acting theory: his studies originally led him to believe that the Über-marionette was a technically perfect gymnast, in perfect control of his own body, but he was induced to reconsider his hypothesis only a couple of years later, in the light of newly recovered documents. The same ineffable quality Jane Goodall detects in “stage presence” seems to be an inherent feature of Craig's ideal performer, and as with presence, the Über-marionette appears to be best definable by approximation.
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Luchka, Liudmyla. "The Library of the Yekaterinoslav Scientific Society." Universum Historiae et Archeologiae 3, no. 2 (December 29, 2020): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/26200204.
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The purpose of the article is to highlight the history of opening and ways of development of the Society’s scientific library according to the reporting documents. Research methods: system-structural, analytical-synthetic, comparative. The main results. The library of the Ekaterinoslav Scientific Society has come a long way from project preparation to actual opening and activity. According to the Charter, one of the tasks of the society was to create libraries of scientific and pedagogical publications and publishing activities. Organizational issues included consideration and supporting the project of opening a scientific library and a reading room. According to the reports, the library began its activity in 1907–1908 after moving to the Auditorium of Public Readings (Chechelivka settlement). The library’s funds were based on the remains of the people’s library, which was damaged during the fire of 1905, and the private library of the Sokolov family. The newly established library acted according to the Rules of using books, the content of which is interesting and useful today. A separate area of the scientific center’s activities was working with children’s audiences, namely conducting folk readings for children and and popularizing reading children’s literature. The history of the library is connected with the People’s University named after O. Karavaiev. The society existed until the early 20s of the 20th century. The library was partially transferred to the Palace of Culture of Metallurgists. Some of the books stored in the book collections of Dnipro National University scientific library have seals and are historical sources for the study of local lore and book heritage of Ukraine. Conclusions. The library of the Society played an important role in the processes of formation and development of scientific, educational and library space of the Yekaterinoslav province. The content and replenishment of funds, areas of activity were adjusted by members of the society and met the requirements of time and readers’ demand. Practical meaning. The materials of the article can be useful in the study of historical local lore, domestic library science and scientific and educational potential of the region. The scientific novelty lies in the holistic study of library activity of the Scientific Society as an important center in the formation of science in the province. Type of article: analytical.
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Arango López, Diego. "La ciudad en llamas. Incendios y régimen de fuego en Valparaíso. 1843-1906." Memorias 45 (March 11, 2022): 93–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.14482/memor.45.983.04.
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Este artículo analiza la historia de los incendios urbanos en Valparaíso entre 1843 y 1906. El trabajo se basa en el concepto de régimen de fuego que plantea que la historia de la ciudad está profundamente marcada por el uso y descontrol del fuego. En ese sentido, se interesa por la manera como diferentes actores urbanos, como autoridades locales y bomberos, contribuyen a pensar y organizar la ciudad en función de los incendios. Para dar cuenta de esto, la investigación utilizó documentos oficiales, fuentes judiciales y documentación de bomberos. De esta manera, se pudo ver la construcción progresiva de la noción de riesgo de incendio, así como el desarrollo de estrategias de prevención, reducción y mitigación. E igualmente se pudo observar cómo estas repercutieron en el establecimiento de un régimen de fuego que afectaba distintamente a las poblaciones locales, resaltando así antiguas desigualdades e interviniendo en la consolidación de relaciones de poder.
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Arango López, Diego. "La ciudad en llamas. Incendios y régimen de fuego en Valparaíso. 1843-1906." Memorias 45 (March 11, 2022): 93–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.14482/memor.45.983.04.
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Este artículo analiza la historia de los incendios urbanos en Valparaíso entre 1843 y 1906. El trabajo se basa en el concepto de régimen de fuego que plantea que la historia de la ciudad está profundamente marcada por el uso y descontrol del fuego. En ese sentido, se interesa por la manera como diferentes actores urbanos, como autoridades locales y bomberos, contribuyen a pensar y organizar la ciudad en función de los incendios. Para dar cuenta de esto, la investigación utilizó documentos oficiales, fuentes judiciales y documentación de bomberos. De esta manera, se pudo ver la construcción progresiva de la noción de riesgo de incendio, así como el desarrollo de estrategias de prevención, reducción y mitigación. E igualmente se pudo observar cómo estas repercutieron en el establecimiento de un régimen de fuego que afectaba distintamente a las poblaciones locales, resaltando así antiguas desigualdades e interviniendo en la consolidación de relaciones de poder.
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Biondi, Franco. "Decadal-scale dynamics at the Gus Pearson Natural Areas: evidence for inverse (a)symmetric competition?" Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26, no. 8 (August 1, 1996): 1397–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x26-156.
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The Gus Pearson Natural Area is one of the longest maintained individual-based forest-monitoring sites in the world. It is an 800 × 400 m plot established in 1908 within pristine ponderosa pine (Pinusponderosa Dougl. ex Laws, van scopulorum) forest near Flagstaff, Arizona. I quantified decadal-scale growth trends of individual trees and of the entire stand from timber inventories repeated at 10-year intervals between 1920 and 1990. A mixed linear model for longitudinal data was used to test significance of temporal trends. Stand density increased throughout the 20th century because of successful regeneration pulses, active fire control, and no tree cutting. Aboveground growth rates of the stand as a whole did not change significantly from 1920 to 1990, but individual growth rates declined. Mixed linear model results indicated that decadal basal area increment of large pines declined more than that of small pines. In 1920–1930 large pines were growing faster than small pines, but by 1980–1990 large pines were growing slower than small pines. Since the number of small pines multiplied and the number of large pines changed slightly, I inferred that competition for resources was more detrimental for large pines than for small pines.
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Matkovska, Ivanna. "Oleksa Novakivskyi: Unknown pages of study and life from Archival Materials of the Krakow Academy of Arts." ARTISTIC CULTURE. TOPICAL ISSUES, no. 19(1) (June 13, 2023): 153–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31500/1992-5514.19(1).2023.283145.
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The paper aims to study and publicize educational activities and exhibitions in Krakow by Oleksa Novakivskyi (1872– 1935), an outstanding Ukrainian artist — symbolist, expressionist, graphic artist, and educator, who over 20 years lived in Krakow (1892–1913) and Lviv (1913–1935) and founded his own art school in Lviv (1923–1935) for 100 students. The archival documents of the 1890s–1900s from the Archives of the Krakow Academy of Arts about Oleksa Novakivskyi’s studies in 1892–1904 were investigated. Oleksa Novakivskyi’sreport cards of 1892–1904 from the Krakow School and the Academy of Fine Arts were first introduced into scientific circulation. It was discovered that in 1892–1898 Oleksa Novakivskyi studied at the Department of Drawing of the Krakow School of Fine Arts (with a pause in 1893–1895) and received an “award in the competition” (1896), silver medals on July 15, 1897 and July 23, 1898 at the course of prof. Unierzyski, Stanislawski. In 1898–1901 Oleksa Novakivskyi studied at the Department of Fine Art, where he received a silver medal (1899) and a gold medal on July 15, 1900, on the course of Prof. Wyczółkowski, Stanislawski. In 1901–1904 Novakivskyi continued his studies at the Department of Fine Art at the School of Prof. Wyczółkowski at the Krakow Academy of Arts. It was established that Novakivski’s teachers in Krakow were the professors Florian Cynk, Jozef Unierzyski, Leon Wyczółkowski, Jan Stanislawski. In addition, personal documents of the painter’sspouse (whom the researchers previously listed as Anna-Maria) from the archives of Lviv and Krakow were introduced into scientific circulation (the identity card of Maryanna Rozalia Nowakowska, 1916; Birth Certificate of Maryanna Rosalia Palmowska, 1888), as well as the Polish specialized and popular periodicals of the 1890s–1930s that mentioned Oleksa Novakivskyi’s exhibitions participation in Krakow and Warsaw.
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Bryliński, Wit. "Dzieje Ochotniczej Straży Pożarnej w Tuliszkowie w latach 1906-1945." Polonia Maior Orientalis 5 (2018): 25–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/27204006pmo.18.003.16031.
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Dzieje Ochotniczej Straży Pożarnej w Tuliszkowie sięgają 1878 r. Wówczas doszło do zorganizowania jednostki, która nie uzyskała zgody na rejestrację. Jesienią 1905 r. zawiązał się komitet, który doprowadził do założenia jednostki w mieście. Straż została zarejestrowana z dniem 19 lipca 1906 r. Pod koniec 1906 roku wybudowano pierwszą, drewnianą remizę, a w kolejnym roku założono orkiestrę. W 1910 r. oddano do użytku nową murowaną remizę. W okresie międzywojennym oprócz działalności statutowej, druhowie wykazywali dużą aktywność na rzecz miasta. Organizowano liczne imprezy o charakterze dochodowym, a w 1923 r. założono Koło Miłośników Sceny. Władze straży kładły nacisk na wyszkolenie i wyposażenie jednostki, strażacy brali także aktywny udział w działalności innych stowarzyszeń. Wielu druhów udzielało się także w miejskim samorządzie. Podczas II wojny światowej Niemcy wyposażyli jednostkę w samochód bojowy oraz dwie motopompy. Kilkoro strażaków zamordowano w obozach koncentracyjnych. Pierwszym powojennym prezesem jednostki został Józef Patrzykąt, jej współzałożyciel i były naczelnik. The history of the Volunteer Fire Department in Tuliszków in 1906-1945 The history of the Volunteer Fire Department in Tuliszków dates back to 1878. At that time there was founded unit that did not receive the consent for registration. In the autumn of 1905, a committee formed, which led to the establishment of a unit in the city. The Voluntary Fire Department was registered on 19 July 1906. At the end of 1906, the first wooden fire-station was built, and in the following year the orchestra was established. In 1910 a new brick fire-station was commissioned. In the interwar period, besides statutory activity, firefighters showed great activity for the city. Numerous lucrative events were organized and the Koło Miłośników Sceny was founded in 1923. The authorities insisted on the training and equipment of the unit, firefighters also took an active part in the activities of other social organizations. Many of the firefighters were also involved in the municipal government of the city. The Germans provided the unit with a fire truck and two fire pumps during the Second World War. Several firefighters were murdered in concentration camps. Józef Patrzykąt, the co-founder of the Volunteer Fire Department and former fire brigade chief, was the first post-war chairman of the Volunteer Fire Department in Tuliszków.
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Yuriy, Guguev K., Artur I. Taymazov, and Askerhan K. Abiev. "ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON THE TERRITORY OF THE ZNAMENSKAYA CHURCH IN KHASAVYURT." History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus 15, no. 3 (October 14, 2019): 496–532. http://dx.doi.org/10.32653/ch153496-532.
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The article is devoted to the results of exploratory archaeological research on the territory of the Znamenskaya Church in Khasavyurt. To identify and explore the cultural layers we created three test pit a total area of 12 sq. m. Archaeological research revealed the presence in this territory of late cultural layers. Inside the Church (pits # 2 and # 3) they belong to two stratigraphic periods. Chronologically, the first period lasted from the time of the construction of the temple in 1902-1907 gg. before the fire of 1943, the Second period covers the time from the fire of 1943 to the present (beginning of 2000-ies?). In the cultural strata outside the Church (pit No. 1) the fire was not reflected. They also belong to two chronological periods, but one of them covers the time of construction of the temple (1902-1907), and the second – the time of its operation up to the present. Neither inside nor outside the Church studies have revealed any cultural layers and remains prior to the time of its construction.
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Grinevetsky, V. I. "ON THE REFORM OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION (Transcript of the report at the ordinary meeting of Polytechnic Society, January 17, 1915)." World of Transport and Transportation 14, no. 5 (October 28, 2016): 250–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2016-14-5-25.
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For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version).ABSTRACT Vasily I. Grinevetsky (1871-1919) - Russian scientist in the field of heat engineering. In 1896 he graduated from the Imperial Moscow Technical School (hereinafter - I.M.T.S.) and stayed to work there: since 1900 - professor, since 1914 - director of the School. As a scientist V. I. Grinevetsky investigated workflows occurring in steam engines, boiler units and internal combustion engines. In 1905, he developed a scheme of boiler thermal calculation, based on correct understanding of heat transfer processes, and in 1906 - theory of economic calculation of a working process of a steam engine. For the first time in the world in 1907 he offered thermal calculation of internal combustion engine still underlying design and analysis of workflows of these engines. Important works were devoted to locomotives. He presented the project of transformation of Moscow Technical School into a higher school of polytechnic type. That meant in fact the reform of engineering education in the country. Keywords: history, engineering education, technical school, prospects of development, connection with practice, academic structure, reform. Grinevetsky, V. I. Transcript of the report at the ordinary meeting of Polytechnic Society, January 17, 1915.On the reform of engineering education.Moscow, Typography- Lithography of Russian Engineering Society, 1915, 22 p.(The text in abridged version is printed on the basis of the edition, prepared by V. K. Baltyan, V.K., Molotilov, V.A., Petrakov, A.S., Bauman Moscow State Technical University).
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FAGG, JOHN. "Anecdote and the Painting of George Bellows." Journal of American Studies 38, no. 3 (December 2004): 473–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875804008758.
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Excavation at Night (1908), George Bellows' second painting of the construction work undertaken for Pennsylvania Street Station, offers a dramatic depiction of the site that took up two full New York city-blocks. Bellows' decision to paint a nocturnal scene is vital to both the dramatic effect of the painting and its capacity to make an assertion about the ways in which the excavation could be perceived. In Electrifying America, David Nye suggests that the coming of electricity created the possibility of a new form of visual rhetoric. By making it possible to illuminate specific areas of the nocturnal city, electric light facilitated the privileging and deprivileging of certain spaces. By illuminating, and thus privileging, particular areas of the canvas, Bellows implements a similar rhetoric in Excavation at Night. Thus, illuminated by powerful electric lights, the snow covered far wall of the excavation and the row of buildings above it are placed in contrast, and possibly in opposition, with the man silhouetted by the light of the bonfire near the bottom edge of the canvas. The dramatic force of Bellows' “bravura” style raises the stakes in this contrast or opposition between the small-scale human activity around the fire and the large urban story of the excavation. In this article I intend to theorise Bellows' handling of smallness as an “anecdotal mode,” to suggest that “anecdote” may function both negatively and positively, and to show that this mode becomes particularly problematic when it is applied to city scenes.
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Naldi, Chiara. "Il patrimonio fotografico dell’Archivio Storico delle Gallerie Fiorentine: ragioni e provenienza di alcune fotografie dello stabilimento Brogi." Rivista di studi di fotografia. Journal of Studies in Photography 5, no. 10 (December 14, 2020): 36–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/rsf-12244.
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This essay considers a selection of painting reproductions made by Brogi in the 1870s, as part of a larger study on the historical archive of the Florentine Galleries held by the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape in Florence. Cross-referencing these photographs with written documents in the same archive and the commercial catalogs published by Brogi between 1863 and 1901, it is possible to determine that they were originally delivered in compliance with legal deposit regulations established by the new Ministry of Public Education in 1867. At the same time, this case study sheds new light on the connections between commercial photographers and art institutions in Italy in the second half of the 19th century, especially regarding the creation of public photographic archives and the role played by Corrado Ricci, the director of the Uffizi Galleries between 1903 and 1906.
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Erskine, Angus B., and Kjell-G. Kjær. "The polar ship Scotia." Polar Record 41, no. 2 (April 2005): 131–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247405004237.
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The ship that the oceanographer Dr William Speirs Bruce used on the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902–04, was originally a sealer named Hekla, built in Norway in 1872. In 1889 the Norwegian skipper Ragnvald Knudsen explored the northeast coast of Greenland between latitudes 74° and 75°, and in 1891–92 the ship was used by the Danish naval officer, Lieutenant C. Ryder, to explore the inner recesses of Scoresby Sund, finally visiting Angmagssalik. In 1902, re-named Scotia and captained by Tam Robertson from Peterhead, she sailed to the Weddell Sea under the leadership of Bruce. The southern winter of 1903 was spent at Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands, and in March–April 1904 the party discovered 150 miles of previously unknown coastline of the Antarctic continent, reaching a farthest south of 74°01′S, 22°00′W. An extensive programme of marine survey and biological research was carried out. Back in the UK, Bruce sold the ship, and she returned to sealing, based in Dundee until appointed to be the first international North Atlantic Ice Patrol ship after the tragedy of Titanic. The Great War caused her to become a freighter in the English Channel area until she caught fire and was burnt out on a sandbank in the Bristol Channel on 18 January 1916.
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Nofroni, Italo, Walter Renda, and Angelo Vannozzi. "A glance at the Middle East: Notes on the genus Megastomia from the Arabian Peninsula, with the description of three new species (Gastropoda: Pyramidellidae)." Bollettino Malacologico 59, no. 2 (September 26, 2023): 166–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.53559/bollmalacol.2023.11.
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Research on the genus Megastomia Monterosato, 1884 from the Mediterranean Sea led us to study in recent times the species occurring in neighbouring regions, with particular attention to the Red Sea and western Indian Ocean. Among the number of species we examined, we focussed on four of them, characterised by the presence of a fine suprasutural groove, which are presented and illustrated in detail. One of them, originally described as Odostomia, is moved to Megastomia due to the presence of spiral ridges inside the aperture, i.e., M. dorica (Melvill, 1904) n. comb., whereas the other three are described as Megastomia blattereri n. sp. from the northern Red Sea, and M. gorii n. sp. and M. omanensis n. sp. from Oman. Furthermore, the type material of similar species from the Indo-West Pacific, such as Odostomia ovoidea A. Adams, 1860, O. tenera A. Adams, 1860, O. antelia Melvill, 1896, O. eutropia Melvill, 1899, O. metcalfei Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900, O. major Melvill & Standen, 1901, O. dorica Melvill, 1904, O. zaleuca Melvill, 1910, Syrnola lorioli Hornung & Mermod, 1924 and O. (M.) nhatrangensis Saurin, 1959 is illustrated. New generic attributions for several of them are proposed. Furthermore, the lectotype of Odostomia major is designated.
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Wei, Qingzhen, Jinglei Wang, Wuhong Wang, Haijiao Hu, Yaqin Yan, Chonglai Bao, and Tianhua Hu. "Identification of QTLs Controlling Radish Root Shape Using Multiple Populations." Horticulturae 8, no. 10 (October 10, 2022): 931. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8100931.
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Root shape is an important characteristic that affects the commodity of radish (Raphanus sativus L.), which can be measured using the ratio of root length (RL) to root diameter (RD). Although it is known that root shape is controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTLs), reliable QTLs for radish root shape are still lacking. In the present study, we used three F2 populations (1902, 1908 and 1909) derived from the crossing of five radish cultivars with highly divergent root shapes to perform QTL-seq. A total of 1282 individuals of the three F2 populations were measured to determine the root length and maximum diameter. High-depth resequencing of six extreme pools and five parents was performed, and QTL-seq was used to detect the QTLs controlling the radish root shape. We identified seven QTLs for root shape distributing on five radish chromosomes (R1, R2, R4, R5 and R7), among which rs7.1 and rs7.2 had an overlap of 1.02 Mb (13.79–14.81 Mb). In addition, two QTLs, rs4.1 and rs4.2, were adjacent to each other on chromosome R4. In conclusion, this study provides an important foundation for the fine mapping and functional analysis of the QTLs controlling the root shape and breeding for root shape in radish.
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Milojković-Djurić, Jelena. "The Roles of Jovan Skerlić, Steven Mokranjac, and Paja Jovanović in Serbian Cultural History, 1900-1914." Slavic Review 47, no. 4 (1988): 687–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2498188.
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The beginning of the twentieth century brought new outlooks and aspirations into the cultural life of Serbia, but the mainstream of spiritual and creative development had already been marked by the affirmation of established national values. After 1903 important political changes, accompanying the return of constitutional government, stimulated a spiritual and national revival. In his History of the New Serbian Literature, Jovan Skerlić described the general improvement in social and political life. Skerlić, a contemporary who actively participated in the cultural and political events at the beginning of this century, pointed out that the consequences of these changes influenced the awakening of the national spirit and offered numerous solutions to questions of national importance. In 1904 Skerlić took part in the organization of the First Congress of Southern Slav Youth and of the First Yugoslav Fine Arts Exhibit marking the centennial of the first Serbian uprising. These events strengthened friendly cultural collaboration between Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and Bulgarians. Even the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908 could not halt this growth. Further proof of national strength was furnished by the victories in the Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913. After five hundred years the liberation of the Serbian people from Turkish occupation was finally accomplished.
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ODELL, KERRY A., and MARC D. WEIDENMIER. "Real Shock, Monetary Aftershock: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and the Panic of 1907." Journal of Economic History 64, no. 4 (December 2004): 1002–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050704043062.
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In April 1906 the San Francisco earthquake and fire caused damage equal to more than 1 percent of GNP. Although the real effect of this shock was localized, it had an international financial impact: large amounts of gold flowed into the country in autumn 1906 as foreign insurers paid claims on their San Francisco policies out of home funds. This outflow prompted the Bank of England to discriminate against American finance bills and, along with other European central banks, to raise interest rates. These policies pushed the United States into recession and set the stage for the Panic of 1907.San Francisco's $200,000,000 “ash heap” involves complications which will be felt on all financial markets for many months to come [and] the payment of losses sustained … represents a financial undertaking of far-reaching magnitude….The Financial Times [London], 6 July 1906
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Brown, Peter M., Emily K. Heyerdahl, Stanley G. Kitchen, and Marc H. Weber. "Climate effects on historical fires (1630 - 1900) in Utah." International Journal of Wildland Fire 17, no. 1 (2008): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf07023.
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We inferred climate effects on fire occurrence from 1630 to 1900 for a new set of crossdated fire-scar chronologies from 18 forested sites in Utah and one site in eastern Nevada. Years with regionally synchronous fires (31 years with fire at ≥20% of sites) occurred during drier than average summers and years with no fires at any site (100 years) were wetter than average. Antecedent wet summers were associated with regional-fire years in mixed-conifer and ponderosa pine forest types, possibly by affecting fine fuel amount and continuity. NINO3 (an index of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, ENSO) was significantly low during regional-fire years (La Niñas) and significantly high during non-fire years (El Niños). NINO3 also was high during years before regional-fire years. Although regional fire years occurred nearly twice as often as expected when NINO3 and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation were both in their cool (negative) phases, this pattern was not statistically significant. Palmer Drought Severity Index was important for fire occurrence in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests across the study area but ENSO forcing was seen only in south-eastern sites. Results support findings from previous fire and climate studies, including a possible geographic pivot point in Pacific basin teleconnections at ~40°N.
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Raimondi, Edoardo. "Eric Weil e la «fine della storia»." Perspectivas 6, no. 1 (July 16, 2021): 204–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.20873/rpv6n1-93.
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O artigo visa mostrar como Eric Weil (1904-1977) recompreendeu a famosa tese do “fim da história”, elaborada por Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) desde os anos de 1930, propondo uma nova versão de caráter essencialmente “kantiano pós-hegeliano”: um elemento teórico fundamental do inter histórico- filosófico weiliano, que emergiria claramente dos estudos específicos sobre Kant aos quais Weil se dedicou de modo pontual a partir da década de 1960. Veremos, portanto, como as reviravoltas “práticas” de tal recompreensão tenham de fato indicado a estrada para a constituição de uma nova filosofia política, eminentemente crítica e antidogmática.
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Margolis, Ellis Q., and Thomas W. Swetnam. "Historical fire–climate relationships of upper elevation fire regimes in the south-western United States." International Journal of Wildland Fire 22, no. 5 (2013): 588. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf12064.
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Understanding relationships between variability in historical fire occurrence and ocean–atmosphere oscillations provides opportunities for fire forecasting and projecting changes in fire regimes under climate change scenarios. We analysed tree-ring reconstructed regional climate teleconnections and fire–climate relationships in upper elevation forests (>2700m) from 16 sites in eight mountain ranges in the south-western USA. Climate teleconnections were identified by testing for associations between regional Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) and individual and combined phases of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) indices for both the fire exclusion (1905–1978) and reconstructed fire periods (1700–1904). Fire–climate relationships were identified by comparing reconstructed fires (84 fire years) in three classes (all, synchronous and stand-replacing fires) with PDSI, precipitation, temperature, and individual and combined phases of ENSO, PDO and AMO indices. Individual and phase combinations of ENSO, PDO and AMO were associated with variability in regional PDSI. Upper elevation fire occurrence was related to variability in regional drought, ENSO phase and phase combinations of ENSO and PDO. We conclude that ENSO most consistently influenced variability in moisture and upper elevation fire occurrence, including stand-replacing fires, but this relationship was potentially modulated by phases of the PDO.
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Article, Editorial. "SOME DATA ON THE OPERATIONAL RESULTS OF PRIVATE RAILWAYS IN RUSSIA IN 1901-1904." World of Transport and Transportation 14, no. 5 (October 28, 2016): 262–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2016-14-5-26.
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For the English full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version).From Torgovo-Promyshlennaya gazeta [Trade and Industry Gazette], Issue No. 181, 1905 Acknowledgments. The editorial staff sincerely thanks the Library of the MIIT University for the assistance in preparing the publication of the article. Zheleznodorozhnoe delo [Rail business], 1906, Iss. 46, P. 497.
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Mikhailov, S. E. "Microscopic structure of the ganglia of the solar plexus and other ganglia of the marginal trunk of the sympathetic nerve." Neurology Bulletin XVI, no. 2 (March 14, 2022): 320–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/nb101122.
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In my work on the fine structure of the intracardiac nervous system of mammals (Proceedings of the Society of Russian Doctors in St. Petersburg for 1907), I proposed a new classification of sympathetic ganglion cells, based on the principle that a given cell belonged to one type or another, depending on whether what type of terminal apparatuses end its dendrites. In this work, I have described in more or less detail four of these main types of ganglion cells, and a large number of drawings taken from the corresponding preparations are attached to the German text of this work (Internat. Monatsschrift fr Anatomie und Physiologie. Bd. XXV. 1908).
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Árpád, Mikó. "Ferenczy Károly kettős portréja Schönherr Antalról és Schönherr Gyuláról (1902)." Művészettörténeti Értesítő 69, no. 2 (March 30, 2021): 327–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/080.2020.00015.
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In the autumn of 1902 Károly Ferenczy (1862–1917) painted a double portrait of Gyula Schönherr (1864–1908) and his father Antal Schönherr (†1905) in Nagybánya (today Baia Mare, Romania). Antal Schönherr was the police chief of the town, but his son had long been living in Budapest and pursued a serious career as a historian. After the onset of his career in the Archives of the Hungarian National Museum, he edited the periodical Turul rallying heraldic research, the periodical of book historical research Magyar Könyvszemle, the volumes of the Millennial Hungarian History, and he became the secretary of the National Inspectorate of Museums and Libraries set up in 1897. In 1896, at the age of 32, he became corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He supported the art colony of Nagybánya from its foundation. Károly Ferenczy was a friend of the Schönherr family in Nagybánya; he painted the double portrait as a present to Gyula Schönherr. Gyula Schönherr’s unpublished letters to his family reveal the process of portraiture (with references to the creative methods of the painter), the display and reception of the portrait in Budapest and its subsequent fate, the further contacts between Ferenczy and his painter friends and the Schönherr family. After Gyula Schönherr’s death the painting remained with the family, who donated it to the Museum of Fine Arts in 1926, since when it has been in public collections.
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Popović-Bodroža, Ana. "Picasso and the theater: From Harlequin to Pegasus: The modernist fine art and theater turn." Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Pristini 53, no. 4 (2023): 317–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/zrffp53-42003.
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Following the method of interdisciplinary studies, this paper analyzes Pablo Picasso's relation to theater through his paintings, theater work, and the influence of theater not only on the themes of his paintings but also on the affirmation of the Avant-garde, the Cubist experiments and practices, the breakthrough of Cubist ideas across the medium of theater. The entire Picasso's art is presented in the light of several major artistic Avantgardes of which he was the founder and ideologist (the "father" of Cubism, inventor of Collage, the first Ready-mades and Constructivist sculptures, initiator of so-called Primitive Art, early Surrealism, etc.). However, it seems that the most significant field of his work, the "Cubist Revolution", has entered a new dimension through the presentation-performance-on the theater stage and in high culture circles. The influence of the stage and the early "Total Design" concept on his art and the perception of space/ object within Cubism and beyond are exceptional, as is the performative act and the presentation of his ideas through the language of the stage. In this case, one medium, by its nature the more communicative one (theater), takes the role of presenting the other, more hermetic one (fine art). That influenced, in multiple ways, the affirmation and acceptance of Pablo Picasso's art. Starting with the early fascination with characters such as Harlequin, Pierrot, circus horse riders, dancers, and jugglers, present in his paintings ("Blue Phase" 1901-1904, "Pink Phase" 1905-1907, and beyond), this paper focuses on his collaboration with Serge Diaghilev and the "Russian Ballet" ("Ballets Russes", 1917-1924), the elite troupe of Russian dancers who settled in Paris as the epicenter of modern art and started their productions there. Picasso was chosen to design the stage, the Cubist costumes, and the monumental theater curtains. Among other ballets, an outstanding piece, "Parade" by Erik Satie (1917), is seen today as a borderline performance, a turning point in ballet art, the start of its revolutionizing process towards contemporary ballet. By creating costumes resembling totems and the stage design based on Cubist division and perception of space, made from geometric shapes and particles ("facettes"), Picasso has taken the theater back to its primordial origins, its shamanic character. The paper elaborates on the relation of the ballet "Parade" with the ideas and theater theories of the theatrologist and sociologist Richard Schechner. Additionally, it addresses the question of a slow, postponed social reception and the (un)acceptance of Picasso's work and his comrades, a theme elaborated by the philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard in the field of aesthetics and post-aesthetics.
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Ferrari, Aldo. "The Armenians Themselves Burnt Their Own Houses and Desecrated Their Own Churches." Iran and the Caucasus 27, no. 4-5 (November 29, 2023): 513–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573384x-02704017.
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Abstract Luigi Villari’s book Fire and Sword in the Caucasus, published in London in 1906, is widely quoted by the scholars who study the history of South Caucasus at the time of the first Russian Revolution in 1905. After a short introduction about the interesting figure of this author, the first part of the article will take into consideration Villari’s peculiar attitude toward the Armenians. The larger part of the article will consider his first-hand description of the massacres perpetrated by the Azeris (Tartars) in the region of Nakhichevan. As a matter of fact, Luigi Villari’s testimony of the tragic events of 1905 is more interesting than ever to understand the origins of a contrast that continues—even if in a deeply different situation—to stain with blood the relationship between Armenians and the South Caucasian Turks.
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Albert, Samuel D. "Austria and Hungary at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair: A Hint of the End." Journal of Austrian-American History 7, no. 2 (October 2023): 109–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jaustamerhist.7.2.0109.
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Abstract This article examines the Austrian participation at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, focusing particularly on the display of art. Spread across two venues, the Austrian Pavilion and the Palace of Fine Arts, the display, with contributions from the Mánes Association of Fine Artists, Society of Polish Artists “Sztuka,” the Hagenbund, and the Vienna Künstlergenossenschaft illustrates the changes taking place in Cisleithanian art at the time, with the emergence and increased recognition of nationally organized art societies, whose very existence questioned the long-standing supremacy of Vienna art institutions. A further contrast is made with the Hungarian art exhibition at the same fair. Unlike the Austrian exhibit, housed in its own free-standing exhibition space, the much more modest Hungarian exhibit was divided in two. Fine arts were displayed in the Palace of Fine Arts, while decorative arts and crafts were displayed in a pavilion built inside of the exhibition hall. The author ends by contrasting the 1904 exhibition spaces with those of the 1900 Paris exhibition.
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Hemmings, F. W. J. "Fires and Fire Precautions in the French Theatre." Theatre Research International 16, no. 3 (1991): 237–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300015005.
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The ‘notice préliminaire’ to L.-H. Lecomte's unfinished Histoire des théâtres de Paris includes a list of eighteen major fires occurring between 1789 and 1900, each of which resulted in the total destruction of a theatre. The date of each disaster is given, as also the date at which the theatre was rebuilt, either on the same site or in a new location. But beyond these brief particulars, Lecomte gives little information on the circumstances and none at all on the probable causes of each catastrophe and the precautions taken subsequently to avert a recurrence. It is the purpose of this paper to flesh out the bare bones of Lecomte's statistics, and to extend the picture to embrace similar disasters befalling provincial playhouses in France over the same period. There had of course been spectacular fires before the Revolution at Paris theatres, notably that which destroyed the opera house located in the Palais-Royal on 6 April 1763 (incidentally severely damaging the palace itself), although, since it occurred during the Easter break, the theatre was fortunately empty at the time. The Opera was eventually rehoused on the same site, but on 8 June 1781 the building once more went up in flames and was reduced to a pile of smouldering rubble. Again there were no victims among the spectators, since it was only when they had left after the evening's performance that the fire broke out; but many of the dancers were still changing into their outdoor clothes at the time and two of them failed to follow the example of the others and make their escape across the roof and down to the street. A total of a dozen or fifteen people perished as a result of this fire, including one elderly woman living in the Cour des Fontaines who died of shock at witnessing the fearsome spectacle.
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Girardin, Martin P., Yves Bergeron, Jacques C. Tardif, Sylvie Gauthier, Mike D. Flannigan, and Manfred Mudelsee. "A 229-year dendroclimatic-inferred record of forest fire activity for the Boreal Shield of Canada." International Journal of Wildland Fire 15, no. 3 (2006): 375. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf05065.
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Six independent tree-ring reconstructions of summer drought were calibrated against instrumental fire data to develop a 229-year dendroclimatic-inferred record of fire activity (annual area burned and fire occurrence) on the Boreal Shield, Canada. As a means of validating the statistical reconstructions of the fire activity, a comparison was made with a stand age distribution derived from a regional time-since-last-fire map for an area located at the transition between the mixedwood and coniferous boreal forests of south-western Quebec. Calibration statistics indicated that 31% of the area burned variance and 45% of the fire occurrence variance could be accounted for by the six drought reconstructions. The verification statistics indicated a tendency for the statistical reconstructions of the fire activity to reproduce with confidence both high and relatively low frequency variations in fire. Episodes of succeeding years with important fire activity were estimated for 1789–1796, 1820–1823, 1837–1841, 1862–1866, 1906–1912, 1919–1922, 1933–1938, and 1974–1977. Also estimated were periods of reduced forest fire activity, particularly in the occurrence rate of extreme fire years, from c. 1850 to 1900 and again during the second half of the 20th century. Correlation analysis between the statistical reconstruction of the area burned and the stand age distribution suggested that both proxies shared similar information on the fire activity. Correlation maps, however, indicated that variability in the statistical reconstructions was not necessarily representative of fire activity in all regions of the Boreal Shield.
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Davis, Robert. "Collected to extinction? History and records of the Western Rufous Bristlebird." Australian Field Ornithology 40 (2023): 288–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo40288293.
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The Rufous Bristlebird Dasyornis broadbenti is a species endemic to Australia and now found only in Victoria and South Australia. The enigmatic western subspecies, Western Rufous Bristlebird D. b. litoralis, was described in 1901 and is now considered extinct. Because of the paucity of information on this subspecies, I aimed to locate all known museum specimens, document its known range and ecology, and ascertain the key drivers of its decline. In total, 16 specimens were collected between 1901 and 1907, with no definitive evidence of its survival subsequently. The Western Rufous Bristlebird occupied a very small range between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Mentelle, Western Australia, and was seemingly extirpated within a 7-year period, potentially by over-collecting, because of its small area of occupancy and likely strong territoriality. Habitat change wrought by fire and clearing, as well as feral predators, were additive stressors. Putative sightings in 1945 and the 1970s, 1980s and to present times, have continued but all are unsubstantiated.
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Kaminski Lewis, Camille. "Chryssides, George D. 2022. Jehovah’s Witnesses: A New Introduction." Fieldwork in Religion 17, no. 2 (September 28, 2022): 242–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/firn.24136.
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Kennedy, W. J., and W. K. Christensen. "Santonian ammonites from the Kopingsberg-1 borehole, Sweden." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 40 (June 3, 1993): 149–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.37570/bgsd-1993-40-05.
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A 510 meter succession of siltstones and fine sandstones in the Kopingsberg-1 borehole, Sweden yielded a distinctive suite of Santonian ammonites; ammonites of this age are otherwise known in significant numbers in Scandinavia only on Bornholm. The assemblage is dominated by taxa best known from North Germany, and includes Hauericeras cf. pseudogardeni (Schluter, 1872), Scalarites sp., Baculites sp. group of capensis Woods, 1906, Baculites sp. 1, Boehmoceras krekeleri (Wegner, 1905), Boehmoceras arculus (Morton, 1834), and Scaphites kieslingswaldensis fischeri Riedel, 1931.
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Bemrose, Anna. "Alf Howard." Polar Record 47, no. 2 (January 27, 2011): 191–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247410000422.
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Alf Howard, (Fig. 1) died on 4 July 2010. He was the last surviving member of Sir Douglas Mawson's 1929–1931 British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) that made further extensive claims to sovereignty defining the limits of what was to become Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) in 1933. He was also the last survivor to have served aboard the coal-fired three-masted wooden ship Discovery built in Dundee for Captain Robert Falcon Scott's 1901–1904 National Antarctic Expedition.
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Scawthorn, C., T. D. O'Rourke, and F. T. Blackburn. "The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire—Enduring Lessons for Fire Protection and Water Supply." Earthquake Spectra 22, no. 2_suppl (April 2006): 135–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/1.2186678.
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Prior to 18 April 1906 the San Francisco Fire Department and knowledgeable persons in the insurance industry regarded a conflagration in San Francisco as inevitable. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and ensuing fire is the greatest single fire loss in U.S. history, with 492 city blocks destroyed and life loss now estimated at more than 3,000. This paper describes fire protection practices in the United States prior to 1906; the conditions in San Francisco on the eve of the disaster; ignitions, spread, and convergence of fires that generated the 1906 conflagration; and damage to the water supply system in 1906 that gave impetus to construction of the largest high-pressure water distribution network ever built—San Francisco's Auxiliary Water Supply System (AWSS). In the 1980s hydraulic network and fire simulation modeling identified weaknesses in the fire protection of San Francisco—problems mitigated by an innovative Portable Water Supply System (PWSS), which transports water long distances and helped extinguish the Marina fire during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The AWSS and PWSS concepts have been extended to other communities and provide many lessons, paramount of which is that communities need to develop an integrated disaster preparedness and response capability and be constantly vigilant in maintaining that capability. This lesson is especially relevant to highly seismic regions with large wood building inventories such as the western United States and Japan, which are at great risk of conflagration following an earthquake.
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Morrison, Malcolm J. "Sir Charles Edward Saunders, Dominion Cerealist." Genome 51, no. 6 (June 2008): 465–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/g08-028.
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Charles Edward Saunders was born in London, Ontario, in 1867. His father, Sir William Saunders, was the first director of the Dominion Experimental Farms (1886–1911). Charles received his B.A. with honours in science from the University of Toronto in 1888 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1891. He attempted a career in music, his first love, from 1893 to 1902. With his father, Charles attended the 1902 International Conference on Plant Breeding and Hybridization in New York, where he learned of Mendel’s theories of inheritance and their applicability to plant breeding. When he began work in 1903 in the Division of Cereal Breeding and Experimentation at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, he used the knowledge he had gained at that conference. It was Charles’s goal to achieve “fixity” in the varieties that had been bred and released using phenotypic mass selection, prior to his tenure as Cerealist. He selected four heads from the wheat variety Markham and in the winter of 1904 he performed a “chewing test” to select for gluten elasticity and colour. Seeds from two heads were chosen, and seeds from one went on to produce the variety Marquis after extensive yield trials on the Prairies. Marquis was 7 to 10 days earlier than Red Fife, the standard bread wheat of the Prairies. The earliness and tremendous yield of Marquis wheat resulted in the rapid and successful settlement of the Great Plains and countless billions of dollars in revenue to Canada. By 1923, 90% of the spring wheat in Canada and 70% in the USA was Marquis. Charles continued as Dominion Cerealist until his retirement in 1922. He was knighted in 1934, and died in 1937.
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Layton, Thomas R., and Einer R. Elhauge. "Three Fire Disasters." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 1, S1 (1985): 366–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00045179.
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In order to better understand the conditions permitting a fire disaster to occur and to better postulate methods of fire prevention, an historic analysis of three fire disasters was performed. Journalistic accounts, official investigative studies and documents were examined concerning 3 fire disasters: (1) The General Slocum Ship Fire of 1904; (2) the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911; and (3) the Coconut Grove Nightclub Fire in Boston of 1942. Although the fires occurred on a ship, in a factory, and in a nightclub, several striking similarities were found.(1) On June 15, 1904, the shipGeneral Slocumembarked on a voyage up New York's East River, that ended in death for 1031 people. The ship, which was constructed entirely of wood, had recently passed inspection. The ship's crew, mostly longshoremen with little sea experience, had never fought a fire at sea. The hatches and bulkheads were flammable, the fire hoses were old and rotten, the fire buckets were out of reach and empty.
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Minnich, RA, and YH Chou. "Wildland Fire Patch Dynamics in the Chaparral of Southern California and Northern Baja California." International Journal of Wildland Fire 7, no. 3 (1997): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf9970221.
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In ecosystems where fire occurrence has significant time-dependence, fire sequences should exhibit system-regulation that is distinguished by nonrandom (nonstationary), self-organizing patch dynamics related to spatially constrained fire probabilities. Exogenous factors such as fire weather, precipitation variability, and terrain alter the flammability of vegetation and encourage randomness in fire occurrence within pre-existing patch structure. In Californian chaparral, the roles of succession/fuel build-up and exogenous factors is examined by taking advantage of a 100 yr 'natural experiment' in southern California (SCA) and northern Baja California, Mexico (BCA), where factors influencing fire occurrence have been systematically altered by divergent management systems. In SCA, suppression has been practiced since 1900. In BCA, fire control was not official policy until the 1960s and has not been effectively practiced. Fire perimeter histories for 1920-1971 in SCA and BCA, reconstructed from fire history records and repeat aerial photographs, are compared for fire frequency (events/area), size, rotation periods, stand age structure, ignition rates, weather, burning season, and drought. Landscape-scale fire rotation periods are long (≈70 yr) regardless of management policies because fire occurrence is driven by the gradual development of fire hazard during succession, produced by small annual increments of growth and litterfall, as well as by high fuel moisture in evergreen shrubs. Without fire control frequent fires establish fine-grained mosaics. Fire control reduces fire frequencies, increases fire size, and encourages coarse-scale patch structure. Patch dynamics exhibit evidences of nonrandom turnover. Fire size distributions reflect the nearest-neighbor distances between patches below some age-dependent combustion threshold (CT) in the patch mosaic that resist the spread of fires in stands older than CT. Regional burn rates are poorly related to fire frequency, ignition rates, drought, and terrain. The small size of fires in BCA may be reinforced by interactions between fire and pre-existing, fine-grained patch structure, and by random fire occurrence in the probability distributions of fire weather and climate. In SCA, fires are nonrandomly restricted by fire control to extreme weather.
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Levitt, Marcus C. "Take No Prisoners Caricature: Nikolai Remizov and the Revolution of 1905." Experiment 28, no. 1 (December 21, 2022): 90–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/2211730x-12340027.
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Abstract This article examines the brilliant caricatures by Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov (Re-mi, born Vasil’ev, 1887–1975) for the Russian satirical journals of 1905–1907. This period marked the first stage of Remizov’s long career, when he emerged as one of the country’s most talented and well-known caricaturists. The article focuses on Remizov’s new, no-holds-barred satire depicting episodes of state-sponsored bloodletting. The satirical journals widely quoted the words of Dmitri Trepov to his troops during the October general strike “not to fire blanks and to spare no cartridges,” a phrase that became a tragi-comic mantra in the satirical journals. It also reflected the take-no-prisoners spirit of Remizov’s caricatures. Further, the article outlines Remizov’s subsequent participation in the few journals—in particular, Satirikon and Novyi Satirikon (New Satyricon)—that strove to keep the satirical tradition of 1905 alive. After the Bolshevik Revolution put a forcible end to these publications, Remizov emigrated, and later forged a long career in the United States as an art designer for stage, television and the big screen.
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Anderson, Douglas Firth. "“A True Revival of Religion”: Protestants and the San Francisco Graft Prosecutions, 1906–1909." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 4, no. 1 (1994): 25–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.1994.4.1.03a00020.
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Almost a year after the great earthquake and fire of April 1906, San Francisco clergyman William Rader declared, “We are having a true revival of religion.” Writing in the San Francisco-based Congregationalist weekly Pacific, Rader was not referring to the visit of a mass evangelist; rather, he meant the graft prosecutions officially launched in October 1906 against the Union Labor party administration of the city. He compared Rudolph Spreckels, a reform-minded member of the city's financial elite who was helping to fund the prosecution, and Francis J. Heney, the lead prosecuting attorney, to the late-nineteenth-century revival team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey. “God is moving the city,” Rader asserted, “and when a number of our Supervisors and other officials are sent to prison we will be more free…. Thank God the Christ spirit is not dead; it lives.”
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Obatnin, Gennady V. "On the Biography of Vyacheslav Ivanov: “Even Wednesdays”." Literary Fact, no. 19 (2021): 133–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2021-19-133-144.
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The article examines the history of the latest literary and philosophical meetings in the legendary St. Petersburg salon of Vyach. Ivanov and L. Zinovieva- Annibal on Tavricheskaya St., known as “The Tower”. On the basis of archival, epistolary and memoir materials, an attempt is made to reconstruct the events and interpret their contradictory assessments by contemporaries, to find out the fullest possible circle of guests and the program of the evenings. The second season at “The Tower”, with its traditional meetings on Wednesdays, was organized by its inhabitants on even days, but due to the fire at first and then to the hostess’ illness, it actually ended after four meetings between October 1906 and February 1907. The work also supplements and clarifies some facts and circumstances familiar from the memoirs of visitors of the “Ivanov Tower” (N. Berdyaev, M. Sabashnikova).
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Daija, Pauls. "Vācbaltiešu un latviešu attiecību attēlojums Rūdolfa Blaumaņa daiļradē." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums, no. 25 (March 5, 2020): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2020.25.013.
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The article explores the relationship between Baltic Germans and Latvians in the works of Rūdolfs Blaumanis by turning attention towards the interpretation of this topic within the context of the social history of literature. An insight into previous evaluations by literary historians has been provided. In the first part of the article, two works with central Baltic German characters – novella “Andriksons” (1899) and play “Ugunī” (In the Fire, 1906, written in 1904) – have been analyzed. In these works, German landowners have been depicted demonstrating the social and national conflicts of the age in their relationship with subordinated Latvians. The characters of landowners are ambiguous and indecisive, and they are distanced from everyday reality and living in the past. Their communication with Latvians is characterized by complications and obstacles. Hence, these characters can be viewed as a wider generalization about the crisis of the Baltic German community by the turn of the 20th century. In the second part of the article, episodic characters of Baltic Germans in prose fiction have been explored along with the overview of satirical poetry by Blaumanis in which the relationship between Baltic Germans and Latvians mostly in the period after the revolution of 1905 has been addressed. It has been concluded in the article that in the representations of the relationship between Baltic Germans and Latvians, Blaumanis depicts the instability of the transition period and avoids disclosing his own views. This corresponds to his concept of the depiction of social problems in literary works. Satirical poetry, which is less neutral but also less literary successful, remains an exception. Baltic German characters in works of Blaumanis are mostly episodic, and besides neutral background characters and politically charged characters in satirical poetry, the most interesting both literary and historically are the characters in which the contradictions of the period have been represented.
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Barquera Guzmán, Rebeca Julieta. "De Puebla a San Carlos: travesías de la Colección Olavarrieta (1907-1909)." Intervención 1, no. 27 (September 30, 2023): 102–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.30763/intervencion.279.v1n27.58.2023.
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En 1907 el artista Gerardo Murillo, Dr. Atl, tuvo a su cargo la elaboración del inventario de una colección de 295 piezas donadas al Estado por el empresario y político poblano Alejandro Ruiz Olavarrieta. Esta INVESTIGACIÓN propone un acercamiento a esa compilación a partir del análisis y sistematización de dicha relación, principalmente, de los títulos y atribuciones establecidos por el artista, así como de la exhibición pública organizada dos años más tarde en la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (ENBA). Este ejercicio permitirá plantear algunas preguntas sobre el proceso de formación y conservación de las colecciones de la Academia y avanzar en el rastreo de algunas de sus piezas en la actualidad. __________ In 1907, artist Gerardo Murillo, Dr. Atl, made an inventory of a 295 piece collection donated to the state by Alejandro Ruiz Olavarrieta, a businessman and politician from Puebla. This RESEARCH proposes an approach to this compilation from the analysis and systematization of said relationship, through the titles and attributions established by the artist, as well as from the public exhibition organized two years later at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (ENBA, for its acronym in Spanish, National School of Fine Arts). This exercise will allow some questions to be asked about the process of conforming and conserving the Academy’s collections, and the tracking of some of its pieces today.
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USTJUZHANIN, PETR, VASILIY KOVTUNOVICH, and DONALD HOBERN. "A taxonomic review of the genus Triscaedecia (Lepidoptera: Alucitidae) in the world fauna." Zootaxa 4571, no. 3 (March 27, 2019): 373. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4571.3.5.
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The article describes four new species of Alucitidae in the genus Triscaedecia from the Malay and Polynesian regions: Triscaedecia sulawesi Ustjuzhanin, Kovtunovich & Hobern sp. nov., T. sarawaki Ustjuzhanin, Kovtunovich & Hobern sp. nov., T. svetlanae Ustjuzhanin, Kovtunovich & Hobern sp. nov., and T. suva Ustjuzhanin, Kovtunovich & Hobern sp. nov. The female genitalia of Triscaedecia dactyloptera Hampson, 1905 and the adult and the male genitalia of Triscaedecia septemdactyla (Pagenstecher, 1900) are described and illustrated for the first time. Diagnostic characters are specified for each new taxon, genitalia are described and illustrated, and images are provided of adults. A spreadsheet of all known localities and specimens is included as a supplementary file.