The Ottoman government obtained current information on the empire’s sources of revenue through periodic registers called tahrir defterleri. These documents include detailed information on tax-paying subjects and taxable resources, making it possible to study the economic and social history of the Middle East and Eastern Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Although the use of these ...

-In this paper we present a system for writer identification from historical lines of text, where features are extracted and used to recognize individuals. The main goal is to analyze documents of different writing styles in order to identify the writers. We consider a complete 2D probability distribution that takes into account all possible combinations of angle pairs, outperforming original c...

Neume musical notation is a type of writing of Christian Orthodox Church chant originated in Ancient Byzantium, which is still used by the Orthodox Church. The big varieties of preserved historical documents, which contain neumes give reach material for investigations in fields like history, cultural sciences, etc. This causes the natural need of a software package which can help these investig...

The article discusses the influence of historical evidence about Liudmila Mokievskaya-Zubok on her fictional character. was a heroine Russian Civil War, only famous female commander armored train. Obituaries honor Mokievskaya as both comrade and but also emphasize femininity, which does not seem to contradict performing combat tasks. became character due efforts friend, writer Zinaida Chalaya. ...

Cometary tails visually manifest the solar wind and became an initial hint for its discovery. While is being directly monitored with satellites, time series before space age has been controversially reconstructed multiple proxies. Recently, archival reports of cometary plasma have subjected to consideration indirectly measure but brought conclusion that no had reported prior 1769 probably due t...