Outside the groves of academe few people today read George Crabbe's trenchant rhymed couplets describing the life and landscape of his native Suffolk in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This is a pity because Crabbe is a real original: an unpoetical poet who believed that it was his duty to instruct his readers as accurately as possible about the painful realities ofhuman lif...

Alfred Nobel was one of the most successful chemists, inventors, entrepreneurs, and businessmen of the late nineteenth century. In a decision later in life, he rewrote his will to leave virtually all his fortune to establish prizes for persons of any nationality who made the most compelling achievement for the benefit of mankind in the fields of chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, liter...

Neurocysticercosis, which is caused by infestation of the human CNS with the tissue cysts of Taenia solium, is arguably the most common parasitic disease of the human nervous system. While most of the details of the parasite's life cycle were known by the nineteenth century and most of the clinical manifestations of T. solium infection had been identified by the mid-twentieth century, concepts ...

Abstract This article analyzes the way anarchism and its followers were understood in L’assassinat du président Carnot, by French physician Alexandre Lacassagne. A few months before book was published, June 1894, president of France, Sadi had been killed Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio. Lacassagne called upon to perform autopsy Carnot’s body a psychiatric examination The results these ...

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In the second half of nineteenth century, Bulgarians sought to establish a national church independent from Greek Patriarchate. This coincided with expansion missionary activities Roman Catholic Church in Ottoman lands through Assumptionist sect. A member this sect, French bishop Victorin Galabert, was sent Constantinople 1862 conduct work. He specifically assigned Bulgarian Catholic-Uniate Chu...

This paper presents the Referent Model Language. The Referent Model Language has its underpinnings in Set Theory and Linguistics. The paper describes the relevant parts of the foundations, and the respective representation in the modeling language. The paper also discusses the use of such a language in the field of heterogeneous databases. It also includes a presentation and explanation of a me...

In 2011 NATO launched its Smart Defense Initiative which was intended to provide greater security with fewer resources combined with higher level of coordination and coherence among allies and partners. The importance of this initiative was once again highlighted at the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago which welcomed national and transnational efforts to “develop, acquire and maintain the capabiliti...

ABSTRAC T ORPHANHEROES AND HEROINES ARE familiar characters in children’s literature, particularly in the fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This type of protagonist has its roots in folktales. An analysis of fifty folktales from different cultures reveals that, while the details of orphan stories vary, there are some universal elements. A comparison of these patterns to a l...