A Duel!” In late March of 1854, the northern press burst with the news. A duel had allegedly taken place between two members of the House of Representatives—Francis B. Cutting of New York and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. Confusion and anticipation reigned, and a flurry of rumors circulated. Had Breckinridge been shot in the neck? Was he killed or wounded? Did Cutting emerge victorious? Or ...

the goal of the present research is to investigate relationship between organizational culture and management accounting methods in firms in tehran stock exchange. data collection tools were a standard organizational culture questionnaire by hofstede and a researcher made questionnaire about management accounting. the statistical society for this research involves financial managers and account...

chivalry mores and etiquettes have never been limited to a specific time, place, or tradition, but the topic of discussion in this research holds some symbols of chivalry mores in iranian architecture in islamic period. chivalry principles, in islamic period, are based on the pure nature of manliness and its origin and orientation goes back to imams and prophets. by obeying and adherence to the...

Taking the example of military education and everyday life in the Swiss army during the World War II. this article aims to address two issues that have so far only found marginal consideration in most studies of military history. First. the article attempts to explore in what way the military hierarchy was gendered. thus borrowing from Joan Scott's argument that the category of gender can be us...

BACKGROUND Men continue to smoke in greater numbers than women; however, few interventions have been developed and tested to support men's cessation. Men tend to rely on quitting strategies associated with stereotypical manliness, such as willpower, stoicism, and independence, but they may lack the self-efficacy skills required to sustain a quit. In this paper, we describe the development of an...

Japanese aristocrats of both sexes, during the Heian Period (794-1191), applied rouge to their cheeks, but never to their lips. They did not want to draw attention to the mouth, which they considered a rather bestial part of the body. I Ancient Egyptians such as Princess Nef ertiti, as well as some people of the ancient societies of Greece, Rome, France, and America, had their heads artificiall...