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Published: 24 March 2022
... of travel and not by focusing on a scene or setting for its own sake. The poems ‘Crusoe in England’, ‘The Moose’, and ‘The End of March’, all from GeographyIII, and ‘Santarém’, illustrate instances of her late style. What these poems have in common is an equation between lyric time and leisurely thinking...
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Published: 22 August 2024
... March” in the 1930s to evade its enemy, the Kuomintang. After defeating the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, Mao became the dictator of China. He ordered the intervention of the People’s Liberation Army in the Korean War against the United States and South Korea. He also initiated the Great Leap...
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Published: 23 May 2024
... memory in the March of Wales. It focuses on a set of historical texts produced at Llanthony Priory for the lords of Brecon and short histories of the earldoms of Gloucester and Hereford, all of which delineate complicated lines of succession in families that persistently lacked male heirs. These texts...
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Published: 23 May 2024
... experience. It focuses on English chroniclers’ inclusion of elegies to Welsh princes of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Rhys ap Gruffudd (d. 1197) and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (d. 1282). Written in Wales, these elegies, included in Latin chronicles from England and the Marches, such as Higden’s...
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Published: 01 June 2015
... and the character of English society (with lineages and surnames prominent, and hard-bitten marchers denigrated as ‘the other’). Defence needs encouraged the maintenance of more devolved structures of government, with feudal liberties, earthworks, castles and towerhouses, and distinctive systems of march law...
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Published: 21 December 2006
... Good Housekeeping magazine Rise Up and Walk Public health Scientific research as public enterprise poliomyelitis National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis public health consumer health literature Jonas Salk health pamphlets March of Dimes Elizabeth Kenny On December 13, 2002, President...
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Published: 18 October 2018
...Chapter 4 examines what happens when congregational music “goes public” through the lens of the praise march, a public procession in which evangelical Christians sing contemporary worship songs in the streets of their cities. It examines two consecutive praise marches in Toronto—the March for Jesus...
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Published: 29 November 2007
... conditions resemble those they represent by narrowing the ‘somewhere’ of AB language to the Welsh March. The second section explores the concept of the place itself. The last section suggests that Ancrene Wisse is just a prospect of the self into the outer world. Allen Hope Emily Brian of Lingen Chapel...
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Published: 26 September 2023
..., seeking to seize cities in Spain, forcing the Umayyads on the defensive. From 796, Carolingian armies launched the most intensive attempt to make major territorial gains in the Iberian Peninsula. The eventual failure of most of these efforts and growing difficulties in the Spanish March led to a fragile...
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Published: 26 September 2023
...This chapter explores the collapse of political unity on the Spanish March from 820. As it became apparent that no further Carolingian expansion in al-Andalus was likely, increased competition within the March for lands and offices took place, which could be expressed in open violence. Losers...
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Published: 10 January 2023
... Nations Environmental Program violence Yonge Street “riot ” accountability personal Central Intelligence Agency crack cocaine Dominica gang violence Million Man March National Council of Negro Women Pan Africanisms personal responsibility responsibility personal Ethiopia Garveyism hope Pan...
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Published: 09 January 2018
... Bernard Lawson James Lewis John Congressman Nash Diane Rustin Bayard Selma Montgomery march Shuttlesworth Fred Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC Walker Wyatt Tee Black Power movement Ebenezer Baptist Church King Alberta Williams King...
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Published: 12 February 2018
...This chapter discusses the “design methods” research initiated by Christopher Alexander and pursued with more intellectual rigor by Lionel March at Cambridge University’s Centre for Land Use and Built Form Study. Alexander, March, and their colleagues attempted to apply mathematics and computation...
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Published: 15 June 2021
...Inspired by wartime mobilizations against fascism and by the activism of Black trade union and civil rights leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, the leader of the March on Washington Movement, African American laundry workers pursued their own civil rights agenda during the war, demanding racial...
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Published: 01 January 2017
...Most of T. S. Eliot’s obscene poems have become known since the 1996 publication of Inventions of the March Hare. Consequently, the Columbo and Bolo poems became notorious for their scatological and pornographic content, and more troublingly, for their violence, racism, misogyny...
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Published: 15 September 2014
...This chapter provides a brief narrative of the Georgia and Carolinas campaigns. Unlike the other seven chapters which draw on sources written or otherwise produced after the Civil War, it uses contemporary sources, including letters, diaries, and official military reports. It presents the March...
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Published: 15 September 2014
...This chapter turns to African Americans' contradictory experiences of the March. It begins with African American memories of the March, describing both positive and negative interactions with Sherman's soldiers: watching troops pass, being emancipated, seeing their own property destroyed...
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Published: 15 September 2014
... upon Sherman's death in 1891. Sherman's March is often mischaracterized as the birth of total war, as though one could draw a line connecting it with World War II and the Vietnam War. It unpacks those notions, first looking at the March in the context of nineteenth-century theories or laws of war...
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Published: 15 September 2014
...This chapter opens with songs written about the March even as it continued across the Carolinas. Songs like “Marching through Georgia” and “Sherman's Bummers” kept the March alive well into the twentieth century. George Barnard's 1866 Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign...
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Published: 15 September 2014
...This chapter examines novels and films about Sherman's March. It looks at both nineteenth-century novels and more recent works, as well as other films and documentaries. These include novels such as William Henry Peck's The M'Donalds; or, The Ashes of Southern Homes. A Tale of Sherman's...