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A phylogenetic analysis of Orlando Gibbons’s Prelude in G
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Heather F. Windram and others
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Early Music
Early Music, Volume 42, Issue 4, November 2014, Pages 515–528, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/cau100
Published: 08 November 2014
... of the Prelude in G by Orlando Gibbons Source Page/folio/number Abbreviation Datesa Parthenia—Engraved by William Hole, for Dorothy Evans, and sold by G. Lowe. London Piece No. 21 Parthenia 1612–13 GB -London, Royal College of Music, Ms. 2093 ff.9v...
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Nomascus leucogenys (Primates: Hylobatidae)
Lee E. Harding
Mammalian Species, Volume 44, Issue 890, 25 January 2012, Pages 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1644/890.1
Published: 25 January 2012
... of Mammalogists 2012 Abstract Nomascus leucogenys (Ogilby, 1840) is a crested gibbon of northern Vietnam, northern Laos, and southern China. Males are black with white cheeks and females are a rich buff color with a dark brown sagittal crest. It is among the largest of hylobatids (except siamang...
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Published: 25 May 2023
...0 25 05 2023 Rural writers of the 1920s and 1930s bemoaned as they documented the blights upon landscape that Nan Fairbrother assigns to a post-World War II generation. This chapter argues that rural ‘middlebrow’ literature, represented by works of Richard Llewellyn, Mary Webb, Stella Gibbons...
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From England to Scotland in 1701: the Duchess of Buccleuch Returns to Dalkeith Palace
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Sally Jeffery
Published: 01 October 2020
... Bapty Captain Berwick upon Tweed coaches Robinson Benjamin Spence Captain White James Edinburgh servants building materials sourcing and use Gibbons Grinling inventories Netherlands The portraits staircases woodcarvers closets floorplans Hampton Court Palace marble Mary II Queen...
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Barbarians: Problems and Approaches
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Michael Maas
Published: 21 November 2012
... historians from the eighteenth century to the present have explained the Roman-barbarian relationship in Late Antiquity. Their interpretations of barbarians were primarily influenced by the pressing issues of their own time, including Gibbons' Enlightenment concern with the social progress of humankind...
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Fame and Its Perils
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Linda B. Hall
Published: 09 January 2013
... their arrival in Hollywood. Before the end of 1930, she remarried; her new husband, Cedric Gibbons, was one of the most important and talented men in Hollywood. Then she was struck with a mysterious and devastating illness, and her career, always dependent on her physical well-being and beauty, took a nosedive...
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From Renaissance to the Dark Age
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Aldo J. Regalado
Published: 01 August 2015
... for expressing disgust with and disdain for the meta-narratives of American society. Even the narratives traditionally employed by superhero fiction came under attack by creators and audiences themselves, as evidenced by deconstructionist works like Alan Moore and David Gibbons's Watchmen , which...
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Learning Constructive Civic Engagement at the Catholic University of America
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Nicholas K. Rademacher
Published: 08 August 2017
... Catholic Welfare Council. While Furfey was drawn to the simplicity of the Jesuit lifestyle, he chose to be ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Baltimore in 1922. Americanists Boston College Gibbons James Cardinal Jesuits Society of Jesus modernism Moore Thomas Verner O’Connell William Henry...
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“The Most Powerful Union in America”
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Robert Bussel
Published: 15 September 2015
...This chapter examines the merger of Harold Gibbons's union with the Teamsters in 1949 as well as his teamup with Ernest Calloway to develop new strategies for cementing member attachment to the union and boosting its standing as an advocate for working-class interests in St. Louis. The chapter...
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“A Hell of a Whipping”
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Robert Bussel
Published: 15 September 2015
...This chapter examines how Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway's ambitious plans were derailed by aggressive investigations of alleged union corruption in which the Teamsters became a primary target and Local 688 faced sharp public scrutiny. It begins with a discussion of the successful campaign...
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“Fuck Him, He Wasn’t With Us”
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Robert Bussel
Published: 15 September 2015
...This chapter examines the convergence of events that thrust Harold Gibbons into the maelstrom of national politics and led to his estrangement from the Teamsters's hierarchy. It first considers how Gibbons's rifts with Teamsters played out among Local 688's membership in St. Louis, which helped...
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✦ North American Saints ✦
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Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Published: 08 April 2019
... to Rome that holiness had flourished on American soil and demonstrating to Protestant Americans that Catholics could be loyal U.S. citizens. This chapter highlights the connections between hagiography and historiography in the work of prominent church leaders like James Cardinal Gibbons and John Gilmary...
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Different Opinions at Different Times
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David L. Lightner
Published: 16 November 2006
...The U.S. Supreme Court contemplated for the first time the meaning of commerce power as stipulated in the Constitution in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden . The case, first scheduled for consideration in 1821 but delayed until 1824, concerned a New York state law granting Robert Fulton...
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Published: 05 October 2009
...This chapter provides an analysis of Stella Gibbons's Miss Linsey and Pa , My American and The Bachelor , focusing on the modern implications of the 1930s and 1940s middlebrow debates. It argues that the suburb is feminised and despised, and is also...
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Published: 06 April 2012
...” there. After the Supreme Court ruled in Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) that the Livingston monopoly on steamboat navigation on the river was unconstitutional, several new lines were organized. By 1830 there were eight lines operating twenty-nine steamboats on the Hudson, which both increased...
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NO COUNTRY FOR WILD APES
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Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz
Published: 23 June 2022
... shrink, and so do orangutan numbers. And orangutans are not the only apes to be threatened by the excesses of humans. The diminutive ape cousins of orangutans, and of us, are the gibbons. They were once widespread in China, and their numbers likely ranged into the hundreds of thousands or more...
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Utopia Achieved: The Case of Watchmen
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Peter Y. Paik
Published: 08 April 2010
...This chapter studies the graphic novel, Watchmen , written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons, which utilizes metafictional devices to reflect on the genre of superhero fantasy. It investigates the medium by placing its costumed adventurers in a realistic world governed...
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Kaye Gibbons: Tough Women in a Rough South
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Rebecca Godwin
Published: 01 February 2016
...This chapter discusses Kaye Gibbons's work, which portrays wise and hardworking women whose gumption improves the lot of the suffering lower class. Born Bertha Kaye Batts on May 5, 1960, Kaye Gibbons grew up in a Nash County, North Carolina, farming community named Bend of the River. When Gibbons...
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“As Far as Human Prudence Could Insure” Marshall’s Retreat from Implied Commerce Powers
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David S. Schwartz
Published: 24 October 2019
... on McCulloch v. Maryland to engage in nation-building through his constitutional decisions. In Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), Marshall construed the term “commerce” to include navigation, and struck down a state monopoly over steamboat travel. Gibbons is widely understood...
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“The Baneful Influence of this Narrow Construction” McCulloch in the Age of Jackson, 1829–1860
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David S. Schwartz
Published: 24 October 2019
.... McCulloch and Gibbons v. Ogden had refrained from committing the Court to implied commerce powers, and Gibbons also invited the Taney Court to ignore McCulloch . To the Jacksonian justices of the Taney Court, preservation of slave-state sovereignty...
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