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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Saloon."”.
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Cartoon Saloon as Mythopoeic: Reimagining Irish Mythology through Animation
Cartoon Saloon, an Irish animation studio based in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, explores themes of liminality, urbanization, and coming of age in its trio of Irish folklore-themed films. Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers each explore Irish identity, folklore, and community through …
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Raising the Bar: Consumption, Gender, and the Birth of a New Public Drinking Culture
… approximately the 1930s. The transition from the saloon to the bar, from a single, undivided space that emphasized large groups, physical mobility, and homosociability to a compartmentalized space emphasizing small groups, privacy, and heterosociability, shows how public drinking and the places …
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Modelling of the effects of potholes on motor vehicle structures
… out using a two-axle Toyota Corolla 1.5 GL saloon car. The experimental results were found to be lower than the simulated ones.Simulated results showed that for the car used as a case study, each wheel could be treated separately as a quarter car. The investigation on potholes showed that …
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Modelling of the effects of potholes on motor vehicle structures
… out using a two-axle Toyota Corolla 1.5 GL saloon car. The experimental results were found to be lower than the simulated ones.Simulated results showed that for the car used as a case study, each wheel could be treated separately as a quarter car. The investigation on potholes showed that …
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Vending Vice: The Rise and Fall of West Virginia State Prohibition, 1852--1934
… and commission elections and chip away at the saloon trade through incremental adjustments to state liquor law, West Virginia was not yet ready to climb aboard the water wagon.;Around the turn of the twentieth century, Mountain State drys had activated a more sophisticated and well-funded …
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Pioneers of modern art in Malta
… Sicily and Italy. This is particularly true of Saloon paintings and the depiction of religious themes. In both cases the mode of expression was very much dictated to the artist, in the first instance by private patrons, and in the second instance by conservative church officials. There was …
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Subjective and objective vehicle handling behaviour
… around sixteen configurations of a prototype saloon car. Objective evaluation included ISO defined steady state, step input, and frequency response testing. Subjective assessments were conducted by eight trained test drivers who supplied feedback in the form of numerical ratings on a …
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The sculpture collection of the second Marquis of Rockingham at Wentworth Woodhouse
… of the original ensemble in Wentworth's Marble Saloon, and adds to the published accounts of Cavaceppi's work for English patrons.</p> <p>The thesis examines the relationship between Augustan taste and ancient sculpture, and how it affected Rockingham as he experienced sculptural activities in …
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Rockin' the Comstock: Exploring the Unlikely and Underappreciated Role of a Mid-Nineteenth Century Northern Nevada Ghost Town (Virginia City) in the Development of the 1960s Psychedelic Esthetic and "San Francisco Sound"
… Hipsters coalescing around the Red Dog Saloon inadvertently developed many of the primary features of a Counterculture soon to take San Francisco by storm. The result? Virginia City's 'Summer of Love.'
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Social Media, Radical Democracy, and the Popular Public Sphere: Digital Politics in Contemporary France
… to accommodate social media’s logics—more saloon than salon—and as a result too often leads into a pessimistic impasse. To rethink social media’s democratic potential, this dissertation instead asks: how might we see social media if the public sphere was viewed from a more pluralistic, and …
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Cup of salvation : race, religion, and anti-prohibition in Texas, 1885-1935.
The movement for the legal prohibition of alcohol, or simply "prohibition," has attracted scholarly attention for its wide-ranging impact on culture and politics. Prohibitionist "drys" overcame anti-prohibitionists "wets" to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment …