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Showing 1 to 20 of 182 for “"Troy"”.
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Music Education At The Troy Female Seminary: 1817-1904
… at one institution of higher learning. The Troy Female Seminary was founded by Emma Hart Willard in 1817 and exists today as an independent secondary school for females (renamed the Emma Willard School in 1895). Relevant books, journal articles, master’s theses, and dissertations were …
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“Closer to the Objective”: Following Helen from Troy to Chicago
… to the Objective”: Following Helen from Troy to Chicago looks at the function of women in war and war-adjacent texts. Women are contextualized against the figure of Helen of Troy, who sets the standard for how women in war narratives have historically been treated in literature in film. …
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Stratigraphy of the Glacial Deposits in and Adjacent to the Troy Bedrock Valley, Northern Illinois
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T19:14:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6206177.pdf: 6002112 bytes, checksum: cd5ad61db41aacb07aee566f3ab941c0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Dining and revelry in French rococo art
… the Bâtiments du Roi asked Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752) to paint Le déjeuner d'huitres and Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743) for Le déjeuner de jambon. At Fontainebleau, de Troy was asked to paint an outdoor scene entitled Le déjeuner de chasse, and Carle Van Loo (1705-1765) La halte de chasse …
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Shakespeare's deconstruction of exempla in Troilus and Cressida
… internally consistent alternative version of the Troy story, Shakespeare presents a deconstructed narrative in which nothing is definitive or authoritative. Many of Troilus and Cressida’s characters were traditionally presented as exempla, but in Shakespeare’s story they are divided between the …
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ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA
… recovered $457,660,000 of gold or about 350,000 troy ounces based on samples collected for this study and 2013 gold price. The current major geologic resource is the limestone deposits on the north slope of the San Bernardino Mountains. Presently, there are three operators: Omya, Specialty …
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The Trojans of the North - The Trojan matter and the End of the Icelandic Commonwealth
… at the Norwegian court. In all these texts, Troy is construed as the original homeland of the Æsir and, thus, the ancestral land of the Norwegian kings and the Icelanders themselves. A similar use of the Trojan matter is evident across the Latin Europe. In numerous other polities, Troy was …
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Home Swede Home: The Archaeology of Swedish Cultural Identity at a Western Homestead
… Mark Warner at a Swedish homestead just east of Troy, Idaho. The field school unearthed a plethora of historical artifacts including metal, glass, ceramic, and faunal items left behind by the inhabitants of the Johanson homestead in Nora, Idaho. Historical documentation indicates that the …
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Home Swede Home: The Archaeology of Swedish Cultural Identity at a Western Homestead
… Mark Warner at a Swedish homestead just east of Troy, Idaho. The field school unearthed a plethora of historical artifacts including metal, glass, ceramic, and faunal items left behind by the inhabitants of the Johanson homestead in Nora, Idaho. Historical documentation indicates that the …
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A study of the crease-resistance of viscose rayon
… a Fellowship of the Behr-Manning Corporation, Troy, New York.
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forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
… to stay resolute in their search for a New Troy, offering the hope that despite their challenges and suffering, “perhaps one day it will help to remember even these things.” Fundamentally, via organic contours and gradual evolutions, this quartet explores notions of remembrance and …
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Models of Reception in the Divine Audience of the Iliad
… passage describing Hector and Achilles circling Troy as the gods watch and discuss, problematizes the ethical stance of the extratextual audience. Chapter 6 argues that in the Iliad as a whole the poet uses "the gods" to model a shift in audience sympathy from pro-Achaean bias to pity for the …
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Transplant anxieties : discourses about bone marrow
… network was also analysed. Informed heavily by Troy Duster's work on genetic and social feedback loops, it was found that the discourses reflect a complex interweaving of biological materiality, ethnicity, culture, mortality, health resource rationing, South African nationhood, and the limits of …
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"The inlegebill scribling of my imprompt pen": the production and circulation of literary miscellany manuscripts in Jacobean Scotland, c. 1580-c.1630
… a transcription of John Lydgate’s Middle English Troy Book; section two consists of a later supply (c. 1612) by James Murray of Tibbermuir, containing additions to the Troy Book and twenty-seven miscellaneous poems. Though this latter section will be the main focus of the chapter, the manuscript’s …
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Alchemical Transformation and the Grief-Threshold in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt
… lyric epic, <em>Helen in Egypt</em>, Helen of Troy experiences a phenomenological transformation in the brazier of the heart, which burns both on the beach of her new home in Egypt and in the depths of her psychic life. I have envisioned a process by which Helen psychologically enters into the …
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The examination of discrimination and social bias toward interracial relationships
… Ueno, Fincham, 2013; Potter & Thomas, 2012; Troy, Lewis-Smith, Laurenceau, 2006). However, there is growing evidence as acceptance rates and challenges faced by couples vary (Pew Research Center, 2012, Golebiowska, 2007), that experiences are different for couples depending on the racial …
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The mediation in late twentieth-century English theatres of selected ancient Greek tragedy texts and themes concerned with women and power
… plays: the Royal National Theatre's Women of Troy and the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Phoenician Women. The final section of the last chapter reflects on the way the anxieties of male creators and consumers of Greek tragedies about women with power have been interpreted in English …
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Gold-quartz vein mineralization in Stanly County, North Carolina
… the quartz but the small quantity of gold (5000 troy oz.) suggests that the veins were deposited by recirculating meteoric water which was heated at depth and which scavenged gold from a small volume (0.03 km³) of the underlying and adjacent rocks.
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DIEGESIS A multi-agent Digital Interactive Storytelling framework using planning and re-planning techniques
… evaluation scenario which models the story of Troy, derived from Homer’s epic poem, “Iliad”, which we used to perform a number of evaluations based on metrics that we chose and we consider valuable for the DIS field. This collection of requirements and evaluations could be used in the future …
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