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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"almanacs"”.
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A Study of Babylonian Goal-Year Planetary Astronomy
… the non-mathematical predictive texts known as Almanacs and Normal Star Almanacs. An analysis of theoretically calculated dates of planetary events showed that, if the Goal-Year Texts were to be used as a source for making empirical predictions, particular corrections (specific to each planet) …
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The impact of the regicide of Charles I on contemporary English notions of time and the future
… Through a close examination of sources like almanacs, newsbooks, and polemical histories, I conclude that the early moderns tried to normalise the disruptive regicide by embedding it within larger narratives of time. They downplayed the radical nature of the event in search of order, …
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A musical souvenir: London in 1829
… flows. Newspapers, playbills, manuscript scores, almanacs, handbills, memoirs, journals, diaries and other ephemera have been used both to locate and frame evidence. The montage of cut-outs, in other words, forms an ensemble of partial histories, a picture of the intricately textured life of …
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A history of Black women faculty at Michigan State University, 1968 - 2009
… Board of Trustees Minutes; examination of Almanacs of the Chronicle of Higher Education; Association of Academic University Professors (AAUP) documents and reports; examination of local and regional newspapers - Lansing State Journal, The State News, The Michigan Chronicle, and Detroit Free …
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The human horse: equine husbandry, anthropomorphic hierarchies, and daily life in Lower Saxony, 1550-1735
… and guild art, farrier guides, and farmers’ almanacs. By combining traditional social and economic sources with those that offer insight on daily life, this dissertation is able to show that in early modern Germany, men involved with equine husbandry and horse breeding relied on their …
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The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
… culture, such as colonial newspapers, books, and almanacs, as well as correspondence records among different social groups. In terms of which groups are studied, these include printers, postal service workers, colonial and naval officials, and Catholic missionaries. The dissertation is divided …
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THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND WIFE-BEATING IN THE U S: A MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS
… on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, statistical almanacs, and national surveys. It is composed of economic, educational, political, and legal items, such as the ratio of male to female income for full-time workers. The index allows for a comparison of American states on individual items, the four …