Polish national democrats ofthe Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Lithuanian revival at the beginning of the 20th century by Przemyslaw Dąbrowski

“… The fundamentals of the Lithuanian national revival date back to the eighties of the 19th century when in the environment of Lithuanian intellectuals a conception of publishing a newspaper in the Lithuanian language and printed in the Latin alphabet arose. …”
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The wandering « Leg of an Indian King ». The cultural biography of a friction idiophone now in the Pigorini Museum in Rome, Italy by Davide Domenici

“…Collected in the Mixtec Kingdom of Tututepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) during the 16th century, it passed through different Italian collections before reaching its present location in Rome toward the end of the 19th century. The text also analyzes how in its long historical journey through different contexts and regimes of value, the notched bone generated diverse sets of discourses on cultural otherness. …”
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Effective Population Size of Korean Populations by Leeyoung Park

“…The oldest age group showed that the population growth of Koreans had already been substantial at least since the end of the 19th century.…”
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Le jardin dans la littérature fin-de-siècle, ou quand un motif narratif devient un objet esthétique by Geneviève Sicotte

“…However, in the late 19th century, there is an inversion of this rhetoric: the decadent garden favours the cultural or even the artificial pole in such an extreme way that nature becomes deleterious and lethal. …”
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SILENE MULTIFLORA IN MOLDOVA (ROMANIA) by Culiţă SÎRBU, Adrian OPREA

“…Silene multiflora, a critically endangered species from the vascular flora of Romania, was first reported in the historical province of Moldova (east of the country) since the first half of the 19th century. However, the presence of this species in Moldova was later on contested (confusion with S. nemoralis or with S. viscosa?)…”
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Perigosas brincadeiras:a infância em Marcelo Mirisola e Furio Lonza by Renan Ji

“…Current traditional representations of the child have their origins in the romantic - bourgeois imaginary of late 18 th century and the beginning of the 19 th century. Those repre sentations are completely overthrown by farcical nonsense, social criticism and the violence of big cities. …”
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Une agence à l’œuvre du Paris haussmannien : l’agence d’Henri Blondel (1821-1897) by Elsa Jamet

“…By the end of the 19th century, the architecture agency run by Henri Blondel (1821-1897) was one of the leading agencies in Paris. …”
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Agrarian reforms of Russia at the turn of the XIX–XX centuries in the coverage of economists of the XX century by I. K. Shcherbakova

“…The article analyses the features of the development of agriculture in Russia at the end of the 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century. The paper studies and considers attempts to solve the agrarian issue in the specified period. …”
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Répression et résurgence du judaïsme dans Daniel Deronda : les voies de la masculinité sont-elles impénétrables ? by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda constitutes an inspiring testimony to 19th-century patriarchal society. It explores the fault lines of the British androcentric system through the diegetic itinerary of its eponymous hero and his compatriots, who cut unremarkable figures of respectability. …”
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Clerics of Don Kalmyk Cossacks in the Second Half of the XIX – early XX Centuries by Konstantin N. Maksimov

“…The article reveals the issues of the organization of the service of the Buddhist clergy on the Don in the second half of the 19th century, implemented during the reform of the administrative and territorial administration of the Kalmyk nomad. …”
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Votian Village Feasts in the Context of Russian Orthodoxy by Ergo-Hart Västrik

“…This phenomenon of celebrating collectively certain days of church calendar, which included ritual activities in village chapels or other local sanctuaries, common meals and heavy drinking as well singing and dancing in the course of 3–4 days, was a part of common Russian Orthodox tradition shared by several ethnic groups throughout North-West Russia in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Despite the fact that this phenomenon was familiar to the wider community of Russian Orthodox believers, there were obviously certain local characteristics and variation typical to Votian tradition. …”
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Ombres et transparences, de Vinci aux calques numériques by Marie-Madeleine Martinet

“…Optical devices have since the Renaissance superimposed shadow and transparency; they have evolved from image-making to the continuous representation of motion in 19th-century toys based on the rotation of silhouettes; copying machines, derived from ancient legends defining shadows as the image of persons, led to 18th-century experiments in the simulation of motion. …”
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La mise en tourisme du patrimoine paysager de la Vallée des peintres entre Berry et Limousin : un levier de développement rural ? by Edwige Garnier, Frédéric Serre

“…The Creuse Valley is a major component of the water landscapes of northern part of the Limousin region in France. From the 19th century onwards, the quality of the atmosphere and the light in this section of the valley near the region of the Berry attracted many artists, particularly impressionist artists. …”
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Les échos de la presse dans le silence du cabinet. La posture médiatique flaubertienne à la lumière de la correspondance by Nejma Omari

“…This paper, which focuses on the Flaubert's correspondence, aims to investigate the author's role in the 19th century media ecosystem. While Flaubert’s financial security exempted him from the daily publications that contemporary writers-journalists had to produce, it did not necessarily means disinterest. …”
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La Foule. Réflexions autour d’une abstraction by Vincent Rubio

“…Gustave Le Bon’s Psychology of Crowds appears as a typical ‘miniature’ not only of crowd psychology as well as a whole body of works which foreran the emergence of that particular discipline in the last decade of the 19th Century, but also ultimately of whatever could be qualified as ‘crowd theory.’ …”
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Beliefs in Good and Bad Days among the Tatars in Dobrudja and Among the Polish-Lithuanian Tatars (Preliminary Remarks) by Veneta Yankova

“…Mollova work (published in French, Mefküre Mollova, “Croyances, que les turcs de Balkans attachment au jours de la semaine”, in: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 1969, XXIII (3), p. 361–376) and beliefs about happy and unhappy days from Alexandrovich’s hamail, Tatar manuscript of the 19th century (Marek M. Dziekan, “Opisanie dni miesięcznych z chamaiłu Aleksandrowicza”, in: Tatarzy polscy – adoptowani do narodu, Cz. …”
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Tradition and Development of Lithuanian Terminology by Antanas Smetona

“…It may have its roots in the early 19th century, but the time of its formation is the middle of the 20th century. …”
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La tranchée supérieure de l’aqueduc du Gier à Saint-Joseph (Loire) : nouvelles données et synthèse by Kilian Blanc, Guillaume Maza

“…In particular, these new data opened up new ideas on the nature and function of this trench, and cast light on questions about the route and construction of the aqueduct.In 2007, the archaeological evaluation conducted by Catherine Coquidé (Inrap) prior to the construction of a housing estate brought to light for the first time a buried section of the upper trench of the Gier aqueduct alongside the remains of its channel, which it doubles from Saint-Chamond (Loire) to Chabanière (Rhône) between ten and fifteen metres above its base. Known since the 19th century, it had until then only been identified above ground, and had been explored in just a few specific studies and syntheses. …”
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Christian Felix Weiße’s Poetry in Latvian and Estonian Literature by Ave Mattheus, Pauls Daija

“…First translations that were addressed to Estonian peasants appeared in the early 19th century. The frame of reference of the poems was transformed when they were addressed to peasant reading public: they acquired didactic meaning. …”
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Melaleuca Snout Beetle, Melaleuca Weevil (unofficial common names), Oxyops vitiosa (Pascoe) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by James P. Cuda, Susan A. Wineriter, Gary R. Buckingham, Ted D. Center, Kenneth T. Gioeli

“…Melaleuca, also known as the paper bark tree, cajeput, punk tree, or white bottlebrush tree, was introduced into Florida in the late 19th century but apparently failed to naturalize until 1906. …”
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