‘Poor little princess’: Queen Victoria’s Court as a Site of Imperial Conquest by Chandrica Barua

“…This essay illuminates the elusive and messy archives of an unusual presence in the Victorian court, that of Princess Victoria Gouramma (1841‒1864), daughter of the deposed King of Coorg, Chikka Virarajendra and goddaughter and namesake of Queen Victoria. The messy and circuitous archives of Gouramma reveal the story of a colonized, racialized, exteriorized colonial subject becoming an ornamental interior of the Empire. …”
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The logic of the nation: Nationalism, formal logic, and interwar Poland by David E. Dunning

“…RPN attained a measure of international currency that Polish notation in logic never had, enjoying a global career in a different discipline outside its namesake country. The ways in which versions of the notation spread, and remained or did not remain “Polish” as they traveled, depended on how readers (whether in mathematical logic or computer science) chose to read it; the production of a nationalized science was inseparable from its international reception. …”
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The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula by J. Jeffrey Franklin

“…Dracula has fulfilled the ambition of Dracula: it has colonized and enthralled the industrial and post-industrial Western world, achieved the integration into modern free-market capitalism that its namesake was unable to achieve. The outpouring of Dracula scholarship in the past twenty years likewise testifies to the vampire’s cultural and economic success. …”
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Archival and Newly Isolated Historical <i>Bacillus anthracis</i> Strains Populate the Deeper Phylogeny of the A.Br.075(Sterne) Clade by Markus Antwerpen, Peter Braun, Wolfgang Beyer, Dirk Aldenkortt, Michael Seidel, Gregor Grass

“…The A.Br.075 (A-branch) clade (also known as A.Br.Sterne) is prominent not only because it comprises several outbreak strains but even more so because spore preparations of its namesake, the Sterne strain, are counted among the most utilized anthrax animal vaccines. …”
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Mannsnavnet Gautulv ‒ Guttul by Atle Steinar Langekiehl

“…A Swedish rune stone mentions Gautulv, and the first Swedish written medieval sources for the name precede the Norwegian ones, although most of the namesakes lived in Norway. The nobility figures far more prominently than other social groups in medieval sources, and in Norway, the first known Gautulvs and people with the patronym Gautulvsson undoubtedly belonged to the nobility. …”
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Appareillages livresques et diffractions fictionnelles dans le projet multimodal Character de Paul Heintz by Corentin Lahouste, David Martens, René Audet

“…French artist Paul Heintz’s multi-media project Character began with a reading of George Orwell’s novel 1984 and a desire to meet the namesakes of the novel’s main character, Winston Smith. …”
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Time and replacement among the Q’eqchi’ Maya by Paul Kockelman

“…Among speakers of Q’eqchi’ Maya, replacement (–eeqaj) refers to activities as disparate as house-building, civil-religious elections, vengeance, loans, illness cures, adultery, and namesakes. Such practices involve the substitution of one entity for another entity, insofar as these entities have shared properties, and insofar as they hold a role in an obligatory position. …”
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Vrednotenje normativne baze podatkov CONOR.SI s stališča visokošolskih katalogizatorjev / Evaluation of the CONOR.SI authority file from cataloguers' point of view in academic li... by Urška Zupančič, Marija Petek

“…The most frequently pointed out disadvantages were inaccurate and insufficient data on authors, a large number of namesakes, duplicate records, and errors in records due to cataloguers’ superficiality and complex cataloguing rules. …”
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