Republican Dentists in Latin America: Luis Amado Blanco Fernández and his Contributions to Cuban Dentistry by Victoria María Sueiro Rodríguez, Asela Crescencia Villaurrutia Flores, Julia Roquelina Fuguet Boullón

“…The Spanish Civil War caused a mass exodus of men and women of science and letters, who went into exile stripped of their university chairs. …”
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A Tumor-Like Lump in the Palm Caused by an Inconspicuous-for 75 Years-Bullet by Efstratios D. Athanaselis, Apostolos Fyllos, Nikolaos Stefanou, Socrates E. Varitimidis, Dimitrios Giannikas

“…Excision of a tumor-like soft tissue mass revealed a 75-year-old World War II bullet fragment of which patient was unaware. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The main conclusion of this study is that although Dutch society substantially transformed (economically, socially, politically and culturally) during the 19th and early 20th centuries until the Second World War, it was both the agricultural calendar and the Roman Catholic regulations that determined Dutch marriage seasonality.…”
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Dissolved State and Identity in John Maxwell Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K within the scope of the Postcolonial Other by İsmail Avcu

“…Regardless of the situation, human rights are expected to be maintained and safeguarded and it can be inferred from this that such rights are automatically terminated in times of war. Michael K’s futile attempts to obtain travel documents to Cape Town lawfully serve as an example of how much people rely on the efficient operation of all governmental institutions, while his entire life demonstrates the significance of personal freedom and freedom of movement. …”
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La topographie et les fortifications celtiques de l’oppidum biturige de Châteaumeillant-Mediolanum (Cher) by Sophie Krausz

“…It was probably built during the Gallic War.…”
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THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT: INTERROGATING THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SYRIA by ANTHONY IMEH UMOH, BARINAADAA NWINKOL

“…The United Nations Charter gives responsibility to international community to use appropriate diplomatic and other peaceful measure in accordance with Chapter VI and VIII of the Charter to help protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crime against humanity. …”
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The Great COVID-19 Divergence: Managing a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery in the EU by Grégory Claeys, Zsolt Darvas, Maria Demertzis, Guntram B. Wolff

“…Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the biggest global recession since the Second World War. Forecasts show the European Union underperforming economically relative to the United States and China during 2019–2023. …”
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The Architectural Photomontages of Piero Bottoni by Fabio Colonnese

“…In the decade before the Second World War, these techniques provided architects with a visual key to distinguish themselves from the academies’ canonical representation; to seek an affiliation with the European avant-gardes; and to be recognisable in architecture competitions. …”
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The West and the Rest of Us? by Masilo Lepuru

“…Their project of African Independence as undergirded by Pan-Africanism sought to challenge the West as the embodiment of slavery and colonialism (Chinweizu 1975) not only on the continent where it created colonies but the post-World War II dispensation. Many of them propagated socialist sentiments and objectives. …”
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Reviewing and Criticizing the Book “Europe since Napoleon” by Hossein Pendar

“…Therefore, he emphasizes a broad range of factors such as population growth, industrialization, overseas development, democracy, socialism and nationalism, and the war-revolution relationships. Thomson investigates these factors, not country by country, but step by step in the spirit of Europe whole, until its civilization and culture formation over the last two centuries. …”
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Favela, criminalité violente et politique à Rio de Janeiro by Luiz Antonio Machado da Silva

“…The central argument is that with the hyper-politicization of the change that took place in the early 1980s, during the campaign for the State government of Leonel Brizola, a very controversial figure, a new form of social conflict is based on what has been called a "metaphor of war" and has replaced the secular agenda of the debate around the "problem of the slum" - their place in the city - now the topic as an issue related to control the repressive policy of urban peripheries. …”
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Ukrayna Örneğinden Hareketle Nükleer Silahsızlanmanın Olası Sonuçlarına Dair Bir İnceleme by Eray ALIM

“…Nuclear weapons reduce the likelihood of war and conflict among nuclear-armed states. States that are in an inferior position in the military balance gain “absolute deterrence”, if they possess nuclear weapons. …”
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Financialized growth regime and capital accumulation in Brazil: geopolitical and institutional factors of the recent collapse and beyond by Miguel Bruno, Denise Gentil

“…This is representative of a hybrid war aimed at the Workers’ Party government. The econometric results, in addition to corroborating this interpretation, detected the existence of an export-led growth regime between 2001 and 2019 that articulates with financial interests. …”
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Sochi/Сочи 2014: Olympic Winter Games between High Mountains and Seaside by Kurt Scharr, Ernst Steinicke, Axel Borsdorf

“…The IOC’s decision to accept Sochi’s bid to host the 2014 Olympic Winter Games presented the Russian Government with an opportunity for international repositioning. The Caucasian War in August 2008, too, can be linked to this development. …”
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Economic activity of the Kazan City Duma in the 1870s–1880s: Considering the development of local entrepreneurship by G.V. Ibneyeva, A.G. Yakupov

“…This trend was driven by the reduction in civil industry funding during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, as well as by the spread of conservative sentiments within the ruling elite by the end of Alexander II’s reign.…”
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« D’homme à homme » : Récits de rencontres entre Yekkes et Arabes en Palestine/Israël (années 1930 et 1940) by Patrick Farges

“…In view of the recent interest in the gendered aspects within German-Jewish history – including issues of masculinity – the time is ripe to focus on the interactions between German-Jewish immigrants (‘Yekkes’) and their Middle Eastern environment – especially their Arabic neighbours – before and after the war of 1948 and the “partition” of Palestine. This article, which is based on autobiographical accounts and oral history interviews conducted in the early 1990s, focuses on the narratives of man-to-man “close encounters” with the Arabs. …”
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There Is Another, So I am A Critique on the Book Deadly Identities by Shahab Dalili

“…Another elimination causes dissatisfaction on the part of individuals, peoples and tribes in different nations and creates violence, terror, war, and suicide attempts.…”
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Milites amphibii The Baltic Port Cities’ Military Role for Sweden as a Great Power, 1561–1815 by Ralph Tuchtenhagen

“…In the thematic context of a history of Baltic port cities, it is connected to the question of which role port cities could play for amphibious operations in times of war and peace respectively. The following account therefore deals with specific aspects of amphibious operations such as embarkments and debarkations in port cities, logistical problems and garrisons within and outside port cities, questions of supply, transfer, relocations and the housing of soldiers, conflicts between burghers and soldiers, and “amphibious personalities” (milites amphibii) in general. …”
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Coups de pieds en talons hauts : politiques du corps et performancescapes dans les scènes drag et ballroom grecques contemporaines by Natalia Koutsougera, Amalia Maria Kontou

“…Very often these appropriations are read as “in war with Greekness” (Ieropoulos, 2018) and embody the archetype of the modern “deviant” and blaspheme in the eyes of the conservative Christian Orthodox Greek society. …”
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Histoire, mémoire et tribus ou les aarch de 2001 en Kabylie by Nassim Amrouche

“…Mobilizing the history of the war of decolonization that founded the independence of the State, the aarch directly attacked the vouloir vivre ensemble, redefining the constitutive basis of the nation. …”
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