Le cerf chez les anciens P’urhépecha du Michoacan (Mexique) : guerre, chasse et sacrifice by Brigitte Faugère

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Bentyia (Kukyia): a Songhay–Mande meeting point, and a “missing link” in the archaeology of the West African diasporas of traders, warriors, praise-singers, and clerics by Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias

“…It was a magnet for diasporas of Soninke praise-singers and Mande warriors and traders. Fishermen and other waterfolk along the river, oral traditionists and other craftspeople, priests and priestesses of African cults, and Islamic clerics, as well as armies, long-distance merchants, and enslaved human beings, moved along it. …”
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The associations of physical activity patterns and the triglyceride-glucose index in US adults: a secondary data analysis of NHANES (2007–2018) by JinYe Zhang, YiLin Yang, HaoNan Zheng, BoWen Bai, QianKun Yang, Li Zhang, YuTong Zhao, Jing Luo, Bin Yu

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Idea občana – válečníka a „moderní“ maskulinní identita: modelová studie z dějin Spojených států by Jiří Hutečka

“…They mostly served to fulfill what we can call the “citizen-warrior” concept as borrowed by contemporary theorists from ancient republics. …”
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Chevolución, Chesucristo: historia de un ícono en dos clichés by Verushka Alvizuri

“…The stereotypical image of Che Guevara has two faces: the heroic Marxist warrior and the Christian martyr. The portrait Heroic warrior by Alberto Korda and the pictures of the corpse, by Freddy Alborta were realized in exceptional circumstances which are described by this article using an approach of cultural photographic history. …”
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Gluteal Muscle Activation During Common Yoga Poses by B.J. Lehecka, Sydney Stoffregen, Adam May, Jacob Thomas, Austin Mettling, Josh Hoover, Rex Hafenstine, Nils A Hakansson

“… # Conclusion Half Moon Pose and Warrior Three Pose elicited the highest activation for both the gluteus maximus and the gluteus medius. …”
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Assessment of Triploid Watermelon Cultivars Grown in Georgia for Yield and Quality Parameters by Manisha Kumari, Angelos Deltsidis, Xuelin Luo, Camille McAvoy, Theodore McAvoy

“…In terms of fruit quality, ‘Jetski’, ‘Warrior’, ‘Captivation’, ‘Sierra Nevada’, ‘Embasy’, and ‘Powerhouse’ had the highest soluble solid content among all the cultivars. …”
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The Spell of the Ancestors at the “Feast of Victory” (Nemlaay): From Initiation Ritual to Community Blessings by Antonio J. Guerreiro

“…Although the core of the Nemlaay, i.e. the initiation rites and warrior training for the young boys and men—the live-saving force of the village during headhunting times—remain a martial value in society. …”
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Le jaguar, sujet et objet du sacrifice maya by Claude-François Baudez

“…Likened to the human warrior, whose fate is to defeat and be defeated, the jaguar is both sacrificer and sacrified.…”
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Haggard’s Questioning of the Heroic by John Coates

“…The two novels explore his misgivings about the warrior ethic and competitive heroic societies.…”
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Unending War: Combat Trauma in Joss Whedon’s "Firefly" by Aneta Kliszcz, Joanna Komorowska

“…In doing so, it highlights the image of warrior and war in popular culture.…”
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Le genre d’Athéna dans les tragédies athéniennes by Audrey Vasselin

“…She supports the weaving, which refers partly to the weaving of the future bride’s trousseau and to the newlyweds consecrating their belt to Athena during the Apatouria, but the goddess is often depicted as a warrior. The panoply she wears is the ultimate symbol of virility. …”
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Sázka na nejistou kartu. Armádní služba a sociální úpadek Raduitů de Souches na přelomu 17. a 18. století by Vítězslav Prchal

“…They were not only the inherent part of aristocratic warrior careers, but they also, in the situation of yet undeveloped fiscal mechanisms of a premodern state that was still searching for ways how to finance its permanent army, represented a risk factor which, to a considerable extent, decided about success or failure not only of the particular individuals, but as well their families and other generations of the dynasty, in the strictly socially stratified society of the early modern period. …”
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Représenter la victoire militaire d’une femme by Marjolaine Massé

“…The image here circumvents the impossibility of showing a woman as a warrior yet presents a demonstration of power through its materiality and its triumphant imperial iconography. …”
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Sarraounia, une reine africaine entre histoire et mythe littéraire (Niger, 1899-2010) by Elara Bertho

“…Published in 1980, he intended his novel Sarraounia  to be a form of  historical authentification, despite the fact the figure of a warrior queen was little known, if not completely unknown, to historians. …”
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A sigilografia portuguesa em tempos de Afonso Henriques by Maria do Rosário Barbosa Morujão

“…A special importance is given to the royal seals, exploring a possible explanation for the eminently heraldic character that always marked the royal Portuguese sigillography, pointing to the importance as a warrior of Afonso Henriques, symbolized by his shield of arms, as a factor that gave legitimacy to his kingship and the independence of Portugal. …”
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The illnesses of Herod the Great by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…An able statesman, builder and warrior, he ruthlessly stamped out all perceived opposition to his rule. …”
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Bradamante et Fleurdépine. L’amour impossible du Roland furieux (1532) by Valentina Irena Denzel

“…One of them is the unfortunate love of Princess Fleurdépine for the woman warrior Bradamante. While male homosexual relations seem to be possible in the Ariostean epic, love between women is described as non-existent. …”
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Land conflict, murder, and the rise of “timeless culture” and girl blaming (Samburu, Kenya) by Bilinda Straight

“…The paper examines youthful practices in the Samburu pastoralist age set system as they evolved into tropes of warrior girlfriends inciting masculine violence. Through a close examination of a well-publicized Kenyan court case surrounding the suspicious death in 1931 of Theodore Powys, a British settler, this paper documents the shaping of a discourse about feminine agency and masculine bravado among the youth that eventuated in harsh state-sponsored collective punishment of a pastoralist Samburu community. …”
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L’UMANA IMMANITÀ: FONTI E FORTUNA DEL FERO ARGANTE. by Gianni Antonio Palumbo

“…Palumbo’s essay aims to investigate the sources of Argante, Circassian warrior who is the principal defender of Jerusalem in Tasso’s poem. …”
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