Tall Leather Boots From the Death Pits of Polish Officers – Victims of the Soviet Regime During World War II by Jakub Michalik, Rafał Openkowski, Tomasz Dudziński, Tomasz Kozłowski, Małgorzata Grupa, Filip Nalaskowski

“…Footwear has long been a vital component of human attire, particularly for ancient warriors, knights, and soldiers over the centuries. …”
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Les Combattantes : une anthologie de femmes héroïques by Sonia Suvélor

“…The series Les Combattantes breaks down these stereotypes by bringing another dimension to the role of women, these shadow warriors. Through this eight-episode mini-series on the crucial role of female patriots, it is the duty of remembrance as well as the need for hidden recognition that are effectively revived.…”
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L’espace, le corps et les aliens dans la science-fiction féminine japonaise by Mari Kotani

“…This paper will focus on three themes in particular in a number of works in order to examine the history of Japanese women's sf: A) The Utopia of Women: Suzuki Izumi (The World of Women and Women), Hikawa Reiko (Women Warriors Efera and Jiriora), Matsuo Yumi (The Murders of Balloontown), and Arai Motoko (Tigris and Euphrates); B) The Transformation of Women into Monsters: Hagio Moto (Star Red), Yamao Yuko (The City Where Dreams Live), Ohara Mariko (« Hybrid Child »), Shinoda Setsuko (Gosainthan), and Shono Yoriko (The Development of my Mother); C) The Alteration of Maculinity: Kurimoto Kaoru (The Guin Saga), Sato Aki (The Travels of Balthazar), and Takano Fumio (Vaslaf).…”
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Onward Christian soldiers! Christians in the army by A. van de Beek

“…In this tradition, soldiers are praised as warriors for the sake of God. A recent sermon from the USA and one from nineteenth-century Germany are analysed, compared and positioned within the tradition of Eusebius. …”
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Rimes de malandrins : du narcocorrido au narco rap by Enrique Flores

“…: artistic and criminal performance; reality as the kingdom of insane violence; Dante’s hell and Rimbaud’s “time of assassins”; jails, drug and misery; Pancho Villa’s mural; Caballeros águila and body painting; outlaw culture and “warriors of the drug” –from the Brazilian jails to the neighborhoods of Los Angeles; “Reynosa la maldosa”; Marcola, Tiger and Subway 3; “Big Word” and “Murderers Artists”; Gangsta rap; narcopoetry and hallucination; poetics of the crime; “Crime pays: rhyme pays”.…”
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La sémantique des noms : taxinomie djihadiste et imaginaire médiéval by Enki Baptiste

“…Within this narrative, the warriors of the Prophet and those of the jihadist caliphate merge.…”
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El giro sacrificial. Reflexiones sobre el eje tupi-mexica by Oscar Calavia Sáez

“…This paper compares two well-known rituals described among the Aztec and the Tupinambá, during which captive warriors were put to death. Usually, the first is interpreted as a form of “sacrifice” taking place in a complex State organized around priestly structures; the second is associated with “cannibalism” and a fluid society, in constant becoming. …”
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Social Cohesion in Ola Rotimi’s Kurunmi: A Resonance of History, Culture and Law by Yemi Atanda

“…This is the kernel of historical narrative used by Ola Rotimi, in constructing his play, Kurunmi, to refect rivalry between the Ibadan warriors and those of Ijaye. Tis essay examines the confict to refect and suggest the need for just, peace, and unity for social cohesion among Yoruba people, and by and large, Nigerians. …”
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The predictors of outcome in patients that require management in intensive care units: A narrative review by İbrahim Karagöz, Bahri Özer, Gulali Aktas

“… Intensive care units stand as the frontline battlegrounds where medical warriors combat the most critical illnesses and injuries. …”
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Danser et être dansé by Maria Acselrad

“…The caboclinhos are linked to Jurema, an Afro-indigenous religion that worships the caboclos (ancestral spirits of indigenous people, warriors and healers). In the aesthetic of north-eastern Brazil, the understanding of the “world as a battle” is central to conceiving of the ethos of this religion (Lagrou and Gonçalves, 2013). …”
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Le viol : un crime spécifique. Quelques pistes de réflexions issues de l’anthropologie by Véronique Nahoum-Grappe

“…This article attempts to define 'wartime' rape from a social science rather than a legal point of view: the term is a cliché that needs to be deconstructed in order to better describe the facts: the 'systematic rapes' committed in the former Yugoslavia (1991-95) are different in terms of their political meaning and concrete practice from those more conventionally described as rewards and spoils for warriors in the event of military victory. Moreover, 'wartime rape' needs to be placed in its historical context, and also in terms of the situation in real time. …”
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The Sexed or Unsexed Voice on the Lyrical Stage in 18th-c. London by Pierre Dubois

“…It is not the least of paradoxes that the castrati that performed in Italian opera both in Italy in the 17th century and on the London stage after the Restoration should have acted the parts of manly seducers, mighty kings or warriors in spite of their high-pitched, ‘feminine’ voices.  …”
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El linaje catalán Queralt-Timor y su relación con la Orden del Temple (siglos XII-XIV) by Joan Fuguet Sans, Carme Plaza Arqué

“…They were all professional warriors and took an active part in the conquests which the monarchy carried out in the thirteenth century. …”
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Les jardins paysagers des seigneurs domaniaux de l’époque d’Edo et les manuels relatifs à la composition des jardins by Nicolas Fiévé

“…The pre-modern period (1573-1867) marks the start of a new development of gardens in many areas, and the state lords – the new elite coming from the warriors class – enjoy having vast landscape parks built; these parks often spread over ten hectares, which is a new phenomenon. …”
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Henry Rider Haggard’s Nordicism? When Black Vikings fight alongside White Zulus in South Africa by Gilles TEULIÉ

“…Haggard evokes the Vikings but also the Norse elite warriors, the Berserkir in some of his novels. This article purports to examine Haggard’s engagement with the ambient racial ideologies of the period: was he just a man of his time or did he have another vision for race relations in South Africa?…”
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Uncanny Beloveds and the Return of the Repressed by Maya Petrovich

“…One current of tradition praised them as handsome and skilled warriors, but a purported betrayal by Tatars during the battle against Tīmūr in 1402 evolved into a recurrent motif of Ottoman historiography, justifying the ambivalence which the courtly elites felt toward Chinggisids and the northern steppe. …”
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A historical overview of the Wärğəḥ Muslim community in the Christian highland of Šäwa by Deresse Ayenachew

“…Due to their resistance against expansions, they were described as warriors and a ferocious people. For the purpose of this paper, we have gathered oral accounts from 13 local villages of north Šäwa to identify how these people reconstruct their history and to understand how all these villages networked with each other to endure the waves of dynamic religious and population movements of these periods. …”
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Achilles Rupture Repair: Modified Gift-Box With a Proximal Myotendinous Backup Fixation Technique by Nicholas D. Cominos, B.S., Joseph S. Tramer, M.D., Andrew J. Peace, M.D., Matthew A. Zaborowicz, M.D., Erik B. Eller, M.D., Lafi S. Khalil, M.D.

“…Achilles tendon tears are not an uncommon injury, with a predominance in explosive athletes and weekend warriors in the third to fifth decade of life. Consideration of operative intervention is commonplace in young athletes, whereas less active and older individuals may opt for nonsurgical treatment. …”
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The returning dead: unconventional inhumations in Medieval Lithuania by Gintautas Vėlius

“…The great number of weapons in prone male burials presuppose attributing the latter as the graves of warriors fallen in battle. Unconventional burial traditions gradually vanished due to entrenchment of Christian concept of post-existence as well as due to burials in churchyards and sanctified cemeteries. …”
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Derrida and his shadow by Ronell Avital

“…Are philosophers, while rhetorically armed to the teeth, basically unarmed warriors, politically hungry, as in the differently deposed cases of Plato and Heidegger? …”
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