The Europeans in the USA War of Independence by Mykhailo Kirsenko

“…It is compared mutual influences of the American and French Revolution reflected in documents and biographies. The Frenchmen La Fayette, Beaumarchais and Rochambeau, Poles Kościuszko and Pulaski, German von Steuben, and Scotsman Paul Jones proved to be the most distinguished among foreign friends of the young nation contributing a lot to its victory. …”
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The Boratynsky family in 1917: the nobility in times of crisis by Yelena V. Mironova

“…Boratynsky, the feelings, thoughts and living conditions of the nobility are shown; their short biographies are presented before and after the described events. …”
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Politics of Counter-Memory in Turkey: Docudramatizing the Past as a Panacea for Official Discourses? by Nuran E. Işik

“…As a response to hegemonic discourses, a critical/democratic historiography influenced works in popular history, exemplified by documentaries, biographies, and other genre. In the second half of the paper, Mustafa, as a discursive form of counter history is described. …”
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Dabarties rekonstrukcija Marguerite’os Yourcenar romane Hadriano memuarai | La reconstruction du present dans le roman de Marguerite Yourcenar Memoires d’Hadrien by Vytautas Bikulčius

“…La définition de cette oeuvre comme une biographie imaginaire est la plus courante. Entre le II siècle et XX siècle il existe une distance énorme, néanmoins M. …”
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INTERVIEW: DAVID FOENKINOS, L’HISTOIRE D’UNE VIE REDOUBLEE PAR LA FICTION by Alina ALUAȘ

“…Le roman La Délicatesse (2009) représente le véritable tournant de sa carrière, grâce aussi à l’adaptation, réalisée en 2011 par David Foenkinos lui-même en collaboration avec son frère Stéphane Foenkinos et aux interprétations offertes par Audrey Tautou et François Damiens. De même, les biographies faites par l’auteur montrent son éclectisme : Lennon (2010) sur le musicien John Lennon, Charlotte (2014) sur la femme peintre Charlotte Salomon et Numéro Deux (2022) rappelant le casting de Harry Potter, fascinent le lecteur par le jeu permanent entre la réalité et la fiction. …”
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Protocols of Conversion: Indigenous Gods and Eminent Monks in East Asian Buddhism by Jiyeon Choe, Jin Son

“…By carefully examining various stories of the interactions between eminent monks and various gods found mostly in the biographies of eminent monks in Buddhist literature, we find three recognizable patterns when an indigenous god transforms into a “Buddhist” god. …”
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Convents of England IX - Mid XI Centuries by I. I. Boldyreva

“…The study is based on a wide range of historical evidence: hagiographic writings, biographies, letters, chronicles. The factors determining the decline of double monasteries in England in the 9th century are revealed. …”
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Penerapan Naskah Kuno dan Pemanfaatannya untuk Pengembangan Wisata Religi Ziarah di Surau Simaung Kabupaten Sijunjung by Pramono Pramono, Muchlis Awwali, Donny Eros, Rafiq Gusly Abdul Razaq, Surya Selfika, Nur Ahmad Salman Herbowo

“…Producing text editions of manuscripts containing biographies of Tarekat scholars and their teachings can revive the creative industry, especially the publishing sector and the engineering of Batik motif illumination. …”
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INTERVIEW: DAVID FOENKINOS, L’HISTOIRE D’UNE VIE REDOUBLEE PAR LA FICTION by Alina ALUAȘ

“…Le roman La Délicatesse (2009) représente le véritable tournant de sa carrière, grâce aussi à l’adaptation, réalisée en 2011 par David Foenkinos lui-même en collaboration avec son frère Stéphane Foenkinos et aux interprétations offertes par Audrey Tautou et François Damiens. De même, les biographies faites par l’auteur montrent son éclectisme : Lennon (2010) sur le musicien John Lennon, Charlotte (2014) sur la femme peintre Charlotte Salomon et Numéro Deux (2022) rappelant le casting de Harry Potter, fascinent le lecteur par le jeu permanent entre la réalité et la fiction. …”
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The Venetian Community in Byzantine Thebes (1072–1204): A Prosopographical Study by Gang Wu

“…The study adopted a prosopography methodology, reconstructing and analysing the biographies of individuals and families in groups. The investigation covers the community’s leading families and individuals, as well as clergy and ecclesiastical establishments of special interest. …”
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Intimate Lovers, Legal Strangers—The Politics of Dissident Relationality in Portugal by Ana Cristina Santos, Ana Lúcia Santos

“…The purpose of this article is to understand how state recognition contributes to the un/doing of the abject culturally attached to LGBTQ+ intimacies; and to examine personal, sociocultural, and legal traits that shape biographies turning intimate citizens into intimate lovers and/or legal strangers. …”
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The Effect of Time and Form on 21st-Century Architecture [FOURTH DIMENSION] by Gehan Ahmed Elsayed

“…If we look at the social context, we explore the biographies and works of the main characters in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, one shall notice that ethics and religion merely affected the study of the fourth dimension. …”
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Trollope, Liberalism and Scripture by Hervé Picton

“…Les facteurs explicatifs sont nombreux et relèvent tant de la biographie que de l’évolution générale du climat intellectuel, avec en particulier la publication de The Origin of Species en 1859 et des Essays and Reviews en 1860. …”
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The Social Structure of Participants of the Battle of Blore Heath (September 23, 1459) by Andrey G. Prazdnikov

“…The study of further lives of the participants of the battle and biographies of their children showed that the adherence of the chosen dynasty was preserved by generations and change of the parties was rather a deviation from the norm. …”
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Meaningful teaching of sexuality education framed by culture: Xhosa secondary school teachers’ views by Nomawonga Veronica Msutwana

“…The study has implications for teachers and curriculum developers to contextualise the curriculum in terms of learners’ biographies and to engage local and relevant knowledges critically in dealing with issues of sexuality, gender inequality as well as HIV and AIDS. …”
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The current state of research on family history of Stolberg-Wernigerode Dönhoffstädt and their archives in the State Archives in Olsztyn by Marta Adamska

“…The origins of the family, but also development of the individual lines, may be reconstructed based on the nineteenth and early twentieth-century German heraldic and genealogical publications, as well as individual biographies of members of the family. To a certain degree information collected from above resources may be completed by an album dedicated to the noble's residencies situated in the Kingdom of Prussia in the nineteenth century, and also by the book Stolberg 1210-2010. …”
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NARRATIVAS (AUTO) BIOGRÁFICAS: SINGULARIDADES POSSÍVEIS by Raquel Alvarenga Sena Venera

“…This article is part of the ongoing research analysis titled "(Auto)biographies and subjectivities: the other himself in multiple sclerosis", which aims to analyze, from the concepts of time and memory, the processes of subjectivation of people affected by the multiple sclerosis disease. …”
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Meaningful teaching of sexuality education framed by culture: Xhosa secondary school teachers’ views by Nomawonga Veronica Msutwana

“…The study has implications for teachers and curriculum developers to contextualise the curriculum in terms of learners’ biographies and to engage local and relevant knowledges critically in dealing with issues of sexuality, gender inequality as well as HIV and AIDS. …”
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The functioning in the borderland and the perception of cultural diversity In the declarations of polish and czech students by Anna Szafrańska

“…What seems significant as well is that their identities and biographies are shaped by both macro-social and macro-economic tendencies. …”
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Who tweets what about personalised medicine? Promises and concerns from Twitter discussions in Denmark by Lea Skovgaard, Anders Grundtvig

“…Based on user-generated biographies we categorise users as having a ‘Professional interest in personalised medicine’ or as ‘Private’ users. …”
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