Verkhoyansk Secondary School — the Oldest School in the Far North: The Beginning of a Long Journey by Vladimir P. STAROSTIN

“…The school, which was opened two and a half centuries later, has its own history, as interesting as the city itself: it reflects almost all the events that took place in such a distant time in the Arctic coast of the Arctic, in Yakutia, in Russia. …”
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Osli keresztnévadásának története napjainkig by Mária Vargha-Horváth

“… The history of Christian-name-giving practices in the settlement of Osli (Western Hungary) Christian-name-giving practices in the settlement of Osli changed greatly in many respects during the two and a half centuries surveyed in the present paper. Until the middle of the 1960s, the name stock was rather poor, with the exception of the period between 1845 and 1885, when popular names changed significantly and many more Christian names came into use, reducing name frequency (the period was first described by Ferenc Jáky, a 19th century local priest). …”
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Searching for the Power Law in a historical analysis of Test cricket by Venkatesh Govindarajan

“…This paper starts off with the hypothesis that the Power Law is applicable to several aspects of the ‘system’ of Test cricket – distribution of runs scored, matches played, wickets taken, half-centuries and centuries scored, catches pouched, etc., and investigates data accumulated and organised from a single statistical source on the Internet – www.howstat.com – in order to test this hypothesis. …”
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Na Vuku Makawa ni Qoli: Indigenous Fishing Knowledge (IFK) in Fiji and the Pacific by Salanieta Kitolelei, Randy Thaman, Joeli Veitayaki, Annette Breckwoldt, Susanna Piovano

“…The study reviews studies of the last two and a half centuries on IFK from Fiji and elsewhere in the small oceanic islands of the Pacific, as a basis for the conservation, documentation and intergenerational transfer of this knowledge as the foundation for sustainable fisheries management. …”
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The basics of gravitational wave theory by Flanagan, Eanna E., Hughes, Scott A

“…Curvature is responsible for gravity, carrying us beyond the Newtonian conception of gravity that had been in place for the previous two and a half centuries. Much research in gravitation since then has explored and clarified the consequences of this revolution; the notion of dynamical spacetime is now firmly established in the toolkit of modern physics. …”
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Evidence that the aesthetic preference for Hogarth’s Line of Beauty is an evolutionary by-product by Ronald Hübner, David M. G. Lewis, Laith Al-Shawaf, Ayten Yesim Semchenko, Jonathon Flores

“…Hogarth’s assertion has had a profound impact on diverse fields over the past two and a half centuries. However, only one recent (2022) study has investigated whether Hogarth’s assertion accurately captures humans’ actual aesthetic preferences, and no research has explored why people find the LoB beautiful. …”
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Tracing the Influence of Ming-Qing Buddhism in Early Modern Japan: Yunqi Zhuhong’s <i>Tract on Refraining from Killing and on Releasing Life</i> and Ritual Animal Releases by Barbara R. Ambros

“…Not only may the publication of a Sino–Japanese edition of Zhuhong’s <i>Tract</i> in 1661 have been an impetus for Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi’s Laws of Compassion in the late-seventeenth century, but also approximately thirty Japanese Buddhist texts inspired by Zhuhong’s <i>Tract</i> appeared over the next two and a half centuries. As Zhuhong’s ethic of refraining from killing and releasing life was assimilated over the course of the Edo and into the Meiji period, life releases became primarily associated with generating merit for the posthumous repose of the ancestors although they were also said to have a variety of vital benefits for the devotees and their families, such as health, longevity, prosperity, and descendants.…”
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“The Eighteen Million Täwaḥǝdo Victims of Martyr-Saint Adyam Sägäd Iyasu”: Towards a Better Understanding of Lasta–Tǝgray Defiance of the Royal Centre of Gondärine Ethiopia (1630s... by Kindeneh Endeg Mihretie

“…This synod settled the Christological controversy that beset the Ethiopian Church for two and a half centuries, by declaring Karra, the polemical name for Täwaḥǝdo, as official orthodoxy. …”
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Revisiting the early instrumental temperature records of Basel and Geneva by Yuri Brugnara, Stefan Brönnimann

“…Basel and Geneva have two of the longest meteorological records in Switzerland, covering more than two and a half centuries. The respective monthly temperature series were published over 60 years ago and are part of todays main global temperature data sets. …”
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De Brusselse bevolking: een demografische doorlichting by Patrick Deboosere, Thierry Eggerickx, Etienne Van Hecke, Benjamin Wayens

“…The demographic development of Brussels has always been strongly dominated by migration over the past one and half centuries and this is not different today. The capital city has experienced a rise in population over the past few years and, just like all large European cities, the population composition is highly influenced by internationalisation. …”
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Review of the Monograph: Seleznev Yu.V. Russkie knyaz’ya pri dvore khanov Zolotoy Ordy (Russian Princes at the Court of the Golden Horde Khans) by Nesin M.A.

“…This work is the first comprehensive study in the historiography of this issue for all two and a half centuries of the Tartar domination. The monograph was published for the first time in 2013 and served as the basis for a doctoral dissertation, which Seleznev defended in 2015. …”
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“What the great Alexander and the famous Julius Caesar wanted so much to see”. A commemoration of the fourth centenary of the Blue Nile Sources discovery by the Spanish Jesuit Pedr... by Víctor M. Fernández

“…The next European who visited the place was the Scottish James Bruce in 1770, and the sources in Lake Victoria of the other large arm of the river, the White Nile, were not discovered until two and a half centuries later, with the travels of the English John Hanning Speke in 1858-1862.…”
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La population bruxelloise : un éclairage démographique by Patrick Deboosere, Thierry Eggerickx, Etienne Van Hecke, Benjamin Wayens

“…The demographic development of Brussels has always been strongly dominated by migration over the past one and half centuries and this is not different today. The capital city has experienced a rise in population over the past few years and, just like all large European cities, the population composition is highly influenced by internationalisation. …”
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The population of Brussels: a demographic overview by Patrick Deboosere, Thierry Eggerickx, Etienne Van Hecke, Benjamin Wayens

“…The demographic development of Brussels has always been strongly dominated by migration over the past one and half centuries and this is not different today. The capital city has experienced a rise in population over the past few years and, just like all large European cities, the population composition is highly influenced by internationalisation. …”
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Progress in the discovery of isopods (Crustacea: Peracarida)—is the description rate slowing down? by Lena Hartebrodt, Simon Wilson, Mark John Costello

“…In over two and a half centuries of discovery, 10,687 isopod species in 1,557 genera and 141 families have been described by 755 first authors. …”
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The veto on images and the aniconic God in Ancient Israel by Tryggve Mettinger

“…escaped prophetic criticism for one and a half centuries. Jehu's reforms did not alter this fact, nor do Elijah and Elisha seem to have expressed misgivings. …”
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Kerensk and Lomov Frontier Lines: history and prospects of study by Vladimir V. Stavitsky

“…The history of studying the Kerensk and Lomov frontier lines has more than two and a half centuries, but it has not yet become the subject of a special historiographical analysis. …”
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Disappeared medieval watchtowers in Granada (Spain). Workflow and standards for the survey of a vanished architectural heritage by Luis José García-Pulido, Jonathan Ruiz-Jaramillo

“…The kingdom of Granada was maintained with few modifications over the next two and a half centuries, until the War of Granada, which caused it to collapse between 1482 and 1491. …”
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The Indian Sundarban Mangrove Forests: History, Utilization, Conservation Strategies and Local Perception by Aditya Ghosh, Susanne Schmidt, Thomas Fickert, Marcus Nüsser

“…In view of the importance of such forests, now severely threatened worldwide, we trace the areal change that the Indian Sundarbans have undergone over the last two-and-a-half centuries. We apply a multi-temporal and multi-scale approach based on historical maps and remote sensing data to detect changes in mangrove cover. …”
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Vaiksed kohad by Mari-Ann Remmel

“…The oldest lore narratives were written down about one and a half centuries ago. Since then landscapes have been extensively rearranged, which has brought about changes in people’s way of life, their recollections of place lore narratives, and the appearance of lore places, sometimes also in their names. …”
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