[Speeches, 1867-1879.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of maritime Connecticut during the American revolution, 1775-1783, /

Mode of access: Internet.

Reisetagebuch aus den Jahren 1867 und 1868 /

1. Th. Island. England, Schottland, Irland. Frankreich. Algerien. Tunis und Karthago.--2. Th. Spanien und Portugal. Zweiter Aufenhalt in Frankreich und England.

Medford in the Revolution : military history of Medford, Massachusetts, 1765-1783 : also list of soldiers and civil officers, with genealogical and biographical notes /

Mode of access: Internet.

Der Tractat Kethuboth : (nach der Wiener Ausgabe vom Jahre 1867 ed. Schlossberg)

unter steter Berücksichtigung der franz. Uebersetzung von Rabbinowicz ins Deutsche übertragen und kommentirt von Dr. M. Rawicz, Bezirks-Rabbiner in Offenburg (Baden)

Metodismo de imigração e afro-brasileiros: Análise de alguns aspectos importantes da relação entre imigrantes metodistas estadunidenses e população afro-brasileira na região de Piracicaba no período de 1867 a 1930.

Os imigrantes metodistas americanos que chegaram ao Brasil em meados do século XIX na região de Piracicaba, são majoritariamente do sul dos Estados Unidos e, portanto, escravocratas. Encontram aqui não apenas a oportunidade de reconstruírem suas vidas devastadas pela guerra de secessão (1861-1865), como também uma nova possibilidade de reviverem seus ideais escravocratas, num país ainda escravagista. Com efeito, a presente dissertação versa sobre alguns aspectos importantes das relações destes imigrantes com a população afro-brasileira, priorizando o recorte histórico entre 1867-1930 e procurando destacar situações históricas na região de Piracicaba. Na tentativa de reconstituir possíveis anseios de liberdade dos afro-brasileiros, sua resistência e luta pela abolição, a pesquisa discute também o contexto de transição do país em face do liberalismo emergente na economia e na política, o que facilitou em muitos aspectos a inserção do protestantismo. Em face do exposto, a fundamentação teórica será feita a partir de autores como Boaventura de Souza Santos (2006), Frantz Fanon (1968;2008), Abdias do Nascimento (1978), Eugene Genovese(1983), Justus Gonzalez (2007), Antonio Gouveia Mendonça (2008), José Carlos Barbosa (2002), Júlio Chiavenato(1988), Eugene Harter (1985), Peri Mesquida (1994), Judith MacKnigth Jones (1967) entre outros. O distanciamento da missão metodista em relação às necessidades das populações afro-brasileiras demonstra que os metodistas direcionaram sua missão mais para si mesmos, como colônia e posteriormente, para as elites. As populações pobres, incluindo os afro-brasileiros da região, não foram contempladas. Isso pode explicar a ausência destes nas instituições metodistas até 1930 quando da autonomia da Igreja Metodista do Brasil em relação à Igreja Metodista Episcopal do Sul dos Estados Unidos.

Discovery and settlement of Alaska coaster

Tsar Peter the Great ruled Russia between 1689 and 1725. Its domains, stretching from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. From north to south, its empire stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the borders with China and India. Tsar Peter I tried to extend the geographical knowledge of his government and the rest of the world. He was also interested in the expansion of trade in Russia and in the control of trade routes. Feodor Luzhin and Ivan Yeverinov explored the eastern border of the Russian Empire, the trip between 1719 and 1721 and reported to the Tsar. They had crossed the peninsula of Kamchatka, from west to east and had traveled from the west coast of Kamchatka to the Kuril Islands. The information collected led to the first map of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands. Tsar Peter ordered Bering surf the Russian Pacific coast, build ships and sail the seas north along the coast to regions of America. The second expedition found equal to those of the previous explorers difficulties. Two ships were eventually thrown away in Okhotsk in 1740. The explorers spent the winter of 1740-1741 stockpiling supplies and then navigate to Petropavlovsk. The two ships sailed eastward and did together until June 20, then separated by fog. After searching Chirikov and his boat for several days, Bering ordered the San Pedro continue to the northeast. There the Russian sailors first sighted Alaska. According to the log, "At 12:30 (pm July 17) in sight of snow-capped mountains and between them a high volcano." This finding came the day of St. Elijah and so named the mountain.

Contraprestaciones por los servicios financieros del Consulado de México y sus miembros: los fondos extraordinarios para la guerra contra Gran Bretaña, 1779-1783

Nueva España aportó la mayor parte de los recursos que sostuvieron a las fuerzas armadas españolas durante la guerra contra Gran Bretaña que se desarrolló en el Caribe entre 1779 y 1783. En el artículo se analizan las medidas a las que recurrieron las autoridades reales para obtener recursos extraordinarios del Consulado y varios mercaderes de la ciudad de México. Asimismo se exponen algunas de las contraprestaciones que negociaron a cambio de dichos servicios financieros y se plantean diversas hipótesis acerca de los motivos económicos, sociales y políticos que los llevaron a colaborar con el monarca, teniendo en cuenta los negocios que realizaban durante el conflicto bélico y la forma en que eran afectados por la reciente apertura comercial.

Fabrication, Optical Analysis and Photonic Applications of Certain Metallic Nanostructure-Integrated Dye Doped Polymer Optical Fibers” submitted by Ms. Suneetha Sebastian

Polymer Optical Fibers have occupied historically a place for large core flexible fibers operating in short distances. In addition to their practical passive application in short-haul communication they constitute a potential research field as active devices with organic dopants. Organic dyes are preferred as dopants over organic semiconductors due to their higher optical cross section. Thus organic dyes as gain media in a polymer fiber is used to develop efficient and narrow laser sources with a tunability throughout the visible region or optical amplifier with high gain. Dyes incorporated in fiber form has added advantage over other solid state forms such as films since the pump power required to excite the molecules in the core of the fiber is less thereby utilising the pump power effectively. In 1987, Muto et.al investigated a dye doped step index polymer fiber laser. Afterwards, numerous researches have been carried out in this area demonstrating laser emission from step index, graded index and hollow optical fibers incorporating various dyes. Among various dyes, Rhodamine6G is the most widely and commonly used laser dye for the last four decades. Rhodamine6G has many desirable optical properties which make it preferable over other organic dyes such as Coumarin, Nile Blue, Curcumin etc. The research focus on the implementation of efficient fiber lasers and amplifiers for short fiber distances. Developing efficient plastic lasers with electrical pumping can be a new proposal in this field which demands lowest possible threshold pump energy of the gain medium in the cavity as an important parameter. One way of improving the efficiency of the lasers, through low threshold pump energy, is by modifying the gain of the amplifiers in the resonator/cavity. Success in the field of Radiative Decay Engineering can pave way to this problem. Laser gain media consisting of dye-nanoparticle composites can improve the efficiency by lowering the lasing threshold and enhancing the photostability. The electric field confined near the surface of metal nanoparticles due to Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance can be very effective for the excitation of active centers to impart high optical gain for lasing. Since the Surface Plasmon Resonance of nanoparticles of gold and silver lies in the visible range, it can affect the spectral emission characteristics of organic dyes such as Rhodamine6G through plasmon field generated by the particles. The change in emission of the dye placed near metal nanoparticles depend on plasmon field strength which in turn depends on the type of metal, size of nanoparticle, surface modification of the particle and the wavelength of incident light. Progress in fabrication of different types of nanostructures lead to the advent of nanospheres, nanoalloys, core-shell and nanowires to name a few. The thesis deals with the fabrication and characterisation of polymer optical fibers with various metallic and bimetallic nanostructures incorporated in the gain media for efficient fiber lasers with low threshold and improved photostability.

Murtavia voimia: kuvauksia katovuoden 1867 ajoilta

Tämä teos liittyy jatkona ennen ilmestyneeseen teokseen "Puukkojunkkarit", ollen kuitenkin siitä riippumaton, itsenäinen teos.

“PROSPERING BECAUSE THAT’S ITS HISTORY”: BLACK RESILIENCE AND HONORS DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE OF MARYLAND, 1867-1988

This study explores the origins and development of honors education at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU), Morgan State University, within the context of the Maryland higher education system. During the last decades, public and private institutions have invested in honors experiences for their high-ability students. These programs have become recruitment magnets while also raising institutional academic profiles, justifying additional campus resources. The history of higher education reveals simultaneous narratives such as the tension of post-desegregated Black colleges facing uncertain futures; and the progress of the rise and popularity of collegiate honors programs. Both accounts contribute to tracing seemingly parallel histories in higher education that speaks to the development of honors education at HBCUs. While the extant literature on honors development at Historically White Institutions (HWIs) of higher education has gradually emerged, our understanding of activity at HBCUs is spotty at best. One connection of these two phenomena is the development of honors programs at HBCUs. Using Morgan State University, I examine the role and purpose of honors education at a public HBCU through archival materials and oral histories. Major unexpected findings that constructed this historical narrative beyond its original scope were the impact of the 1935/6 Murray v Pearson, the first higher education desegregation case. Other emerging themes were Morgan’s decades-long efforts to resist state control of its governance, Maryland’s misuse of Morrill Act funds, and the border state’s resistance to desegregation. Also, the broader histories of Black education, racism, and Black citizenship from Dred Scott and Plessy, the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation to Brown, inform this study. As themes are threaded together, Critical Race Theory provides the framework for understanding the emerging themes. In the immediate wake of the post-desegregation era, HBCUs had to address future challenges such as purpose and mission. Competing with HWIs for high-achieving Black students was one of the unanticipated consequences of the Brown decision. Often marginalized from higher education research literature, this study will broaden the research repository of honors education by documenting HBCU contributions despite a challenging landscape.