A linguagem do espaço em Henry James: a fase madura

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Henry Radcliffe Sims Papers - Accession 9

The Henry Radcliffe Sims Papers consist primarily of personal and business correspondence and offers a good source of information on the Sims family's varied interests in South Carolina, especially their businesses in Orangeburg, South Carolina. The correspondence generally deals with Henry Sims' brief military career; his presidency at Winthrop; his efforts along with his brothers' help to establish a radio station at Orangeburg; his constant concern in the Sims Publishing Company; his interest in the political and educational welfare of his nephews; his devotion to his family; and his association with various South Carolina legislators. Areas of research would perhaps include, among others, biographical information on Sims and his family; their contributions to South Carolina, especially in the area of publications (ex. Times and Democrat’s historical development). There is also material relating to Sims’ nephew, Hugo Sims Jr., and the latter’s 1946 campaign for a seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives. Correspondents include Olin Johnston, Burnet Rhett Maybank, John T. Riley and Strom Thurmond.

Philip B. Mishoe Diaries - Accession 267 - M112 (144)

The Philip B. Mishoe Diaries collection consists of photocopies of two diaries kept by Mr. Mishoe when he served as a seaman during World War II, first aboard the USS New York during North Atlantic Convoy duty and secondly, during Operation Torch, North Africa campaign.

A magia desencantada: Henry James e o caso de "Os amigos dos amigos"

Por meio do exame do conto "Os amigos dos amigos" ("The friends of the friends"), de Henry James, bem como de seu processo de criação, este trabalho investiga a categoria do duplo confrontando as suas fontes primitivas com sua adoção na narrativa moderna - um confronto que nos permite sugerir uma chave de interpretação para a ficção jamesiana, e ainda discutir a presença do sobrenatural numa sociedade que privilegia o espetáculo, a publicidade, a novidade, o consumo e o progresso.

Henry Melson Stommel : from pionner to clasic

[EN] Stommel has been the most important physicist oceanographer of the second half of the XX century. Builder, to a great extent, of the present Dynamical Oceanography. He contributed to the transformation of the Oceanography from a sort of appendix of the studies of the Atmosphere to a new specialty of Geophysics. After graduating in Astronomy in Yale in 1942 he started his research participating in the WWII effort, collaborating together with many other future oceanographers, in support of the USA Navy. Research that was carried out in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Between 1959 and 1978 he was professor of oceanography in Harvard U. first, and later in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, returning to WHOI where he stayed until his death. Stommel established important and fundamental theories on the ocean global circulation and studied many other oceanographic phenomena. This theoretical activity he combined with not a less important observational one. He received many awards and hhonors, including the Craadford prize, equivalent to the Nobel in Geosciences.

Gewitter und Gewitterschäden im südlichen hessischen Berg- und Beckenland und im Rhein-Main-Tiefland 1881 bis 1980

Basierend auf schriftlichen Quellen, hauptsächlich von 1881-1980 (ohne 1941-50), werden die raum-zeitlichen Eigenschaften von Gewittern mit Schäden im südlichen hessischen Berg- und Beckenland und im Rhein-Main-Tiefland (= UG) herausgestellt. Nach Auswertung des Materials in einer Datenbank erfolgt die Intensitätskategorisierung der Schadensvorgänge für gewitterbedingte Starkregen erstmals anhand der Ähnlichkeitsmerkmale von Folgeerscheinungen, für Blitzschlag erstmals nach Schadensaspekten sowie für Hagelschlag und Sturm mittels existierender und modifizierter Klassifizierungen. Diese Kategorisierungen können für alle Beschreibungen von Gewitterschadensereignissen in schriftlichen Quellen angewandt werden. Die einzelnen Phänomene zeigen deutlich voneinander abweichende Eigenschaften. So treten z.B. Starkregenschäden verstärkt im Frühsommer auf, Sturmschäden überwiegend erst im Hoch- und Spätsommer. Generell lassen sich zwei Jahresmaxima in der Gewitterschadenstätigkeit nachweisen (erste Junidekade, zweite Julihälfte). Schwergewitter mit Sturm (auch Hagel) aus SW-W verursachen überwiegend Schäden im südlichen und westlichen UG, aus W-N meist im nördlichen und östlichen UG. Gewitter mit Starkregenschäden dominieren im östlichen UG. Nach der hier vorgestellten Methode der Schadensschwerpunkte können für Schwergewitter aus dem westlichen Sektor (SW-W, W-N) Schwerpunktzugbahnen im UG gedeutet werden. Es wird die Möglichkeit aufgezeigt, die Schadensdatenauswertung auf historische Szenarien zu übertragen. Für Interpretation und Rekonstruktion dieser für die Belange der Historischen Klimatologie wichtigen Vorgänge wird Datenmaterial aus dem zurückreichenden Zeitraum bis 1700 verwendet.

Mortality and morbidity in the city of Bern, Switzerland, 1805-1815 with special emphasis on infant, child and maternal deaths

This article contributes to the research on demographics and public health of urban populations of preindustrial Europe. The key source is a burial register that contains information on the deceased, such as age and sex, residence and cause of death. This register is one of the earliest compilations of data sets of individuals with this high degree of completeness and consistency. Critical assessment of the register's origin, formation and upkeep promises high validity and reliability. Between 1805 and 1815, 4,390 deceased inhabitants were registered. Information concerning these individuals provides the basis for this study. Life tables of Bern's population were created using different models. The causes of death were classified and their frequency calculated. Furthermore, the susceptibility of age groups to certain causes of death was established. Special attention was given to causes of death and mortality of newborns, infants and birth-giving women. In comparison to other cities and regions in Central Europe, Bern's mortality structure shows low rates for infants (q0=0.144) and children (q1-4=0.068). This could have simply indicated better living conditions. Life expectancy at birth was 43 years. Mortality was high in winter and spring, and decreased in summer to a low level with a short rise in August. The study of the causes of death was inhibited by difficulties in translating early 19th century nomenclature into the modern medical system. Nonetheless, death from metabolic disorders, illnesses of the respiratory system, and debilitation were the most prominent causes in Bern. Apparently, the worst killer of infants up to 12 months was the "gichteren", an obsolete German term for lethal spasmodic convulsions. The exact modern identification of this disease remains unclear. Possibilities such as infant tetanus or infant epilepsy are discussed. The maternal death rate of 0.72% is comparable with values calculated from contemporaneous sources. Relevance of childbed fever in the early 1800s was low. Bern's data indicate that the extent of deaths related to childbirth in this period is overrated. This research has an explicit interdisciplinary value for various fields including both the humanities and natural sciences, since information reported here represents the complete age and sex structure of a deceased population. Physical anthropologists can use these data as a true reference group for their palaeodemographic studies of preindustrial Central Europe of the late 18th and early 19th century. It is a call to both historians and anthropologists to use our resources to a better effect through combination of methods and exchange of knowledge.