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Expressing support for the designation of October 28, 2019, as "Honoring the Nation's First Responders Day" : report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, to accompany S. Con. Res. 15.
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office,

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Mater Florum : Flore e il suo culto a Roma
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ISBN: 9788822266194 8822266196 Year: 2019 Publisher: Firenze Olschki

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Days for girls : a case study in intuitive intelligence
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Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Henry Stewart Talks,


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Le jour anniversaire de la naissance
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ISSN: 01847155 ISBN: 9782251014838 2251014837 Year: 2019 Volume: 423 Publisher: Paris Les Belles Lettres

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On sait fort peu de choses sur sa vie et ses origines, on ignore son nom complet, ses rares éléments biographiques sont déduits de son ouvrage, et permettent de le situer sous les règnes des Sévères et de leurs successeurs. Il dédie son ouvrage à son bienfaiteur Quintus Cerellius orateur et membre de l'ordre équestre, inconnu par ailleurs. Au chapitre XVI, il qualifie Rome de patrie commune, pour lui et son dédicataire, sans qu'on puisse trancher s'il s'agit d'un attachement patriotique ou d'une résidence effective1. J. Mangeart, son premier traducteur en français qui le publie en 1843, le suppose "vraisemblablement" descendant des Marcii Censorini, cités des siècles auparavant par les historiens latins2. De ses divers ouvrages, il ne nous reste qu'un traité, De die natali (Du jour de naissance), qu'il composa vers 238, sous Gordien III, à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de la naissance d'un de ses amis. Ce livre traite de la naissance et de la vie de l'homme, des jours, les mois, des années, des rites religieux ; il est fort précieux pour les usages de l'Antiquité. Il s'attache au calcul du terme de la naissance et tout ce qui s'y rattache : il explique le zodiaque, la théorie de Pythagore sur la musique et les planètes, et l'influence sur la durée de gestation. Il y est question de la vie divisée en périodes ou années climatériques, et de sa durée limitée à quatre-vingts ou à cent ans au plus. Censorinus fournit aussi de nombreux repères chronologiques historiques, par exemple sur les dates des jeux séculaires, l'établissement des calendriers et des ères selon les divers peuples. Il spécule ainsi sur la longueur de la "grande année", ou révolution planétaire universelle.


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Sport, fête et société
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ISBN: 2858925526 285892225X Year: 2019 Publisher: Pessac : Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine,

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“Les jours de fête dans mon village natal, le match de football de l’après-midi se situait entre la fanfare des pompiers, la grand-messe solennelle, l'apéritif du maire, le bal populaire et le feu d'artifice de 23 heures. Le sport, du même coup, apparaissait comme un simple prétexte parmi d’autres pour permettre à la collectivité d'affirmer, peut-être de souder son identité. On sent bien à quel point cette définition est peu satisfaisante, aussi bien pour les passionnés de sport que pour le philosophe. Et la question fuse immédiate : quelle est, par rapport aux autres fêtes, la spécificité de la fête sportive ? Quel est l'objet de ce culte qui réunit, chaque semaine de par le monde des centaines de milliers, voire des millions de personnes ? Et les tentations de réponses se pressent en nombre dont nous pressentons bien à quel point elles sont pertinentes, mais à quel point aussi elles sont dans le fond insuffisantes. La fête sportive, culte du corps ? Culte du "nationalisme", au sens péjoratif d'exaltation du groupe et d'exclusion de tous les autres ? Culte du vedettariat ? Culte de l'argent ? Notre embarras pourrait nous conduire à conclure un peu hâtivement que dans une société en crise, le sport ne peut être rien d'autre que l'expression de cette crise”. Mais, c'est précisément parce qu'ils refusent de se résigner à cette conclusion facile, que les organisateurs de la 11ème Université Sportive d’Été ont retenu le thème : Sport, Fête et Société pour leur rassemblement annuel.


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All Together Now
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ISBN: 1978802013 9781978802018 197880198X 9781978801981 1978801971 9781978801974 1978801998 Year: 2019 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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"In a hard driving society like the United States, holidays are islands of softness. Holidays are times for creating memories and for celebrating cultural values, emotions, and social ties. All Together Now considers holidays that are celebrated by American families: Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Halloween, and the December holidays of Christmas or Chanukah. This book shows how entire families bond at holidays, in ways that allow both children and adults to be influential within their shared interaction. The decorations, songs, special ways of dressing, and rituals carry deep significance that is viscerally felt by even young tots. Ritual has the capacity to condense a plethora of meaning into a unified metaphor such as a Christmas tree, a menorah, or the American flag. These symbols allow children and adults to co-opt the meaning of symbols in flexible and age-relevant ways, all while the symbols are still treasured and shared in common." -- Publisher's description.


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Heritage and Festivals in Europe : Performing Identities.
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ISBN: 0367186764 9780367186760 0429202962 0429511558 9780429202964 9780429518416 0429518412 9780429511554 9780429514982 0429514980 Year: 2019 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Heritage and Festivals in Europe critically investigates the purpose, reach and effects of heritage festivals. Providing a comprehensive and detailed analysis of comparatively selected aspects of intangible cultural heritage, the volume demonstrates how such heritage is mobilised within events that have specific agency, particularly in the production and consumption of intrinsic and instrumental benefits for tourists, local communities and performers. Bringing together experts from a wide range of disciplines, the volume presents case studies from across Europe that consider many different varieties of heritage festivals. Focusing primarily on the popular and institutional practices of heritage making, the book addresses the gap between discourses of heritage at an official level and cultural practice at the local and regional level. Contributors to the volume also study the different factors influencing the sustainable development of tradition as part of intangible cultural heritage at the micro- and meso-levels, and examine underlying structures that are common across different countries. Heritage and Festivals in Europe takes a multidisciplinary approach and as such, should be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of heritage studies, tourism, performing arts, cultural studies and identity studies. Policymakers and practitioners throughout Europe should also find much to interest them within the pages of this volume.


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Austria made in Hollywood
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ISBN: 9781571139450 1571139451 9781787444577 1787444570 Year: 2019 Publisher: Rochester, New York Camden House

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Maria von Trapp, watching the final scene of The Sound of Music for the first time as "her" family escaped into Switzerland, exclaimed, "Don't they know geography in Hollywood? Salzburg does not border on Switzerland!" Had she thought about the beginning of the film, which transports viewers to "Salzburg, Austria in the last Golden Days of the Thirties," when the country was in fact suffering from extreme political and social unrest, she might have asked, "Don't they know history either?" In The Sound of Music as well as in Hollywood's many other "Austria" films, the projections on the screen resemble reflections in a funhouse mirror. Elements of a "real" place with a "real" history inhabited by "real" people can be found in the fractured distortions, which have both drawn from and contributed to the general public's perceptions of the country and its citizens. Austria Made in Hollywood focuses on films set in an identifiable Austria, examining them through the lenses of the historical contexts on both sides of the Atlantic and the prism of the ever-changing domestic film industry. The study chronicles the protean screen images of Austria and Austrians that set them apart both from European projections of Austria and from Hollywood incarnations of other European nations and nationals. It explores explicit and implicit cultural commentaries on domestic and foreign issues inserted in the Austrian stories while considering the many, sometimes conflicting forces that have shaped the films.


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Festival and violence : princely entries in the context of war, 1480-1635
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ISBN: 9782503583334 9782503583341 2503583334 Year: 2019 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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European Renaissance Festivals are noted for their extravagance, for their inherited classical culture, and as evidence of how court and civic spectacles could express political, religious, social, and economic aspirations. In this new monograph, the accent is firmly on the violent context of Magnificence: it examines how war affected the minds and practice of both artists and princes, and shows how victims and their suffering were as prominent in festival as were conquerors and their projections of victory. What emerges here is the dark side represented in princely entries where imperial ambitions are built upon civic devastation and where myths elaborate and expose their ambiguous nature and message. Artists and poets collaborated in bringing victory and violence together: Mantegna and Durer in triumphal processions; Frans Floris and Rubens on the canvases they created for triumphal arches, where mythology was put to work to arouse excitement for deeds of heroism and death, while engravers depicted scenes of war and destruction to accommodate contemporary taste.


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Extreme Floods and Droughts under Future Climate Scenarios
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ISBN: 3039218999 3039218980 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Hydroclimatic extremes, such as floods and droughts, affect aspects of our lives and the environment including energy, hydropower, agriculture, transportation, urban life, and human health and safety. Climate studies indicate that the risk of increased flooding and/or more severe droughts will be higher in the future than today, causing increased fatalities, environmental degradation, and economic losses. Using a suite of innovative approaches this book quantifies the changes in projected hydroclimatic extremes and illustrates their impacts in several locations in North America, Asia, and Europe.

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