scholarly journals Heleomyzidae (Diptera) in the caves of Poland. Historical overview and new data

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Kocot-Zalewska ◽  
Andrzej Woźnica
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Variance ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
World War ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
Tatra Mts ◽  
New Research ◽  
Second World ◽  
Minimum Variance Method

The research on invertebrates in caves of Poland dates back to the early 20th century (Kocot-Zalewska and Domagała 2020), but there was never a focus on heleomyzid flies (Diptera: Heleomyzidae). The main purpose of this presentation is to compare historical and new data on heleomyzid flies from the Polish caves with remarks on ecological aspects. The first piece of information about heleomyzid flies was given from the caves and mines in the Sudety Mts (Arndt 1921, Arndt 1923). Among four species of the Heleomyzidae family described from this area, one is noteworthy, it’s Oecothea praecox (Loew, 1862) – species considered to be a troglobite (Košel and Woźnica 2019). Unfortunately, there is no specimen in the museum collection as well as no specimen was caught in Polish caves after the Second World War, hence its presence in Polish fauna is questionable (Košel and Woźnica 2019). More information about heleomyzid flies from this area provided Pax and Maschke (1935) and Haduk and Ogorzałek (1970). The next piece on information was given from Tatra Mts (Kowalski 1955, Sobiepanek 1985) and Kraków - Częstochowa Upland (Skalski 1973, Skalski 1981, Papp and Woźnica 1993, Woźnica 2004, Woźnica 2006, Woźnica and Klasa 2009). So far, in the caves of Poland, altogether 17 species were collected, nowadays the list includes 23 species. The new research was conducted on Częstochowa Upland in the years 2014-2017. The six caves were investigated every month. The material of heleomyzid flies is part of the collection from the implementation of the larger project. A total of 179 specimens were collected. Among 16 identified species, 9 were considered as eutroglophiles, 5 species as subtroglophiles and two as trogloxenes. A comparative analysis based on the applied similarities, using on Ward's minimum variance method, in the Heleomyzid fauna of caves from the mountain and other areas showed significant similarities in the species composition in the Tatra and the Sudety mountains and an important difference between the caves in the mountains and Kraków-Częstochowa Upland.

War Tourism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertram M. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
French Economy ◽  
War Narratives ◽  
The Press ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Second World ◽  
De Gaulle

Second World War tourism in France includes two main components: tourism by the Germans and French during the war and memory tourism to war sites thereafter. Contrary to what is often assumed, tourism in France did not stop with the war. Thousands of German military personnel were given tours in occupied France and French civilians continued to take vacations as well. Many turned out with tourist gazes to watch General de Gaulle march down the Champs-Élysées at the time of the Liberation and sites frequently acquired new significance as in Normandy where Arromanches changed from a spa village to a war tourist destination. Based on French and German archival materials, memoirs, films, the press, and personal interviews, this book addresses the conflicts and competition between the 19th and early 20th century French tourism narratives and the German-dominated tourism version of the Second World War that replaced it, followed by the Gaullist/Resistance accounts after 1944. Although the Germans hardly treated the French kindly during the war, France was not relegated to the position of occupied Poland. Paris was spared the fate of Warsaw during the war. Postwar memory tourists brought home memories of Normandy and other sites that informed their own understandings of war. Narratives changed but war tourism remains a significant contributor to the French economy.

scholarly journals Viðtökur á verkum Þórarins B. Þorlákssonar

Ritið ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-215
Author(s):  
Hlynur Helgason
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Time Function ◽  
Abstract Art ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
World War ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
20Th Century Art ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Way

Þórarinn B. Þorláksson (1867–1924) has been credited with being the first Icelandic professional painter. His reception, both during his lifetime and posthumously, is therefore an interesting indication of the changes in the outlook and ideology surrounding the reception of Scandinavian fin­de­siécle art up to the present. He was honourably mentioned by his contemporaries and then was forgotten in the upheavals surrounding the adoption of modern styles, such as abstract art, in Ice­land around the Second World War. He re­gained attention in the sixties and has since then been revered as an important, though problematic, pioneer of Icelandic painting. This has in recent years been especially evident in the way he has been mentioned in the context of the revival of Nordic and Scandinavian late 19th and early 20th century art in Northern­Europe and America. The paper reviews and analyses the historical reception Þorláksson has received and the way his work has been inscribed into the narrative of Icelandic and Scandinavian Art History. This process is an attempt to understand and contextualise Þorláksson’s work in aesthetic terms, while at the same time function as a critical mirror of the trends and ideolo­gies surrounding the Nordic revival in recent years.

The Legal Status of Poles under German Occupation (1939–1945). Some Remarks on the Need for Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Stanisław Salmonowicz ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Third ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
New Research ◽  
Second World

The article describes the legal status of Poles residing within the territories occupied by Nazi Germany or areas incorporated into the Third Reich during the Second World War. The author points to the examples of the limitations placed on Poles in access to goods and services, including transport, healthcare, and cultural institutions. Furthermore, he reminds us of the orders and prohibitions derived from civil, administrative, and labour laws which were imposed on Poles. The author emphasises some significant differences between the Nazi occupation in Poland and in other European countries. As a result, he advocates the conduct of new research on the issue of the real situation of Poles in various occupied regions administered by the authorities of the Third Reich.

scholarly journals Some new research about Vlaicu network during the Second World War

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 611-618
Author(s):  
Marian Zidaru
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Organizational Activities ◽  
Iron Guard ◽  
New Research ◽  
Second World ◽  
Watch List

George Beza (1907-1997) joined the Iron Guard. He acquired the title “Commander” of the legion but soon left the organization. He worked for a while with Mihai Stelescu (excluded from the Iron Guard on September 25, 1934) to publish the magazine "Crusade of Romanism", in which they criticized the legion. In April 1936, he and Stelescu were placed on the watch list of those who were to be punished for their treachery. Beza joined PNȚ and played and played an important role in World War II a monument was erected in Jerusalem in honor of Beza. He played an important role in the plans of SOE to organize anti-Antonescu propaganda in Romania. He was the author of the Vlaicu anti-axis resistance in Romania. This paper presents some aspects of SOE's organizational activities related to the Vlaicu program.

Anthropology and the cinematic imagination

2019 ◽  
pp. 129-136
Author(s):  
David MacDougall
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethnographic Cinema ◽  
Second World

The anthropologist George Marcus has written that cinema helped to inspire the use of montage-like juxtapositions in ethnographic texts. In this chapter, the author argues that the emergence of a cinematic imagination, which imagines the world constructed around the viewer, had more effect on anthropological writing than the presence of films themselves. Concern about how the construction of documentary films represents reality also probably preceded similar concerns by anthropologists about the writing of anthropological texts. In the 19th and early 20th century, anthropologists conceived of images as a source of knowledge, but this waned as they turned to less visible aspects of culture. Interest in visual anthropology only revived after the Second World War with the work of Jean Rouch and John Marshall, the first of whom pioneered a form of intense, immersive cinema, and the second who employed filming and editing strategies that placed the viewer imaginatively within the three-dimensional field of the scenes filmed. This tended to counteract the perceptual and conceptual ‘flatness’ of earlier representations of culture. Malinowski’s and Evans-Pritchard's writing had contributed to a more immediate and rounded view, but ethnographic cinema confirmed it, making a significant contribution to anthropology as a whole.

Beer and Whisky in Japanese Marketplaces

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey W. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Sweet Potatoes ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Beer Brewing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World

Japan has a local, centuries-old tradition of brewing sake from rice and distilling spirits from ingredients such as grain and sweet potatoes, but pioneering entrepreneurs began producing imported “Western liquors” (yōshu) in the late 19th century. This Western liquor marketplace was driven chiefly by beer brewing and whisky distilling. Western liquors were marketed, advertised, and consumed with rising popularity through the early 20th century, as living standards rose and ordinary Japanese came to afford them regularly. Following the Second World War (1939–1945), these Western commodities were no longer viewed as foreign imports, and were instead broadly regarded as domestic, if not indigenous, products. The impact of wartime rationing transformed beer into a lighter-tasting beverage that became very popular with women and young people, and whisky advertising focused closely on professional “salarymen” seeking increased prestige as well as escape from their demanding jobs.

scholarly journals Observatory Publications and their Significant Role in Astronomical Libraries

1989 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 127-128
Author(s):  
Kinga Kaminska
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Second World War ◽  
History Of Astronomy ◽  
World War ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
Second World ◽  
Source Of Information

The Library of Warsaw University Observatory is a small one, but it is one of the oldest astronomical libraries in Poland. The library collection has been gathered almost since the beginning of the Warsaw Observatory, that is since 1825. Although a large part of our collection was burned during the Second World War, the remaining part contains many unique items. Scholars doing research in the area of the history of astronomy often find our collection very helpful in their work.Observatory publications play a significant role in my library. In general, we have limited possibilities for buying publications with hard currency. Therefore, any free publications obtained by my library constitute an extremely valuable source of information about new research and discoveries all over the world.

scholarly journals Children born of war

2008 ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingvill C. Mochmann
Keyword(s):  
Home Country ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Research Field ◽  
World War ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
New Research ◽  
Second World

This paper gives a short introduction into the rather new research field of ‘Children born of war’. These are children who are born during and after conflicts and wars were the father has been a member of an enemy, allied or peacekeeping force and the mother a local citizen. ‘Children born of war’ are often stigmatised and discriminated in their home country and their particular interest and rights are overlooked in post-conflict situations. This paper presents different categories of children born of war and some results from research projects on children from Second World War are presented. Finally, the international and juridical situation of children born of war are discussed and possible guidelines to assist mothers and children introduced.

scholarly journals «Like Air Bricks on Earth»: Notes on Developing a Research Agenda Regarding the Post-War Legacy of New Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
Angelo Van Gorp
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
New Research ◽  
New Education ◽  
Second World ◽  
Dimensions Of Space

This article presents the building blocks of a new research agenda through which the author aims to fill a gap in the existing scholarship on the history of new education in Belgium and its international links. In particular, the War years and the decades immediately following the Second World War remain un(der)explored. Since the author has only just begun to tackle this research agenda, the article presents preliminary thoughts, questions, and a critical reflection on issues related to developing such an agenda. It does this in a programmed way. The article is built on a review of the research that the author has already undertaken on the history of new education, on Ovide Decroly in particular, in search of the elements he considers equally important for a study of the post-War period. The article is organised into two main sections, focusing on the dimensions of space and time, respectively. The article distinguishes the Epoch of new education from the recuperation of the new education legacy through appropriation processes in the post-War period; it discusses the need for a transnational dimension and calls for international collaboration; moreover, it introduces the notion of contemporariness as a concept for critical assessment of the post-War legacy of new education. 

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