_Badges of the Regular Infantry, 1914-1918_ is based on over thirty years research in museums, archives and collections. It is an exhaustive study of the development of the battalion, brigade and ...divisional signs of the twelve divisions that formed the regular army during the Great War. It also looks at the badges of those battalions left behind to guard the Empire. While the divisional signs are well known, there has been no authoritative work on the signs worn by the infantry battalions. The book will illustrate the cap and shoulder titles used, as well as cloth signs worn to provide easy recognition in the trenches. Each regular and reserve battalion of a regiment has a listing, which provides a brief history of the unit and detailed information on the badges worn. It is prodigiously illustrated and contains much information, like why a shape or colour was chosen, when it was adopted, what size it was, whether it was worn on a helmet, what colour the helmet was and even what colours were used on horse transport; the majority of this rich and detailed information has never been published before. What helps make the information accurate and authoritative is that much of it comes from an archive created at the time and from personal correspondence with hundreds of veterans in the 1980s, many of whom still had their badges and often had razor-sharp recollections about wearing them. The book also provides some comments from these veterans. Using the illustrations will allow many of those unidentified photos in family albums to come to life.
The reverses of several provincial issues minted by quaestors during the Late Republic bear a series of symbols that have traditionally been associated with the work performed by these magistrates ...overseas. They include objects such as the
, which presided over auctions as a sign of Roman authority over the goods sold, the
, which held administrative documents, and the
, a symbol of the allowance that quaestors were expected to distribute among the troops. However, the most characteristic and striking object on these coins is without doubt a four-legged piece of furniture, the functionality of which has been the subject of much debate. In light of the numismatic evidence and the role played by quaestors in the Republican provincial administration, the aim of this work is to analyse the symbols present on these issues, as well as to determine, in particular, the function and classification of that piece of furniture, which should perhaps be identified as the
or stool on which quaestors sat in the exercise of their duties at Rome and in the provinces, alike.
Gorgeous war Blackmore, Tim
Gorgeous war,
2019, 2019, 2019-10-29
eBook
"Gorgeous War argues that the Nazis used the swastika as part of a visually sophisticated propaganda program that was not only modernist but also the forerunner of contemporary brand identity. When ...the United States military tried to answer Nazi displays of graphic power, it failed. In the end the best graphic response to the Nazis was produced by the Walt Disney Company. Using numerous examples of US and Nazi military heraldry, Gorgeous War compares the way the American and German militaries developed their graphic and textile design in the interwar period. The book shows how social and cultural design movements like modernism altered and were altered by both militaries. It also explores how nascent corporate culture and war production united to turn national brands like IBM, Coca-Cola, and Disney into multinational corporations that had learned lessons on propaganda and branding that were being tested during the Second World War. What is the legacy of apparently toxic signs like the swastika? The answer may not be what we hoped. Inheritors of the post-Second World War world increasingly struggle to find an escape from an intensely branded environment--to find a place in their lives that is free of advertising and propaganda. This book suggests that we look again at how it is our culture makes that struggle into an appealing Gorgeous War."--
Anthropocene's emblem may be Canadian pond Voosen, Paul
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science),
2023-Jul-14, 2023-07-14, 20230714, Letnik:
381, Številka:
6654
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Proposal to mark global changes of the 1950s now faces skeptical scientific bureaucracy.
Abstract
Summary
Analysis of conservation of gene neighbourhoods over different evolutionary levels is important for understanding operon and gene cluster evolution, and predicting functional ...associations. Our tool FlaGs (standing for Flanking Genes) takes a list of NCBI protein accessions as input, clusters neighbourhood-encoded proteins into homologous groups using sensitive sequence searching, and outputs a graphical visualization of the gene neighbourhood and its conservation, along with a phylogenetic tree annotated with flanking gene conservation. FlaGs has demonstrated utility for molecular evolutionary analysis, having uncovered a new toxin–antitoxin system in prokaryotes and bacteriophages. The web tool version of FlaGs (webFlaGs) can optionally include a BLASTP search against a reduced RefSeq database to generate an input accession list and analyse neighbourhood conservation within the same run.
Availability and implementation
FlaGs can be downloaded from https://github.com/GCA-VH-lab/FlaGs or run online at http://www.webflags.se/.
Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Introduction. The article examines the system of recognition and encouragements adopted by the Russian Empire for representatives of Buryat tribal elites in the 18th–19th centuries. The focus of the ...study makes it possible to trace key mechanisms to have facilitated the incorporation of Buryat tribal elites into Russia’s corresponding environment. The legalization of official powers of 18th– 19th century Buryat tribal elites was paralleled by that Imperial Russia developed a corresponding system of recognition and encouragements. The latter was not only to consolidate the high social status of the local nobility but rather to facilitate their further incorporation into the Russian power structures. Goals. The paper aims to investigate Imperial Russia’s system of recognition developed for representatives of Buryat tribal elites throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Materials and methods. The study analyzes archival materials housed at the State Archive of Buryatia, such as employee and formulary lists of Buryat tribal executives, decrees and instructions of His Imperial Majesty on rewards granted to the latter. The research methods employed include the historical comparative and comparative typological ones that have proved instrumental in analyzing the mentioned Russian system, and compiling a content analysis of archival materials involved. Conclusions. The work reveals the special recognition and rewards system was developed to regulate relations with representatives of local Buryat elites and guarantee their integration into imperial structures. The system of awards and distinctions was used by the Russian government to encourage Buryat tribal and clan leaders for certain services rendered to the state, as well as for successfully fulfilled tasks assigned.
Phaleristics is an auxiliary science of history, which studies orders, decorations, medals, insignia of office and distinction. It helps the historian by giving him tools for dating and identifying ...location. In addition to providing guidelines for identifying and evaluating this little-known heritage, this article shows how the iconography of various metal insignia – lent, given or awarded to the members of the Conseils des Prud'hommes from the early 19th century to the present day – conveys the iconography of power or of local prides dear to each of the Conseils. Our study, which follows the chronological order of appearance, involves: Tokens: following the creation of the “prud'homie à la terre”, created by Emperor Napoleon in Lyon in 1806, the first attendance tokens were created in 1809. During a century, other cities with such industrial tribunals would also adopt this principle of tokens to compensate financially their prud’hommes. Insignia of office: it was not until the Royal Order of 12 November, 1828, which indicated that the prud'hommes must wear a silver medal, suspended from a black ribbon to be worn in saltire, in the performance of their duties within or outside of the courtroom, that such an insignia came to be. This Insignia of Office, which has evolved over time, is still in use today. Medals of Identity and Honour: here we will study, first, the Medals of Identity of the prud’hommes, which appeared locally as early as the 1840s, followed by the very official prud’hommes Medals of Honour, which were issued late in the 19th century and are the precursors of the present-day Medals of Honour of the judicial services which were created in 2011 and are awarded today.
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