The Royal Aeronautical Society 1866 — 1966

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (661) ◽  
pp. 5-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Laurence Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Famous Paper ◽  
Aerial Navigation ◽  
The One

Humanity with all its fearsWith all the hopes of future years,Is hanging breathless on thy Fate.Longfellow.12th January 1966, is the one hundredth birthday of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain.The story of the first hundred years of the Aeronautical Society began with long data-less periods of unfulfilled hopes. Like the paradoxical supersonic aeroplanes which arrive at their destinations before they are timed to take off, the story of the Society was started fifty years before it began, by Sir George Cayley, who wrote a famous paper on Aerial Navigation, laying down the fundamental principles of heavier-than-air flight.

PSYCHOLOGICAL BASIS OF CONVICTED WOMEN IN DETENTION PLACES WITH CHILDREN: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Светлана Станиславовна Пиюкова
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Correctional Institution ◽  
Correctional Institutions ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The One

Статья посвящена рассмотрению психологических основ совместного пребывания осужденных женщин с детьми в отделениях матери и ребенка пенитенциарных учреждений различных стран. Раскрывается значение регулярных контактов осужденной женщины со своим ребенком на протяжении всего срока ее пребывания в исправительном учреждении. Характеризуется влияние ограничения контактов с матерями, находящимися в местах лишения свободы, на развитие психики их детей. Авторами статьи обосновывается роль поддержания отношений между матерями и детьми как одного из факторов, способствующих увеличению вероятности успешного воссоединения семей после освобождения женщин из мест лишения свободы. Рассматриваются существующие в настоящее время в международной пенитенциарной практике решения по созданию условий для содержания осужденных женщин с детьми в исправительных учреждениях. Характеризуются задачи отделений матери и ребенка, а также приводятся примеры из практики их организации в пенитенциарных системах США, Канады, Великобритании, Новой Зеландии, Германии и других стран. Приводятся данные исследований, свидетельствующие об эффективности работы отделений матери и ребенка. Анализируются аргументы сторонников и противников содержания осужденных женщин с детьми в исправительных учреждениях. Обосновывается тезис о необходимости достижения баланса в удовлетворении потребностей ребенка, с одной стороны, и организации условий для совместного содержания осужденных женщин с детьми в исправительных учреждениях, принимая во внимание вопросы безопасности и серьезность правонарушений со стороны матери. The article is devoted to the examination of the psychological foundations of the joint stay of convicted women with children in the mother and child wards of penitentiary institutions in different countries. The significance of regular contacts between a convicted woman and her child throughout the entire period of her stay in a correctional institution is revealed. The influence of limiting contacts with mothers in prison on the development of the psyche of their children is characterized. The authors of the article substantiate the role of maintaining relations between mothers and children as one of the factors contributing to an increase in the likelihood of successful family reunification after the release of women from prison. The author considers the solutions currently existing in international penitentiary practice to create conditions for the detention of convicted women with children in correctional institutions. The tasks of mother and child departments are characterized, and examples from the practice of their organization in the penitentiary systems of the USA, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, Germany and other countries are given. Research data showing the effectiveness of the work of the mother and child departments are presented. The arguments of supporters and opponents of keeping convicted women with children in correctional institutions are analyzed. The thesis is substantiated that it is necessary to achieve a balance in meeting the needs of the child, on the one hand, and to organize conditions for the joint detention of convicted women with children in correctional institutions, taking into account the issues of safety and the seriousness of offenses on the part of the mother.

scholarly journals XXVII. Description of a Roman Altar found in the neighbourhood of Aldston Moor, in Cumberland: in a Letter to the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. by the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and S.A.

Archaeologia ◽  
1814 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 229-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Weston
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Other ◽  
Silver Coin ◽  
The One

I beg leave to offer to your Lordship and the Society a Description of a Roman Altar lately dug up in the neighbourhood of Aldston Moor, in Cumberland, near a military road, and not far from a great Roman station. The altar is three feet high, sixteen inches wide, and eight thick. It is divided into three compartments, the capital, the square or plane, and the base. On the top is an oval cavity one inch and a half deep, and about nine over by six, in which the wine, the frankincense, and the fire were placed, and was called Thuribulum, the censer, or the focus; but this hole is not on all the Roman altars found in Great Britain. On the sides however of the one I am describing are two bass-reliefs, representing on one part the infant Hercules strangling two serpents (as he is seen on a silver coin of Croton in Italy), and on the other the god in all his strength about to combat the serpent in the garden of the Hesperides (as he appears on a coin of Geta struck at Pergamus).

At the Sources of Norway’s Foreign Policy Orientation: the Part Played by the November Treaty of 1855

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7 (105)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Jens Petter Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy Orientation ◽  
East And West ◽  
The One

This article deals with the background for the November treaty of 1855 between Great Britain and France on the one hand, and the United kingdoms of Sweden and Norway on the other. The November treaty explicitly pointed to Russia as a potential aggressor against Norway and Sweden and offered these states protection by the two Western Powers. The author elucidates the prerequisites for the conclusion of the treaty, and its role as a first step in Norway’s orientation between East and West — and a foreboding of independent Norway’s foreign policy (from 1905).

On the Flight of Birds and Aërial Navigation

1878 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 30-52
Keyword(s):  
Human Economy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Aerial Navigation ◽  
The One

“The subject of flight is one which ought to be approached in the most unprejudiced manner, and so great and many are the advantages and benefits that would accrue to the human economy by its realization, that it at once places itself as the highest and noblest aim for the inventive mind.“That aërial navigation is possible there can be not the slightest doubt, we have so many and so varied illustrations in nature; it may probably be on account of having such a variety of natural models continually before us, that the one true principle which governs them all is hidden amidst a complexity of means. There are birds, insects, and animals, capable of controlling and making subservient to their will the most unruly of the elements; is it too much therefore to expect that man, created lord of all, who has outrivalled by his in genuity and skill the power and speed of the strongest and swiftest of the animal creation,—is it too much to hope tha the shall by application unravel the mystery of aërial flight ?

X. A Letter from W. E. Rouse Boughton, Esq. F.R.S. to the Rev. Stephen Weston, B. D. respecting some Egyptian Antiquities

Archaeologia ◽  
1817 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
W.E. Rouse Boughton
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Upper Egypt ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Birth Place ◽  
The One ◽  
Sacred History

During my travels in Upper Egypt, in the course of the year 1811, I had the good fortune to meet with a mummy, in a catacomb near Thebes, which appeared never to have been opened before, containing some writing upon papyrus in a state of perfect preservation; and as these writings are but rarely found in mummies, I felt great anxiety to bring the one which fell into my hands safe to Great Britain. For this purpose I had a tin box made for holding it, in order to prevent it from being crushed amongst my packages. I myself proceeded by land to Constantinople; but having sent my baggage by sea, it was unluckily soaked by salt water, and the tin case corroded, so as greatly to injure the manuscript. I have, however, collected some of the fragments, and made accurate copies of them (Pl. I. II.), which I have now the honour of presenting to the Society of Antiquaries; conceiving that they may afford additional specimens of the antient Egyptian character, of which I believe there are not many in Great Britain, and may possibly contribute to the assistance of scientific men, in various parts of Europe, who are giving their attention to that interesting country, established by all profane and sacred history to have been the birth-place of science and wisdom.

The multilayered structure of enterprise discourse

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
Britt-Louise Gunnarsson
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Structural Engineering ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Multilayered Structure ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Text Base ◽  
The One ◽  
A Company ◽  
Different Levels

This article explores the complex relationship between enterprise and discourse from a sociolinguistic viewpoint. A model of communication is presented which depicts the multilayered framework of texts within organizations. With this model as a background, results from two studies on enterprise discourse are discussed. The first study analyzed communication within banks and structural engineering companies in Sweden, Germany and Great Britain. Interviews were held with staff at different levels, and written documents were analyzed. Though of course the discourse within the studied companies had much in common, differences were found as well, which can be explained by variation in sector, the organizational culture and the national culture. The second study focused on the multilingual production of texts in a Swedish based international company. An analysis of company brochures produced in different European branches showed considerable variation in relation to content, arguments and style. Though the headquarters steered the sales companies by means of a common text base, the various brochures also revealed differences that reflected ideas from the local level. Both studies thus show how the creation of uniqueness and attractiveness on the one hand takes place within the limits set by the sector concerned and on the other is determined by the relevant national culture(s). The company is part of a wider sectoral network that frequently has well-established discourse traditions. Moreover, a company also operates within a national culture, or several cultures, forcing it to adapt to national discourse patterns as well.

scholarly journals James Gray, 14 October 1891 - 14 December 1975

1978 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Evolutionary Relationship ◽  
Mount Everest ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Taxonomic Order

James Gray died on 14 December 1975 in his home at King’s Field in Cambridge. It may be difficult today to realize fully the extent to which he has influenced the course of biology, notably in Great Britain, during the first half of this century. When he first appeared on the scene as a student—and his first publication dates back to 1911—comparative morphologists and embryologists were the dominant breed. They were still basking in the glory of the Darwinian era, and were still hammering home, through much detailed evidence, support for the theory of an evolutionary relationship of living organisms, a theory which by then had been, in outline at least, almost universally accepted. The taxonomic order which was being created by fitting each species into the proper pigeon hole of its pedigree was, no doubt, a laudable exercise—if for no better reason than the one given by Mount Everest climbers for their endeavours. To a man of an impatient disposition, like James Gray, it became clear that in view of the very large number of known species many more generations of scientists could be kept occupied as sedate, taxonomic filing clerks by painstaking description and comparison of structures. This sort of existence was not for him; it lacked the excitement of discovery, and was not likely to make the principles or mechanisms underlying the process of evolution any more plausible.

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