scholarly journals Turriculate gastropods (Coelostylinidae) from the Esino limestone outcrop (Ladinian, Lombardy) of the Stoppani Collection housed at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Italy)

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Vittorio Pieroni
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Actual Fact ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Critical Revision ◽  
Second World

Here, I propose a revision of 19 specimens of turriculate gastropod (family Coelostylinidae) from the Esino limestone formation (Ladinian). They form part of the surviving material of the historic Stoppani Collection, which was almost totally destroyed in the Second World War. The collection is kept at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milan, Italy. The specimens have already been described by Garassino (1992) but without a critical revision of their classification. Indeed, based on presumed likenesses with specimens reconstructed in <em>Paléontologie Lombarde</em> (Stoppani, 1858-60), Garassino believed he had rediscovered many of Stoppani’s holotypes. For his classification of the material, Garassino consulted a revision by Kittl (1899) but he did not take into account the much more realistic drawings of the Stoppani’s holotypes that Kittl published therein. A more detailed study, conducted by comparing the shapes and dimensions of the specimens with the drawings and original descriptions, and their reclassification, reveals that none of the specimens are, in actual fact, a holotype or more correctly a specimen described and illustrated by Stoppani, and that some have been assigned the wrong label. Nevertheless, the material and original handwritten labels are confirmed to be from Stoppani’s studies.

scholarly journals Reciprocity of Individual and Collective Memory. Letters from a Soldier of the Wehrmacht of the Second World War

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Sabine Buchwald
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Second World War ◽  
National Language ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
World War ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The Military ◽  
Educational Conditions ◽  
Second World

The basis of the scientific investigation are 83 military letters and postcards, a diary, and Franz Buchwald’s memories of World War II. The classification of military letters and other sources constitutes the scientific significance of these documents. The survey questions the culturally and socially political acts as well as intertextual and trans-textual procedures. Understanding of literature as the subject of a culturally scientific survey is a priority, as well as its influence on the emergence of military letters. The clarification of the cultural memory of Franz Buchwald, a soldier of the Wehrmacht [high forces], serves as an indicator for the preservation of moral principles and values during the war, but also as one for the discords that arose in this context. A key issue is the importance of the educational conditions of growing up during the war. Relevant topics are education, the church, and the literary canon. Examples from the military letters sketch the establishment of the national language in terms of theology, and address the issue of nationality and identity.

scholarly journals Reciprocity of Individual and Collective Memory. Letters from a Soldier of the Wehrmacht of the Second World War

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Sabine Buchwald
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Second World War ◽  
National Language ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
World War ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The Military ◽  
Educational Conditions ◽  
Second World

The basis of the scientific investigation are 83 military letters and postcards, a diary, and Franz Buchwald’s memories of World War II. The classification of military letters and other sources constitutes the scientific significance of these documents. The survey questions the culturally and socially political acts as well as intertextual and trans-textual procedures. Understanding of literature as the subject of a culturally scientific survey is a priority, as well as its influence on the emergence of military letters. The clarification of the cultural memory of Franz Buchwald, a soldier of the Wehrmacht [high forces], serves as an indicator for the preservation of moral principles and values during the war, but also as one for the discords that arose in this context. A key issue is the importance of the educational conditions of growing up during the war. Relevant topics are education, the church, and the literary canon. Examples from the military letters sketch the establishment of the national language in terms of theology, and address the issue of nationality and identity.

From Classification to Interpretation: Libyan Prehistory, 1969–1989

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 31-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. W. Barker
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
World War ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World ◽  
Deep Sounding

In the 15 years following the Second World War, the available data on the prehistory of North Africa were summarised in a series of major syntheses (notably Alimen 1955; Balout 1955; Ford-Johnston 1959; and Vaufrey 1955). With stratified sequences few and far between, radiometric techniques of absolute dating still at the developmental stage, and little detailed information on palaeoenvironments, it was inevitable that the emphasis of all these studies was on the description and classification of the archaeological record, and its organisation into regional cultural sequences. As far as Libya was concerned, the prehistoric rock carvings of the Fezzan were already well known, particularly from the studies by Graziosi before the war (Graziosi 1934; 1937; 1942), but in terms of artifact assemblages Libyan prehistory was much less understood than the prehistoric sequences of the Maghreb to the west and accordingly much less represented in the syntheses of the 1950s. In general, the prehistory of North Africa was described as a succession of ‘cultural groups’ that were correlated more or less with the better-documented palaeolithic, mesolithic, and neolithic sequences of Europe.During the 1960s, two major studies of Libyan prehistory were published which have had a dominating influence on research in the following 20 years. The first was the publication by Charles McBurney (1967) of the deep stratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave on the coast of Cyrenaica. McBurney began research on the Libyan Palaeolithic in the years immediately after the war, publishing a variety of surface collections (1947), trial excavations in the Hagfet ed Dabba cave (1950), and a joint study with C. W. Hey (1955) of the relationship between Pleistocene geological and archaeological sequences in Cyrenaica. His excavations in the Haua Fteah were conducted in 1951, 1952, and 1955, the deep sounding revealing a detailed sequence of layers spanning the middle and upper palaeolithic, epipalaeolithic (or mesolithic), and neolithic occupations of the cave (for initial reports: McBurney 1960; 1961; 1962). The full report was able not only to describe the remarkable sequence of assemblages, but also to correlate these with a palaeoenvironmental sequence established from faunal, molluscan, and sedimentary studies of the cave stratigraphy, the sequence also being tied to an absolute chronology based on 20 radiocarbon determinations. The Haua Fteah stratigraphy remains unique not only in Libya but in North Africa as a whole.

Changing Hats

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-220
Author(s):  
Kim Christian Priemel
Keyword(s):  
Practical Experience ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
World War ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
War Crimes Tribunals ◽  
Second World

The war crimes tribunals at Nuremberg are well known as key arenas of judicial retribution after the Second World War and for institutionalizing international criminal justice. Their personnel, the ‘Nuremberg lawyers’, have been credited with advancing the cause of international law and (re)building the post-war global order. Critics, though, have chastised what they conceive of as the mistaken recourse to legal ideas and legal language as an either naïve or outright hypocritical, but in any case inadequate way of addressing the challenges of power politics in the Cold War era and beyond. Common to both sides are sweeping, often implicit notions of who the ‘Nuremberg lawyers’ actually were, what drove them, and how they interacted. By categorizing academic training and practical experience, national and biographical contexts, normative inclinations, individual ambitions, and practical functions, this chapter offers a classification of Nuremberg’s lawyers which provides a helpful taxonomic tool for international tribunals more generally.

scholarly journals Logistics management: its origin, conceptual evolution and meaning as a contemporary field of study

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
W. J. Pienaar
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
World War ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Management Context ◽  
Contemporary Management ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Conceptual Evolution ◽  
Second World

This article traces the origin of the word logistics, outlines its conceptual evolution, and explains the meaning thereof as a field of study in a contemporary management context. The contextual development of the concept is traced from its origin in Greek, along with its successive adoption in Late Latin, French and Dutch, up to its contemporary usage in Afrikaans. The article describes the establishment of the word logistique in French as a military concept during the Napoleonic wars, and its later extension to commercial usage subsequent to the Second World War. The development of the concept in a commercial context since then is detailed. Contemporary descriptions of logistics relating to its meaning in a commercial sense are discussed. Thereafter the article offers a contemporary definition of logistics in a business management context. It indicates how effective business logistics adds value. Finally the primary activities that form part of the logistics supply chain of products are briefly discussed.

Children with Special Needs: A Postmodern Perspective

1998 ◽  
Vol 180 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
David Elkind
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Education For All ◽  
World War ◽  
Classroom Organization ◽  
Special Needs Education ◽  
Second World

This article describes and analyzes changing concepts of childhood and of special needs education in what the author sees as two distinct eras: the modern, from the seventeenth century through the Second World War, and the postmodern, beginning in the middle of the twentieth century. Tracing and evaluating theories, views, and discoveries of a host of scientists and philosophers from Hobbes to Freud to Erikson, David Elkind defines the postmodern era as the time when childhood was reinvented, and submits that this reinvention included children with physical special needs. The philosophical/scientific shift to inclusionism has been largely responsible for the passage of legislation that insures a free and public education for all children. It has resulted in the reinvention of classroom organization (mainstreaming); the development of the concept of individually appropriate practice; and the broadening of the classification of conduct and emotional disorders.

Gender and the Second World War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna Peniston-Bird ◽  
Emma Vickers
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World
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