Monarchy is a feminist issue: Andrew, Meghan and #MeToo era monarchy

Chemical ecology: Reprogramming a termite monarchy.

authors identified a tyrosinase-like enzyme, NspF, that was homologous to tyrosinaselike GriF in grixazone biosynthesis. Tyrosinases contain a binuclear copper cluster and have known functions as monoand diphenol oxidases (for example, in melanin production), in keeping with the elucidated role of GriF. However, because a traditional N-oxidase was absent from the 4,3-HNBAm gene cluster, the aut...

Thinking through the Monarchy in Sixth-Century Visigothic Spain

Evolution. Sex...only if really necessary in a feminine monarchy.

C RE D IT :M A RC O U LI A N A T he honey bee society was famously described as “The Feminine Monarchy” by the cleric Charles Butler in 1634. Honey bees and their relatives—including all hymenopteran societies—qualify for this label because their colonies are headed by one or a small number of fertile queens. These queens produce a large number of sterile or nearly sterile daughter workers and,...

Spanish Monarchy ́s Monetary Problems in the Seventeenth Century: Small Change and Foreign Credit

______________________________________________________________ It is well known that the Spanish Monarchy found out some problems in its monetary system. So far, almost all the studies have been concentrated in the billon problem and inflation. However, small and large silver coins had also problems to circulate together in Castile. Without small change, among other consequences, it was more di...

The Decay of Support for Monarchy and the Hitler Regime in the Federal Republic of Germany