Depositional and erosional processes, subsidence sea-level changes have strongly modified the coastal landscape of northern Adriatic lagoons. Such rapid transformations induced significant consequences on human settlements and, thus, archaeological visibility area, still largely unexplored. We present here six metal swords fortuitously retrieved by fishermen over last decades in front barrier i...

Between 1945 and 1980, evangelicals emerged as a key political constituency in American politics, helping to form the Religious Right and work for the election of Ronald Reagan and other conservative Republicans. This article argues that they embraced a distinctive type of revivalist nationalism, centered around the mass revival. Case studies of Billy Graham, Bill Bright, Jerry Falwell, and Ron...

Examining past experiences of student activism at Berkeley this article suggests that the present storm of political correctness sweeping American universities represents more than just another of the periodic crusades that have disrupted academic life over the years. The current wave of activism is different largely because the ever-present minorities of militant faculty and student activists ...

Whilst Third Way Urban Policy (TWUP) often associates itself with a kind of anarchic vision of self-regulating and self-reproducing local communities, it can in fact be thought of as a thinly veiled moral crusade targeted towards vulnerable residents in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Sustainable communities are defined as those who can stand on their own two feet within the terms set down by neo...

Most physicians believe they do more good than harm, and these duties of helping and not harming the patient are rooted in the Hippocratic oath, the good Samaritan tradition, and the Order of the Knight Hospitallers founded in the 11th century to care for pilgrims and those wounded in the Crusades.(1) In recent times the simple principles of beneficence and non-maleficence have been augmented a...

Do?u Roma ?mparatoru I. Aleksios Komnenos Türkleri Anadolu’dan atmak amac?yla büyük bir ordu kurmak için bat?dan ücretli askerler talep etmi?tir. Bu talebi f?rsata çevirmek ve Hristiyan dünyas?n?n tek lideri olmak isteyen Papa II. Urbanus ise Kudüs’teki H?ristiyanlar?n Müslümanlar taraf?ndan zulme u?rat?ld??? gerekçesiyle Haçl? Seferleri ça?r?s? yapm??t?r. ça?r? üzerine yap?lan Seferi sonunda U...