Abstract This article discusses how Southern Song literati’s changing perceptions of the three memoirs Li Gang 李綱 (1083–1140) and Wang Boyan 汪伯彥 (1069–1141) shaped their posthumous reputations. Both men served as chief councilor in early Song. Literati late twelfth thirteenth centuries became increasingly skeptical Boyan’s memoir, a work that had been considered authentic decades earlier. Partl...

Since the Cosmic Dawn, massive stars have been playing a crucial role as chemical recycling engines of galaxies that enable birth new and planetary systems, not only through strong winds they exhibit during their relatively short lifetimes, but also catastrophic endings supernovae, even with occasional posthumous kilonovae events resulting from binary neutron star mergers star/black hole merger...

Abstract This essay probes the political and ideological status of such images in officially Calvinist state after 1579. Focusing on relationship between representations body dead priests collective Catholic believers, Marquaille’s addresses one visual expression paradoxical situation whereby Catholics were reduced to minority status, not numbers but through restrictions public worship, includi...

Abstract In an April 1962 article previewing the First International Webern Festival, Hans Moldenhauer promised that Anton Webern's music would one day be known as ‘the of space age’. chose his words carefully. The Festival was set to take place in Seattle at same time World's Fair (an event also ‘Century 21 Exposition’ and ‘America's Space Age Fair’) its opening night concert held on grounds F...

Alternative male mating strategies within populations are thought to be evolutionarily stable because different behaviors allow each male type to successfully gain access to females. Although alternative male strategies are widespread among animals, quantitative evidence for the success of discrete male strategies is available for only a few systems. We use nuclear microsatellites to estimate t...