In the absence of documentary evidence, career Sir Samuel Tuke (c. 1615–1674), distinguished royalist officer during Civil Wars, author cloak and dagger tragicomedy The Adventures Five Hours (London, 1661), confidant Charles II, has only been patchily accounted for. During his continental exile from about 1649 until Restoration, attended Henry, Duke Gloucester (1640–1660), fruitlessly sought an...

The mechanism of the thiol-ene reaction induced by 330 nm ultraviolet excitation of 1,2-di(quinolin-2-yl)disulfide (QSSQ) in the presence of methyl methacrylate (MMA) is investigated by sub-picosecond to microsecond transient absorption spectroscopy. The measurements, spanning more than seven orders of magnitude of time, directly reveal multiple radical reaction steps. The ground state quinolie...

The article deals with the problems of difficult relations between Moldavian prince Vasile Lupu and Zaporozhzhia Army after start War Liberation in Ukraine under leadership Hetman B. Khmelnytskyi against Polish domination.The conclusion a forced alliance, sealed 1652 by marriage Lupu’s daughter Ruksandra Khmelnytskyi’s son Tymofii, later led to political crisis within principality confrontation...

W artykule podjęto próbę wskazania autora siedemnastowiecznego paszkwilu wymierzonego przeciwko Tatarom Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego, a ściślej – zamieszkałym nad Waką w województwie trockim. Przeanalizowano dedykacje i komentarze czterech edycji (1616, 1617, 1640 1643). Zwrócono uwagę na biogram opata benedyktynów Starych Trokach Tomasza Pawłowskiego (ok. 1556–1653), zarządzającego opactwem ...

Se documenta la participación de Jusepe Leonardo (Calatayud, 1601-Zaragoza, ca. 1653) en realización pinturas para los monumentos Semana Santa antigua iglesia Almudena Madrid y se estudia el proceso fabricación estas arquitecturas desde 1632, que intervinieron diferentes maestros. A través pagos recogidos libros cuentas fábrica iglesia, añaden al catálogo del pintor dos nuevas obras, hoy perdid...

Over 230 serovars of Leptospira interrogans have been identified; however few have been completely characterised. The aim of this study was to characterise the proteome of serovar Canicola and to compare this against the serovars of Copenhageni and Pomona. 2D-LC/MS analysis identified 1653 Leptospira proteins in serovar Canicola; 60 of these proteins were common to Copenhageni and Pomona, 16 of...

Malpighi was born in 1628 in Crevalcore, Bologna, Italy, and he was baptized 10 March of that year. His parents were Maria Cremonini and Marcantonio Malpighi. He entered the University of Bologna [5] in Bologna in 1646, and his tutor Francesco Natali encouraged him to study medicine, which he began in 1649. While in medical school he was one of only a few students permitted to attend vivisectio...

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