Les plaisirs et les jours

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The spider fauna (Arachnida, Araneae) of abandoned military bunkers in Albania

We investigated 11 pillbox bunkers in Dibër Municipality and one military tunnel near Tirana (Albania). We found 101 spider specimens belonging to 15 species, of which two species are reported for the first time from Albania: Leviellus thorelli (Ausserer, 1871) (Araneidae) and Meta bourneti Simon, 1922 (Tetragnathidae). This paper contributes new information on the diversity, distribution and natural history of spider fauna in the bunkers of Albania

Jilguero chico : sainete lírico en un acto, dividido en seis cuadros, en prosa y verso

Estrenado en el teatro Cómico, la noche del 7 de octubre de 1901Copia digital. Valladolid : Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 201

In “memory” of Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

Eamon Maher on the memory-rich private universes of Proust and McGahern

The Origins and Early History of the Steamer Albatross, 1880–18

Spencer Fullerton Baird (Fig. 1), a noted systematic zoologist and builder of scientific institutions in 19th century America, persuaded the U.S. Congress to establish the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries1 in March 1871. At that time, Baird was Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Following the death of Joseph Henry in 1878, he became head of the institution, a position he held until his own demise in 1887. In addition to his many duties as a Smithsonian official, including his prominent role in developing the Smithsonian’s Federally funded National Museum as the repository for governmental scientific collections, Baird directed the Fish Commission from 1871 until 1887. The Fish Commission’s original mission was to determine the reasons and remedies for the apparent decline of American fisheries off southern New England as well as other parts of the United States. In 1872, Congress further directed the Commission to begin a large fish hatching program aimed at increasing the supply of American food

In the border's shadow: Reimagining urban spaces in Strasbourg, 1918-39

Copyright @ The Author(s) 2013. This is the author's final version of the article. The final publication is available from the link below.This article explores controversies over festivities and monument construction in interwar Strasbourg. After the return of Alsace to France in 1918, these battles became emblematic of broader debates about the region’s place in France and relationship with Germany, as different groups and individuals in Paris and Strasbourg used them to promote their views of the reintegration of Alsace into France. In these debates, the dominant understanding of Strasbourg treated the city as the limits of French territory, and a frontier with Germany. But this idea was challenged by ideas of the city as the heart of a transnational, cross border community, or a regional capital. These ideas co-existed, but were contested and were not articulated simultaneously. Through a discussion of the use of these ideas in debates over urban spaces in Strasbourg, this article traces how attitudes towards borders change over time, and vary according to the political context.British Academ

Select Birth Cohorts

Worldwide demographic changes and their implications for governments, corporations, and individuals have been in the focus of public interest for quite some time due to the fiscal risk related to adequate retirement benefits. Through a more detailed analysis of mortality data an additional type of risk can be identified: differences in mortality improvements by birth year, also known as "cohort effects." Previous contributions have, however, not formalized a suitable measure to further investigate mortality improvements but rather relied on graphical representations without particular focus on individual cohorts but groups of the overall population. No criterion to identify single birth year cohorts as select has been established. A simple criterion for identifying select cohorts is proposed and used here to what country mortality data reveals about the mortality and longevity experience of cohorts. Select cohorts are rare but can be quite different from surrounding cohorts and so may generate financial risks that need to be hedged naturally or artificially with new ART instruments

La Sociedad de Cuartetos Clásicos de Eduardo Guervós del Castillo, pionera en la difusión de la música clásico-romántica en Granada

Este artículo trata sobre la actividad de la Sociedad de Cuartetos Clásicos de Granada, fundada por Eduardo Guervós del Castillo en 1871. Este proyecto supuso el primer intento de dar a conocer la música instrumental clásico-romántica en Granada. Poco se conoce en la actualidad sobre la trayectoria de la agrupación, cuyas tres primeras temporadas –de 1871 a 1874– se documentan en este trabajo gracias a las páginas de la prensa local. En el universo de asociaciones musicales granadinas del siglo XIX dos rasgos diferencian la Sociedad de Cuartetos Clásicos del resto de instituciones: estuvo integrada totalmente por músicos profesionales y difundió un repertorio innovador para la época, basado en obras de autores centroeuropeos y franceses clásico-románticos, así como de autores granadinos contemporáneos. Por otro lado, se evidencia la influencia de la Sociedad de Cuartetos de Madrid en su homónima granadina a través de la figura de Mariano Vázquez, asesor y participante en varios recitales de la orquesta de Guervós. Palabras clave: Eduardo Guervós del Castillo (1843-1922), Granada, Sociedad de Cuartetos Clásicos, música clásico-romántica, música en la prensa, siglo XIX. THE EDUARDO GUERVÓS DEL CASTILLO CLASSIC QUARTET SOCIETY, PIONEERING IN DISSEMINATING CLASSICAL-ROMANTIC MUSIC IN GRANADA Abstract: This article is about the activity of the Classic Quartet Society, founded by Eduardo Guervós del Castillo in 1871. This project represented the first attempt to make known the Classical-Romantic instrumental music in Granada. Little is known at present about the trajectory of the group, whose first three seasons −since 1871 to 1874− are documented in this paper with local press. In the universe of musical associations in Granada in nineteenth century, the Classic Quartet Society differed from the other institutions in two features: it was composed entirely by professional musicians and spread an innovative repertoire for the period, based on works by Central European and French Classical-Romantic authors, as well as by local contemporary composers. Documentary evidence is also presented in this paper to prove the influence of the Society of Quartets of Madrid through the figure of Mariano Vázquez, adviser and participant in several concerts of the Guervós orchestra. Keywords: Eduardo Guervós del Castillo (1843-1922), Granada, Classic Quartet Society, Classical-Romantic music, music in the press, nineteenth century

The Federal Fisheries Service, 1871–1940: Its Origins, Organization, and Accomplishments

The U.S. Fish Commission was initiated in 1871 with Spencer Fullerton Baird as the first U.S. Fish Commissioner as an independent entity. In 1903 it became a part of the new U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor and was renamed the Bureau of Fisheries, a name it retained when the Departments of Commerce and Labor were separated in 1912. The Bureau remained in the Commerce Department until 1941 when it was merged with the Biological Survey and placed in the Department of Interior as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It was a scientific agency with well conceived programs of action, and it provided knowledge, advice, and example to state governments and individuals with fisheries interests and needs. Its efforts were supported by timely international agreements which constituted the precedent for Federal interest in fishery matters. The Fisheries Service earned stature as an advisor through heavy emphasis on basic biological research. The lack of such knowledge was marked and universal in the 1870’s, but toward the end of that decade, strong steps had been taken to address those needs under Baird’s leadership. USFC research activities were conducted cooperatively with other prominent scientists in the United States and abroad. Biological stations were established, and the world’s first and most productive deepsea research vessel, the Albatross, was constructed, and its 40-year career gave a strong stimulus to the science of oceanography. Together, the agency’s scientists and facilities made important additions to the sum of human knowledge, derived principles of conservation which were the vital bases for effective regulatory legislation, conducted extensive fish cultural work, collected and disseminated fisheries statistics, and began important research in methods of fish harvesting, preservation, transportation, and marketing