In 1832 and 1835, he traveled to the Crimea and Black Sea regions to better understand the fauna and collect zoological materials. In 1835, he succeeded Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876) as professor of anatomy and zoology at Albertus University (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Rathke undertook scien...
Connections with the science of biomechanics as it was being developed in Russia in this period (primarily by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bernstein), have not been fully discovered. In 1926, Bernstein (2020: 3) defined the scientific term biomechanics: “In essence, this is the science of how the ...
In literature, as in life, even if the woman’s commitment to art was a serious one, she was expected to drop her career and give up this commitment at the behest of love and marriage: this lesson is, today as in the 19th century, still inculcated in young girls, directly or indirec...
Jaeger (often referred to as Jäger, with an umlaut) (1828: 6) wrote “Schon seit langer Zeit wird in dem Naturalien-Cabinet zu Dresden eine Schieferplatte von Boll mit den Ueberresten eines Reptils aufbewahrt” (“For a long time now, a shale slabe from Boll with the remains of a...
Russia, Southwest Greenland, and Alaska (see Fig.1). The reintroduction effort in Alaska was to replace populations extirpated by overhunting. Muskox populations today inhabit a large and relatively diverse range that extends from the sub-arctic northern edge of the boreal forest (56° N) to ...
You enter through a simple triumphal arch, and then arrive at a grey granite sculpture (at a still normal, albeit larger than life size scale), of a woman who might be “Mother Russia”. But if you then look south, down the main axis of the monument, your jaw will drop. The monumen...
72 T. N. JACKSON They sailed east to Russia ['Garðaríki'] to meet with Magnús. He and King Yaroslav were overjoyed to see Karl. He told them all about his travels, then placed Kálfr's case before Magnús … Karl said: "Kálfr will now swear to you that he did not strike ...
In a testament to his proximity to political power, Kurtyka died in April 2010 after the presidential plane in which he travelled with then Polish President Lech Kaczyński and several other high-level officials crashed on its way to a ceremony in Smolensk, Russia. For anticommunist entrepreneurs...
Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye gory 1/12, Moscow, 119234, Russia Boris Osadchenko & Yulia Kraus Contributions Y.K. and T.M. designed the research; T.M., B.O., and Y.K. performed the in vivo and TEM studies; T.M. and Y.K. performed confocal micr...
Paper presented at the 21st Bienneal Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, 23–28 August, St Petersburg, Russia. Gleick, James. 2011. The Information. London: Harper Collins. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Gedichte. Ausgabe letzter Hand, 1827. Gott und Welt: "Vermächtnis...