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Dings, Fred, and Loren Goodman. "Famous Americans." World Literature Today 78, no. 3/4 (2004): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40158543.

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Wineburg, S., and C. Monte-Sano. ""Famous Americans": The Changing Pantheon of American Heroes." Journal of American History 94, no. 4 (2008): 1186–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25095326.

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Frost, Páraic, and Mark Frost. "Celebrity Encounters: Famous Americans in Nineteenth-Century Europe." Critical Survey 27, no. 3 (2015): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/cs.2015.270301.

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Zenkevich, I. V. "Famous Americans and learning of the Russian Language in the USA in the XIX century." Язык и текст 6, no. 1 (2019): 135–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/langt.2019060123.

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The article presents data obtained in the course of the study of the process of popularization and dissemination of Russian language teaching in the USA in the 19th century. The author gives facts from the biographies of famous Americans of this period, which prove the manifestation of their interest in learning Russian. The article suggests that the interest in the Russian language in the USA in the 19th century was purely personal. Before the American education system and private foundations paid close attention to the need to introduce teaching Russian into the school and university curriculum, it was learnt by enthusiasts and a small number of Americans who were guided by personal reasons that prompted them to turn to learning Russian language. The article also discusses these reasons, as well as the consequences of this learning.
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Kelley, Michael A. "Carter Versus Reagan: The Human Rights Records of Two Administrations." American Review of Politics 8 (January 1, 1988): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1987.8.0.1-16.

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The emergence of human rights as a public concern during the Carter administration was a recrudescence of the long tradition of moralism in American foreign policy. Confident that the republic is the pinnacle of political, social, and human development, Americans have believed since 1776 that the “United States must be a beacon of human rights to an unregenerate world” (Schlesinger, 1978: 505). Yet, while to the founding fathers America’s avoidance of Europe’s evils of class, hierarchy, and power politics was to be its greatest glory it is quite clear that they intended the U.S. to illuminate the path to a better world by example not by action. John Quincy Adam’s famous July 4 speech explained his perception of America’s mission to the world.
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Lucisano, Dana M. "Sources: Famous Americans: A Directory of Museums, Historic Sites, and Memorials." Reference & User Services Quarterly 53, no. 4 (2014): 376–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.53n4.376b.

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Lacina, Jan, and Patricia Watson. "A Social Studies Wax Museum: Meeting Famous Americans without Leaving School." Social Studies 94, no. 6 (2003): 281–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00377990309600220.

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Kępiński, Marcin. "Bigger, Stronger, Faster, czyli amerykański sen nie jest dla każdego, a sport to jedno wielkie oszustwo." Kultura i Społeczeństwo 61, no. 2 (2017): 103–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/kis.2017.61.2.6.

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The author analyses the 2009 documentary film Bigger, Stronger, Faster, which investigates the nature of American pop culture and sports. Writing from the perspective of cultural anthropology and sociology, he considers how ideas about the body and physicality are programmed by popular media culture and famous sports figures and celebrities, who are treated as models of masculinity and mass media heroes. He also raises the issue of the influence of illegal pharmaceutical doping on contemporary American sports. All these subjects serve to describe the form and functioning of America’s contemporary collective identity and the connection between the authorities, television, sports entertainment, and politics. The United States described in the documentary is a real and existing utopia, which Americans and other people have dreamt and still dream about, and which everyone believes in—not only the recipients of popular media culture and sports entertainment.
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Zhumabekova, N. М. "LEXICO-STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE JOE HARJO`S POEM “SUN RISE”." Vestnik Bishkek Humanities University, Issue 52-53 (October 21, 2020): 11–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.35254//bhu.2021.52.1.

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The article discusses the meaning of one of the poems of the most famous and outstanding contemporary American Indian poets Joe Harjo. The main purpose of the article is to interpret the topic of freedom, love to the traditions, and discontent with the present state of being of Native Americans through lexica -stylistic devices. It is indicated that many Indian American works are devoted to description of loss, and Joe Harjo`s poems search for some resolution of the situation. Though the Native Americans suffered the loss of their rights and freedom, the author calls for revival, for continuation of the fight, for gaining what was lost. Alongside with the ideas in the poem some stylistic devices as repetition, enumeration, epithet, irony have been identified revealing the emotional influence on the readers.
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RAO, NANCY YUNHWA. "Racial essences and historical invisibility: Chinese opera in New York, 1930." Cambridge Opera Journal 12, no. 2 (2000): 135–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095458670000135x.

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Describing the performances of two Chinese opera groups – the visiting famous opera singer Mai Lan-fang and his troupe on Broadway and the local San Sai Gai troupe in Chinatown – and their reception by non-Chinese Americans, this essay tracks various formations and effects of Chinese images in 1930s New York that were deeply imprinted in popular imagination. The regrettable invisibility of Chinese opera in American music history is a result of such a pre-constructed concept of Chineseness.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Famous Americans"

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Hoover, Deborah D. "Norman Rockwell: The Business of Illustrating the American Dream." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1543573493216126.

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Neel, Hildy Michelle. "Let us now praise famous men: A history the American World War II personal narrative, 1942-1945." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623934.

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This dissertation charts the publishing history, marketing, packaging, authorship, and reviewing of WWII personal narratives, explores connections between wartime narratives and issues of censorship, rationing, and the use of books as propaganda, and closely examines the main themes of twenty-five of the nearly two hundred written between 1942 and 1945. The books being assayed offered an insider's view of combat from every theater of war and every branch of the service as well as the Merchant Marines.;An offshoot of the documentary impulse of the Thirties, the personal narrative became an American publishing phenomenon during the next decade's war. In general, the fundamental character of the American white male hero was portrayed in the trials and triumphs of the citizen-soldier of democracy. Narratives celebrated the transformation of the Thirties "common man" into the "giant in the earth" figure, cast simultaneously in an ordinary and epical mold.;In each decade, monumental challenges galvanized witnesses to provide insightful information about events which affected millions. to serve a different set of war-related needs, however, the WWII books recruited new writers, acquired new commercial sponsors, and drew upon Hemingway's concrete renditions of war. In order to sustain morale on the home front and in the armed forces, civilians obtained these war narratives (GI's received a different set of Armed Services Editions). For the publishers of personal narratives, patriotism and profits went hand in hand.;The war narratives performed crucial ideological work. They engaged issues that touched deep anxieties in the public. Amidst a vast military effort that mobilized millions for a far-flung international conflict, these books personalized the soldier thereby keeping alive the American ideal of the heroic individual, full of "can-do" spirit, committed to democracy, ready to sacrifice his life for a return to an American way of an American way of life. Romanticizing the individual, they reinforced deep-seated national myths.
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Bouveret, Yves Maurice. "Let us now praise famous men de james agee ou la voie du reel." Paris 7, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA070059.

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Let us now praise famous men est une oeuvre litteraire dont la grandeur incontestable se laisse difficilement demontrer: nous avons voulu montrer que c'etait avant tout le recit d'une experience complexe ou l'aventure de la sensibilite se prolonge en decouverte d'un mode de connaissance extatique. Apres avoir ecarte les approches journalistiques et litteraires dont l' evidence est trompeuse, nous avons suivi la metamorphose du 'voyeur' en voyant, metamorphose qui fournit les elements d'une theorie du reel que nous rapprochons de celle de clement rosset. Ainsi recadre, le recit de l'experience releve plus de la philosophie, voire du mysticisme, que de l'ethnographie sociale et c'est justement ce qui donne sa force paradoxale au documentaire social. Nous examinons ensuite les strategies mises en oeuvre par agee pour echapper a la fois a la "litterature" et au silence : le systeme de communication que nous decrivons ressemble par son appel direct a l'inconscient du lecteur a la 'communication hypnotique' de milton h erickson. En dernier lieu, nous montrons comment l'experience extatique du reel informe la critique cinematographique d'agee dans les annees 40 et nous tentons d'evaluer l'importance de sa tentative en termes de survie de la culture a l'ere de la simulation<br>Let uq now praise famous men has long been recognized as a major work of lit erature but this greatness seems to elude demonstration: we have tried to show that it was essentially an account of a complex experience in which what started as sensitive exploration becomes an exstatic 'way of knowing'. After rejecting the obvious but misleading journalistic and literary approaches, we have followed the journey of its author from 'voyeur' to 'seer' this journey provides the materials for a theory of the real akin to that of french philosopher clement rosset. Thus refocused, the account of the experience has more in common with philosophy and mysticism than social ethnology. This according to us is the paradoxical reason why the social documentary works so powerfully. We then examine agee's strategies to eschew both 'literature' and silence his techniques of communication relying on direct manipulation of the reader' s unconscious suggested to us a parallel with those of milton h erickson. Lastly we show agee's exstatic experience of the real informs his film criticism of the 40's. And we assess the importance of his attempt for the survival of culture in the age of simulation
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Johnson, Brandon W. "Analysis of the factors involved in restaurant management job satisfaction and retention for Famous Dave's of America." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000johnsonb.pdf.

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Duff, Meaghan Noelle. ""This Famous Island in the Virginia Sea": The Influence of the Irish Tudor and Stuart Plantation Experiences in the Evolution of American Colonial Theory and Practice." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625771.

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May, Cinda Ann. "On Becoming a Valued Member of Society: The Childhood of Famous Americans Series and the Transmission of Americanism, 1932-1958." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4964.

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Fang, Wei-Ling, and 方唯齡. "A Study to Compare the Marketing Activities of Famous Companies’ Websites in America and Taiwan." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19073410346707482639.

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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>資訊管理學系碩士班<br>93<br>When regard website as the tool of marketing in enterprises, making the competition advantage with diversified website marketing metrics is very urgently. The research framework is made by marketing activities of multinational real value chain and marketing activities of virtual value chain. Gathering 33 marketing metrics including four relevant aspects of sales and marketing, service, outbound logistics and technology .The research sample is 48 famous companies’ websites setting in America and Taiwan.Find after analysis, the percentage of adapting metrics in America websites is obviously higher than in Taiwan websites. The correlation is significant in the ranking of adapting metrics.And It’s the the same result in ranking of the importance of metrics between America and Taiwan. In addition, in e-business model, America websites are inclined to the bricks and clicks model; Taiwan websites agree more on internet presence model.
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Howard, Catherine Elaine. ""But chiefly we now engaged in mutual listening": Participation in "Art as Experience" and "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16738.

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James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and John Dewey's Art as Experience converge in several fundamental ways, all hinging on the notion of participation in art. Although Agee and Evans may seem at first glance to be stylistically mismatched in their book, an examination of their work in light of pragmatic aesthetic theories introduced by Dewey reveals several ways in which they meet. For Dewey experience and community are the major components in confronting existence; Agee and Evans also examine their tenant families in terms of experience and community. Specifically, they approach Deweyan goals in emphasizing the art of the everyday, in using art as a communicative tool to improve a social situation, and in employing art as a way to approximate "truth." Thinking in terms of experience, the more subjective individual factor, gives rise to the idea of perception, of basing one's aesthetic frame on current experience and memories of past experiences. Agee and Evans both participate in this process, which Dewey calls "consummatory experience." In addition, both artists evoke consummatory experiences from the reader. The more objective factor, community, leads to a consideration of democracy, a cooperative of shared moral values. Again, Agee and Evans come together in examining community and in searching for democracy, particularly in their uses of art for communication. A fundamental problem with subject-object dichotomy occurs both in Dewey's theory and in Agee and Evans' work. Subjects, those observing, and objects, those observed, are not equal. Some of the objects that Agee and Evans examine are human beings, potential subjects, who are not allowed to participate in consummatory experience. Dewey emphasizes that thinking of subjects and objects as separate entities is not fruitful; rather, subjectivity and objectivity are processes to be undertaken, and true art occurs when subject and object merge. Although Agee and Evans fall short of a merging of subject and object, both of them mix subjective and objective techniques in their respective portraits of a time and a place. Agee, Evans, and Dewey meet in their uses of participation, both in goal and in method.
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Books on the topic "Famous Americans"

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Famous Americans. Yale University Press, 2003.

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Famous Americans. Quality Books, 1987.

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Morey, Janet. Famous Hispanic Americans. Cobblehill Books, 1996.

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Webster, Orville V. 50 famous Americans. JBG Publishing, 1991.

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Wendy, Dunn, ed. Famous Mexican Americans. Cobblehill Books, 1989.

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Morey, Janet. Famous Hispanic Americans. Cobblehill Books, 1996.

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Webster, Orville V. 50 famous Americans. J.G Pub., 1991.

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Wendy, Dunn, ed. Famous Asian Americans. Cobblehill Books, 1992.

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150 famous Welsh Americans. Llygad Gwalch, 2008.

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Berrell, Daniel J. 100 famous Irish Americans. Barry Pub. Co., 1995.

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Book chapters on the topic "Famous Americans"

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Chandler, Jennifer L., and James B. McGraw. "History, Conservation, and Cultivation of American Ginseng, North America’s Most Famous Medicinal Plant." In Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44930-8_6.

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Forbes, Esther. "1943 Award. About the Upcoming of a Famous Boston Pioneer." In American History Awards 1917–1991, edited by Heinz-D. Fischer. De Gruyter, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110972146-030.

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Dow, William. "Class “Truths” in James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." In Narrating Class in American Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230617964_8.

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Bay-Cheng, Sarah. "Famous Unknowns: The Dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein." In A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996805.ch9.

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Beidler, Philip D. "Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan and Other Famous Early American Literary Mahometans." In Writing Race Across the Atlantic World. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403980830_10.

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Grzeszczuk, Jerzy. "A Possible Reason for the ‘Fatal Vision’ of the Famous American Surgeon Jeffrey Macdonald." In The Origins of Life. Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3415-8_24.

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"Loren Goodman (1968–) Famous Americans, 2002." In Firsts. Yale University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqc6g88.97.

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Krueger, Anne O. "Foreign Trade in World History." In International Trade. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190900465.003.0001.

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Trade policy has long been contentious and stirred strong emotions. In the US, the most famous early controversy was the Boston Tea Party, in which the Americans objected to the tax (tariff) imposed by the British on imports of tea. The slogan for the...
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Rabin, Shari. "Introduction." In Jews on the Frontier. NYU Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479830473.003.0001.

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The introduction presents the case of a single mobile Jew with eclectic religious practices, Edward Rosewater, arguing that he is a compelling if unexpected starting point from which to redescribe religion in America. Building on religious studies methodologies developed in the American Catholic context, this book helps explain American religious eclecticism. As with contemporary “nones,” for nineteenth-century Americans like Rosewater, congregations, denominations, and stable identities were not obvious or inevitable. Rather, they were particular strategies—among many others—for coping with life amidst the individuating forces of American law, economics, and racial logics. While some Jews believed that Judaism was already suitable for all locales, most Jews recognized that they would have to reconcile Judaism with this new context, whether through individual adaptations like those of Rosewater or through the national projects proposed by famous leaders Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise and Isaac Leeser.
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Pearson, Joseph W. "Introduction." In The Whigs' America. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813179728.003.0001.

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This book is about politics, exploring the general outlook of a group of Americans called Whigs. Between 1834 and 1856, the Whigs were one of the two great political parties in the United States, battling their opponents, the Jacksonian Democrats, for office, prestige, power, and ideas. Boasting famous members such as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and William Henry Seward, they supported tariffs, banks, internal improvements, moral reform, and public education....
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Conference papers on the topic "Famous Americans"

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Irwin, R. Dennis. "Application of FAMESS to a Large Space Structure Ground Test Facility." In 1988 American Control Conference. IEEE, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/acc.1988.4789948.

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Khitruk, Ekaterina. "Публичное и частное в философии религии Ричарда Рорти". У The Public/Private in Modern Civilization, the 22nd Russian Scientific-Practical Conference (with international participation) (Yekaterinburg, April 16-17, 2020). Liberal Arts University – University for Humanities, Yekaterinburg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35853/ufh-public/private-2020-14.

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The article covers the religious conception in the work of the famous American philosopher Richard Rorty. The author emphasises the secular and finalist views of R. Rorty on the nature of religion, and on the philosopher’s gradual perception of the need for their creative reinterpretation due to the actualisation of the role of religion in intellectual and political spheres. The article uncovers two fundamental constituents of Richard Rorty’s religious philosophy. The first of them is associated with R. Rorty’s perception of the ‘weak thinking’ concept in the writings of Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo. R. Rorty holds ‘weak thinking’ and ‘kenosis’ to be the key to understanding the possibility of religion in the postmodern era. The second aspect concerns the existence of religion in the public space. Here the distinction between ‘strong’ narratives and ‘weak’ thinking correlates with the politically significant distinction between ‘strong’ religious institutions and private (parish, community) religious practice. Rorty believes that the activity of ‘strong’ religious structures threatens liberal ‘social hope’ on the gradual democratisation of mankind. The article concludes that Richard Rorty’s philosophy of religion presents an original conception of religion in the context of modern temporal humanism; the concept positively evaluates religious experience to the extent that it does not become a basis for theoretical and political manipulations on the part of ‘strong’ religious institutes.
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Themelis, Nickolas J. "Developments in Thermal Treatment Technologies." In 16th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec16-1927.

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A 2007 WTERT survey (1) showed that the global waste-to-energy capacity (WTE) increased in the period 2001–2007 by about 4 million metric tons per annum. By far, the principal technology used globally for energy recovery from municipal solid wastes is combustion of “as received” MSW on moving grates (“mass burn” or stocker technology). The three dominant grate technologies, by Martin, Von Roll, and Keppel-Seghers, represent about 75% of the total growth in capacity. In the same period, Japan and China built several plants that were based either on the direct smelting or on fluid bed combustion of solid wastes. In China, there have been some mass-burn new plants and also over forty circulating fluid bed WTEs, using technologies developed by the Institute of Thermal Power Engineering of Zhejiang University and by the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. WTE technologies in China are actively supported by the national and local governments and many more plants are projected as sprawling cities are running out of landfill space. Japan is the largest user of thermal treatment of MSW in the world (40 million tonnes) and some of the newest plants use stoker technology, such as the Hiroshima WTE designed by the famous architect Taniguchi and the Sendai WTE that uses advanced oxygen enrichment technology. However, there are also over 100 thermal treatment plants based on relatively novel processes. The Direct Smelting and the Ebara fluid bed technologies developed in Japan require pre-processing of the MSW, combust the resulting syngas to generate steam, and produce a vitrified residue. The Thermoselect Gasification and Melting technology, originally developed in Europe, has been adopted successfully in seven Japanese facilities by JFE, a company with extensive experience both in high temperature metal processing and with various MSW thermal treatment technologies, including mass burn. This paper also includes a brief report on the results of a study by WTERT on ways to increase beneficial uses of WTE ash in the U.S.
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Reports on the topic "Famous Americans"

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Galenson, David. Masterpieces and Markets: Why the Most Famous Modern Paintings Are Not by American Artists. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w8549.

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Tweet, Justin S., Vincent L. Santucci, Kenneth Convery, Jonathan Hoffman, and Laura Kirn. Channel Islands National Park: Paleontological resource inventory (public version). National Park Service, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2278664.

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Channel Island National Park (CHIS), incorporating five islands off the coast of southern California (Anacapa Island, San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island), has an outstanding paleontological record. The park has significant fossils dating from the Late Cretaceous to the Holocene, representing organisms of the sea, the land, and the air. Highlights include: the famous pygmy mammoths that inhabited the conjoined northern islands during the late Pleistocene; the best fossil avifauna of any National Park Service (NPS) unit; intertwined paleontological and cultural records extending into the latest Pleistocene, including Arlington Man, the oldest well-dated human known from North America; calichified “fossil forests”; records of Miocene desmostylians and sirenians, unusual sea mammals; abundant Pleistocene mollusks illustrating changes in sea level and ocean temperature; one of the most thoroughly studied records of microfossils in the NPS; and type specimens for 23 fossil taxa. Paleontological research on the islands of CHIS began in the second half of the 19th century. The first discovery of a mammoth specimen was reported in 1873. Research can be divided into four periods: 1) the few early reports from the 19th century; 2) a sustained burst of activity in the 1920s and 1930s; 3) a second burst from the 1950s into the 1970s; and 4) the modern period of activity, symbolically opened with the 1994 discovery of a nearly complete pygmy mammoth skeleton on Santa Rosa Island. The work associated with this paleontological resource inventory may be considered the beginning of a fifth period. Fossils were specifically mentioned in the 1938 proclamation establishing what was then Channel Islands National Monument, making CHIS one of 18 NPS areas for which paleontological resources are referenced in the enabling legislation. Each of the five islands of CHIS has distinct paleontological and geological records, each has some kind of fossil resources, and almost all of the sedimentary formations on the islands are fossiliferous within CHIS. Anacapa Island and Santa Barbara Island, the two smallest islands, are primarily composed of Miocene volcanic rocks interfingered with small quantities of sedimentary rock and covered with a veneer of Quaternary sediments. Santa Barbara stands apart from Anacapa because it was never part of Santarosae, the landmass that existed at times in the Pleistocene when sea level was low enough that the four northern islands were connected. San Miguel Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island have more complex geologic histories. Of these three islands, San Miguel Island has relatively simple geologic structure and few formations. Santa Cruz Island has the most varied geology of the islands, as well as the longest rock record exposed at the surface, beginning with Jurassic metamorphic and intrusive igneous rocks. The Channel Islands have been uplifted and faulted in a complex 20-million-year-long geologic episode tied to the collision of the North American and Pacific Places, the initiation of the San Andreas fault system, and the 90° clockwise rotation of the Transverse Ranges, of which the northern Channel Islands are the westernmost part. Widespread volcanic activity from about 19 to 14 million years ago is evidenced by the igneous rocks found on each island.
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