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Journal articles on the topic "Famous landmarks"

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Hamburger, Kai, and Florian Röser. "The Role of Landmark Modality and Familiarity in Human Wayfinding." Swiss Journal of Psychology 73, no. 4 (2014): 205–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/1421-0185/a000139.

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What characteristics constitute a “helpful” landmark for wayfinding and how are they represented in the human brain? Experiment 1 compared recognition and wayfinding performance for visual, verbal, and acoustic landmarks (animals) learned in our virtual environment SQUARELAND. Experiment 2 investigated landmark semantics, namely, famous versus unfamiliar buildings. The results showed that, first, the best recognition performance was observed for words (verbal condition) followed by sounds. Performance was worst for the pictorial landmark information. In the wayfinding phase, a similar level of performance was observed for all three modalities. Second, famous buildings were better recognized than unfamiliar ones, indicating a semantic influence. We conclude that nonvisual information may successfully constitute a landmark and discuss this within the context of current research on landmarks and human wayfinding.
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Chimlek, Sutasinee, and Punpiti Piamsa-nga. "Incremental Tag Suggestion for Landmark Image Collections." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 6, no. 1 (2016): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v6i1.8540.

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In recent social media applications, descriptive information is collected through user tagging, such as face recognition, and automatic environment sensing, such as GPS. There are many applications that recognize landmarks using information gathered from GPS data. However, GPS is dependent on the location of the camera, not the landmark. In this research, we propose an automatic landmark tagging scheme using secondary regions to distinguish between similar landmarks. We propose two algorithms: 1) landmark tagging by secondary objects and 2) automatic new landmark recognition. Images of 30 famous landmarks from various public databases were used in our experiment. Results show increments of tagged areas and the improvement of landmark tagging accuracy.
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Chimlek, Sutasinee, and Punpiti Piamsa-nga. "Incremental Tag Suggestion for Landmark Image Collections." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 6, no. 1 (2016): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v6i1.pp139-150.

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In recent social media applications, descriptive information is collected through user tagging, such as face recognition, and automatic environment sensing, such as GPS. There are many applications that recognize landmarks using information gathered from GPS data. However, GPS is dependent on the location of the camera, not the landmark. In this research, we propose an automatic landmark tagging scheme using secondary regions to distinguish between similar landmarks. We propose two algorithms: 1) landmark tagging by secondary objects and 2) automatic new landmark recognition. Images of 30 famous landmarks from various public databases were used in our experiment. Results show increments of tagged areas and the improvement of landmark tagging accuracy.
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Christy, Donna. "American landmarks." Teaching Children Mathematics 25, no. 4 (2019): 206–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/teacchilmath.25.4.0206.

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From coast to coast, America is filled with different types of fascinating landmarks. This set of problems offers a mathematical road trip visiting the famous sites. Math by the Month features collections of short activities focused on a monthly theme. These articles aim for an inquiry or problem-solving orientation that includes four activities each for grade bands K–2, 3–4, and 5–6.
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Maratilova, Verka. "GOOGLE EXPEDITIONS AND VIRTUAL REALITY IN THE CLASSROOM – A LESSON FOR THE MAN AND THE SOCIETY AT THE THIRD GRADE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL." Education and Technologies Journal 11, no. 2 (2020): 298–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.26883/2010.202.2327.

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Google Expeditions is a unique Google initiative designed to bring virtual reality educational experiences into the classroom. They allow the teacher to take students on virtual trips to places such as museums, space and more. The expeditions are collections of connected virtual reality (VR) content – 360 ° panoramas and 3D images – explained with details and support materials that can be used in conjunction with existing curricula. The lesson on „Natural landmarks“ was conducted with students from III „b“ class of Secondary School „Prof. Ivan Batakliev“in the town of Pazardzhik. The type of the lesson is for new knowledge, and the main didactic goal is to form initial knowledge in the students about famous natural landmarks in Bulgaria and for them to be able to name them. The main task is for students to list famous natural landmarks, to distinguish between natural and cultural landmarks and to acquire an attitude of preserving the natural environment.
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Purdam, Kingsley, and Harry Taylor. "Visit Britain: Differences in life expectancy by famous places and landmarks." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52, no. 2 (2019): 255–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x19860543.

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Rosenbaum, R. Shayna, Fuqiang Gao, Brian Richards, Sandra E. Black, and Morris Moscovitch. "“Where to?” Remote Memory for Spatial Relations and Landmark Identity in Former Taxi Drivers with Alzheimer's Disease and Encephalitis." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17, no. 3 (2005): 446–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/0898929053279496.

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Recent research suggests that the hippocampus is not needed for the maintenance and recovery of extensively used environments learned long ago. Instead, a network of neo-cortical regions differentially supports memory for location-navigation knowledge and visual appearance of well-known places. In this study, we present a patient, S. B., who was diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's disease long after retiring from his 40 years as a taxi driver in downtown Toronto, a place that he has visited rarely, if ever, in the last decade. His performance was compared to that of two other retired taxi drivers, L. R., who developed encephalitis after retirement, and I. L., who is without neurological illness, and a group of eight healthy control participants who were never taxi drivers but all of whom worked or lived in downtown Toronto until at least 10 years ago. Despite S. B.'s widespread atrophy, which has affected mainly his hippocampus and part of his occipitotemporal cortex, he performed at least as well as all other participants on remote memory tests of spatial location and mental navigation between well-known Toronto landmarks. Unlike the comparison populations, however, he was unable to discriminate between the appearances of landmarks that he had visited frequently in his many years as a taxi driver from unknown buildings. This profound deficit extended to famous world landmarks but not to famous faces and does not appear to be semantic in nature. These findings add further support to the claim that the hippocampus is not necessary for mental navigation of old environments and suggest that expertise is not sufficient to protect against landmark agnosia.
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Zhu, Litao, Milan Konečný, Jie Shen, Zdeněk Stachoň, and Hana Švedová. "The Influence of Spatial Familiarity on Landmark Salience Sensibility Based on Eye Tracking." Abstracts of the ICA 1 (July 15, 2019): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-438-2019.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Landmarks play an important role in navigation especially when people in the familiar and unfamiliar environment. These landmarks are usually used for expressing their spatial knowledge. This prior knowledge is related to the spatial familiarity that the spatial knowledge is acquired by individuals as a function of their experience in the environment (Gale et al., 1990). Individuals prefers to take into highly account their familiar route within the environment. Furthermore, the route descriptions include the differed types of landmarks in familiar/unfamiliar routes (Lovelace et al., 1999). The user’s level of spatial familiarity for people is a key factor of how they navigate in the environment (Savage et al., 2012). In human navigation or wayfinding, the dependency on familiar landmarks is the highest priority (Golledge, 2003).</p><p>Landmarks are more distinguishably salient and prominent than the another spatial features (Sorrows and Hirtle, 1999). Therefore, the landmark salience refers to how easily this prominent spatial feature can be regarded as a landmark (Raubal and Winter, 2002). The landmark salience mainly divided into visual, structural (important location), and cognitive (semantic). Visual salience refers to the visual characteristics of spatial features such as color contrast with surroundings. Some visual characteristics include facade areas, shapes, colors and other properties. Semantic salience refers to the spatial knowledge related features such as a cultural importance of building. Structural salience refers to the spatial features play an important role in the structure of the spatial environment.</p><p>The level of spatial knowledge of the individual also an important factor in landmark selection (Nuhn and Timpf, 2018). Hamburger and Röser (2014) investigated landmark semantics and showed that famous buildings were better recognized than unfamiliar ones. Quesnot and Roche (2015) found that the familiar individuals prefer the semantic landmarks in environment while the unfamiliar individuals prefer the landmark with the prominent visual and structural. In contrast, people unfamiliar with an environment prefer landmarks with outstanding visual and structural characteristics.</p><p>The existing literature studies the method that landmark indicators to be considered are not comprehensive while can’t reflect on the landmark characteristics. The reason is that the method of calculation and extraction for landmarks can’t conform the individual preference needs of navigation. Compared with the traditional subjective evaluation method, the eye-tracking method provide objectivity and reliability. For example, a mobile eye tracking system was used by Kiefer et al. (2014) to investigate the process of self-localization. They discovered that test persons directed their attention longer on landmarks on the map and aligned them with objects in the surroundings during successful localization of their own position. Schwarzkopf et al. (2013) used fixed and mobile eye tracking devices to study that participates selected the navigation landmarks in the virtual environment and the real-world of the airport. In general, there are an only limited number of works related to the influence of spatial familiarity on landmark by using eye tracking method.</p><p>At present, many navigation systems are providing users with route directions under different travel modes. These navigation systems have the "distance-to-turn" method in route directions, however the landmark knowledge has not been conformed to user's habits and spatial cognitive in wayfinding. In order to solve these problems, this paper aims to study the characteristics of the user’s spatial familiarity and landmark salience evaluation method in navigation. The following questions are addressed in this study: 1) What’s the relationship between the spatial familiarity with the landmark selection in navigation for individuals? 2) What is the quantitative evaluation model to connect between the spatial familiarity with the landmark salience by using the eye-tracking data?</p><p>In our experiments, we will use eye tracking to explore the influence of spatial familiarity on landmark salience. The experimental path is part of the campus area of Nanjing Normal University. The subjects are divided into novice students and senior students from Nanjing Normal University as unfamiliar and familiar groups respectively. The procedures are divided into two parts, namely, the subjects should walk the experimental path within the fixation time and then they are asked to wear VR eye tracking module a Glass DK II special for HTC view (China; https://www.7invensun.com/) to do three types of tasks about landmark picture with the characteristics of visual, semantic and structural. With this research, we expect to establish a landmark salience evaluation method through eye movement data and analyse the landmark selection rules of groups with different spatial familiarity. It is helpful to design the pedestrian navigation system based on landmarks, improve the pertinence and reliability of navigation services and reduce the cognitive load for users.</p>
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Benke, Thomas, Eva Kuen, Michael Schwarz, and Gerald Walser. "Proper name retrieval in temporal lobe epilepsy: Naming of famous faces and landmarks." Epilepsy & Behavior 27, no. 2 (2013): 371–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.02.013.

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Moustakin, Mohammad. "Landmarks from the Heritage of the Moroccan Thinker, Mohamed Abed Al-Jabri." RUDN Journal of Philosophy 25, no. 2 (2021): 224–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2302-2021-25-2-224-232.

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Muhammad Abed Al-Jabri (1935-2010) is one of the significant philosophical and scientific figures who left their strong and broad imprint in various fields of contemporary Arab culture. Al-Jabri created his philosophy towards various aspects of Arab history. This included philosophy, theology, politics, ethics, and other aspects. His philosophical works culminated in his famous book on "The Arab Mind," in which he dealt with "The Structure of the Arab Mind" and supplemented it with his famous book - "Critique of the Arab Mind." The article's primary task is limited to addressing the intellectual path of Al-Jabri by tracing what he wrote and the content of these works. Besides, in this article, what Al-Jabri wrote is arranged in chronological order in order to clarify the features of the general and particular course of his philosophical creativity. It is a necessary task for scientific research in his philosophy. It provides the reader and researcher with the complete basic set of his books.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Famous landmarks"

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Wang, MING-YI, and 王銘頤. "The Research on Content-Based Image Retrieval and withApplication to Identification of the Global Famous Landmarks." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76899053545632441984.

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碩士<br>大同大學<br>資訊工程學系(所)<br>101<br>This thesis surveys the relevant technologies for content-based image retrieval and applies them to identification of the global famous landmarks by giving a picture of a fascinating building. This helps tourists to determine the next attractions to visit by providing the representative picture(s) taking at that area, assuming that the tourists do not know the exact place of the attractions. However, taking pictures of the same building, the resulting scene patterns are usually quite different. The final scene pattern in a building’s picture is, in fact, dependent on many conditions, such as the viewport position and orientation of a camera, the lighting condition, the changing background, the occlusion by the moving objects, etc. This requires us being able to extract important features from the given image. Furthermore, these features should be also invariant under some aforementioned conditions so that matching this image with image database of known content becomes meaningful. The feature-extraction scheme of this research is mainly based on SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transformation). The remarkable feature of SIFT is that it can extract a high number of features that are insensitive to the scale, rotation, to the weak affine distortions and, even, to illumination changes. To accelerating the matching process, k-means clustering strategy was applied to the SIFT features collected from the images in the database to build the so-called vocabulary tree. Vocabulary tree enables the image matching process to be done by shrinking the search space repeatedly and, hence, dramatically improve the efficiency. To make the identification result being able to more precise, the system we built allows the user to specify several ROI’s (Region of Interest) in the query image. Before matching, the SIFT features outside all ROI’s are totally excluded. This makes the features immaterial to the focused object not being involved in the matching process and, intuitively and hopefully, the better identification precision could be resulted. Experimental results will be demonstrated in the thesis to verify our assumption.
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Books on the topic "Famous landmarks"

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P, Miller Arthur. Guide to the homes of famous Pennsylvanians: Houses, museums, and landmarks. Stackpole Books, 2003.

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National landmarks of Western New York: Famous people and historic places. Western New York Wares Inc., 2002.

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Ed, Glinert, ed. Rock & roll traveler Great Britain and Ireland: The ultimate guide to famous rock hangouts past and present. Fodor's Travel Publications, 1997.

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Brezenoff, Steven. The crook who crossed the Golden Gate Bridge. Stone Arch Books, 2011.

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The reference guide to famous engineering landmarks of the world: Bridges, tunnels, dams, roads, and other structures. Oryx Press, 1998.

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The reference guide to famous engineering landmarks of the world: Bridges, tunnels, dams, roads, and other structures. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.

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Spirits of place: Five famous lives in their landscape. Viking, 2001.

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1950-, Coburn Marcia Froelke, and Barron's Educational Series inc, eds. Chicago in your pocket: A handy directory of restaurants, hotels, museums, theaters, stores, nightlife, famous landmarks--the best of the city's sights, services, and pleasures! 3rd ed. Barron's, 1987.

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Susan, Figliulo, and Barron's Educational Series inc, eds. Chicago in your pocket: A handy directory of restaurants, hotels, museums, theaters, stores, nightlife, famous landmarks--the best of the city's sights, services, and pleasures. 2nd ed. Barron's, 1985.

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Dieter, Zumpe, ed. Memento Frauenkirche: Dresdens Wahrzeichen als Symbol der Versöhnung = Dresden's famous landmark as a symbol of reconciliation. Verlag Bauwesen, 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "Famous landmarks"

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Hertzig, Stefan. "Krull, Dieter, Dieter Zumpe: Memento Frauenkirche. Dresdens Wahrzeichen als Symbol der Versöhnung. Dresden’s Famous Landmark as a Symbol of Reconciliation. Berlin: Verl. f. Bauwesen 2001. 223 S. m. überwieg. farb. Abb. nebst 1 CD-ROM." In Die Dresdner Frauenkirche. J.B. Metzler, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04392-4_15.

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Chemin, Jean-Yves, Benoit Desjardins, Isabelle Gallagher, and Emmanuel Grenier. "References and Remarks on the Navier–Stokes Equations." In Mathematical Geophysics. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198571339.003.0009.

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The purpose of this chapter is to give some historical landmarks to the reader. The concept of weak solutions certainly has its origin in mechanics; the article by C. Oseen [100] is referred to in the seminal paper by J. Leray. In that famous article, J. Leray proved the global existence of solutions of (NSν) in the sense of Definition 2.5, page 42, in the case when Ω = R3. The case when Ω is a bounded domain was studied by E. Hopf in. The study of the regularity properties of those weak solutions has been the purpose of a number of works. Among them, we recommend to the reader the fundamental paper of L. Caffarelli, R. Kohn and L. Nirenberg. In two space dimensions, J.-L. Lions and G. Prodi proved in [91] the uniqueness of weak solutions (this corresponds to Theorem 3.2, page 56, of this book). Theorem 3.3, page 58, of this book shows that regularity and uniqueness are two closely related issues. In the case of the whole space R3, theorems of that type have been proved by J. Leray in.
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Bush, Andrew. "In praise of famous men: early cortisone studies." In Landmark Papers in Allergy. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199651559.003.0023.

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Kopelman, Andrew M. "Duty to Protect." In Landmark Cases in Forensic Psychiatry, edited by Merrill Rotter, Jeremy Colley, and Heather Ellis Cucolo. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190914424.003.0004.

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Chapter 3 examines cases that relate to a mental health clinician’s legal responsibility to protect citizens from danger caused by patients. The duty can be at the individual or institutional level and varies from state to state. Tarasoff v. Regents, described in this section, is probably the most famous landmark case of all. Other cases included in this section are Lipari v. Sears, Petersen v. Washington, Jablonski v. U.S. and Naidu v. Laird.
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Kopelman, Andrew M. "Duty to Protect." In Landmark Cases in Forensic Psychiatry. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199344659.003.0003.

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Chapter 3 examines cases that relate to a mental health clinician’s legal responsibility to protect citizens from danger caused by patients. The duty can be at the individual or institutional level and varies from state to state. Tarasoff v. Regents, described in this section, is probably the most famous landmark case of all. Other cases included in this section are Lipari v. Sears, Petersen v. Washington, Jablonski v. U.S., and Naidu v. Laird.
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Shestowsky, Donna. "CommentsHow Useful Is Court ADR If Litigants (Still) Don’t Know about It?" In Discussions in Dispute Resolution. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197513248.003.0067.

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In his landmark paper, Varieties of Dispute Processing, Frank Sander articulated the need to develop mechanisms to reduce the nation’s judicial caseload. Decades after delivering his essay at the 1976 Pound Conference, Sander’s ideas remain at the core of the dialogue about court-sponsored alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Sander asserted that, unless the courts developed additional procedures for resolving disputes, the continued growth of litigation could ultimately undermine the US judicial system’s ability to help constituents resolve conflicts in a timely and equitable fashion. Accordingly, he prescribed his now-famous framework for modern-day ADR within the court system—later coined the “multi-door courthouse”—which fueled the idea that courts should offer a range of options for addressing disputes....
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Mitchell, Maggie Hartley. "Treasonous Tea." In North Carolina's Revolutionary Founders. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651200.003.0002.

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This chapter tells the story of the Edenton Tea Party, in which approximately 50 women from Edenton, North Carolina and the surrounding area signed a petition to boycott British goods, primarily in protest of the Coercive Acts, or the Intolerable Acts, as Americans called them. Led by Penelope Barker and Elizabeth King, the women attracted considerable attention, including a famous, satirical print by the English artist Philip Dawe and private criticism from Arthur Iredell, the brother of patriot leader James Iredell. The chapter questions some of the details of the traditional account of the “tea party,” such as the claim the women signed the petition at a meeting at King’s house, but nevertheless finds it to be a landmark in the evolution of women’s rights and women’s political activism.
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Maria Jr, Robert De. "Addison, Samuel Johnson, and the Test of Time." In Joseph Addison. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814030.003.0013.

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This chapter explores the contours of Addison’s afterlife in the eighteenth century by looking carefully at Samuel Johnson’s varied criticism of his works over a lifetime of writing about him. In his final statement in his famous Life of Addison, Johnson declares Addison’s reputation secure from the ups and downs it underwent in the eighteenth century by determining that Addison’s works, like those of Shakespeare, had stood the test of time. In Johnson’s long journey to this conclusion, his work on the Dictionary is perhaps the most important landmark. By citing Addison so frequently and in illustration of so many common words, Johnson demonstrated that Addison’s prose had knit itself into the fabric of English and would therefore endure. Although the enthusiastic cult of Addison that saw him as a perfect Christian had faded by mid-century, Johnson saw his works enduring because they had, almost invisibly, become part of British social discourse, both linguistically and ethically, and thereby ‘given Addison a claim to be numbered among the benefactors of mankind’.
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Melman, Billie. "Lachish." In Empires of Antiquities. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824558.003.0005.

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Focusing on one archaeological mound, Tell ed-Duweir, in the lowland region of Palestine, in the vicinity of Hebron, identified as biblical Lachish, the fortress city in the kingdom of Judah, Chapter 4 moves between London, the Tell, and its neighbouring villages. The chapter is a history of a landmark excavation, which uncovers the variety of its archaeological, biblical, anthropological, social, and political layers. Drawing on a wealth of written and visual materials at the Wellcome Institute, the British Museum Archives, the Israel Antiquities Authority, the National Archives, as well as on the press and archaeologists’ records, the chapter relates the identification of the Tell as Lachish, the discovery of the famous Lachish Letters (in pre-Exilic Hebrew), and their effect on Biblical Archaeology and epigraphy, to the rise of new fields of knowledge such as physical anthropology and anthropometrics. The chapter argues that the excavation project was regarded by archaeologists as a means of modernizing rural Palestine and the lives of Palestinian peasants and labourers. It recovers the modernizers’ daily life on the Tell and their representations of it in writing, photography, and documentary films. It also recoups the process of the Tell’s expropriation, as a historical monument, by the mandate authorities. Alongside the reports of archaeologists like James Leslie Starkey (who was murdered on his way from the Tell to the opening of the new Rockefeller museum in Jerusalem), Olga Tufnell, and Charles Inge, the chapter recovers the voices of villagers as they are heard through their petitions to the government about their denied access to the excavated land.
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Herz, Norman, and Ervan G. Garrison. "Chemical Methods." In Geological Methods for Archaeology. Oxford University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195090246.003.0008.

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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once" (anonymous). Time is a continuum—we sense this continuum as a succession of events. In archaeological matters it is one of the most salient attributes. To determine time accurately the archaeologist must rely on modern dating techniques. Age determination by chemical methods relies on the constancy or predictability of rates of chemical processes. For instance the oxidation of iron—rust—could be used for dating purposes if one could determine a chemical rate, in this case that of oxidation, that applied to more than the singular event. Unfortunately, the rate of the oxidation of iron is highly variable, being affected by temperature, available moisture, and the particular type of iron (mild, cast, stainless, etc.). Another common chemical change is the patination of certain types of glass. Yet here, too, the process is highly variable, making dating impractical. Still, there have been attempts to use patination and rock "varnish" for archaeological dating, as we shall see. In the main, chemical dating is used to determine relative ages since absolute ages require calibration for each sample and its find site using independent dating measures such as radiometric or dendrochronological techniques. We shall first discuss the relative techniques based on the uptake or decrease in fluorine, uranium, and nitrogen found in bone. This is most appropriate because these chemical techniques played a key role in unmasking one of the most famous frauds in the history of science: Piltdown Man. Next we shall examine the two most accepted chemical processes utilized in absolute age determination, which are based, respectively, on amino acid racemization and obsidian hydration. Finally, we shall examine a few techniques that show some promise for the dating of archaeological materials or deposits, such as those using patination ("varnish") and cation ratios. Our points of reference are those events we view as, in some sense, marking a change in the state of things. Stylistic or formal change in an archaeological facies can be a chronological landmark for the archaeologist and allows us to divide the continuum of time into discrete segments or phases.
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Reports on the topic "Famous landmarks"

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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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