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Poet and novelist F. Richard Thomas reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textF. Richard Thomas, poet and Michigan State University professor of American Thought and Language, reads from his works. The event is convened by MSU Libraries' Director of Special Collections Peter Berg. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Librar
New taxa of south american ficus(moraceae)
No full textTen new taxa are described: Ficus aripuanensis C.C. Berg & F. Kooy, F. blephariohylla Vásquez Avila, F. cremersiiC.C. Berg, F. insipida Willd. ssp. scabra C.C. Berg, F. jacobii Vázquez Avila, F. laurentana Vázquez Avila, F. leiophylla C.C. Berg, F. piresiana Vázquz Avila & Berg, F. roraimensis C.C. Berg, F. vittataVázquez Avila.</jats:p
Proarna uruguayensis Berg 1882
No full textProarna uruguayensis Berg, 1882 Proarna uruguayensis Berg 1882: 43 (type material examined). Type locality. Montevideo, Uruguay. Remarks. The species was recorded from Buenos Aires Province in Argentina (Berg 1883) and Uruguay (Metcalf 1963a).Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Heath, Maxine S., 2014, The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae), pp. 1-94 in Zootaxa 3883 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3883.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/495125
Totalitarianism and geography: L.S. Berg and the defence of an academic discipline in the age of Stalin
No full textIn considering the complex relationship between science and politics, the article focuses upon the career of the eminent Russian scholar, Lev Semenovich Berg (1876–1950), one of the leading geographers of the Stalin period. Already before the Russian Revolution, Berg had developed a naturalistic notion of landscape geography which later appeared to contradict some aspects of Marxist–Leninist ideology. Based partly upon Berg's personal archive, the article discusses the effects of the 1917 revolution, the radical changes which Stalin's cultural revolution (from the late 1920s) brought upon Soviet science, and the attacks made upon Berg and his concept of landscape geography thereafter. The ways in which Berg managed to defend his notion of geography (sometimes in surprisingly bold ways) are considered. It is argued that geography's position under Stalin was different from that of certain other disciplines in that its ideological disputes may have been regarded as of little significance by the party leaders, certainly by comparison with its practical importance, thus providing a degree of ‘freedom’ for some geographers at least analogous to that which has been described by Weiner (1999. <i>A little corner of freedom: Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachev</i>. Berkeley: University of California Press) for conservationists. It is concluded that Berg and others successfully upheld a concept of scientific integrity and limited autonomy even under Stalinism, and that, in an era of ‘Big Science’, no modernizing state could or can afford to emasculate these things entirely
An analysis of water quality discharging into the Berg River at Paarl, Western Cape
No full textIn densely settled urban and peri-urban areas of South Africa, stormwater infrastructure is frequently being used as a conduit for the daily discharge of effluents resulting in the deterioration of rivers and other receiving water bodies. This study investigates the pollution load from urban localities entering the Berg River at Paarl, and in particular, seeks to determine whether or not there is a difference in the pollution load immediately after periods of wet and dry weather conditions
Temma Berg, Professor of English
No full textIn this first Next Page column of 2018, Temma Berg, Professor of English, shares which texts have had a lasting influence on her teaching career and scholarship, how a chance meeting created a connection between her and one of her favorite childhood literary characters – Anne of Green Gables, which book she likes to give as a gift to friends who are retiring, and why she might just prefer to open another book rather than host a literary dinner party
THE MODERNIZED CHARLES F. BERG STORE BUILDING (1930) PORTLAND, OREGON
No full text76 pagesIn February 1930, a few months after the stock market crash, a downtown Portland, Oregon retailer, Charles F. Berg, opened a new, expanded location of his well-known women's apparel store. This new store, at 615 SW Broadway between SW Morrison and Alder Streets, was in a commercial masonry structure built by the Dolph family around 1902 on the site of their former home. It was transformed into the spectacularly modernized Charles F. Berg Store Building, its fa9ade supplied by the Grand Rapids Design Service of the Grand Rapids Store Equipment Corporation. This formerly unremarkable storefront became a dramatic Parisian Art Deco fa9ade of black terracotta and 18-karat gold, punctuated by incised, angular naturalistic and abstract motifs in cream and teal spandrels. In its day, only two other American buildings featured gold ornament. And only a few, and none in Portland, featured dark terra cotta cladding. No other retailers downtown used the Art Deco style on its exterior, although some used touches of it in their modernized interiors. The terracotta cladding of the Charles F. Berg Store and its rivals and neighbors was supplied by Gladding, McBean & Company, a Lincoln, California manufacturer and a major contributor to the architecture of the western United States. Most of Portland's downtown buildings were clad in white, in the preferred Beaux-Arts Neoclassical style. Although the modernized Charles F. Berg Store Building's Art Deco exterior remained mostly unchanged, its retail architect Kenneth C. Welch shifted his work to the Streamline Moderne style when he promoted the 1934- 1943 FHA Modernize Main Street movement. From WWII on, he became known as a designer of shopping centers. The Charles F. Berg Store attempted to compete with them by opening a suburban branch in the late 1950s, but the company was sold in 1975
Flora Malesiana precursor for the treatment of Moraceae 6: Ficus subgenus Sycomorus
No full textThe sections of Ficus subg. Sycomorus are described and their Malesian species listed and keyed out. Six new species are described in the subgenus: Ficus albomaculata, F. biakensis, F. boanensis, F. limosa, F. manuselensis, F. morobensis, F. remifolia, F. rubrosyce, F. scopulifera; and one new subspecies: F. botryocarpa Miq. subsp. hirtella C.C. Berg. The new combinations F. botryocarpa Miq. subsp. subalbidoramea (Elmer) C.C. Berg, F. porrecta (Corner) C.C. Berg, F. trichocerasa Diels subsp. pleioclada (Diels) C.C. Berg are also made. The following new sections and subsection are proposed: Subg. Sycomorus sect. Bosscheria (Teijsm. & de Vriese) C.C. Berg, sect. Dammaropsis (Warb.) C.C. Berg, sect. Papuasyce (Corner) C.C. Berg, and subsect. Neomorphe (King) C.C. Berg
Copie de la supplique de L. De Berg a Leurs Altesses Royales.
No full textDemission de M. de Berg du post d'intendant et de directeur-general de la poil ce du Pays-Bas.LEIDSSTELSE
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