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The 3rd international conference "Balkan and Baltic States in United Europe: History, Religion, and Culture" was held in the Lithuanian Institute of History (Vilnius) on 9–11 October 2017. This conference was one of the events to take place in preparation for the centenary of the independence of the Republic of Lithuania. On 16 February 1918, Lithuania became an independent state, and one of the main actors in this event was Patriarch of the Lithuanian national rebirth, Jonas Basanavičius (1851–1927). He was a historian, folklorist, ethnologist, medical doctor, and politician, who worked in Bulgaria for almost a quarter of a century. So, he is a historical and cultural symbol of the unity of the Baltic and Balkan states. This was one of the reasons for holding this conference in Lithuania.

The 3rd international conference "Balkan and Baltic States in United Europe: History, Religion, and Culture" was held in the Lithuanian Institute of History (Vilnius) on 9–11 October 2017. This conference was one of the events to take place in preparation for the centenary of the independence of the Republic of Lithuania. On 16 February 1918, Lithuania became an independent state, and one of the main actors in this event was Patriarch of the Lithuanian national rebirth, Jonas Basanavičius (1851–1927). He was a historian, folklorist, ethnologist, medical doctor, and politician, who worked in Bulgaria for almost a quarter of a century. So, he is a historical and cultural symbol of the unity of the Baltic and Balkan states. This was one of the reasons for holding this conference in Lithuania.

Containing more than 450 entries, this easy-to-read encyclopedia provides concise information about the history of and recent trends in drug use and drug abuse in the United States--a societal problem with an estimated cost of $559 billion a year." Contains more than 450 detailed entries on topics ranging from drugs themselves--such as alcohol, codeine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamines--to key individuals like Harry Anslinger to organizations such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)" Covers the latest developments in U.S. policies and public attitudes toward drugs and drug use" Provides citations with each entry to guide users to other valuable research resources" Features carefully selected primary documents--including excerpts from important laws, policies, and campaigns--that have shaped American drug policy over the decades

In the article, the authors conducted a thorough analysis of the emergence and formation of the Uzbek language as a historical phenomenon, starting from cave paintings, clay tiles, manuscripts and old-printed books.The data on the worthy contribution of the great scholars, thinkers and rulers of Central Asia to the development of the Turkish-language writing are presented.The scientific works of modern linguistic researchers on the place of the Uzbek language in the world are reviewed and analyzed.One of the monumentaldiscoveries ofmankind, along with theinvention of thewheel, is undoubtedlythe creation ofpaper and, accordingly, the appearance of the first manuscript and early printed books, which in turn contributed to the further development and improvement of writing and book culture.The system of government, the development of the economy, production, cultural, diplomatic, and trade relations with other states, and, therefore, the welfare of the country, began to depend directly on the literacy, enlightenment and civilization of thecommonpeople.The higher the level of culture and education of the people,the richer and stronger the state itself.One of such states located in Central Asia and being the center of intercultural civilizations, deservedly called by many orientalist scholars "the Pearl of the East", is Uzbekistan (Turan, Mawarannahr, Turkistan).

This article considers the function of food and consumption in Katherine Mansfield's fiction. Using food as the ideal medium to dissect issues of gender, national identity and class, Mansfield unveils how eating functions as an agent of modernity. Against the backdrop of World War One
– and the subsequent evolution into the 1920s – Mansfield reveals how history and popular culture merge in the idiom of food. Her fiction proves eating to be an activity of 'conflict', whether it be conceptually saturated with political militancy or marked by social divergence
and disarming solitude. While Mansfield's New Zealand stories offer an optimistic perspective on gastronomy and life sanguinity, her European fiction offers a bleaker view of eating as an activity that emphasizes the pain of post-war separation, solitude and social neglect. By paying close
attention to the gastro-political debates in the fiction, this analysis aims to show how food habits act as a crucial concept within Mansfield's negotiations of a particularly alienating moment in history.