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Description of the Approach Railways in the Warsaw Governorate (1911) – An Unknown Document in the State Archive in Warsaw

The article is an edition of the source important for the history of the development of the railway network in Poland, namely the Information on the approach railways operating in the Warsaw Governorate (Viedomosti o suŝestvuûŝih v Varšavskoj guberni pod″ezdnyh železnyh dorogah). This document is in the archival collection labeled Warsaw Governorate Government no. 1181, kept in the State Archive in Warsaw. In the Information on the approach railways operating in the Warsaw Governorate, there is data on the public and industrial narrow-gauge railways operating in the Warsaw Governorate in 1911, as well as the standard-gauge industrial sidings of the Warsaw-Vienna Railways. This document is of great historical importance due to the degree of destruction and scattering of technical archives related to the communication infrastructure in the territory of the Russian partition. It contains important, previously unknown elementary technical and operational data of these railways and sidings.

Machine generated contents note: Part I: Overview -- 1. The Search for Stability in Central Asia -- Boris Rumer -- Part II: Security -- 2. The Conflict in Afghanistan: Conditions, Problems, and Prospects -- Sultan Akimbekov -- 3. Regional Security in Central Asia: Military Aspects -- Rustam Burashev -- Part III: Foreign Policy Framework -- 4. Central Asia Between the Gravitational Poles of Russia and China -- Konstantin Syroezhkin -- 5. Central Asia and the European Union -- Murat Laumulin -- Part IV: Islam and Politics -- 6. The Central Asian Nexus: Islam and Politics -- Evgeniy Abdullaev -- 7. Islam in Uzbekistan: From the Struggle for "Religious Purity" to Political Activism -- Bakhtiar Babadzhanov -- Part V: Economics -- 8. Central Asia: Development Under Conditions of Globalization -- Stanislav Zhukov -- 9. Challenges to Economic Policy in Central Asia: Is a Miracle Possible? -- Eshref Trushin and Eskender Trushin

Names of Types, Construction Parts and Equipment of Vessels in the 16th-Century Printed Dictionaries with the Polish Language Component

The article analyzes the Polish language nomenclature of types, construction parts and equipment of vessels recorded in the 16th-century printed dictionaries with the Polish component. In addition, the text reviews the current state of research and discusses the sources in view of the terminology in question. The excerpted source material has been listed in three tables.

"Bessie Scott, nearing the end of her first year at university in the spring of 1890, recorded in her diary: "Wore my gown for first time! It didn't seem at all strange to do so." Often deemed a cumbersome tradition by men, the cap and gown were dearly prized by women as an outward sign of their hard-won admission to the rank of undergraduates. For the first generations of university women, higher education was an exhilarating and transformative experience, but these opportunities would narrow in the decades that followed. In University Women Sara MacDonald explores the processes of integration and separation that marked women's contested entrance into higher education. Examining the period between 1870 and 1930, this book is the first to provide a comparative study of women at universities across Canada. MacDonald concludes that women's higher education cannot be seen as a progressive narrative, a triumphant story of trailblazers and firsts, of doors being thrown open and staying open. The early promise of equal education was not fulfilled in the longer term, as a backlash against the growing presence of women on campuses resulted in separate academic programs, closer moral regulation, and barriers that restricted their admission into the burgeoning fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The modernization of higher education ultimately marginalized women students, researchers, and faculty within the diversified universities of the twentieth century. University Women uncovers the systemic inequalities based on gender, race, and class that have shaped Canadian higher education. It is indispensable reading for those concerned with the underrepresentation of girls and women in STEM and current initiatives to address issues of access and equity within our academic institutions."--