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Baildon Street: The Blackest Street in Deptford?

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In 1898, one of Charles Booth's investigators, George Arkell, visited Deptford to revise the classifications provided on Booth's Descriptive Map of London Poverty 1889. Arkell was more shocked and offended by Baildon Street than any other street he visi

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Prophecy in Plutarch and Philo of Alexandria

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David Winston distinguishes two types of Mosaic prophecy in Philo's De vita Mosis, noetic and ecstatic. Noetic prophecy, which corresponds to Moses's delivery of the special laws, is active and rational. Ecstatic prophecy, which corresponds to Moses's

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Predictors of preoperative anxiety in children

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This study aimed to identify factors contributing to anxiety at induction of anaesthesia in children. One hundred and twenty children aged five to twelve years and scheduled for surgery requiting general anaesthesia were included. Children were interviewe

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Fractionalization

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We provide new measures of ethnic, linguistic, and religious fractionalization for about 190 countries. These measures are more comprehensive than those previously used in the economics literature and we compare our new variables with those previously use