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The article addresses the issue of photographic materials as sources of information about the past and draws attention to their storage in the Bulgarian archives. During the Renaissance written records were considered key evidence for the Bulgarian past. In this era national emancipation processes developing in Bulgarian society found expression not only in texts, but also in images. Fine art also became a means of preserving historical memory, and later this trait was transferred to photography too. Photography correctly and accurately reflects reality; photos can be reproduced, printed and distributed. Therefore, photographs became valuable bearers of information about the most prominent Bulgarian revolutionaries, participants in Church – national struggle, writers and enlighteners. After the liberation the range of documents that were considered valuable evidence of the past expanded. Interest in photography appeared. Photos can be found not only in personal funds, but also in institutional archives. Photographing valuable archaeological sites to preserve them for the next generations became common practice. The article looks at some of the specifics of preservation of photographic materials in institutions such as the Scientific Archives of BAS, Bulgarian historical archive at the National Library „St. Cyril and Methodius”, and Central State Archives. Searching, collecting and keeping photographic materials in the biggest Bulgarian repositories is a testament to the fact that society perceives them as a valuable means of preserving historical memory. They, along with the works of historical painting, present our past in images. But unlike the artistic images, photographs due to their accuracy have significantly greater documentary value.
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Translation and analysis of unpublished archival document concerning Anhialo Diocese
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Tercümesini sunduğum risale ebadındaki elli sayfalık eser, Edirne’de Resürreksiyonistler Matbaası’nın 42. kitabı olarak 1910 yılında Bulgarca basılmıştır. Eserin yazarı, Leh asıllı Peder Pawel Smolikowski, Edirne Resürreksiyonistler Cemiyeti’nin faal bir azası, ayrıca şehirdeki Bulgar Katolik Mektebi’nde (Türkçe kaynaklarda Polak Mektebi diye de geçer) muallim ve idareci olarak da görev almıştır.
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“… Yes, I remember it quite clearly. Otto Koslowski … the Criminal Counsel. An SS-Hauptsturmführer. He was one of the best. He had his finger in so many pies. In Slovakia … Hungary … Romania … Bulgaria … But primarily in Bohemia and Moravia …” This is how the commentator Rudolf Ströbinger opens his book entitled The Red Treason, so far the only author to choose the criminal counsel Otto Koslowski as the main hero of the story in his novel. The term “main hero of the story” is used intentionally here – that’s all it is, as Ströbinger used real historical characters to create a book that was to seem groundbreaking and include shocking information of some of the Gestapo eminence grise in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Unfortunately there are countless intentional as well as unintentional mistakes on the part of the author. Koslowski was undoubtedly an excellent criminalist and one of the most important Gestapo officers in our country, but the name certainly isn’t synonymous with a comic-book super villain.
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Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) left Poland in July 1954 for political reasons and settled in the United Kingdom. After the composer's death, his wife, Camilla, donated her husband's collection of musical manuscripts to the collection of the British Library, where they became part of a specially designated Panufnik Collection. All the rest of the legacy remained at home, in Twickenham near London, where the composer had lived since 1963.In 2023. Lady Panufnik decided to donate the Andrzej Panufnik Archive to the Polish Composers Archive, operating as part of the Music Collections Cabinet of the University in Warsaw Library headed by Piotr Maculewicz.Among the materials donated to the BUW (117 boxes weighing a total of 440 kg) are Andrzej Panufnik's extensive correspondence, articles and press clippings, program notes and memos, typescripts (as well as audio and video recordings) of his interviews and radio appearances, concert programs, documentation of his birthday concerts and the ceremony in 1991 when Elizabeth II conferred the title of nobility on the composer, photographs from various periods of his life (many by the composer's wife, who is an acclaimed photographer), printed editions of his works, dedication editions donated to him by other artists, books and other materials documenting the life, work and reception of Andrzej Panufnik's music in the world. Together with a portion of the composer's legacy donated in 2017, these materials will form a special collection - the Andrzej Panufnik Archive, which will henceforth be part of the Polish Composers Archive of the BUW Music Collections Cabinet. After the conservation and processing of the donated materials, the collection will be made available to researchers from Poland and around the world.
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Summary of the Report on the activity of the Legislative Council in 2022 with excerpts about few key points of the report.
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This study is devoted to interesting and surprisingly complex reflections on the partridge present in the correspondence of Ambrose of Milan (ep. 39–40). Against the background of a generally positive and subdued image of nature, an unequivocally negative, even ethically repugnant, perception of the partridge stands out.
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The article relates to gifts received and given by Ovid in exile, especially the only material gift mentioned in the elegy Ex Ponto III 8, which the poet sends from the Black Sea to one of his influential friends.
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Aurel Cosma jr. was undeniably a great personality of Banat, author of various writ-ings, a diarist, journalist, genealogist but most especially a voluminous presence in the archive files. The huge number of manuscripts, the thousands of pages he left behind can always constitute a rich research laboratory for anyone interested in the cultural history of Banat. Of great importance are the files with hundreds of pages of correspondence, some of them published, others still unedited, such as the correspondence with Iosif Jivan from Seleuş (in Serbian Banat). More than one hundred pages of letters between the two men familiarise the reader with the realities of their lives, their daily lives and their concerns in the 8th decade of the 20th century, with their hopes and achievements in the fields of science, research, and the history of Romania. Of real interest are the accounts of meetings with important personalities of the Romanian cultural space, some of whom were at the beginning of their careers, such as Cornelia Bodea, a researcher at the Institute of History in Bucharest, or the already prominent archaeologist Constantin Daicoviciu, a native of Banat, or even the social scientist and journalist Ioan Clopoţel. The descriptions of the meetings belong to Iosif Jivan and were sent to Aurel Cosma jr. with abundant details, impressions left by those concerned that Iosif Jivan reveaks, sensing the importance of those moments, which he shares with his childhood friend, Aurel Cosma jr.
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Library is a place that contains various resources and materials. Many invaluable knowledge can be found in the library. By analysing the library’s data, it is possible to obtain information that can further improve its services. This research aims to extract information from Multimedia University (MMU) library and present insightful visualization of the information to enhance the library administration. At present, the library does not have information on the book preferences of the library users. The book preferences statistics can be relatively helpful as the library will know what books can be imported in the future. By doing so, more people will visit the library and they will have more related books to use as reference or to read. In addition, there are no existing dashboards to display information on all borrowers, no visitor. In the absence of this, this research adopts the data science methodology to determine the book preferences of library users by using machine learning techniques such as clustering and classification. Lastly, a dashboard will be developed to display all the findings which includes statistics on the visitors and book preferences.
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