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Significance We report the remarkable discovery of an early Aurignacian occupation, ∼5,000 years older than any Upper Paleolithic site in westernmost Eurasia. The archaeological and radiocarbon data provide definitive evidence that modern humans were in western Iberia at a time when, if present at all, Neanderthal populations would have been extremely sparse. This discovery has important ramifications for our understanding of the process of modern human dispersal and replacement of Neanderthal populations. The results support a very rapid, unimpeded dispersal of modern humans across western Eurasia and support the notion that climate and environmental change played a significant role in this process.

AbstractThe aim of this study is to demonstrate the applicability of selected methods of the so-called distant reading from the area of digital humanities for the interpretation of early Christian texts, specifically for approaching similarities and differences between the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of John. We use the term “distant reading” for the methods that allow us to explore, analyze, and visualize digitized textual data while using the tools from the area of data mining, natural language processing, or corpus linguistics. We want to explore whether methods from the field of digital humanities can allow for a sophisticated, quantifiable, and replicable comparison of the corpora of early Christian movements and thereby help to uncover the basic features of their theology and thus be a suitable complement to traditional exegesis and interpretation achieved by close reading.

In the recent decades, there is a constantly growing amount of multimodal data being collected and stored in order to be preserved for a future use. These data include – among other things – videotaped oral history interviews, archived footage of various TV broadcasts and a plethora of scanned hand-written and typed documents and photographs. The resulting archives present invaluable resources for many branches of the humanities (history, linguistics) and social sciences (political science, communication studies). The paper presents a software framework used to provide access to those resources. V posledních desetiletích neustále roste množství multimodálních dat shromážděných a uložených pro budoucí použití. Tyto údaje zahrnují - mimo jiné - rozhovory orální historie, archivy televizního vysílání a mnoho naskenovaných ručně a strojově psaných dokumentů a fotografií. Výsledné archivy představují neocenitelné zdroje pro mnoho humanitních (historie, lingvistika) a společenských věd (politologie, komunikační studie). Příspěvek představuje softwarové nástroje používané k zajištění přístupu k těmto zdrojům.

In 1918–1919 the purest region of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy joined to the Czechoslovak Republic from the Hungarian Kingdom. At the first sight this was a simple proceeding. But according to our opinion in fact, the 1918–1919 developments in the history of the North-Eastern Felvidék were influenced four factors: 1. The conflicting efforts of countries intending to keep (Hungary) and to acquire (Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland and various Ukrainian state formations) the region. 2. The people’s assemblies of the Ruthenian and Hungarian populations, with their diverging (ukranophile, hungarophile, czechophile) orientations and their searching for allies. 3. The activity of the Ruthenian emigration in the US, strongly favouring one possible scenario (i. e. the Czechoslovakian one). 4. The great powers’ decision about the fate of the region at the Versailles peace talks. Our paper surveys a seemingly most important element of this complex process, the activity of the Czechoslovak state founders Masaryk and Beneš; we also intend to present how their work resulted in the North-East Felvidék becoming Kárpátalja.

During World War Two, three unique weapons were proposed to meet Adolf Hitler’s wish for vengeance and retribution against the British which he believed would finally yield victory to the Nazi side. They all required substantial technical development of new concepts. This paper gives a broad description of the last and potentially-devastating V3, which was intended for installation in the Pas de Calais to completely destroy London.

The article briefly describes the history and present of nuclear education at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. The origins of nuclear education at the former University of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering are associated with the acquisition of nuclear technology in Škoda. It recalls the important role of the founder of the branch of prof. Josef Bečvář and other personalities of Czechoslovak and Czech nuclear energy. V článku je stručně popsána historie a současnost jaderného vzdělávání na Západočeské univerzitě v Plzni. Počátky jaderného vzdělávání na bývalé Vysoké škole strojní a elektrotechnické jsou spojené s osvojováním jaderné technologie ve Škodovce. Připomíná významnou roli zakladatele oboru prof. Josefa Bečváře a další osobnosti československé a české jaderné energetiky