KILLING TIME. ENNUI IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH CULTURE

The article explores the meanings of ennui in eighteenth-century England.Based on text searches, it proposes that the French term ennui was adopted Cartoon Art into everyday usage in England around the mid-century, and was from the 1770s onwards used to signify especially the temporal aspects of the word, that is, boredom.Ennui was closely tied to

Germline-stem cells (GSCs) produce gametes and are thus true "immortal stem cells".In Drosophila ovaries, GSCs divide asymmetrically to produce daughter GSCs and cystoblasts, and the latter differentiate Diagnostic Sleep System into germline cysts.Here we show that the histone-lysine methyltransferase dSETDB1, located in pericentric heterochromatin