Gandhara
Gandhara , historic region of India, now in NW Pakistan. Situated astride the middle Indus River, the region had Taxila and Peshawar as its chief cities. It was originally a province of the Persian Empire and was reached (327 BC) by Alexander the Great. The region passed to Chandragupta, founder of the Maurya empire, in the late 4th cent. BC, and under Asoka was converted (mid-3d cent.) to Buddhism. It was part of Bactria from the late 3d cent. to the 1st cent. BC Under the Kushan dynasty (1st cent.-3d cent. AD), and especially under Kanishka , Gandhara developed a noted school of sculpture, consisting mainly of images of Buddha and reliefs representing scenes from Buddhist texts, but with marked Greco-Roman elements of style. The art form flourished in Gandhara until the 5th cent., when the region was conquered by the Huns.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
Isaac Bickerstaff's copyrights--and a biographical discovery.
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; Isaac Bickerstaff, the most successful musical-drama...all men by these presents that I. Isaac Bickerstaff of Hiedleburgh Germany, of &...amp; so forth-- January 12 1786 Isaac Bickerstaff (3) This establishes beyond reasonable...
|
 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
|
Isaac Bickerstaff.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/31/2007; 700+ words
; ...drank, the more frank Burtonbecame. He said, Here I am, as rich as Croesus, married to the most beautiful woman inthe world, but what I'd give for a pint and a s**g up against a wall inMerthyr . What a charmer! isaac@dailymail.ie
|
|
|
ISAAC BICKERSTAFF.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/24/2008; 700+ words
; Byline: ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE A BARACK Obama victory will be good news for Ireland in one respect anyway. Intrade, an online firm whose prediction...
|
|
|
isaac bickerstaff.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/20/2007; 700+ words
; ?BILL CLINTONS appearance at the Raglan Road fundraiser for his wifeschillingly controlled presidential campaign drew a motley collection ofproperty developers and PR types passing themselves off as the capitals A-list,but one Tom Parlon was a particularly surprising guest. In his previous life
|
|
|
SOCIETY girl Tara Palmer [...]; Issac Bickerstaff.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 7/23/2009; 309 words
; Byline: Isaac Bickerstaffe SOCIETY girl Tara Palmer Tomkinson, 37, pictured, has signed a publishing deal for her first novel, Inheritance...
|
 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
|
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 2/15/2008; 700+ words
; ...Lawana Taylor, Ericka Wilkins Other honor roll students are: Freshmen -- DeVont Applewhite, Shanice Barnes, Isaac Bickerstaff, Erica Boone, Nicole Bostic, Da'Lisa Cargle, J'Lissa Castleberry, Jalynn Cheatham, Jamie Davis, Nehesia...
|
|
No Kidding
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/26/1994; 456 words
; ...quack astrologer named John Partridge. Working as Isaac Bickerstaff, Swift predicted the death of Partridge and then...into response, and Swift, in "A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff," was forced to "prove" that Partridge was dead...
|
|
Lady credit and the strange case of the hoop-petticoat.
Magazine article from: College Literature; 6/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...5, 1709/10, the central persona of the paper, Isaac Bickerstaff, as judge, both arbiter of elegance and adjudicator...of her hoop, pardoned and released; the avuncular Bickerstaff "always give|s~ great allowances to the fair sex...
|
|
Daniel O'Quinn. Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...marvelous account of how Inchbald's farce restages Isaac Bickerstaff's The Sultan; or, A Peep into the Seraglio. O...of the theater and the metropole, especially given Bickerstaff's death in exile after being publicly denounced...
|
|
|
SOPHISTICATED jazz singer Diana [...].(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/5/2009; 359 words
; Byline: Isaac Bickerstaff SOPHISTICATED jazz singer Diana Krall, pictured with husband Elvis Costello, was heckled...very angry husband. He'll meet you outside.' And he's got Oliver's Army with him! isaac@dailymail.ie
|
|
Bickerstaff, Isaac
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Bickerstaff, Isaac, a fictitious person invented by Swift . A cobbler, John Partridge...produced a parody entitled Predictions for the Ensuing Year, by Isaac Bickerstaff , in which he foretold the death of Partridge on 29 March. On 30 March...
|
|
Isaac Bickerstaff
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Isaac Bickerstaff pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift and later by Richard Steele in the Tatler.
|
|
Tatler
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Tatler. A periodical edited by Richard Steele under the pseudonym ‘Isaac Bickerstaff ’, it appeared three times a week between April 1709 and January 1711. Addison was an important collaborator...
|
|
Jonathan Swift
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the early months of 1708 Swift also wrote an amusing piece decrying the quackery of astrologers, Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. Political Activities From February 1708 to April 1709 Swift was domiciled in London, attempting to obtain...
|
|
Steele, Richard (1672–1729)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...personalities, politics, culture, and foreign and domestic topics were explored in The Tatler. Steele used the figure of Isaac Bickerstaff, created by Jonathan Swift, to satirize the annual almanacs. Steele's fundamental purpose was moral didacticism...
|
