Jan Mayen
Jan Mayen , island, c.145 sq mi (380 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean, c.300 mi (480 km) E of Scoresby Sound, E Greenland. It was annexed by Norway in 1929. The island is barren tundra land rising abruptly to Håkon VII Toppen (c.7,450 ft/2,270 m) on Mt. Beerenberg, an extinct volcano. Fog and stormy weather characterize the island. Except for a radio-meteorological station, the island is uninhabited, but it is visited by sealers. It was discovered (1607) by Henry Hudson and named for Jan Jacobsz May, a Dutch whaler who landed there in 1614.
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Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars. By...Divinity and History: the Religion of Herodotus. Oxford, 2000). Both works set out...scholarship. Historians who have used Herodotus' narrative as their window--essentially...
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Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arion's Leap.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Thompson, Norma. Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community...Norma Thompson rests her reading of Herodotus is that man seeks to create community...much about ancient Greece or even Herodotus and his work, as it is about how...
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Herodotus.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Herodotus. By James Romm. (New Haven and London...duties of factual accuracy, and indeed Herodotus' own bona fides (6). Literary charm...impact and unexpected parallels that Herodotus discovered and constructed from his sources...
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Travels with the father of history and geography: Justin Marozzi has spent the past four years travelling in Turkey, Iraq, Egypt and Greece on the trail of Herodotus. Here, he describes his passion for the man who invented history and why we should all read him 2,500 years after the Greek wrote his one-volume masterpiece.
Magazine article from: Geographical; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; When Herodotus sat down to write his epic history of...respectable portion of Eternity in talking to Herodotus'. His ambition, set out in the opening...The Histories, seemed more modest: 'Herodotus of Halicarnassus here displays his inquiry...
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The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2007; 533 words
; The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus. Carolyn Dewald and John Marin...approach because one needs to see Herodotus as 'an artist' before seeing him...historian. The essayists look at Herodotus' relation to poetry, his prose...
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Travels with Herodotus.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 10/1/2007; ; 633 words
; ...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski (translated from...heading the other'. In Travels with Herodotus, his last book, he returns to his beginnings...Throughout Kapuscinski's career, Herodotus's Histories--which he first encountered...
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Herodotus a classical hero in race debut
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 4/15/2001; ; 570 words
; ...challenge, and was unfazed by the fact that Herodotus was the 25-1 outsider of nine for the...Philip Robinson was sitting quietly on Herodotus, who was having the first run of his...because when Robinson set him off, Herodotus swept down the middle of the straight...
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Herodotus sales up, but most rent video.(Western literature fades from college curricula)(Column)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 5/19/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...the film The English Patient, sales of Herodotus' History boomed. One university bookstore...by him and busily annotated a copy of Herodotus. It is this association apparently that...But before readers unfamiliar with Herodotus scamper to a bookstore, they should...
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Racing: Herodotus proves a wonder.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England); 4/15/2001; 397 words
; Byline: BILL KNIGHT GIANT newcomer Herodotus laid on the biggest shock at Kempton...said the veteran Newmarket trainer. "Herodotus is so tall that we could not even saddle...ran well in the Masaka Stakes I told Herodotus's owner Tony Richards that he would...
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The Way of Herodotus BOOKS & IDEAS iht.com/culture
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 2/21/2009; ; 276 words
; ...Herald Tribune 02-21-2009 The Way of Herodotus BOOKS & IDEAS iht.com/culture...Edition: 1 Section: FEATURES The Way of Herodotus Travels With the Man Who Invented History...plan: to wander the limits of what was Herodotus's world and look at its nations and...
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Herodotus
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Herodotus ( c. 485– c. 425 bc) Greek historian. Regarded as the first true historian, Herodotus' Histories are the first great prose work in European literature. His main theme was the struggle of Greece against the mighty Persian...
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( b . Halicarnassus...x3B7; ), which is the actual title of Herodotus ’ book, means simply “...discussing Pythagoras (fr. 129). Although Herodotus ’ “ inquiry ”...
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Thucydides
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...burst into tears when he listened to Herodotus recite his History. Thucydides caught...no time mentions his great predecessor Herodotus by name, he does correct a number of passages in Herodotus's History; for example, 1.126...
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history
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...is with some justice, however, that Herodotus is considered the first historian, because...the actions of people in those events. Herodotus was remarkable, too, for the scope...exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual...
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Secret Writing
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...writing. In his venerable History, Herodotus described a method of secret writing...Demaratus contrived a clever solution. As Herodotus recorded, Demaratus scraped the wax...receiving a secret message, but according to Herodotus — who qualified his claim with...
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