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The First Punic War.(Review)(Brief Article)
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March 22, 1999|
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The First Punic War. By J. F. Lazenby. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 205. $45.00.)
The author of this study deals with the historiographic issues surrounding the First Punic War in the best possible fashion for a general, yet seriously interested, readership. Lazenby articulates his own position on Polybius with perfect clarity: he is the best source we have, is to be preferred to all others except in closely argued specific cases, and knows too much for his--and our--own good. J. F. Lazenby warns us as early as the Preface that Polybius "may ...
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JAMES GATLING WAS FIRST TO TRY AND FIRST TO FAIL AT FLIGHT.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...lie with James Henry Gatling, a Carolina boy. Gatling...one of six children of Jordan and Mary Barnes Gatling...boys, it seems that Richard, James Henry's younger...successful invention. Richard finish school at 15...While shopkeeping, Richard found time to tinker...
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The death of Richard Gatling: February 26th, 1903. (Months Past).(Biography)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...lived to the age of eighty-four and died in his bed. Richard Jordan Gaffing came from a well-to-do family of planters...American agriculture. The American Civil War turned Gatling from the ploughshare to the sword. In 1862 he patented...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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FADING TOWN RECALLS A FAMOUS SON.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...town's best-known residents, Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of one of the world...There's little to note that Gatling ever was here during the town...There's little to mark that Gatling ever was in White Cloud. Even...
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Rapid-fire death and devastation at the turn of a crank.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; MR. GATLING'S TERRIBLE MARVEL The Gun That Changed...Keller Viking. 294 pp. $25.95 The Gatling gun, invented during the Civil War...can infer from Keller: "For all of Richard Jordan Gatling's cool-headed technical finesse...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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Gun to help play go with a bang.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; ...have made, from scratch, a Gatling gun for a production of Richard III. Dean Asker, RSC spokesman...developed by American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling in 1862. "Historically...Richmond, in opposition to Richard's tyrannical reign. Richard...
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History by design:
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal
; ...design submitted by physician Richard Jordan Gatling for a rapid-fire artillery weapon...known around the world as the Gatling gun?Both drawings are on display...Pawtucket, R.I. In addition to Gatling's 10-barrel weapon that fired...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1834; Frederick Tennyson, poet, 1898; Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun, 1903; Caran d'Ache (Emmanuel Poire...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, 1807; Richard Garnett, librarian, 1835; Dame Ellen Alicia...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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THEME FOR THE DAY.(National)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...Buffalo Bill") Cody; 1903: Death of American Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun; 1952: Winston Churchill announced that...3366. Fax: 0121 625 1105 THEME FOR THE DAY Richard Guy Andrew Jones Dawn Sweeney Newspaper Sales...
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MURFREESBORO'S RISE IS A SURPRISE OFFICIALS SAY RETIREES ARE REASON FOR INCREASE IN MEDIAN INCOME.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...Murfree donated 97 acres for the town. It was named Murfreesboro for him. The town was the home of Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling Gun. Chowan College was founded in 1848. James Morgan, builder of a home in Murfreesboro in the...
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On This Day Feb 26.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...run at Aintree; 1846: Birth of William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody; 1903: Death of American Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun; 1993: Terrorist bomb exploded under World Trade Center in New York; 1995: Barings merchant...
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