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DOCUMENTING MARK TWAIN KEN BURNS, SUBJECT OF AN ODU PROFESSOR'S BOOK, DEBUTS HIS LATEST PROJECT TONIGHT ON PBS.(DAILY BREAK)
The Virginian Pilot
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January 14, 2002
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Byline: LARRY BONKO
PASADENA, CALIF. -- Call it a happy coincidence. As Ken Burns launches ``Mark Twain'' tonight on PBS, Gary R. Edgerton's study of the New Englander who produced ``The Civil War,'' ``Baseball,'' ``Jazz'' and more than a dozen other riveting television documentaries is in a bookstore near you.
``No one has had a greater impact on rekindling America's ever-increasing interest in all things historical than Ken Burns. He is arguably the most recognizable and influential historian of his generation,'' says Old Dominion University professor ...
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Do you know who Jean-Francois Champollion is/was? (Ask Calliope).
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...Hiroshima [!] At age 17, Jean-Francois Champollion had already mastered several...and hieroglyphs, that made Champollion determined to decipher the Egyptian writing. In 1821, Champollion started to publish papers on...
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Egyptian Diaries: the treacherous story of the mysteries of the Nile by Jean-Francois Champollion. (Ancient history and archeology).(Review)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...treacherous story of the mysteries of the Nile by Jean-Francois Champollion (Gibson Square, 10.99 [pounds sterling...the unraveling of the hieroglyphic code. When Champollion discovered the code in 1822, he needed proof that...
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Thomas Young: the man who knew everything: Andrew Robinson marvels at the brain power and breadth of knowledge of the 18th-century polymath Thomas Young. He examines his relationship with his contemporaries, particularly with the French Egyptologist Champollion, and how he has been viewed subsequently by historians.(THOMAS YOUNG)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Egyptian scripts on the Rosetta Stone, which then launched the full decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs by Jean-Francois Champollion in the 1820s. Young was the first to show that demotic (the third script on the Stone, alongside Greek and...
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New books.(Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution)(The Linguist and the Emperor: Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone)(Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine
; ...Meyerson's THE LINGUIST AND THE EMPEROR: NAPOLEON AND CHAMPOLLION'S QUEST TO DECIPHER THE ROSETTA STONE (Ballantine...French have copied its inscriptions. Which brings us to Jean Francois, every bit as weird as Bonaparte, a little-boy...
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Tales From the Crypt; How a French scholar unlocked an ancient mystery.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...humble scholar Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832...when we find Jean Francois in Grenoble. Champollion was a poor but...later invited Jean Francois to visit his office...artifacts from Egypt, Champollion studied an ancient...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Solving the great puzzle of our times; Critic's choice.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...bewhiskered Frenchman named Jean-Francois Champollion burst into his brother's...an intense and bitter race, Champollion had triumphed. For the first...gripped by Egypto-mania. Champollion was well aware that he had...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Books : The man who held the keys to Egypt; The Keys of Egypt by Lesley and Roy Adkins. Harper Collins. pounds 16.99.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; ...this atmosphere of terror that Jean-Francois Champollion, the youngest son of a bookseller...head down - or lose it. So Jean-Francois had a confined childhood. Fortunately...plenty of books and the studious Champollion showed an early linguistic ability...
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UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY OF ANCIENT EGYPT.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...For no particular reason, I was handed a lacy, white skullcap and told I was to be Jean-Francois Champollion, and Donna, Mme. Champollion. Champollion? I knew only vaguely how this Frenchman had figured in the studies of Egypt and the...
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Romancing the Stone; How an ancient slab increased our knowledge of the past.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...engineering officer named Pierre Francois-Xavier Bouchard stumbled upon...ambitions of Thomas Young and Jean-Francois Champollion, the two men who did the actual...Egyptian culture, an obsession of Champollion. While Young was a pragmatist...
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Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin
; ...Rumford first read about Jean-Francois Champollion when he was about 11, the same age as Champollion when, in 1802, the French...I think all kids are like Jean-Francois Champollion," said Rumford. "When...
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