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So close to immortality; Restrospective Wales - SIR CHARLES EVANS: The Welsh-speaker who almost conquered Everest.(Features)
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JUST 300ft stood between Dr Charles Evans and a place in history on the rooftop of the world - the unconquered summit of Mount Everest - as he weighed up his options.
Should he and his climbing partner press on and gamble everything on a bid for glory, or should they take the safer option and turn back down the mountain?
Using new oxygen breathing equipment, Evans, with scientist Tom Bourdillon, had been entrusted with the 1953 Everest expedition's first assault on the summit.
With instructions to try and reach the South Peak, and aim for the ...
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The succession crisis and Elkanah Settle's "The Conquest of China by the Tartars".(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
; Elkanah Settle is perhaps best known as a blatant political...After the 1682 fall of Shaftesbury, Settle's sudden disavowal of his Whig propaganda...Cambridge, "the Younger Fry, inclin'd to ELKANAH." (2) I argue that the popularity...
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The Succession Crisis and Elkanah Settle's The Conquest of China by the Tartars
Magazine article from: The Eighteenth Century
; Elkanah Settle is perhaps best known as a blatant political...After the 1682 fall of Shaftesbury, Settle's sudden disavowal of his Whig propaganda...Cambridge, "the Younger Fry, inclin'd to ELKANAH."2 I argue that the popularity of Settle...
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Rehearsing the Revolution: Radical Performance, Radical Politics in the English Restoration.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...Burning Pageants, with the Whig poet and polemicist Elkanah Settle as a central figure, is useful, though Johnson fails...Crowne's aggressively Tory City Politiques (1683) and Settle's stridently Whig The Female Prelate (1680), fare...
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Catholicism in the English Protestant Imagination: Nationalism, Religion, and Literature, 1600-1745
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...views of Catholicism, but I especially appreciated the attention he lavished on long-neglected polemicists such as Elkanah Settle, a writer for three decades of theatrical and controversial works who played a central role in the pamphlet and stage...
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Introduction: Europe and East Asia in the eighteenth century.
Magazine article from: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
; ...colonization and de facto imperial control of much of Asia by the mid-nineteenth century. Jeannie Dalporto rereads Elkanah Settle's popular tragedy, The Conquest of China by the Tartars (1676), to argue that the playwright uses a fanciful...
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Introduction: Europe and East Asia in the Eighteenth Century
Magazine article from: The Eighteenth Century
; ...colonization and de facto imperial control of much of Asia by the mid-nineteenth century. Jeannie Dalporto rereads Elkanah Settle's popular tragedy, The Conquest of China by the Tartars (1676), to argue that the playwright uses a fanciful...
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Catholicism in the English Protestant Imagination: Nationalism Religion, and Literature 1600-1745
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History
; ...such as John Milton and Andrew Marvell, Tumbleson also examines the impact of others, including Jeremy Collier and Elkanah Settle. As English nationalism developed during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Catholicism came to be viewed...
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Analysis: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak loses parliamentary majority two days before he heads to Camp David for peace summit
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...ph), a high-tech worker from the Jewish settlement of Elkanah says he came to the protests because he thinks Barak's path...back with a peace agreement with the Palestinians that will settle all outstanding issues between them. Both Barak's critics...
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Mabel Fowler
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)
; ...20, 1961; one son, Robert Fowler in 1975; her parents, Elkanah and Elizabeth Page; three brothers and a sister. She married...Ontario, Canada, becoming one of the first families to settle there. Her husband worked as an electrician in the new pulp...
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