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Berossus
Berossus a priest at Babylon in the 3rd century bc who wrote a history of Babylon which transmitted Babylonian history and astronomy to the Greek world.... Read more |
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Cornelis Petrus Tiele
Cornelis Petrus Tiele , 1830-1902, Dutch theologian and author of a number of valuable works on the history of religion. Important is his Outlines of the History of Religion (1876, tr. 1877).... Read more |
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Social History
History, Social CRISES BIBLIOGRAPHY Social history emerged as a discipline over the course of about twenty years at the conjunction of two seemingly contradictory schools of historical writing: English social history and the French Annales school. Defined by George Macaulay Trevelyan... Read more |
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Esquire History of Henry Esmond The
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American Museum of Natural History (New York New York)
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY in New York City is the largest natural history museum in the world. It displays more than 30 million specimens from all branches of natural history along with a wealth of anthropological artifacts in a vast complex of... Read more |
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Natural history
NATURAL HISTORY NATURAL HISTORY. Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492 transformed natural history perhaps more than any it did other early modern science. The ensuing development of European maritime empires of trade and commerce opened new routes for the acquisition of specimens,... Read more |
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Military history
military history. The study of war and its effects has a long and distinguished history, dating back to at least 2500 bc, when the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu wrote his treatise on The Art of War. European theorists came later, but the tradition which began with Julius Caesar's Commentaries... Read more |
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history painting
history painting the painting of scenes from classical and Christian history and mythology. It was taught in the academies of art , from the Renaissance to the 19th cent., as the highest form of art in an hierarchical grouping that ranked still-life painting lowest on the list. Included in the... Read more |
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Sextus Julius Africanus
Sextus Julius Africanus , c.160-c.240, Christian historian. He wrote Chronologia, a history of the world from the creation to 221. Tying together the events of the Old Testament, the Greek world, and Christianity, this history helped to place the new religion in a historical context.... Read more |
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Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin
POGODIN, MIKHAIL PETROVICH (1800–1875), prominent Russian historian, journalist, and publisher. A Slavophile and professor of Russian history at Moscow University (1835–1844), Mikhail Pogodin wrote a seven-volume history of Russia (1846 |
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Proud, Robert
Proud, Robert (1728–1813), English‐born schoolmaster of Philadelphia and collector of source materials for local history, which he employed in his History of Pennsylvania (2 vols., 1797–98), a heavily documented and authoritative work on the colony through 1742. |
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Simms, William Gilmore
...frontier and South Carolina history. Guy Rivers (1834), which...1853) deals with Mexican history.Simms, who was tremendously proud of South Carolina, and particularly...Magazine (1845), writing a History (1840) and a Geography... |
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Ralegh, Sir Walter
...years in the Tower, Ralegh wrote his History of the World, brooding much on time and...Ralegh only reached 130 bc and as a work of history it was old-fashioned before it appeared. John...handsome and bold man, but damnable proud ... he spake broad Devonshire to his... |
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Tuchman, Barbara W(ertheim)
...during the first month of World War I; The Proud Tower (1965), on the 24 years preceding...treating political inanity throughout history; and The First Salute (1988), treating...of the Revolutionary War. Practicing History (1981) collects essays. |
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workhouses
...such a fear of the workhouse, that many proud people preferred starvation or prostitution...them. The workhouse in English social history (it was not given such a prominent role in the different history of the Scottish Poor Law) has acted above... |
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Insignia
...their instruments of war predates recorded history, going back to specially carved prehistoric...a warrior's need to identify with a proud unit, or to personalize, trust, and...rank insignia. The pride and sense of history generated by such insignia remains a significant... |
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Hewlett, James
...insurrection and conceivably the first black play in American history. Thereafter, he seems to have confined his appearances to recitals...of the day.” He was later billed as “ Shakespeare's proud Representative.” After a farewell benefit in 1831 he disappears... |
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Philadelphia
...Graham, Lippincott, Curtis, and Bok. The city's literary history may be said to date from the tracts of Penn and Pastorius, but...Evans, Paine, Hopkinson, Seabury, John Bartram, Robert Proud, Joseph Galloway, Crèvecoeur, Brackenridge, C.B. Brown... |
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Elizabeth the Queen
...forgiveness, thereby allowing their romance to resume. But the proud, stubborn Essex refuses and is sent to his death. Alone, Elizabeth...searching portrayal of character, freely imaginative in its use of history, clearly thought out and conveyed in dialogue of notable beauty... |
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Leeds
...The earliest mention of Leeds is in Bede's Ecclesiastical History as the region of Loidis in the 7th cent. The derivation of the name...they are all employed, and are esteemed very rich and very proud’. Before Defoe visited the town in the 1720s, improvements... |
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proud
...boys she got nine As and he was so proud of her. ∎ (of an event, achievement...someone to feel this way: we have a proud history of innovation. ∎ having or showing...of one's own dignity: I was too proud to go home. ∎ having or showing... |
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Ralegh, Sir Walter
...years in the Tower, Ralegh wrote his History of the World, brooding much on time and...Ralegh only reached 130 BC and as a work of history it was old‐fashioned before it appeared...handsome and bold man, but damnable proud ... he spake broad Devonshire to his... |
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Cornwall
...of the Atlantic world. The Falmouth mail service developed a proud record on its American run 1688–1850, and in the 19th cent...more romance and mystery than this inhospitable headland: its history prior to the cliff‐hanging castle built there by Earl Richard... |
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Leeds
...The earliest mention of Leeds is in Bede's Ecclesiastical History as the region of Loidis in the 7th cent. It developed with the...they are all employed, and are esteemed very rich and very proud’. Communications were improved by the opening of the Leeds... |
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Ulster Cycle
...compared with the Arthurian legends, the Ulster Cycle portrays a proud, even haughty people often at war with their neighbours, especially those...O'Grady (1846–1928) extrapolated an even more heroic history, which in turn fostered widespread adaptation in English of... |
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heritage
heritage • noun 1. proud of his country's heritagesynonyms: history, tradition, background. 2. proud of his family heritagesynonyms: ancestry, lineage, descent, extraction, family, dynasty, bloodline, heredity, birth. 3. receive... |
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old
...usually referring to persons of very advanced years, are often proud of the fact that they have outlived most of their peers. Children...specifically the time before the end of the Roman Empire (ancient history), and their attitudes as antediluvian, which literally means... |
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Proud histories founded firmly in the black
...and Amoco brings together two companies with long, proud histories. For BP, it all began in 1851 with West Lothian shale...As America grew, so too did Amoco. As well as long histories, both companies have global interests. BP is Britain... |
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Laird's proud history brought to life; A new book celebrates the work of one...
...Cammell Laird has made its mark in history. The Laird family of Birkenhead...the other Lairdsmen who were proud to be part of a living history...Laird around. "Another true, proud Lairdsman ... just like me...of the Windsor Castle in 1959 ... |
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'Law students, heirs to a proud history'
...that it was evident from the history of the College, that Sri Lanka...in the country. During its proud history, it has trained all...activities and religion. "We are proud to state that two of the five...students are the heirs to this proud ... |
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'Law students, heirs to a proud history'.
...that it was evident from the history of the College, that Sri Lanka...in the country. During its proud history, it has trained all...activities and religion. "We are proud to state that two of the five...students are the heirs to this proud ... |
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Theirs are the names that have authored a proud history, etched... [Derived...
...are the names that have authored a proud history, etched an attitude into a region...names? They're our names. That history? It's our history. This isn...XLII. History also waits for the proud region that he called home. ... |
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Springfield officials adopt slogan for 125th anniversary.(Communities)(The...
...residents will see those words - Proud History, Bright Future - popping up on banners...said officials are confident that "Proud History, Bright Future" accurately...with the survey was that people are proud to live and work in Springfield... |
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Long, proud history; future challenges
...unique challenges during its long, proud history. Yet the challenges facing the nation...would mark the first time in the history of the United States that a uniformed...further action has been taken. Long, Proud History Our founding ... |
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STATUE HAS LONG, PROUD HISTORY; IT MOVED INTO ROTUNDA AFTER A LONG...
...courthouse, a lady with a history is stepping out of the shadows...mission to resurrect the once-proud lady. Making her presentable...statue has made makes him proud. "I think it's a great thing to revive history," Loveless said. "Once... |
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Clinton recognizes 'proud history of innovators Muslim world has'.
...day." "The Muslim world has a proud history of innovators," said Clinton and...1001 Inventions global tour, we are proud that the message of the exhibition...exhibition reveals the forgotten history of men and women, from a variety... |
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African-American Children Must Learn Their Proud History
...American Children Must Learn Their Proud History.As February rolls on we are again in the midst of Black History Month. We have been a part of this...These people weren't listed in any history books, and only became available... |
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