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Olympiad
Olympiad unit of a chronological era of ancient Greece, a four-year period, each one beginning with the Olympic games . Timaeus (c.356-c.260 BC) of Sicily was the first to use, as a check on chronology, the list of victors kept in the gymnasium at Olympia. The first Olympiad was reckoned to... Read more |
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Joseph Justus Scaliger
Joseph Justus Scaliger , 1540-1609, French classical scholar. He was the son of Julius Caesar Scaliger, from whom he acquired his early mastery of Latin. He adopted Protestantism in 1562, served as companion of a Poitevin noble (1563-70), studied under Cujas at Valence (1570-72), and was professor... Read more |
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Battle of Dollar
Dollar, battle of, c.875. The battle, east of Alloa, Scotland, was a crushing defeat for Constantine I of Alba by the Norsemen, led by Halfdan of York. The whole northern part of Scotland was conceded to the invaders. Though the chronology is very doubtful, the reality of serious warfare is clear.... Read more |
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Federal Supplement
FEDERAL SUPPLEMENT® A set of legal reference books containing decisions of federal courts in chronological order. The first volume of the Federal Supplement was published in 1933, and successive volumes have been number... Read more |
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magnetostratigraphy
magnetostratigraphy Magnetostratigraphy is the application of the chronology of reversals in polarity of the geomagnetic field to the study of the stratigraphy of layered materials (i.e. sedimentary and volcanic rocks). An essential criterion for accurate magnetostratigraphic work is a reliable... Read more |
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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
LAVOISIER, ANTOINE-LAURENT(b. Paris, France, 26 August 1743; d. Paris, 8 May 1794),chemistry, physiology, geology, economics, social reform. For the original article on Lavoisier see DSB, vol. 8.While Henry Guerlac’s article in the original DSB offers a reliable and useful guide to the life and... Read more |
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Dionysius Petavius
Petavius, Dionysius (1583–1652), Denis Pétau, Jesuit historian and theologian. His Opus de Doctrina Temporum (1627) was a fundamental contribution on ancient chronology. He also issued notable editions of the works of Synesius (1612) and St Epiphanius (1622). As a dogmatic theologian... Read more |
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