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Frederick Jackson Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner 1861-1932, American historian, b. Portage, Wis. He taught at the Univ. of Wisconsin from 1885 to 1910 except for a year spent in graduate study at Johns Hopkins Univ. From 1910 to 1924 he taught at Harvard, and later he was research associate at the Henry E. Huntington... Read more |
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Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff
Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff , 1870-1952, American historian, b. Kiev, Ukraine. He studied at the Univ. of St. Petersburg where he was professor of Latin and of Roman history from 1898 to 1918. He emigrated to the United States during the Russian Revolution, taught ancient history at the Univ. of... Read more |
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German Americans
GERMAN AMERICANS by La Vern J. Rippley Overview Situated in the heart of Europe, Germany today adjoins nine neighbors: Denmark to the north; Poland and the Czech Republic to the east; Austria and Switzerland to the south; and the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France to the west.... Read more |
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Colliers
COLLIER'S CLOSES Magazine Economics The closing of Colliersmagazine in 1956 shockingly illustrated the postwar changes in magazine economics and the entertainment and editorial tastes of the American reading public. A venerable name in magazine history, ... Read more |
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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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bathing
bathing To take a bath is both a pleasure and an act of hygiene. It is also an ancient physiological trait shared with other land-mammals who likewise need to groom themselves. When animals bathe, in mud or in water, they are applying a lotion to the skin which eases and moisturizes it; they can... Read more |
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Moral suasion
Moral Suasion BIBLIOGRAPHY Moral suasion is a discursive strategy that references a set of principles to pressure individuals, groups, or nation-states to change their policies. Moral suasion strategies have been used by various actors and organizations for diverse purposes throughout history.... Read more |
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Uta Hagen
Uta Thyra Hagen From The Sea Gull, her 1938 Broadway debut, to the 1995 off-Broadway hit Mrs. Klein, Uta Hagen (born 1919) keeps bringing down the house. Many critics consider her the first lady of theater. Uta Hagen was born to Oskar Frank Leonard and Thyra A. (Leisner) Hagen in Gottingen,... 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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