Philostorgius | ... e sources, refer to her as Maximian's natural daughter. Origo Constantini 2 | ;, Historia Ecclesiastica 2.16 a , quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33. See a ... |
A. J. P. Taylor | In 1969, along with Hugh Trevor-Roper and | , he became a member of the editorial board of Sir Winston Churchill's fou ... |
Hans Baron | ... Greek historian to the attention of Renaissance political philosophers (see | 's The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance for details). He also wrote ... |
B W Aston | The Texas historian | is interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery near Tolar |
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas | ... Florida and mentions de León looking for them there; his account influenced | ' history of the Spanish in the New World. Fontaneda had spent seventeen y ... |
Plutarch | ... ere is no evidence as to the stringing of the Greek lyre in the heroic age. | says that Olympus and Terpander used but three strings to accompany their ... |
George McGovern | ... fianakis avoided mention of his party's presidential candidate, the liberal | , Helms employed the slogans "McGovernGalifianakis – one and the same", "V ... |
Winston Churchill | ... after speaker in the House of Commons expressed outrage. Ex-Prime Minister | , a prominent and enthusiastic supporter of Zionism, criticized the attack ... |
Nicholson Baker | Gaiman has also written at least three drafts of a screenplay adaptation of | 's novel The Fermata for director Robert Zemeckis, although the project wa ... |
Xenophon | ... eir internal affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of | , Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch ... |
Wyntown | ... he Church because it contained the holy cell of Saint Baldred. A century on | 's Cronykil relates: "In 1406 King Robert III, apprehensive of danger to h ... |
David Hume | Popper and | agreed that there is often a psychological belief that the sun will rise t ... |
Livy | ... the Romans. After the loss of the battle the forces of Veii returned home. | writes that later in 509 BC, consul Publius Valerius Publicola returned to ... |
Herodotus | ... contains numerous tumuli – typical for IE originators.The Chernoles culture | is "sometimes portrayed as either a step in the development of the Slavic ... |
Voltaire | ... orm, thus including him in a tradition that includes Cervantes, Diderot and | |
Aleksander Kamiński | ... he Nations medals after war: Władysław Bartoszewski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, | , Jan Dobraczyński, Henryk Woliński, and others |
Edward Crankshaw | ... pting the dress of a Spanish monarch, which, according to British historian | , consisted of "a black doublet and hose, black shoes and scarlet stocking ... |
François Truffaut | Interviewed in 1966 by | , Alfred Hitchcock illustrated the term "MacGuffin" with this story |
Winston Churchill | ... he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the prime minister. He met | on several occasions when asked for updates on incoming calls and once was ... |
Claudius Caesar | ... atement "For Herod the king of the Jews and Pontius Pilate, the governor of | , came together and condemned Him to be crucified." This would place the c ... |
Norman Hillmer | ... n) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J. L. Granatstein and | in their book Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders |
Hugh Trevor-Roper | In 1969, along with | and A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir Wins ... |
Elaine Pagels | ... d by modern scholarship, but in the later case considered quite possible by | (1979), who called for Buddhist scholars to try to find parallels |
Elvis Mitchell | ... major critics (listed as "Top Critics") gave favorable reviews. Film critic | of the New York Times lauded it as a "vital and sharply intelligent film," ... |
Brigitte Hamann | According to biographer | , Winifred Wagner was reported to be "disgusted" by Hitler's persecution o ... |
Mircea Eliade | The religious historian | speaks of a desire to transcend old age and death and achieve a state of n ... |
Frederick Jackson Turner | ... of American regions. It has been called "the typically American" region by | . Religious pluralism and ethnic diversity have been important elements of ... |
Paolo Giovio | ... s condottieri in Senigallia, a feat described as a "wonderful deceiving" by | , and had them executed |
Samuel Daniel | ... classical quantitative verse. Campion's theories on poetry were refuted by | in "Defence of Rhyme" (1603) |
Julius Caesar | ... of his successor Augustus. Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour of | in 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour of Augustus ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | | was an economist of the same age as Keynes and one of his main rivals. He ... |
Jerome | ... y may been a blending of the Quo Vadis story with some information given by | in a letter |
Ibn Bibi | 4) | , the writer of the history book Al-Awamir al-'Alaiyah written during the ... |
Herodotus | Since | , Typhon has been identified by some scholars with the Egyptian Set. In th ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... ly preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with | 's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Nors ... |
George Sarton | ... by both East and West, as one of the great figures in intellectual history. | , the author of The History of Science, described Ibn Sīnā as "one of the ... |
Harold Lamb | ... world for me." In a time before comics existed, he "read all of Burroughs, | , Talbot Mundy," maintaining copies "at home in my library" some 50 years ... |
Gerald of Wales | ... erson at 165 m (180 yards) "part of the time" and could always hit an army. | commented on the power of the Welsh longbow in the 12th century |
W. E. B. Du Bois | ... were educated at Harvard during Eliot's tenure, including such notables as | (Class of 1890). Booker T. Washington was awarded an honorary degree by Ha ... |
Bernard Lewis | The phrase itself was first used by | in an article in the September 1990 issue of The Atlantic Monthly titled " ... |
Damião de Góis | ... "wilds". An alternative interpretation, made by the Portuguese philosopher | in 1540, derives Lapland from "the dumb and lazy land", because a land whe ... |
William Colby | ... nior officials, including Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, CIA Director | , and White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. The Watergate scandal had ... |
Eusebius | ... tively describe it as a temple to Venus, the Roman equivalent to Aphrodite. | claims, in his Life of Constantine, that the site of the Church had origin ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... especially the Matter of Britain and Matter of France, the former based on | 's Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written ... |
Bertrand Russell | The philosopher | used the sentence "Quadruplicity drinks procrastination" to make a similar ... |
Hydatius | ... l sack of Rome (June 2–16, 455). Oost has pointed out that in his chronicle | wrote Placidia was unmarried as of 455 |
Livy | ... Antiochus IV was pressured by the Roman Republic to withdraw. According to | , "Popilius...placed in [Antiochus'] hand the tablets on which was written ... |
Olaus Magnus | ... of Johannes Schefferus, Acta Lapponica (1673), but was also used earlier by | in his Description of the Northern peoples (1555). There is another sugges ... |
Edvardas Gudavičius | ... The exact date of the coronation is not known; the scholarship of historian | , who promulgated this precise date, is sometimes challenged. The location ... |
Henry Margenau | ... model for free will include William James, Henri Poincaré, Arthur Compton, | , and Daniel Dennett |
Priscus | ... eodosius. The year of their wedding is not recorded, although the historian | implies it took place before the Vandal sack of Rome (June 2–16, 455). Oos ... |
Michel Foucault | ... cope. Much of this debate is related to the works of the French philosopher | (1926–1984), who, following the Italian political philosopher Niccolò Mach ... |
Klaus Hildebrand | ... eferences in foreign policy were different. The German diplomatic historian | in his study of German foreign policy in the Nazi era noted that besides H ... |
Herodotus | ... The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, | and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing several cen ... |
Strabo | ... iffered on whether the term included Sicily or merely Apulia and Calabria — | being the most prominent advocate of the wider definitions |
A. N. Wilson | The friendship of Winifred and Hitler is treated fancifully in | 's novel, Winnie and Wolf (2007) |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... is sometimes called Erythraea, from Erythrae, a small place on Mount Ida ( | i. 55), and at others Gergithia ('of Gergis') |
Johan Huizinga | ... ading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, Eugenio Montale, Cesare Pavese, | , and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, and Albert Ein ... |
Winston Churchill | ... Roper and A. J. P. Taylor, he became a member of the editorial board of Sir | 's four volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples |
Jordanes | ... andinavia) from Götaland (Gothland) in southern Sweden. The Roman historian | refers to an Evagreotingi (Greuthung island) in Scandza, as part of his de ... |
Bruce Halpenny | Additionally, board games can be therapeutic. | , a games inventor said when interviewed about his game, “With crime you d ... |
Bartolomé de las Casas | ... lined to sixty thousand by 1509. Although population estimates vary, Father | , the “Defender of the Indians” estimated there were 6 million (6,000,000) ... |
Roger Ebert | ... aid it was very gripping and scary despite some minor unanswered questions. | gave the film "Thumbs Down" and felt it was boring and "borderline ridicul ... |
Harry Turtledove | In the alternate-history novel How Few Remain by | , Stuart is the commanding Confederate general in charge of the occupation ... |
Edward Rowe Snow | ... ppeared in True Tales of Buried Treasure, written by explorer and historian | in 1951. In this book he states he was given this set of symbols by Revere ... |
Francisco López de Gómara | ... ally inspired to generate favor in the courts. A similar account appears in | 's Historia General de las Indias of 1551. In the Memoir of Hernando D'Esc ... |
Thucydides | ... al affairs. The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, | , Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing ... |
David Armitage | ... Emerich de Vattel, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, and Samuel Pufendorf. Historian | has argued that the Declaration is a document of international law. Accord ... |
John Leland | ... it may have been in the possession of at least two of them. It was owned by | , the antiquary, in the 1540s. It probably became available after the diss ... |
Marx's | ... entialist Jean-Paul Sartre—this meant the recovery of the humanist roots of | thought, and the opening of a dialogue between Marxists and moderate socia ... |
David Hume | ... n at second order questions about ethics. Earlier, the Scottish philosopher | had put forward a similar view on the difference between facts and values |
Petrarch | ... st modern historian. The foundation of Bruni's conception can be found with | , who distinguished the classical period from later cultural decline, or t ... |
Hippolytus | ... neus exercised wide influence on the immediately following generation. Both | and Tertullian freely drew on his writings. But his literal hope of an ear ... |
Taylor Branch | ... s. Though Kennedy may have intended this to remain a more nominal position, | in Pillar of Fire contends that Johnson served to push the Kennedy adminis ... |
Haym Soloveitchik | ... d to it. Other sources deny this. According to Soloveitchik's son Rabbi Dr. | , Rabbi Soloveitchik only saw Rabbi Schneerson pass by in Berlin and they ... |
Ibn al-Nadim | Razi studied medicine under Ali ibn Rabban al-Tabari, however, | indicates that he studied philosophy under al-Bakhi, who had travelled muc ... |
Richard Roeper | ... ixed or average) from 36 reviews. On the television program Ebert & Roeper, | gave the film "Thumbs Up" and said it was very gripping and scary despite ... |
E. P. Thompson | ... ry of structuration; Althusser was vehemently attacked by British historian | in his book The Poverty of Theory |
Diodorus | ... luding: Ptolemy, iv. 5. § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805 | ;, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7; ... |
Lester B. Pearson | ... ary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, | , at the party's leadership convention in 1958 |
L. Sprague de Camp | ... historical novel The Mask of Apollo (1966). He also features prominently in | 's historical novel The Arrows of Hercules (1965) as a patron of inventors ... |
Henry Wilson | ... eps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be established. Senator | of Massachusetts was to name Agassiz to the Board of Regents of the Smiths ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... sidered that the north and south transepts were also 12th century but Prof. | proposed a later date of about 1275, noting their triplets of Early Englis ... |
Neil MacGregor | ... it charges no admission fee. Since 2002 the director of the museum has been | |
Ibn al-Nadim | ... zi allegedly returned to Rey where he gathered many students around him. As | relates in Fihrist, Razi was then a Shaikh (title given to one entitled to ... |
Franz Cumont | Scholarship on Mithras begins with | , who published a two volume collection of source texts and images of monu ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... oika') in the Communist Party, playing a key role in the marginalization of | . The triumvirate carefully managed the intra-party debate and delegate se ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... extinction of the dinosaurs under which to accumulate relevant differences. | describes many of the same examples as parallel evolution starting from th ... |
Peter Bogdanovich | ... cted the late American actress Marion Davies in The Cat's Meow, directed by | . Derek Elley of Variety described the film as "playful and sporty," sayin ... |
Charles Gide | ... ty professor of law and died in 1880. His uncle was the political economist | |
Joseph Scaliger | The Julian day number is based on the Julian Period proposed by | in 1583, at the time of the Gregorian calendar reform, but it is the multi ... |
Winston Churchill | ... base rights in Bermuda from the United Kingdom, but British Prime Minister | was initially unwilling to accede to the American request without getting ... |
Roger Ebert | ... eron starred as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003). Film critic | called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema". ... |
Samuel Eliot Morison | ... worst vice presidents in American history in a 2008 Time Magazine article. | wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the ... |
Cassius Dio | ... he Romans eventually captured it and killed all the defenders. According to | , 580,000 Jews were killed, 50 fortified towns and 985 villages razed. Yet ... |
Frank Kolb | ... tan son") upon his appointment to the office. Some agree, but the historian | has stated that arguments for the adoption are based on misreadings of the ... |
Plutarch | ... ries of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and | , none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing several centuries after ... |
Herodotus | ... e same time. With the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, | , Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laë ... |
Livy | | mentions some of the most familiar roads near Rome, and the milestones on ... |
Julius Caesar | ... activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later, | built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both ... |
Karl Marx | ... c sociology, political sociology, and the sociology of religion. Along with | and Émile Durkheim, he is commonly regarded as one of the founders of mode ... |
David Starkey | ... been carried out by other parties. Many modern historians though, including | , and Michael Hicks, or writers such as Alison Weir, do regard Richard him ... |
Castor of Rhodes | ... name that may represent a Semitic title such as Ba'al, "lord". According to | (apud Syncellus p. 167), his reign lasted 52 years, its commencement falli ... |
Xenophon | ... y, a town of very great antiquity (Herodotus iv: 122). Gergis, according to | , was a place of much strength. It had a temple sacred to Apollo Gergithiu ... |
Procopius | ... nto Latin many works of Greek philosophy and history, such as Aristotle and | . Bruni's translations of Aristotle's Politics and Nicomachean Ethics, as ... |
John de Courcy Ireland | ... n the same year, a branch of CND was also set in the Republic of Ireland by | , and his wife Beatrice, aiming to campaign for the Irish government to su ... |
Friedrich Hayek | In 1947, Popper founded with | , Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises and others the Mont Pelerin Society to ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... mless crimes. Following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by V.I. Lenin and | , Russia became the 1st nation to legalize homosexuality. The new Bolshevi ... |
Franz Cumont | ... ong scholars as to whether this text is an expression of Mithraism as such. | argued that it isn't; Marvin Meyer thinks it is; while sees it as a synthe ... |
Ibn al-Nafis | ... nd Hippocrates as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcasis, | , and al-Ibadi, Ibn Sīnā is considered an important compiler of early Musl ... |
Edmundo O'Gorman | ... exico. Other Mexicans of Irish descent are: Romulo O'Farril, Juan O'Gorman, | , Anthony Quinn, Alejo Bay (Governor of the state of Sonora), Famed Conduc ... |
Friedrich Hayek | ... l other economists associated with the Austrian School in the 20th century. | in particular elaborated the arguments of Weber and Mises about economic c ... |
Julius Caesar | ... m Germanic tribes by moving into Gaul, but were defeated at Lawrenceburg by | 's armies and then sent back. The alpine region became integrated into the ... |
V.H. Galbraith | ... ut a forgery. A prominent claim was made in 1964 by the respected historian | in his essay "Who Wrote Asser's Life of Alfred?" Galbraith argued that the ... |
Leo Steinberg | ... sical objects, including stuffed animals, birds and commercial photography. | uses the term postmodernism in 1969 to describe Rauschenberg's "flatbed" p ... |
William Wilde | ... e Centre, Trinity College, Dublin) the second of three children born to Sir | and Jane Francesca Wilde, two years behind William ("Willie"). Jane Wilde, ... |
Neil Christie | ... on the site of the altar dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. Archaeologist | notes that it was common in such hagiographies for the protagonist to enco ... |
Thurston Clarke | American author | 's analysis of the bombing gave timings for calls and for the explosion wh ... |
Winston Churchill | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both | and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and having played both roles on more than one o ... |
Isaiah Berlin | ... itically, rather than any racism. Keynes had many Jewish friends, including | and Piero Sraffa. Keynes several times used his influence to help his Jewi ... |
Li Chunfeng | ... ecliptic ring could be pegged on to the equator at any point desired. Then | (李淳風) of the Tang dynasty created one in 633 CE with three spherical layer ... |
Robert Hughes | ... olars see romanticism as essentially continuous with the present, some like | see in it the inaugural moment of modernity, some like Chateaubriand, 'Nov ... |
Walter Bower | Among the Abbots of Inchcolm was the 15th-century chronicler | |
Peter Ackroyd | Other biographers, such as | , have offered a more sympathetic picture of More as both a sophisticated ... |
Jerome | ... al School of Alexandria is the oldest catechetical school in the world. St. | records that the Christian School of Alexandria was founded by Saint Mark ... |
Jacob Piatt Dunn | ... seek alternative means by which to have a new constitution adopted. He and | , a close friend and civic leader, wrote a new constitution that increased ... |
Saxo Grammaticus | ... person. In his Gesta Danorum (book 13), the Danish 12th century chronicler | noted that the Geats had no say in the election of the king, only the Swed ... |
George McGovern | ... nomination. He also declined consideration for the vice-presidential spot. | remained the symbolic standard-bearer for Robert's delegates instead |
Jefferson Davis | ... apital of the Confederate States of America within the space of a few days. | and the temporary Capital moved to the palatial home of William T. Sutherl ... |
John of Fordun | ... Angus, a killing with which Constantine is associated in several accounts. | , perhaps confusing him with Eógan II of Strathclyde, known as "the Bald", ... |
Harley True Burton | ... t spent his later years in Donley County. It was also the home of historian | , author of A History of the JA Ranch, which Goodnight formerly co-owned. ... |
Roger Ebert | ... s and currently holds a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Film critic | named The Right Stuff best film of the year, and wrote, "it joins a short ... |
Herodotus | According to | the Heraclids ruled for 22 generations during the period from 1185 BC, las ... |
Claudius | The Emperor | paid a visit while Britain was being conquered and was honoured with the a ... |
Josephus | ... n dynasty is the first book of The Wars of the Jews by the Jewish historian | , (37–shortly after 100 CE). Josephus' account is the only primary source ... |
Ban Gu | ... huanti history of dynasties, was codified in the second dynastic history by | ’s (班固) History of Han (漢書), but historians regard Sima’s work as their mo ... |
Livy | The author's chief sources are Cicero, | , Sallust and Pompeius Trogus, especially the first two. Valerius's treatm ... |
Diodorus of Sicily | Orion also has etiological connection to the city of Messina in Sicily. | wrote a history of the world up to his own time (the beginning of the reig ... |
Xenophon | ... ever, afforded him unusual facilities for obtaining material. His model was | , whom he has imitated with a tolerable measure of success; he abstains fr ... |
Nicander | ... ecially attracted him. He published editions of Aelian, De natura animalium | ;, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptores rei rusticae; Aristotle, His ... |
Leonard Maltin | ... tasy and romance.". In his book The Disney Films, film critic and historian | stated that, "Darby O'Gill and the Little People is not only one of Disney ... |
Hume's | ... related to (and even confused with) the is–ought problem, which comes from | Treatise |
Nigel Tranter | ... others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fiction. | wrote a historical novel titled The Wallace, published in 1975, which is s ... |
Gershom Scholem | ... of Jewish spirituality. The birth of academic scholarship of Kabbalah under | , and the search for deeper Jewish spirituality, in the 20th Century, redi ... |
Samuel Noah Kramer | ... g the annual Akitu (New Year) ceremony, at the spring Equinox. According to | in The Sacred Marriage Rite, in late Sumerian history (end of the third mi ... |
Brian Manning | ... liol who went on to develop our understanding of the English Revolution was | |
Jerry Beck | ... originally had on its mind seems to have slipped away". Animation historian | wrote, "the beginning of the film is quite promising, with a garbage can d ... |
Roger Ebert | ... predecessor Rocky II, and became the fourth highest grossing film of 1982. | and Gene Siskel attributed the film's success to the positive reaction fro ... |
Sallust | The author's chief sources are Cicero, Livy, | and Pompeius Trogus, especially the first two. Valerius's treatment of his ... |
Strabo | ... gured by Pacudius, shows an umbrella with a bent handle, sloping backwards. | describes a sort of screen or umbrella worn by Spanish women, but this is ... |
François Truffaut | The French New Wave filmmakers such as Jean Luc Godard and | and their American counterparts such as Andy Warhol and John Cassavetes al ... |
A. J. P. Taylor | ... her prominent founding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, E. P. Thompson, | , Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric Baker and Dora Rus ... |
John Skylitzes | ... ther and father-in-law) Bryennios made use of the works of Michael Psellos, | and Michael Attaleiates. As might be expected, his views are biased by per ... |
Castor of Rhodes | ... fter him comes the Dorian usurper Phalces. Pausanias shares his source with | , who used the king-list in compiling tables of history; the common source ... |
John D. Winters | ... nd the task of holding the cadets in class hopeless. According to historian | of Louisiana Tech University |
François Truffaut | ... , Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, and | |
Philistus | ... Dionysius was fond of having literary men about him, such as the historian | , the poet Philoxenus, and the philosopher Plato, but treated them in a mo ... |
Benny Morris | ... ade anti-ship missiles", but none hit their targets. According to historian | , the Egyptians lost seven missile boats and four torpedo boats and coasta ... |
Karl Marx's | ... rk of Althusser and his students in an intensive philosophical rereading of | Capital. The book reflects on the philosophical status of Marxist theory a ... |
William of Newburgh | ... ement between Stephen and his rival, the young Henry of Anjou. According to | , King Stephen was "grieved beyond measure by the death of the son who he ... |
Michael Psellos | ... s (such as his father and father-in-law) Bryennios made use of the works of | , John Skylitzes and Michael Attaleiates. As might be expected, his views ... |
Benny Morris | ... ammed Oudeh (Abu Daoud), one of the masterminds of the Munich massacre, and | , a prominent Israeli historian, have stated that Black September was an a ... |
Michael Hicks | ... other parties. Many modern historians though, including David Starkey, and | , or writers such as Alison Weir, do regard Richard himself as the most li ... |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ... s Germany. Among the prominent thinkers associated with the institution are | , Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel and Ha ... |
Frank Knight | ... s and social philosophers, Weber's work did have a significant influence on | , one of the founders of the neoclassical Chicago school of economics, who ... |
Winston Churchill's | ... rt television miniseries Frankenstein: The True Story. She also appeared as | lover Pamela Plowden in Young Winston, produced by her father-in-law Richa ... |
Ephorus | ... ring of 480 BCE. The number of 1,207 (for the outset only) is also given by | , while his teacher Isocrates claims there were 1,300 at Doriskos and 1,20 ... |
Anthony Blunt | The most famous 20th-century scholar of Poussin was the Englishman | , Keeper of the Queen's Pictures, who in 1979 was disgraced by revelations ... |
Paul the Deacon | ... artel; Ratchis, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King Aistulf; and | , the historian of the Lombards |
Marx's | Althusser's contention is that | thought has been fundamentally misunderstood and underestimated. He fierce ... |
Sima Guang | ... ted later historiographers like Zheng Qiao (鄭樵) in writing Tongshi (通史) and | (司馬光) in writing Zizhi Tongjian (資治通鑑). The Chinese historical form of dyn ... |
E. P. Thompson | ... bara Wootton. Other prominent founding members of CND were Fenner Brockway, | , A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, D. H. Pennington, Eric B ... |
G. W. F. Hegel | ... nder and friend of Richard Rothe, Müller bitterly opposed the philosophy of | and the criticism of F. C. Baur. His book, Über den Gegensatz des Protesta ... |
George McGovern | ... globe. In addition to numerous domestic programs, along with former Senator | (D-South Dakota), Dole created an international school lunch program throu ... |
Plutarch | ... , Romulus, the Fidenates and the Veientes were defeated in a war with Rome. | , Life of Romulus, says of them: The first (to oppose Romulus) were the Ve ... |
Roger Ebert | ... d "cinema at its finest". In an essay supporting the selection of The Rock, | , who was strongly critical of most of Bay's later films, gave the film a ... |
William Camden | ... ations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends John Stow and | . He also used his own observation, experience and wit, and wrote in a con ... |
Winston Churchill | ... I, but like the mentioned countries, cooperated and traded with both sides. | claimed that Sweden during World War II ignored the greater moral issues a ... |
Yngvar Nielsen | ... among historians and archeologists for many years. The Norwegian historian | , commissioned by the Norwegian government in 1889 to determine this quest ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... Penn Station—called "an act of irresponsible public vandalism" by historian | —led directly to the enactment in 1965 of a local law establishing the New ... |
Neil Oliver | ... Kirsty Wark was born in the town as was fellow broadcaster Stephen Jardine. | (archaeologist, historian, author and broadcaster), grew up in Ayr and Dum ... |
John Beazley | ... tradition of this type has been discerned in 5th century BC Greek pottery— | identified a scene of Apollo, Delian palm in hand, revenging Orion for the ... |
Thomas Hutchinson | ... ples of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" to African Americans. | , the former royal governor of Massachusetts, also published a rebuttal. T ... |
Herodotus | According to | , the Lydians were the first people to introduce the use of gold and silve ... |
Phillip Knightley | According to historian | , "The remaining years of Sir John Kerr's life were miserable ones. He was ... |
Roger Ebert | | referred to the city in his review of as a "spectacular achievement", and ... |
Bertrand Russell | | named Keynes one of the most intelligent people he had ever known, comment ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped Lenin and | from the government. Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their allies in the Bolshevik ... |
M. Thomas Inge | In the introduction to his 1969 book Agrarianism in American Literature, | defines agrarianism by the following basic tenets |
Julius Caesar | ... r shorten a year in which his political opponents held office. It was while | was pontifex maximus that the calendar was overhauled, with the result bei ... |
Robert Byrd | ... eagan] and I have been to the Kennedy family. ... I will miss him." Senator | of West Virginia, the President pro tempore of the Senate, issued a statem ... |
Winston Churchill | ... e resonating projections of his orations for effect. British Prime Minister | made similar use of radio for propaganda against the Germans |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... mpany v. Oregon, 223 U.S. 118 in 1912 (Zimmerman, December 1999). President | , in his "Charter of Democracy" speech to the 1912 Ohio constitutional con ... |
Rehnquist | ... regulation. It was thus seen as a (narrow) victory for federalism when the | Court reined in federal regulatory power in United States v. Lopez (1995) ... |
Phlegon of Tralles | ... ions. Some genuine Sibylline verses are preserved in the Book of Marvels of | (2nd century CE) |
Karl Marx | | , in Das Kapital, writes |
Friedrich Hayek | Austrian School economist | was Keynes's most prominent contemporary critic, with sharply opposing vie ... |
Xenophon | In Greece, Hesiod, Aristotle and | promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential were such Roman thinkers as ... |
Pompeius Trogus | The author's chief sources are Cicero, Livy, Sallust and | , especially the first two. Valerius's treatment of his material is carele ... |
Donald Davidson | ... t-winged Dryad of the trees", in his Ode to a Nightingale. In the poetry of | they illustrate the themes of tradition and the importance of the past to ... |
David Starkey | ... and devotion have earned her many admirers among historians. These include | , feminist activist Karen Lindsey, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, Carol ... |
Aryeh Yitzhaki | Israeli historian | estimated that the Egyptians killed about 200 Israeli soldiers who had sur ... |
Karl Marx | In the most influential of all socialist theories, | and Friedrich Engels believed the consciousness of those who earn a wage o ... |
Livy | ... tended to men, and celebrations took place five times a month. According to | , the extension happened in an era when the leader of the Bacchus cult was ... |
Saxo Grammaticus | In | ' 12th century work Gesta Danorum, where gods appear euhemerized, Ollerus ... |
K. D. Sethna | ... topic of great significance in Hindu nationalism, addressed for example by | and in Shrikant G. Talageri's . Subhash Kak (1994) claimed that there is a ... |
Jules Michelet | The 19th century French historian | attributed the origins of European witchcraft to the religion of the sibyl ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... e in the place of man . A variation that also falls within this metaphor is | ’ "", which sees Jesus receiving a punishment as a public example of the l ... |
Joseph Rothschild | ... ith the Germans was condemned by AK headquarters. Tadeusz Piotrowski quotes | saying "The Polish Home Army was by and large untainted by collaboration" ... |
Friedrich Hayek | ... f value on the laws of psychophysics by Lionel Robbins, George Stigler, and | , though the broader issue of the relation between economics and psycholog ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ish subjects to be honoured in that way (other examples are Lord Nelson and | )—and the last heraldic state funeral to be held in Britain. The funeral t ... |
Lester B. Pearson | ... Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector | ;, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and Kim Campb ... |
Roger Ebert | ... elling, and this is a thoughtful film that does prompt serious discussion." | of the Chicago Sun-Times rated the film four out of four stars and called ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... build boats to transition goods from the rails to the seas. With President | 's declaration to create a Great White Fleet, the company entered the wars ... |
John William Draper | The story begins in late April 1839, as | had just photographed the Moon and Charles Dickens was serializing Oliver ... |
D. H. Pennington | ... r Brockway, E. P. Thompson, A. J. P. Taylor, Anthony Greenwood, Lord Simon, | , Eric Baker and Dora Russell. Organisations that had previously opposed B ... |
William Camden | ... ow known to be false. A short passage making this claim was interpolated by | into his 1603 edition of Asser's Life. Doubts have also been raised period ... |
Livy | ... Battle of Silva Arsia. The Roman army was victorious, and it is recorded by | that although the forces of Tarquinii fought well on the right wing, initi ... |
Friedrich Schiller | ... iticism from many sources who argued against his 'perfection.' Germans like | and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dismissed Racine as höfisches Drama, or "co ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... who was the daughter of a pastor near Lausanne and who had been engaged to | . In 1764, Madame de Verménou brought Suzanne to Paris as her companion. T ... |
George Stigler | ... he economic theory of value on the laws of psychophysics by Lionel Robbins, | , and Friedrich Hayek, though the broader issue of the relation between ec ... |
Gavin Lambert | | 's memoir, Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, in which he claimed that Anderso ... |
Bronisław Komorowski | ... the second final round of the Polish presidential election on July 4, 2010, | , Acting President, Marshal of the Sejm and a Civic Platform politician, d ... |
Ctesias | ... numbered 310 triremes (the difference being the number of Athenian ships). | claims that the Athenian fleet numbered only 110 triremes, which ties in w ... |
Griselda Pollock | ... d practices of women artists including painters and feminist theorists like | , were systematically reevaluating modern art. Brian Massumi claims that D ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... ts place the responsibility for the decision with the Ural Regional Soviet. | , in his diary, makes it quite clear that the assassination took place on ... |
Philistus | ... the Younger who succeeded him as ruler of Syracuse. His life was written by | , but the work is not extant |
Appian | ... ween Mithridates and the pirates is also mentioned by the ancient historian | . The 4th century commentary on Vergil by Servius says that Pompey settled ... |
Ibn Kathir | ... لشِّعْرَى", "That He is the Lord of Sirius (the Mighty Star)." (An-Najm:49) | said in his commentary "Ibn 'Abbas, Mujahid, Qatada and Ibn Zayd said abou ... |
Fernão Lopes | ... n was the natural son of Peter I by a woman named Teresa, who, according to | , was a noble Galician. In the eighteenth century, António Caetano de Sous ... |
Erchempert | ... g the great historians who worked at the monastery, in this period there is | , whose Historia Langobardorum Beneventanorum is a fundamental chronicle o ... |
Claudius | ... d had not been since its defeat by the Carians. In 43 AD the Roman emperor, | , dissolved the league. Lycia was incorporated into the Roman Empire with ... |
Alison Plowden | ... activist Karen Lindsey, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, Carolly Erickson, | and Susan James and Linda Porter. Biographers have described her as strong ... |
Tzvetan Todorov | ... hers. Later authors in the semiotic tradition of literary criticism include | , Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and ... |
David Armitage | ... time and was consulted during the drafting process. According to historian | , the United States Declaration of Independence did prove to be internatio ... |
William Dugdale | ... were destroyed, but not before the building was surveyed by the antiquarian | , who published his results in 1656 |
Ibn al-Nadim | ... ss is in the Fihrist, a general bibliography produced in 377 AH (988 CE) by | . It includes an entire section on the topic of chess, listing |
Caesar | ... a former generation a specimen of shameless adulation. The few allusions to | 's murderers and to Augustus hardly pass beyond the conventional style of ... |
John Kricfalusi | ... re productive than ever in his painting. In 2003, he appeared as a guest on | 's Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" |
Barbara Yorke | ... archiepiscopate, within a year of him succeeding his father. The historian | argues that there were two co-rulers of Kent after Æthelberht's death, Ead ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... hapter 31 of Gylfaginning in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , Ullr is referred to as a son of Sif (with a father unrecorded in survivi ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ations between business and government. Rejecting the adversarial stance of | , William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce ... |
Arrian | ... § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57 | ;, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, I ... |
Samuel Atkins Eliot II | ... e architect, responsible for the public park system in Boston. Another son, | (August 24, 1862- October 15, 1950) was a Unitarian minister who became th ... |
C. L. R. James | ... Indian songs, and epitomised an event that historian and cricket enthusiast | defined as crucial to West Indian post-colonial societies. The song, later ... |
Roy Porter | ... easingly taking "centre stage as a source of disease and site of cure." For | , these often violent and invasive psychiatric interventions are indicativ ... |
Carlo Ginzburg | ... ular folk belief of this period. Most prominent among these was the Italian | , who claimed shamanistic elements in the benandanti custom of 16th centur ... |
Charles Oman | ... ve often been overstated, with many Twentieth Century writers repeating Sir | 's idea that the battle represented a turning point in military history, w ... |
Raphael Holinshed | ... part of the publishing venture of a group of London stationers who produced | 's Chronicles (London 1577). His contribution to Holinshed's work drew hea ... |
Thor Heyerdahl | ... mid-1980s, the Maldivian government allowed the popular Norwegian explorer | , to excavate ancient sites. Despite the clear evidence that all the ancie ... |
Jeremy Black | ... character of Bond was developed more than in the previous novels; academic | considers that, in Goldfinger, Bond "was presented as a complex character" ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... s traveled abroad, visiting Europe and meeting working philosophers such as | and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Mor ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... und to a differentiated location in space contra transcendent omnipresence. | , a confirmed atheist, answered a variation of this question: what happens ... |
Giorgio Vasari | ... rew his Notizie, in which he consciously intended to build upon the Vite of | ; Baldinucci's was the first art history to trace the lives and work of ar ... |
David Hume | Historian and philosopher | , in his history of England, recounts how in the reign of Henry III (r.121 ... |
Plutarch | ... Professor Barry Powell has suggested she was Minoan Crete's Snake Goddess. | , in his vita of Theseus, which treats him as a historical individual, rep ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," and | stated, "I find Hornblower admirable. |
Diocles of Peparethus | The earliest known history of Rome is attributed to | , whose work was acknowledged as a reliable source by the patrician senato ... |
Winston Churchill | ... 945, United States President Harry S. Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister | , and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek issu ... |
Herodotus | ... e that circumcised females have been found among Egyptian mummies, and that | (c. 484 BCE – c. 425 BCE) referred to the practice when he visited Egypt. ... |
Tertullian | ... 4th century seems most plausible. An earlier example has been suggested in | De Corona Militis xi, "Apud hunc [sc. Christum] tam miles est pagan ... |
Martin Hinds | ... was the hallmark of the good Muslim. The modern scholars Patricia Crone and | , in their book God's Caliph, outline the evidence for an early, expansive ... |
Sulpicius Severus' | ... ry developed in association with that of St. Martin of Tours as a result of | Vita Sancti Martini and spread early to western Britain. The villages of S ... |
Thomas Fuller | ... 1529) wrote of two destructive fires in his Lament for the City of Norwich. | in his The Worthies of England described the City in 1662 as |
Karl Pearson | ... obability distribution of a continuous variable and was first introduced by | . A histogram consists of tabular frequencies, shown as adjacent rectangle ... |
Robert Osborne | ... him in any way. Critics, however, generally were favorable toward the film. | , who introduced showings of the movie on Turner Classic Movies, was quite ... |
Roger of Wendover | ... collected from both lay and ecclesiastical persons. The medieval chronicler | said that the king "had Archbishop Hubert of Canterbury to act for him in ... |
Leo of Ostia | ... sts for the decoration of the rebuilt abbey church. According to chronicler | the Greek artists decorated the apse, the arch and the vestibule of the ba ... |
William Rehnquist | ... U.S. Supreme Court Justices have taught at Tulane, including Chief Justice | . Tulane has also hosted several prominent artists, most notably Mark Roth ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... s chief court was in Caerleon in Wales; this was the king's primary base in | 's Historia Regum Britanniae and subsequent literature. Chrétien depicts A ... |
Xenophon | ... 's mind or taking him away from the career path his father had set for him. | has Socrates forecast that the boy will grow up vicious if he studies a pu ... |
Strabo | ... dure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and | (c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited ... |
Herodotus | The oldest known mention of "Atlantic" is in The Histories of | around 450 BC (Hdt. 1.202.4): Atlantis thalassa (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς θάλασσα; ... |
Strabo | ... ers of the period, including: Ptolemy, iv. 5. § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59 | ;, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian ... |
Pierre Berton | Noted Canadian author | once wrote: "In so many ways the story of Tim Hortons is the essential Can ... |
Andrew Bisset | See: | . Black Roots White Flowers, Golden Press, 197 |
James Mill | In 1817, David Ricardo, | and Robert Torrens showed that free trade would benefit the industrially w ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in Anatolia. Most historians, including | , date the defeat at Manzikert as the beginning of the end of the Eastern ... |
Orderic Vitalis | ... it is said, in effect, that this went on for nine weeks, ending at Easter. | (1075–c. 1142), an English monk at St Evroul-en-Ouche, in Normandy, report ... |
Jim Webb | ... ent U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are Mark Warner (D) and | (D) |
Nearchus | ... Pytheas of Marseilles, Scylax of Caryanda who sailed to Iberia and beyond, | , the 6th century merchant and later monk Cosmas Indicopleustes (Cosmas wh ... |
Friedrich Hayek | ... , a sort of informal club that discussed Keynes's theory of probability and | 's theory on business cycles. In 1939, Sraffa was elected to a Fellowship ... |
Fan S. Noli | ... (Step of Tujan). In 1924, Tirana was at the center of a coup d'état led by | . Since 1925, when they were banned in Turkey, the Bektashis, an order of ... |
John Lewis Gaddis | Historian | has summarized the turnaround in evaluations by historians |
Mordechai Nisan | ... ology, such as empathy. Moral identity theorists, such as William Damon and | , see moral commitment as arising from the development of a self-identity ... |
Daniel Boyarin | Talmud professor | offered two explanations for circumcision. One is that it is a literal ins ... |
Plutarch | ... erial era. Roman historians dated the city's foundation from 758 to 728 BC. | says Romulus was fifty-three at his death; his reckoning gives the twins' ... |
Lynn Thorndike | ... stantially modified. Starting with works of Pierre Duhem, Raoul Carton, and | , Bacon's advocacy of scientia experimentalis has been argued to differ fr ... |
John Major | ... principal editorial cartoonist. One of Bell's most famous caricatures is of | as a dire superhero wearing his Y-fronts on the outside of his clothes, in ... |
Patricia Crone | ... dicting the Quran, was the hallmark of the good Muslim. The modern scholars | and Martin Hinds, in their book God's Caliph, outline the evidence for an ... |
Alexandre Exquemelin | ... ng this time, an account of Morgan's disreputable exploits was published by | , who once had been his confidante, probably as a barber-surgeon, in a Dut ... |
Timaeus | ... sa can be traced back to references by Roman historians to lost writings of | of Tauromenium in Sicily (c. 356–260 BC) |
Josephus | ... . 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, Is. et Osir. 33; Diogenes Laertius, xviii. 8. § 6 | ;, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21; P ... |
Diodorus Siculus | ... tle Epaminondas's role in the conflicts of 4th century is also described by | , in his Bibliotheca historica. Diodorus was writing in the 1st century BC ... |
Livy | ... 58 BC relative to the start of the Julian calendar. Also, the histories of | give us exact Roman dates for two eclipses in 190 BC and 168 BC, and we ha ... |
John Leland | ... than England. He gathered his facts from books, letters, maps, the notes of | , and conversations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends ... |
Plutarch | The Greek biographer | (46 - 127 AD) says that "secret mysteries... of Mithras" were practiced by ... |
Garry Wills | ... d measures as inimical as the Alien and Sedition Acts themselves. Historian | argued "Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have ... |
Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz | ... eferred to by European explorers as early as 1699, and described in 1774 by | . Du Pratz described the bird as having black plumage and a head covered w ... |
Sima Qian | ... consists of more than one character, it too should be written as a unit: " | ", not "Si Ma Qian" or "Si Maqian". However, as the Chinese language makes ... |
Antonia Fraser | ... itle character in the 2006 biographical film Marie Antoinette. Adapted from | 's book , the film was Dunst's second with director Sofia Coppola. The mov ... |
Roger Ebert | ... mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 77 based on 22 reviews. | of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film in his review saying: "A powerfu ... |
Henry Corbin | ... and he studied, worked with, and published books by Nasr, Toshihiko Izutsu, | and others. He was editor of Sophia Perennis, the Journal of the IIAP |
Karl Pearson | ... f a histogram); and gramma 'drawing, record, writing'. It is also said that | , who introduced the term in 1895, derived the name from "historical diagr ... |
Isaac Asimov | | claims that Gothic cavalry adopted technology reverse-engineered from the ... |
Leo of Ostia | ... of the abbey at this date exists in the Chronica monasterii Cassinensis by | and Amatus of Monte Cassino gives us our best source on the early Normans ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... porates a now-familiar idea, the notion of a 'convergent infinite series.'" | offered a "solution" to the paradoxes based on modern physics, but Brown c ... |
Herodotus | ... le was fought and Josiah was killed (2 Kings 23:29, 2 Chronicles 35:20-24). | reports the campaign of the pharaoh in his Histories, Book 2:159 |
Plutarch | ... orus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7 | ;, Solon. 26, Is. et Osir. 33; Diogenes Laertius, xviii. 8. § 6; Josephus, ... |
Tony Cozier | ... er recorded by Lord Beginner, is rarely credited to Lord Kitchener although | and many who attended the Test at The Oval can attest that it was a Kitch ... |
Pierre Duhem | ... ent in the sciences has been substantially modified. Starting with works of | , Raoul Carton, and Lynn Thorndike, Bacon's advocacy of scientia experimen ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... economics and macroeconomics, was coined by the Austrian-American economist | in 1908 as a way of referring to the views of Weber. According to Weber's ... |
Blind Harry | ... d Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, written around 1470 by | the minstrel. Harry wrote from oral tradition describing events 170 years ... |
Muhammad Juwayni | 6) | , the early historian of the Mongol era in his Tarikh-e Jahan Gushay (Ilkh ... |
Pierre de Nolhac | | arrived at the Palace of Versailles in 1887 and was appointed curator of t ... |
Marshall Poe | ... commercially distributed book published under the Open Publication License. | , in his essay "The Hive," likens Wikipedia to the Bazaar model that Raymo ... |
John Malcolm | ... a the parasol is repeatedly found in the carved work of Persepolis, and Sir | has an article on the subject in his 1815 "History of Persia." In some scu ... |
Richard Hofstadter | ... ership of their farms. Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to John Jay that | has traced the sentimental attachment to the rural way of life, which he d ... |
Michel Foucault | ... a (with whom he at one time shared an office at the ENS), noted philosopher | , and the pre-eminent Lacanian psychoanalyst |
Claudius | It would seem that in the reign of | (41-54 AD) the quaestors had become responsible for the paving of the stre ... |
Alexis de Tocqueville | In the 1830s, French political thinker and historian | identified one of the key characteristics of America that would later make ... |
Plutarch | ... us; Paeon's works are lost, but his narrative is among the sources cited by | in his vita of Theseus (20.3-.5). According to the myth that was current a ... |
Harry Houdini | ... e and burlesque were theatre staples in Union City, with performers such as | and Fred Astaire making appearances locally. Union City was also for a tim ... |
Roger Ebert | ... subscribe to the theory that Betty is Diane's projection of a happier life. | and Jonathan Ross seem to accept this interpretation, but both hesitate to ... |
Ernst Curtius | ... han the Mycenaean. This possibility appears to have been first suggested by | in the 1880s. In current scholarship, the standard assumption is to group ... |
Xenophon | ... Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of | and Vitruvius; the Argonautica of the so-called Orpheus (for which Ruhnken ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... een a registered Republican before the war, though in 1912 he had supported | 's "Bull Moose" Progressive Party. Now he declared himself a Republican an ... |
Radoslav Katičić | A number of Croatian linguists, specifically | , Dalibor Brozović, and Tomislav Ladan, consider the appropriate name to b ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | Other theorists, such as | , Thorstein Veblen and some of the utopian socialists, believed that socia ... |
Edward Hasted | In 1797 | described Erith as 'consisting of one small street of houses, which leads ... |
Rupert N. Richardson | ... ander H. Stephens, the vice president of the Confederate States of America. | , the Texas historian who later served as president of Hardin-Simmons Univ ... |
Ammianus Marcellinus | According to the historian | , a third of the Roman army succeeded in retreating, but the losses were u ... |
Plutarch | Numerous ancient sources, including | 's Life of Alcibiades, preserve stories of Anytus' tumultuous relationship ... |
Thomas Walsingham | ... men, this would give a total of about 11,000 killed. The English chronicler | gave the number of English men-at-arms who were killed as 700, while 500 m ... |
Mikhail Artamonov | ... ion of Balanjar has not yet been established precisely. Soviet archeologist | initially placed Balanjar on the site of the modern Daghestani city of Buy ... |
Albert Schweitzer | ... Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma Lagerlöf and | , Andrei Tarkovsky Bruno Walter, and Alternative Nobel Prize winner |
Snorri Sturluson | In the Heimskringla, | writes about several battles between Norwegians and Geats. He wrote that i ... |
Ian Kershaw | ... th century and were not allowed to return until the 1860s, scholars such as | and Brigitte Hamann dismiss as baseless the Frankenberger hypothesis, whic ... |
Ouyang Xiu | ... family of the princess' husband). The Song dynasty statesman and historian | has noted that paper playing cards arose in connection to an earlier devel ... |
Jean Bodin | ... o the church, centering on the pope. The immediate author of the theory was | , who based it on the interpretation of Roman law. With the rise of nation ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... of the toleration edict of Galerius (see Edict of Toleration by Galerius). | , for example, writes that Maximinus conceived an "insane passion" for a C ... |
Ibn Khaldun | ... to have said: "There is no way for two (leaders) together at any one time" | the famous 14th century Muslim scholar, economist and historian said |
Charles Oman | Ammianus notes the important role of the Gothic cavalry. | , believing that the cavalry were the majority of the Gothic force, interp ... |
Richard Overy | ... by the brutal treatment of the German civilians and tried to protect them. | cites an approximate total 7. 5 million evacuated, migrated, or expelled G ... |
Foucault | ... ay be compared with Bourdieu's concept of habitus. ISAs may also anticipate | 's disciplinary institutions, which provide a critical rethinking of Althu ... |
Herodotus | ... ed by most major geographers of the period, including: Ptolemy, iv. 5. § 54 | ;, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp ... |
Jan Długosz | Polish chronicler | mentions usage of poisonous gas by the Mongol army in 1241 in the Battle o ... |
Xenophon | Plato's Apology, and likewise that of | , lists Anytus as one of the primary prosecutors in the trial of Socrates. ... |
William Taubman | ... hysicist Arthur Zajonc, Pulitzer Prize-winning Nikita Khrushchev biographer | , African art specialist Rowland Abiodun, Natural Law expert Hadley Arkes, ... |
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov | ... hey are most likely to have had to have developed through language contact. | and Vladimir Toporov believed in the unity of Balto-Slavic, but not in the ... |
Herodotus | ... wap his horse with a fresh one, for maximum performance and delivery speed. | described the system in this way: "It is said that as many days as there a ... |
Roger of Wendover | ... he same time Saint Rumwold was buried in Buckingham. In the medieval period | was, as the name suggests, from Wendover and Anne Boleyn also owned proper ... |
Gerard Labuda | ... cal contest with his half-brother Zbigniew. Thus, she died after that date. | stated that Judith spent her last years of life in Regensburg with her (su ... |
Frank Porter Graham | ... or for Willis Smith in the U.S. Senate campaign against a prominent liberal | . Graham, who supported school desegregation, was labelled by Smith (a con ... |
Anna Komnene | ... ging qualities, gained the favour of Alexios I and the hand of his daughter | , receiving the titles of Caesar and panhypersebastos (one of the new dign ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... egel, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel and | . The campus is situated in two urban areas and several buildings. In nume ... |
Brigitte Hamann | ... ere not allowed to return until the 1860s, scholars such as Ian Kershaw and | dismiss as baseless the Frankenberger hypothesis, which before had only Fr ... |
Thomas Kuhn | ... preferred over the much more specific “the solar system has seven planets”. | ’s influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions argued that sc ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... which isolates them from local space-time at the instant of the collision. | 's short story, "The Last Question" was published in 1956. The story is br ... |
John Cecil Masterman | ... he Germans had ready access to through the neutral nations. In addition, as | , chairman of the Twenty Committee, commented, "If, for example, St Paul's ... |
Strabo | ... own contacts between China and the West around 200 BCE. The Greek historian | writes "they extended their empire even as far as the Seres (China) and th ... |
Abu Rayhan Biruni | ... ophical views were later criticized by Persian Islamic philosophers such as | and Avicenna in the early 11th century. Biruni in particular wrote a short ... |
Vilhelm Moberg | ... ncluding Erik Norelius, whose personal journals in part formed the basis of | ’s novels of the Swedish emigration to the United States, The Emigrants. M ... |
Julius Caesar | ... me for the group was subsequently dropped. That island was first invaded by | in 55 BC, and the Roman conquest of the island began in AD 43, leading to ... |
Matthew Paris | ... g's election by the people. This story is only contained in the writings of | , however, and although it seems certain that Walter made a speech, it is ... |
Peter Bogdanovich | ... s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer president Dan Melnick, who interrupted a meeting with | when he learned that Bakshi wanted to discuss acquiring the rights to The ... |
Gerard Béhague | models or, for that matter, passive consumption by national audiences." – | , Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology. Pg. 8 |
Plutarch | ... ies initially appeared to back their ships away as if in fear. According to | , this was to gain better position, and also in order to gain time until t ... |
Communist Party Historians Group | In 1946, Hill and many other Marxist historians formed the | . However, Hill soon became discontented with the lack of democracy in the ... |
Julius Caesar | ... erely because it is accommodated to the Julian year." This Julian refers to | , who introduced the Julian calendar in 46 BC |
John Malalas | ... reign of Athalaric, who was called του Ουαλεμεριακου (tou Oualemeriakou) by | |
Xenophon | ... but the point of invention remains in question. The best documented claim ( | ) attributes the invention to the Persian King Cyrus the Great (550 BC), w ... |
Henry Cabot Lodge | ... hevik-controlled areas of Russia in 1921, despite the opposition of Senator | and other Republicans. When asked if he was not thus helping Bolshevism, H ... |
Plutarch | ... ces to the condition can be found in the work of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, | and Galen . In the psychiatric literature it was first referred to in 1623 ... |
Choe Bu | In 1488, the shipwrecked Korean scholar | travelled the length of the Grand Canal on his way from Zhejiang to Beijin ... |
Christopher Ehret | ... oasiatic: Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and Omotic. However, | (1979), Harold Fleming (1981), and Joseph Greenberg (1981) all agree that ... |
Winston Churchill | ... s the maquis were receiving, to the extent that he begged five minutes with | , the British Prime Minister. Churchill, reluctant at first, but fascinate ... |
Doris Stenton | ... d Walter to find new means of raising money through taxation. The historian | wrote that the Pipe Rolls, or financial records, during Walter's time as j ... |
David Hume | ... l). Religion is not always positively associated with morality. Philosopher | stated that, "the greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to b ... |
Owen Gingerich | ... rate for its day and was still in use at the time of Copernicus and Kepler. | describes a planetary conjunction that occurred in 1504 that was apparentl ... |
Kenneth McIntyre | ... that the islands were charted by Portuguese navigators in the 16th century. | , for example, claimed that Houtman was in possession of Portuguese maps o ... |
Procopius | ... e and the Black Sea, invading the Danubian provinces of the Eastern Empire. | wrote in 545 that "the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name i ... |
Pierre Berton | ... tured a remarkably stable cast of panelists, including journalist-historian | , Betty Kennedy (who later become a Canadian senator), Toby Robins (who la ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... time, homosexual relations among the members were for a time common", wrote | . One of Keynes's greatest loves was the artist Duncan Grant, whom he met ... |
David Hume | ... pted to reduce the number of distinct ontological categories. For instance, | famously regarded Space and Time as nothing more than psychological facts ... |
John D. Winters | ... General Nathaniel P. Banks who occupied Opelousas found what the historian | describes as "a beautiful town boasting several churches, a fine convent, ... |
Philip Jenkins | ... r religious groups have been ignored or given minimal coverage.According to | (1995), a professor at Pennsylvania State University, the emphasis upon se ... |
Jeff Tamarkin | As described by | , "The Grape's saga is one of squandered potential, absurdly misguided dec ... |
John Major | ... ct and misleading information given at the time Railtrack was created, when | was Conservative . An increased offer of up to 262p per share was enough t ... |
Hydatius | ... till considered the lawful Emperor: for example, the contemporary historian | , who lived in Spain, considered the year 457 the third of Avitus' reign; ... |
William Rehnquist | ... of his intent to retire. Reagan first decided to nominate Associate Justice | to become Chief Justice. This choice meant that Reagan would also have to ... |
Ralph of Coggeshall | ... ess that permitted a reconciliation with his monks. The medieval chronicler | described his death as taking four days, and related that he gave vestment ... |
Murray Bookchin | In , | included Bey's work in what he called "lifestyle anarchism", which he crit ... |
Ernst Gombrich | ... opper also had long and mutually influential friendships with art historian | , biologist Peter Medawar, and neuro-scientist John Carew Eccles |
Winston Churchill | On the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was ... |
Jordanes | ... s appearance. There is, however, a possible second-hand source, provided by | , who cites a description given by Priscus. It suggests a person of Asian ... |
Julius Caesar | When | added days to some months, he added them to the end of the month, so as no ... |
Roger Ebert | Film critic and Urbana native | is a graduate of Urbana High School. During his senior year he was co-edit ... |
John Leland | ... ). His contribution to Holinshed's work drew heavily on the earlier work of | |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... lution is the subject of a popular controversy. In his book Wonderful Life, | argues that if the tape of life were re-wound and played back, life would ... |
Plutarch | ... was one of approximately 50 ancient figures given an extensive biography by | in his Parallel Lives, in which he is paired with the Roman statesman Scip ... |
Charles Kingsley | ... (who set many of her novels in a thinly disguised version of the borough), | , Edmund Gosse and Rudyard Kipling. Peter Cook, comic, (half of a famous c ... |
Sueton | ... glect under the Macedonian kings, and when they were repaired by Augustus ( | . Aug. 18, 63) Thmuis had attracted its trade and population |
Thegan of Trier | ... n author usually called "the Astronomer", and Vita Hludowici Imperatoris by | . It is possible that Asser may have known these works. He also knew Bede' ... |
Ibn al-Faqih | ... es CE. The legendary founder of Balanjar, according to the Arab chroniclers | and Abu al-Fida, was named Balanjar ibn Japheth |
Jacob Bronowski | ... ulian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir | , Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry ... |
Pierre Giffard | ... on's behavior was savagely criticised by Le Vélo and its Dreyfusard editor, | . De Dion responded by starting L'Auto. He was supported by other wealthy ... |
Menander Protector | ... them living among nearly impenetrable forests, rivers, lakes, and marshes. | mentions a Daurentius (577-579) that slew an Avar envoy of Khagan Bayan I. ... |
W. E. B. Du Bois | ... errell and his wife Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, | , and poets Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass’ fa ... |
Tertullian | ... in the Caesares of Julian the Apostate refers to "commandments of Mithras". | , in his treatise 'On the Military Crown' records that Mithraists in the a ... |
Étienne Gilson | ... his mind to Catholicism. It was titled The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by | , and inside he encountered an explanation of God that he found both logic ... |
Hippolytus of Rome | ... al part of which was the coupling its characters in pairs, male and female. | (Ref. vi. 20, p. 176) connects the system of Valentinus with that of Simon ... |
Vincent Canby | ... out of a not very good private joke". In his review for the New York Times, | wrote that Buckaroo Banzai "may well turn out to be a pilot film for other ... |
Irving Howe | ... n uproar in the Jewish community, even among New York intellectuals such as | and Diana Trilling |
Polybius | ... e prevalence of mercenaries. The mercenary and the tyrant went hand-in-hand | ;for example noted how “the security of despots rests entirely on the loya ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... Keckly, a free black dressmaker who worked for two presidents' wives: Mrs. | and later Mary Todd Lincoln. Thomas Day was also a native; he was well kno ... |
Curt Weibull | ... asier to defend and be protected in than in the coastal areas. According to | , the Geats would have been finally integrated in the Swedish kingdom c. 1 ... |
Pierre Batiffol | According to Hosea Ballou, then | (1911) and George T. Knight (1914) Amalric was a believer that all people ... |
Thucydides | ... had marked Athenian dominance in the Greek ancient world. Ancient historian | also contracted the disease, but he survived to write about the plague. Hi ... |
Xenophon | ... his work as continuation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. | , who idolized Sparta and its king, Agesilaus, avoids mentioning Epaminond ... |
Luigi Einaudi | ... on inflation in Italy during and after World War I. Notably, his tutor was | , one of the most important Italian economists and later a president of th ... |
Harold James | Princeton historian | argues that there was a clear link between economic decline and people tur ... |
Joanna Denny | ... rly nasty sadomasochistic pervert," a line of thinking followed by the late | in her 2004 biography of Anne Boleyn |
Winston Churchill | ... cratic dynasties. Among the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are | and Diana, Princess of Wales |
Boyd Hilton | Nonetheless, as historian | concludes, "it is irrefutable that Melbourne's personal life was problemat ... |
Jasper Ridley | ... ave criticised him for Anti-Protestantism and, "intolerance." The historian | , author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on ... |
John Skylitzes | ... nd the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript illustrates the Synopsis of Histories by | |
Andrew Dickson White | ... ters of the period carried this account further. For instance, according to | , Bacon was repeatedly persecuted and imprisoned because of the opposition ... |
Jeffry D. Wert | ... y accepting when told that the command would otherwise go to Joseph Hooker. | described Burnside's relief after Fredericksburg in a passage that sums up ... |
William Camden | ... ring as Moule in Harrison's Description of Britain of 1577. The antiquarian | uses the Latinized form Molis in the 1586 edition of Britannia and Michael ... |
Andrew Dickson White | ... bring a university to the city, having failed to convince Ezra Cornell and | to locate Cornell University there rather than in Ithaca. White pressed th ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ty. The County Seat found its home in Mineola on July 13, 1900, as Governor | laid the cornerstone of the Nassau County Court House. A celebration was h ... |
Thucydides | ... ed by the historian Xenophon, who evidently saw his work as continuation of | 's History of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon, who idolized Sparta and its ... |
Thomas Carlyle | ... ida Dutton Scudder compared the poem with socialist ideas from the works of | , John Ruskin, and the Fabians |
Bertrand Russell | ... given time, just because it is not in motion in any instant of that time." | offered what is known as the "at-at theory of motion". It agrees that ther ... |
Bruce Catton | ... relief after Fredericksburg in a passage that sums up his military career: | summarized Burnside |
Bernard B. Fall | ... t adds that the number of these recruits has been subsequently exaggerated. | , who was a supporter of the French government, writing in the context of ... |
Panagiotis Kondylis | ... nstantin Carathéodory, Manolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, John Argyris, | and Dimitri Nanopoulos |
Priscus | ... second-hand source, provided by Jordanes, who cites a description given by | . It suggests a person of Asian features |
Zosimus | ... s were displaced by the Hunnic invasions. In support of this, Wolfram cites | as referring to a group of "Scythians" north of the Danube who were called ... |
Plutarch | ... ch in turn revolved around the Sun. Though the arguments he used were lost, | stated that Seleucus was the first to prove the heliocentric system throug ... |
Michel Foucault | Antihumanists such as Louis Althusser and | and structuralists such as Roland Barthes challenged the possibilities of ... |
Julius Caesar | ... n Emperor Augustus referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, | as "son of a god" via the term divi filius which was later also used by Do ... |
Julius Caesar | ... nerary of Antoninus, the description of the road system, after the death of | and during Augustus tenure, is as follows |
Jerome | ... books of the Bible at the Council of Rome in AD 382. He commissioned Saint | to produce a reliable and consistent text by translating the original Gree ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... m paganism was in use in English before the 17th century. The OED instances | 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776): "The divisions of Christia ... |
Xenophon | ... iod of Greek history from 411–362 BC is primarily attested by the historian | , who evidently saw his work as continuation of Thucydides's History of th ... |
Jerome | ... 60-130), Irenaeus (c. 130-200), Origen (c. 185-254), Eusebius (c. 260-340) | (c. 340-420), and Augustine of Hippo (c. 354-430), had been that Matthew w ... |
Martin Duberman | ... e results were summarized by historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist | , "Instead of Kinsey's 37% (men who had at least one homosexual experience ... |
Wei Shou | ... ougher and more straightforward. Notable writers include Yu Xin, Xing Fang, | , and Wen Zisheng of the Northern Dynasty. In the Southern Dynasty, a type ... |
Alex Haley | ... to maintain its own police force. Celebrities with homes here have included | , Bill Cosby, and Arthur Ashe. Streets there include Crummell, Dunbar, Hen ... |
Sulpicius Severus | ... ble. More trustworthy are the notices in Saint Jerome (De vir. illus. 100), | (Chron. ii. 39-45) and in Hilary's own writings |
Leon Trotsky | ... out before the resolution was passed. As they exited, they were taunted by | who told them "You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; yo ... |
Manetho | ... ons ascribed by Josephus to the Greek writer Apion, and myths accredited to | are also addressed |
Richard Schickel | Hitchcock related this anecdote in a television interview for | 's documentary The Men Who Made the Movies and for Dick Cavett's interview ... |
Gregory of Tours | ... ions to the basilica of Saint Julian in Avernia, his homeland. According to | , Avitus died during the journey; according to other sources, he was kille ... |
Friedrich Hayek | ... f influence, Popper had a long-standing and close friendship with economist | , who was also brought to the London School of Economics from Vienna. Each ... |
Alan Lomax | ... usic. These researchers include the pioneering American folk song collector | , whose work helped inspire the roots revival of the mid-20th century. The ... |
John Julius Norwich | ... ad a daughter, Allegra Huston, as the result of an extramarital affair with | ; Huston treated the girl as one of his own children following Soma's deat ... |
Alfredo López Austin | ... al Tamoanchan, Mexican historian and scholar of Mesoamerican belief systems | identifies several sacred sites that were historical localities associated ... |
Zabihollah Safa | ... rases and words which can be matched between these two sources according to | |
Elijah Wald | ... e of the Emancipation Proclamation. Grammy-winning blues musician/historian | and others have argued that the blues were being rapped as early as the 19 ... |
Mary Wollstonecraft | In Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, | wrote extensively while visiting Risør in 1783, including the following re ... |
Dimitri Kitsikis | ... rived from the "Intermediate Region" geopolitical model first formulated by | and published in 1978. The Intermediate Region, which spans the Adriatic S ... |
John D. Winters | ... nsorship of the American Missionary Association. According to the historian | of Louisiana Tech University, the students "ranged in age from four to for ... |
Giambattista Vico | ... on the methodological approach of Hobbes include those of Locke , Spinoza , | (1984 xli), and Rousseau (1997 part 1). David Hume made what he considered ... |
David Hume | ... erning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher | , published in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Trea ... |
Julius Caesar | ... II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul | (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of Rome often met their end in this w ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... . It largely drew on Edward Gibbon's history of the Roman Empire as well as | 's contemporary account, as indicated in the afterword of the original edi ... |
Giovanni Villani | ... uch as the poet Fazio degli Uberti (circa 1309–1367), the famous chronicler | (c. 1275–1348), and Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), who wrote that the Bre ... |
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | ... iters such as Camille Paglia, Christina Hoff Sommers, Jean Bethke Elshtain, | and Daphne Patai oppose some forms of feminism, though they identify as fe ... |
George Bancroft | ... Public Education in Prussia." Calvin E. Stowe, Henry Barnard, Horace Mann, | and Joseph Cogswell all had a vigorous interest in German education. In 18 ... |
Jules Michelet | ... od remains", Vincent van Gogh wrote that Hugo declared (but actually it was | ). Christianity would eventually disappear, he predicted, but people would ... |
Jacob Burckhardt | ... l, dating from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, | , and Friedrich Nietzsche worked here. More recently, its work in tropical ... |
Marcius D. Raymond | ... art, was written in 1903 by the owner and publisher of the Tarrytown Argus, | |
Rupert Hughes | ... f whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: "Chambers is like | and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and educati ... |
Vere Gordon Childe | ... thic Revolution, a term coined in the 1920s by the Australian archaeologist | |
Philip Jenkins | ===Claims of inaccuracy===In March 2002, | complained in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that "'Pedophilia' is a psychiat ... |
Yuri Felshtinsky | According to | and Vladimir Pribylovsky, top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexand ... |
David Beers Quinn | Historian | hypothesized that the colony moved wholesale and was later destroyed. When ... |
Peter Hofschröer | Historian | has written that Wellington and Blücher met at Genappe around 22:00, signi ... |
Snorri | ... tailed account of a venture to the region after the death of the god Baldr. | 's descriptions of Hel in the Prose Edda are not corroborated outside of B ... |
Patrick O'Farrell | Historian | noted in The Irish in Australia (1987) that the term "Australia first" bec ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... merican author Frank G. Slaughter and published in 1965. It largely drew on | 's history of the Roman Empire as well as Eusebius of Caesarea's contempor ... |
Herodotus | ... recounted across the world for thousands of years, appearing in writings by | , the Alexander romance, and the stories of Prester John. Stories of a sim ... |
Marin Barleti | ... he area had no special importance in Illyrian and classical times. In 1510, | , an Albanian Catholic priest and scholar, in the biography of the Albania ... |
Livy | ... ally long tunnels leading into the mound of the city, which may corroborate | 's account of the Roman victory in the Battle of Veii |
David Hume | ... Locke , Spinoza , Giambattista Vico (1984 xli), and Rousseau (1997 part 1). | made what he considered to be the first proper attempt at trying to apply ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... th a broom, and her bad temper, much to the shame of the current president, | , and the fear of the soldiers. From 1902 till 1930, she and Matilda ran S ... |
Roger Ebert | ... or Rotten Tomatoes records an average response of 91%, based on 22 reviews. | , a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie three stars out o ... |
Vladimir Pribylovsky | According to Yuri Felshtinsky and | , top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexander Komelkov may have plo ... |
Roger Ebert | Reviews were generally favorable. Film critic | gave the film 3 stars (out of 4) stating "Much depends on exactly what Emm ... |
Brian Crozier | ... itics, especially the Francoist regime, British historians Paul Preston and | state that the Opus Dei members who were Franco's ministers were appointed ... |
Jean de Joinville | ... t of Provence, perhaps due to the strong relationship she had with her son. | tells of the time when Queen Margaret was giving birth and Blanche entered ... |
Winston Churchill | ... Cyril Newall, then Chief of the Air Staff, resisted repeated requests from | to weaken the home defence by sending precious squadrons to France. When t ... |
Jerome | ... dered an important document of the Latin text of Paul before the Vulgate of | , and of the interpretation of Paul prior to Augustine of Hippo |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ... ng von Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, | , Lord Byron, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, Fri ... |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... k themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, | and Orson Welles |
Plutarch | ... ur progressively more perfect ones, the oldest of which was the Golden Age. | , the Greek historian and biographer of the 1st century, dealt with the bl ... |
Geoffrey of Villehardouin | ... pt, the object of their crusade; one of the envoys was the future historian | . Genoa was uninterested, but in March 1201 negotiations were opened with ... |
Juan de Mariana | ... the sixteenth century this account re-appeared, extended and elaborated, in | , who wrote that in 1055, at a synod in Florence, the Emperor Henry III ur ... |
Mark Juergensmeyer | ... lost its popular support both in India and within the Diaspora community". | , Director, Orfalea Centre for Global & International Studies, UCSB, repor ... |
Lord Beaverbrook | On 15 May the Minister of Aircraft Production, | , ordered that resources should be concentrated on the production of five ... |
Barthold Georg Niebuhr | ... ich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lord Byron, | , Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen v ... |
Morris Kline | ... ber in space, music number in time, and astronomy number in space and time. | classifies the four elements of the quadrivium as pure (arithmetic), stati ... |
Roger Ebert | ... n recent cinematic history". It received acclaim from many critics, such as | of the Chicago Sun-Times, who had given negative or mixed reviews to most ... |
Chronicle of Fredegar | | mentions Carantania as Sclauvinia, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) mentions Ca ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | American President | offered to mediate, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his effort. Sergius ... |
Julius Caesar | In the 50s BC, Aquitania was conquered by lieutenants of | and became part of the Roman Empire |
Josephus | ... ortion of which has been lost. We are enabled thus to contrast Tacitus with | , who warped his narrative to do honour to Titus. In his allusions to the ... |
Julius Caesar | Over time the Comitium was lost to the ever-growing Curia and to | 's rearrangements before his assassination in 44 BC. That year two supreme ... |
Marianus Scotus | ... pon Martin's account, and not a possible source for it. The same is true of | 's Chronicle of the Popes, a text written in the 11th century. Some manusc ... |
Confucius | ... ith the biblical account of Noah's descendants. In particular, the ideas of | , translated into European languages by the Jesuits stationed in China, ar ... |
Germain Morin | ... scribed by various critics at different times to almost every known Hilary. | broke new ground by suggesting in 1899 that the writer was Isaac, a conver ... |
James Edmonds | ... while the Germans had suffered irreplaceable losses. British historian Sir | stated, "It is not too much to claim that the foundations of the final vic ... |
Anna Komnene | ... ions about it. Again and again their historians refer to that dreadful day" | , writing a few decades after the actual battle, wrote |
Jefferson Davis | ... s v. White ruled Texas' declaration of secession was legally null and void. | , former President of the Confederacy, and Alexander Stephens, its former ... |
Herodotus | ... ds, 1955.*Hall, Manly Palmer, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928. , , * | , The Histories* * Manas, John Helen, , New York, Pythagorean Society, 194 ... |
Arnold Heeren | ... ied at Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin. At Göttingen he studied Plato with | ; history with Heeren and Gottlieb Jakob Planck; Arabic, Hebrew, New Testa ... |
Brian Crozier | ... 61, "a private sector operational intelligence agency" said by its founder, | , to be funded by "rich individuals and a few private companies". It is sa ... |
John Canemaker | ... l public. Past KAFI award winners include Bill Plympton, Chris Landreth and | |
Herodotus | According to | ' rationalizing approach, Europa was kidnapped by Minoans who were seeking ... |
Jean Bodin | ... of the coronation of Meinhard II of Tyrol in 1286. It is also mentioned in | 's book Six livres de la République in 1576 |
Ernst Steindorff | ... ence. Juan Beneyto Pérez was willing to accept it as based on tradition and | , the nineteenth-century student of the reign of Henry III, as being authe ... |
Livy | ... us (c. 280/260 BC – c. 200 BC), not to be confused with the later historian | , was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period. He be ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... heir historical link with past wars, especially in Germany. Famous pacifist | criticizes nationalism for diminishing the individual's capacity to judge ... |
Karl Polanyi | ... lectuals and which continued until her death in 1939. His older brother was | , the political economist |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... tine's mother Helena was a Briton, the daughter of King Cole of Colchester. | expanded this story in his highly fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, ... |
Churchill | ... ght through 1940 and again in 1941, drew peak audiences of 16 million; only | was more popular with listeners. But his talks were cancelled. It was thou ... |
Voltaire | ... in later years settled into a Rationalist Deism similar to that espoused by | . A census-taker asked Hugo in 1872 if he was a Catholic, and he replied, ... |
Karl Marx's | ... n, thinking it to be from the book of Acts. Ironically, the quote is wholly | , but does exist partially within the Bible (Acts 11:29 & Matthew 25:15) |
Mari Sandoz | ... anes made reference to pennyroyal as abortifacient in Lysistrata and Peace. | writes in her book, Slogum House, "She was the fifth of twelve children in ... |
Taylor Branch | ... onounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital at 7:05 p.m. According to biographer | , King's autopsy revealed that though only 39 years old, he had the heart ... |
David Hume | ... influenced Francis Bacon , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , John Milton , | , and many others (Strauss 1958) |
David Nasaw | According to | , Hearst was a supporter of Adolf Hitler from 1934 until 1938: Hearst beli ... |
Giorgio Vasari | Among Bandinelli's pupils were | and Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati). His sons Clemente Bandinelli, a col ... |
Heeren | ... can Review and to Walsh's American Quarterly; he also made a translation of | 's work on The Politics of Ancient Greece. In 1826 he published an oration ... |
Bede | ... once imprisoned) represents Dinbaer; and the name of Coldingham is given by | as Coludi urbs ("town of Colud"), where Colud seems to represent the Briti ... |
Jean Richard | ... bscure; Du Cange believed he was from Châtillon-sur-Marne, but according to | , he was a son of Hervé II of Donzy, and he inherited Châtillon-sur-Loing ... |
Edmund Blunden | ... also included comment on Sassoon by three of his Great War contemporaries: | , Edgell Rickword and Henry Williamson |
Roger Ebert | ... ew York Times said Spacey was at his "wittiest and most agile" to date, and | of the Chicago Sun-Times singled Spacey out for successfully portraying a ... |
Murray Bookchin | ... ironmental issues early activists from the 1960s, such as Rachel Carson and | had warned of. The moon landing that had occurred at the end of the previo ... |
Winston Churchill | ... y the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelieving | and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leade ... |
Buckminster Fuller | "High Tech" architecture moved forward as | continued his experiments in geodesic domes while the George Pompidou Cent ... |
Mircea Eliade | ... 33 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met Emil Cioran and | , and the three became lifelong friends |
Theopompus | ... is Archelaus and on Plato in his Satho. His style was pure and elegant, and | even said that Plato stole from him many of his thoughts. However, Cicero, ... |
Hume | ... s a metaphysician he starts from what he terms the higher scepticism of the | -Kantian sphere of thought, the beginnings of which he discerns in Locke's ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... safety reasons. Hillsborough is the only football ground to be mentioned in | 's Buildings of England due to this stand. At the time of opening the stan ... |
Polybius | ... enician or Punic influence in the Western Mediterranean. They may relate to | 's report (Hist. 3,22) of an ancient and almost unintelligible treaty betw ... |
Herodotus | ... dating back to 4000 BC; the slow burning oil was used mostly to fuel lamps. | and other Greek travellers noted the use of castor seed oil for lighting, ... |
William L. Shirer | ... rvations from Berlin in the year after the departure of Berlin Diary author | . Last Train from Berlin became an American best-seller and was reprinted ... |
Bede | The sole source of original information about Cædmon's life and work is | 's Historia ecclesiastica. According to Bede, Cædmon was a lay brother who ... |
Kurt Rudolph | An alternate heritage is offered by | in his book Gnosis: The Nature & Structure of Gnosticism (Koehler and Amel ... |
Macaulay | ... iary to London, where he lived in constant companionship with the historian | and the poet Hallam. With the election of Zachary Taylor his post was not ... |
Steve Coll | ... ny sources, notably Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile, and Ghost Wars by | |
Karl Marx | ... taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of | |
Robert Sobel | At first, the tariff seemed to be a success. According to historian | , "Factory payrolls, construction contracts, and industrial production all ... |
Lyman Draper | ... less qualified men such as Felix St. Vrain. In the 19th century, historian | argued that the Black Hawk War could have been avoided had Forsyth remaine ... |
Bede | ... f Trier. It is possible that Asser may have known these works. He also knew | 's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; the Historia Brittonum, a Welsh ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... escribed and Odin, while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir. In | 's Prose Edda, Baldr goes to Hel upon death and subsequently Hermóðr uses ... |
Herodotus | | mentions a fountain containing a very special kind of water located in the ... |
Barthold Georg Niebuhr | ... University of Bonn include the poet August Wilhelm Schlegel, the historian | , the theologians Karl Barth and Joseph Ratzinger and the poet Ernst Morit ... |
Rupert Hughes | ... n, Casey Robinson (uncredited) and Adela Rogers St. Johns from the story by | . It was directed by Alfred Santell |
Gabriel Hanotaux | ... tes accepted the proposal with only one voice against, the French delegate, | . Hanotaux did not like how the French language was losing its position as ... |
Plutarch | ... lly to learn information concerning the secret or mystic cults of the gods. | asserted in his book On Isis and Osiris that during his visit to Egypt, Py ... |
Tertullian | ... t of Alexandria said, “We…have believed and are saved by voluntary choice.” | said, “I find, then, that man was constituted free by God. He was master o ... |
James Edmonds | ... s, and who put German losses at 530,000. The British official historian Sir | had unofficially advised Churchill but queried his figures, claiming that ... |
Cato the Elder | ... have ridiculed his fondness for old words and phrases (in which he imitated | ) as an affectation, but this very affectation and his rhetorical exaggera ... |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... e Hurston", published in Ms Magazine, helped revive interest in the work of | , who inspired Walker's writing and subject matter. In 1973, Walker and fe ... |
Herbert Aptheker | ... Frederick Sharp's decision to allow speaking invitations to Marxist speaker | and civil liberties activist Frank Wilkinson; however, the two speakers ca ... |
Evelyn Fox Keller | ... en the social and natural worlds." Some feminists, such as Ruth Hubbard and | , criticize traditional scientific discourse as being historically biased ... |
Paul Preston | ... in right-wing politics, especially the Francoist regime, British historians | and Brian Crozier state that the Opus Dei members who were Franco's minist ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ics to a logical formulation via set theory and its derailing by a youthful | , the discoverer of Russell's paradox. Frege had planned a three volume de ... |
Diodorus | ... claims that he faced there 1,207 warships, of which 207 were "fast ships". | and Lysias independently claim there were 1,200 ships in the Persian fleet ... |
Julius Caesar | ... , and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like | , Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the repub ... |
Karl Marx | ... thus maximise their profits, an opinion shared by the socialist Chartists. | said: "The campaign for the abolition of the Corn Laws had begun and the w ... |
Livy | and declares that he is a greater historian than | |
Confucius | Kung was a 75th generation descendant of | , as indicated by the generation name 祥 (Hsiang; pinyin: Xiáng). Kung's fa ... |
Winston Churchill | ... h parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, | and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Sha ... |
Paul the Deacon | ... rius Scholasticus l.2.c.7, Procopius of Caesarea, Historia Vandalorum, l.1, | , vi): Ricimer captures Rome, frees his sister Teodolinda and enslaves Pla ... |
Geoffrey Keating | In | 's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn Ireland's "ninth appellation it received likewise ... |
Roger Ebert | ... l of Silvia as "enchanting." Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic | wrote "[The film] stars actors of considerable physical appeal, most parti ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... , North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President | to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the f ... |
Mircea Eliade | | discussed initiation as a principal religious act by classical or traditio ... |
Thucydides | ... nals, iii. 30); and Quintilian does not hesitate to put him on a level with | |
Tacitus | On the whole, antiquity looked favourably on Sallust as an historian. | speaks highly of him (Annals, iii. 30); and Quintilian does not hesitate t ... |
Bentley Layton | | has sketched out a relationship between the various gnostic movements in h ... |
Averil Cameron | ... own when Procopius himself died, and many historians (James Howard-Johnson, | , Geoffrey Greatrex) date his death to 554, but in 562 there was an urban ... |
Jerry H. Bentley | ... ead of religions and cultural traditions along the Silk Roads, according to | , also led to syncretism. One example was the encounter with the Chinese a ... |
Karl Marx | ... initially Romanticism and Historicism, and eventually both the Communism of | , and the modern forms of nationalism inspired by the French Revolution, i ... |
John William Draper | ... he long exposure meant the photograph came out as an indistinct fuzzy spot. | , an American physician, chemist and scientific experimenter, managed to m ... |
Sallust | ... us to show that sacred history might be presented in a form which lovers of | and Tacitus could appreciate and enjoy. The style is lucid and almost clas ... |
George Woodcock | ... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. For | this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ... |
Federico Brito Figueroa | Proponents of such theories include | a Venezuelan historian who has written widely on the socioeconomic underpi ... |
Diodorus Siculus | The Sicilian historian | , writing in the 1st century BCE in his Bibliotheca Historica, also provid ... |
Evagrius Scholasticus | ... one, despite the fact that Zeno claimed to use several historical sources ( | l.2.c.7, Procopius of Caesarea, Historia Vandalorum, l.1, Paul the Deacon, ... |
Carl Sandburg | ... 963). He was personal friends with such literary figures as T. S. Eliot and | . Much of his personal correspondence with those and other figures is feat ... |
Arthur Koestler | ... f extrasensory perception. Paranormal writers and parapsychologists such as | , Brian Inglis and John L. Randall have supported the work of Sheldrake |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... penheimer claimed, "An interesting hypothesis put forward by paleontologist | many years ago was that the package of the Mongoloid anatomical changes co ... |
Gregory of Tours | ... populania in the Early Middle Ages, founding its claims on the testimony of | , on the etymological link between the words "Basque" and "Gascon" – both ... |
Jędrzej Kitowicz | ... d pączki . Pączki have been known in Poland at least since the Middle Ages. | has described that during the reign of the August III under influence of F ... |
Henry of Huntingdon | ... ons regarded Constantine as a king of their own people. In the 12th century | included a passage in his Historia Anglorum that Constantine's mother Hele ... |
Thomas Kuhn | ... ip to study philosophy and history at Harvard University at around the time | 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) was published, which he ... |
Tertullian | The chief critic of Sabellianism was | , who labeled the movement "Patripassianism", from the Latin words pater f ... |
Martino Martini | ... rigin of this word. The traditional theory, proposed in the 17th century by | , is that "China" is derived from "Qin" , the westernmost of the Chinese k ... |
Raphael Holinshed | ... the Tower of London's use as a royal residence. As 16th-century chronicler | said the Tower became used more as "an armouries and house of munition, an ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... re cemented as the party of business, though mitigated by the succession of | who embraced trust busting. He later ran on a third party ticket of the Pr ... |
Sozomen | ... tached, small and of the humblest character. Each cell or hut, according to | , contained three monks. They took their chief meal in a common refectory ... |
Herodotus | The main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian | . Herodotus, who has been called the 'Father of History', was born in 484 ... |
Polybius | The name Numidia was first applied by | and other historians during the third century BC to indicate the territory ... |
Livy | ... ression, and of greater positive value. It consists of some translations of | and Seneca, and of a very large number of interesting and admirably writte ... |
F. Van Wyck Mason | ... made Bermuda their home, or have had homes here, including A.J. Cronin and | , who wrote on Bermudian subjects |
Robert Ekelund | ... the way for companies that were too big and intertwined to fail. Economists | and Mark Thornton have also criticized the Act as contributing to the cris ... |
Sozomen | ... ne's predecessors and early life. The ecclesiastical histories of Socrates, | , and Theodoret describe the ecclesiastic disputes of Constantine's later ... |
Mikhail Lomonosov | ... biogenic theory was first introduced by Georg Agricola in 1556 and later by | in the 18th century |
Einhard | ... s Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, Aldhelm's De Virginitate, and | 's Vita Karoli Magni ("Life of Charlemagne"). He quotes from Gregory the G ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | The Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve was established by | in a presidential proclamation of 20 August 1902. Another presidential pro ... |
Tertullian | ... 00–165). Treatment of eschatology continued in the West in the teachings of | (c. 160–225), and was given fuller reflection and speculation soon after b ... |
Vasari | ... the Baroque period. Patronised by the Medici, he aspired to become the new | by renewing and expanding his biographies of artists, to which Baldinucci ... |
Edmund Burke | ... thought influenced the political (and aesthetic) thinking of Immanuel Kant, | and others and led to a critical review of modernist politics. On the cons ... |
Mike Harding | ... veral festivals, especially the annual Tahora gathering, and musicians like | have won some fame for performing old and original New Zealand folks music |
Winston Churchill | ... lew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with | 's British War Cabinet. En route he inspected Singapore's defences – findi ... |
Alex von Tunzelmann | ... ffair between his wife and Nehru. It was to be loosely based on the book by | |
Pope-Hennessy | | is far more conservative than the Italian authors: he attributes some of t ... |
Voltaire | ... of the country. A notable example of enlightened despot, a correspondent of | and an amateur opera librettist, Catherine presided over the age of the Ru ... |
Thucydides | ... ns, despite following in his footsteps, criticised Herodotus, starting with | . Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left ... |
Jeffrey Burton Russell | ... (late 20th century view typified by historian and religious studies scholar | ) have asserted that White's and other writings projecting flat Earth beli ... |
David Hume | ... , was elected for the first time. Peel had studied the works of Adam Smith, | and Ricardo and proclaimed during 1839: "I have read all that has been wri ... |
Giambattista Vico | ... universally-applicable cyclic model of history — notably in the writings of | |
Robert Osborne | ... lear that he was willing to sue the actor if he quit the film. According to | of the television network Turner Classic Movies in the introduction to the ... |
Gérard Bouchard | ... son of Alice (née Simard) and Philippe Bouchard. His brother is a historian | . Lucien Bouchard graduated from Jonquière Classical College in 1959, and ... |
John Cornwell | ... ople in the Vatican who were opposed to Luciani's policies. In the words of | , "they treated him with condescension"; one senior cleric discussing Luci ... |
Ibn al-Nafis | ... iruni were mutakallimiin; the physician Avicenna was a hafiz; the physician | was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema; the botanist Otto Brunfels was a theolog ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... American War. The most prominent of the returning quarantined soldiers were | and his Rough Riders. Several soldiers died during the quarantine, prompti ... |
Quintus Fabius Pictor | ... , whose work was acknowledged as a reliable source by the patrician senator | . Fabius wrote his own history of Rome around the time of Rome's war with ... |
Voltaire | ... rial visitor to Earth had already been used by the philosopher and satirist | in his story Micromégas of 1752—a classic work in French literature which ... |
Herodotus | ... lays by Aristophanes are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while | and Thucydides are two of the most influential historians in this period |
Nearchus | ... was referred to by the Greeks as "Tylos", the centre of pearl trading, when | discovered it while serving under Alexander the Great. From the 3rd centur ... |
Ruth Edna Kelley | American historian and author | of Massachusetts wrote the first book length history of the holiday in the ... |
Herodotus | ... attracted the notice of most ancient geographers and historians, including | (ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9 ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... is mentioned in the Heimskringla (The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway) by | . In 1021, King Olaf laid hold of all the best men, both at Lesja and Dovr ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ence unlike anything that other animated features are doing at the moment". | called Bakshi's effort a "mixed blessing" and "an entirely respectable, oc ... |
William Rehnquist | ... t, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice | . Justice Black is buried to the right of the main cemetery entrance, and ... |
Christian Lassen | ... n of the Vedic Sarasvati River with the Ghaggar-Hakra River was accepted by | , Max Müller, Marc Aurel Stein, C.F. Oldham and Jane Macintosh, while some ... |
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie | ... k to Rome and deposited in the Vatican Library. This has been documented by | 's pioneering microhistory, Montaillou, village occitan. In 1326, upon the ... |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... Ab Urbe Condita and several Greek-language histories of Rome: these include | 's Roman Antiquities, written during the late 1st century BC, and Plutarch ... |
Diodorus Siculus | ... oup of islands off the coast of North-Western Europe. In the 1st century BC | referred to Pretannia, a rendering of the indigenous name for the Pretani ... |
Andrew Dickson White | ... s of the Middle Ages were highly influential (19th century view typified by | ); current historians (late 20th century view typified by historian and re ... |
Neil Sheehan | ... n Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Kate Webb, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, | , Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman an ... |
James Whetter | ... inster parliamentary seats as well as local government ones. On 28 May 1975 | left MK to form the Cornish Nationalist Party which was campaigning for fu ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | | objected to the ranking of races as more or less neotenous. But Gould argu ... |
Claudius | In 43 AD, the emperor | annexed Lycia to the Roman Empire as a province and by the time of Vespasi ... |
Strabo | ... rs and historians, including Herodotus (ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), | (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), Pliny the Elder (v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy ( ... |
Thomas Fuller | ... Langland a Scot and attributes other works to him aside from Piers Plowman. | (1662) bases his remarks about Langland on Selden and Bale, emphasizing La ... |
Peter Berglar | ... te President of Spain's democracy. The German historian and Opus Dei member | calls any connection made between Opus Dei and Franco's regime a "gross sl ... |
Bede | ... Brito" to distinguish him from a different man called Pelagius of Tarentum. | refers to him as "Pelagius Bretto". St. Jerome suggests he was of Scottish ... |
Plutarch | ... ociety, 1947.*Parke, Herbert William, History of the Delphic Oracle, 1939.* | "Lives"*Rohde, Erwin, Psyche, 1925.* Seyffert, Oskar, , London: W. Glaishe ... |
Saint Jerome | ... c. 550 but is not considered reliable. More trustworthy are the notices in | (De vir. illus. 100), Sulpicius Severus (Chron. ii. 39-45) and in Hilary's ... |
Elaine Pagels | ... olossians. Proponents of the view that Paul was actually a gnostic, such as | of Princeton University, view the reference in Colossians as something tha ... |
Thucydides | ... tention of the most admired men, Critias and Alcibiades who were young, and | and Pericles who were already old. Agathon too, the tragic poet, whom Come ... |
Thucydides | ... phanes are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while Herodotus and | are two of the most influential historians in this period |
Moses I. Finley | ... William Safire, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Cambridge historian Sir | ; Arthur Rock, a cofounder of Intel; Donna Shalala, former United States S ... |
Plutarch | ... icarnassus's Roman Antiquities, written during the late 1st century BC, and | 's early 2nd century Life of Romulus. These accounts provide the broad lit ... |
Xenophon | The Greek general | records in his Anabasis that the Armenians burned their crops and food sup ... |
Appian | ... utheast as far as Cyrenaica, so that Numidia entirely surrounded Carthage ( | , Punica, 106) except towards the sea |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... a post office was established. The town was named Burkburnett by President | , who visited the area for a wolf hunt that was hosted by the wealthy ranc ... |
Robert W. Smith | In 1967 in collaboration with | , and T. T. Liang, Cheng published "T'ai Chi, the Supreme Ultimate Exercis ... |
Jordanes | ... ere referred to as Gautigoths and Ostrogoths (the Ostrogoths of Scandza) by | and as Gautoi by Procopius. In the Norse Sagas they are referred to as Gau ... |
Tacitus | ... Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21; Pliny the Elder, v. 9. § 11 | ;, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also merits attention by ... |
Philostorgius | ... e orthodox Christian Athanasius and the ecclesiastical history of the Arian | also survive, though their biases are no less firm |
Oswald Spengler | ... as familiar with the work of the German conservative-revolutionary theorist | , whose pessimistic thesis of the decadence of the modern West formed a cr ... |
Joshua Barnes | ... us and of no one else." He supplied Graevius with collations of Cicero, and | with a warning as to the spuriousness of the Epistles of Euripides. Barnes ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... r sources -- Theophanes, the Paschal Chronicle, and Paullus Diaconus—state. | accepts this implication as fact, although none of the three sources expli ... |
Sir John Masterman | ... ames used in the novel; the Masterton sisters having their names taken from | , an MI5 agent and Oxford academic who ran the double cross system during ... |
William of Malmesbury | ... s, but according to Charles Seife without the numeral of zero. According to | (c. 1080–c. 1143), Gerbert got the idea of the computing device of the aba ... |
Strabo | ... ope as a geographical term came in use by Ancient Greek geographers such as | to refer to part of Thrace below the Balkan mountains. Later, under the Ro ... |
Gary Sheffield | ... ng that the Battle of the Somme was an Allied victory. As British historian | said, "The battle of the Somme was not a victory in itself, but without it ... |
Suetonius | ... dy, came to be called comoedia palliata, "the Greek comedy," by the Romans. | later coined the term "half-Greek" of Livius and Ennius (referring to thei ... |
Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz | ... pported by authors such as Anthony Cascardi and Canavaggio. Others, such as | (or Francisco Olmos Garcia, who considers it a "tired issue" and only supp ... |
Winckelmann | ... ycurgus, Leocralca (1834) and Oratores Atticae (1838–1850); with Orelli and | , a critical edition of Plato (1839–1842), which marked a distinct advance ... |
George McGovern | ... him in first place in the Democratic nomination race with 28 percent. Once | was near clinching the Democratic nomination in June 1972, various anti-Mc ... |
Confucius | ... The Eloquent Peasant. Rushworth Kidder discusses the early contributions of | (551–479 B.C.) (See a version in Confucianism below). Kidder notes that th ... |
Petrarch | ... ultural achievements. Accounts of Renaissance literature usually begin with | (best known for the elegantly polished vernacular sonnet sequence of the C ... |
Procopius | ... ths and Ostrogoths (the Ostrogoths of Scandza) by Jordanes and as Gautoi by | . In the Norse Sagas they are referred to as Gautar, and in Beowulf and Wi ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ristobulus II, Simon's great-grandsons, became pawns in a proxy war between | and Pompey the Great. The deaths of Pompey (48 BCE), Caesar (44 BCE), and ... |
James Webb | ... of shame." Two prominent early supporters of the project, H. Ross Perot and | , withdrew their support once they saw the design. Said Webb, “I never in ... |
John of Worcester | ... ces, though Coenred, who was king of Mercia from 704 to 709, is recorded in | 's 12th century chronicle as Wulfhere's son. Another possible child is Ber ... |
Mark Rutte | ... parliamentary leader ad interim. In the subsequent party leadership run-off | was elected as the leader, beating Rita Verdonk and Jelleke Veenendaal |
Roger Ebert | ... reviews from mainstream critics, the film scored a 59, based on 36 reviews. | wrote: "M. Night Shyamalan's 'Signs' is the work of a born filmmaker, able ... |
Jordanes | ... istoriographers under Justinian I (527-565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, | and Theophylact Simocatta describe tribes of these names emerging from the ... |
Karl Marx | ... a hypothetical socialist economy is a contested issue. Socialists including | , Robert Owen and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated various forms of labour ... |
Aurelius Victor | The epitomes of | (De Caesaribus), Eutropius (Breviarium), Festus (Breviarium), and the anon ... |
David P. Chandler | ... its leadership consisted of members of the ICP. According to the historian | , the leftist Issarak groups, aided by the Viet Minh, occupied a sixth of ... |
Tacitus | ... hat sacred history might be presented in a form which lovers of Sallust and | could appreciate and enjoy. The style is lucid and almost classical. Thoug ... |
Frank Porter Graham | Despite initial skepticism from university President | , on March 27, 1931, legislation was passed to group UNC with the State Co ... |
Ernst Mach | ... based on reinforcement, punishment, and extinction. Following the ideas of | , Skinner rejected Thorndike's mediating structures required by "satisfact ... |
Gérard Prunier | ... d over the armed forces in the first few months of Kabila's rule was vague. | writes that 'there was no minister of defence, no known chief of staff, an ... |
Howard Zinn | ... New England ancestor). Another neighbor of Damon's was historian and author | , whose biographical film You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and audio ... |
James Bamford | ... rol and turned back in the direction of Port Said. Investigative journalist | points out that Liberty had only four .50 caliber machine guns mounted on ... |
Roger Ebert's | ... one of many used as the backdrop for the opening credits of Gene Siskel and | "At the Movies." The uptown area is currently under development. There are ... |
Buckminster Fuller | ... voluntary groupings to form the institutions and social forms they prefer. | presented a theoretical basis for technological utopianism and set out to ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | Others, such as | , reject the notion that genetic entities are subject to anything other th ... |
Al-Jahiz | ... Satire was introduced into Arabic prose literature by the Afro-Arab author | in the 9th century. While dealing with serious topics in what are now know ... |
Richard J. Evans | ... just as tragic as the Holocaust. Against Hillgruber, the British historian | wrote that though the expulsions of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe was ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... nthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as | , Jean Baudrillard and Gary Snyder. Many advocates of Green anarchism and ... |
Zosimus | ... ative position, and from the first limited to a very few men. The historian | even states that in Constantine's time, the holders of the title ranked ab ... |
Hippolytus of Rome | ... n the third century. This had come to him via the teachings of Noetus and . | knew Sabellius personally and mentioned him in the Philosophumena. He knew ... |
David Hume | ... will, desire, or inclination to do." In articulating this crucial proviso, | writes, "this hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to eve ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... s well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( | 's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Kn ... |
Murray Rothbard | ... rices and ration production and distribution in periods of acute shortages. | considered the federal reserve as a public cartel of private banks |
Winston Churchill | ... ran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the "Sword of Stalingrad" from | , he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from it ... |
Alexander Pechtold | ... s about the project and the prince's position in relation to it. Politician | questioned the morality of building such a resort in a poor country like M ... |
John Major | ... er Sir Winston Churchill, and a former junior minister in the Government of | (1990–97). In the 2005 general election, Nicholas Soames held the seat wit ... |
John Malalas | The version told by | , and him alone, has been championed by J.B. Bury. In 472 Olybrius was sen ... |
Herodotus | ... possible to arrive at this conclusion. Maka is mentioned by Greek historian | as one of the early satraps of Cyrus the Great, who successfully united se ... |
Robert Conquest | ... ther displayed his devotion to the genre in editing, with the Sovietologist | , the science fiction anthology series Spectrum I–V, which drew heavily up ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... y theorists propose that neoteny has been a key feature in human evolution. | believed that the "evolutionary story" of humans is one where we have been ... |
Zygmunt Bauman | Critical theorists such as Theodor Adorno and | propose that modernity or industrialization represents a departure from th ... |
Jefferson Davis | The new Confederate President | , a former "Cooperationist" who had insisted on delaying secession until a ... |
Gildas | ... redate the Historia. It was clearly a historical battle, being described by | , who does not mention the name of the Britons' leader (he does, however, ... |
Trevor N. Dupuy | ... and keep up its defensive positions, to the surprise of many. According to | , the Israelis, Soviets and Americans overestimated the vulnerability of t ... |
Cecil Roth | According to historian | , Spanish political intrigues had earlier promoted the anti-Jewish policie ... |
Agnes Strickland | ... in the 19th century from the work of Victorian moralist and proto-feminist, | . This assumption has been challenged by David Starkey in his book Six Wiv ... |
Ben Macintyre | ... ing up terrace after terrace, three hundred metres into the air"; columnist | of The Times has stated that that was "a prescient description of the sort ... |
Onofrio Panvinio | ... ing a famine at Rome under his pontificate. The erudite Italian Augustinian | (1529–1568), in his Epitome pontificum Romanorum (Venice, 1557), attribute ... |
David Starkey | ... nd proto-feminist, Agnes Strickland. This assumption has been challenged by | in his book Six Wives in which he points out that such a situation would h ... |
Winston Churchill | ... rliament (MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir | , and a former junior minister in the Government of John Major (1990–97). ... |
Buckminster Fuller | ... ean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University. The name was an homage to | , whose geodesic domes it resembles. The structure was also identified som ... |
Julius Caesar | ... prolifically on military campaigning. Among the best-known Roman works are | 's commentaries on the Gallic Wars and the Roman Civil war - written about ... |
Robert Byrd | ... hip when he lost the support of several members and was defeated by Senator | of West Virginia, 31–24. Kennedy would later tell Byrd that the defeat was ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... o allocate resources within the production process. Bolshevik revolutionary | argued that, following a socialist revolution, money could not be arbitrar ... |
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner | In 1962, | stated in his North-West Norfolk and Norwich volume of The Buildings of En ... |
Nennius | Twelve of King Arthur's battles were recorded by | in Historia Brittonum. The Battle of Tribruit (the 10th battle), has been ... |
Prosper of Aquitaine | The chronicler | offers the only fifth-century report that on 2 June 455, Pope Leo the Grea ... |
Gerhard Weinberg | ... Cold War, this could had helped cause World War III. The American historian | wrote that the explusions of the Sudeten Germans was justified as the Germ ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ay. In 1912, Robeson attended Somerville High School, where he performed in | , Othello, sang in the chorus, and excelled in football, basketball, baseb ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ons, Gwenwynwyn and Gwanar, who both accompany Caswallawn in his pursuit of | , who has been chased from Britain. This triad is the only source connecti ... |
Herman Wirth | ... c and archeological proof of Aryan supremacy. Formed in 1935 by Himmler and | , the society did not become part of the SS until 1939 |
Livy | Livius’ first play, according to Cicero, was staged in 240 BC. | tells us that Livius was the first to create a fabula with a plot. One sto ... |
John Malalas | ... o AD 560) of John of Antioch (date uncertain, between 600 and 1000), called | or "John the Rhetor". The editor, Dr John Mill, principal of St Edmund Hal ... |
Jerome | Among his friends were Augustine, | , and Paulinus. Jerome speaks of him as a man of great holiness who was ri ... |
Robert Byrd | ... as the second most senior member of the Senate, after President pro tempore | of West Virginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all time, behin ... |
Roger Ebert | According to | , on his review of Fat City, "His fascination with underdogs and losers. T ... |
John D. Winters | ... ish provided considerable support for units formed in the parish. Historian | in The Civil War in Louisiana (1963), describes Sabine as "a poor piney-hi ... |
C. Northcote Parkinson | | , more famous for his invention of Parkinson's Law, has written a 'biograp ... |
Herodotus | ... t was also used by ancient Egyptians to embalm mummies. The Greek historian | said hot bitumen was used as mortar in the walls of Babylon |
John Terraine | ... d Mountbatten, produced by Associated-Rediffusion and scripted by historian | . The list of episodes were |
Thomas Kuhn | ... e their skills by observing a master. His writings about science influenced | and Paul Feyerabend, although he denies that "indwelling" within (sometime ... |
Tertullian | ... ; trinitas in Latin) could be found in the writings of Origen (185-254) and | (160-220), and a general notion of a "divine three", in some sense, was ex ... |
Nennius | ... y a missionary. In the list of British towns given by the ancient historian | , the name Caer Peris occurs, which some modern antiquarians suppose to ha ... |
Ptolemy I Soter | ... al of the diadochic Ptolemaic Kingdom under Alexander's immediate successor | |
Karl Marx | ... l new challenges. Various 19th century intellectuals, from Auguste Comte to | to Sigmund Freud, attempted to offer scientific and/or political ideologie ... |
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | Born in London, the son of Ezekiel King, he was related to the family of | . From Westminster School, where he was a scholar under Richard Busby, at ... |
Leonard Maltin | ... e lead role), he felt Kilmer had given the best interpretation. Film critic | (who heavily criticized the dark tone contained in Batman Returns) complim ... |
Julius Caesar | ... e beginning of his public career, Sallust operated as a decided partisan of | , to whom he owed such political advancement as he attained. In 50 BC, the ... |
Benjamin of Tudela | In 1170, | visited the city, which he called by its Frankish name, St.Abram de Bron. ... |
Philip Jenkins | ... lients, do not charge Catholic churches higher premiums than other clients. | asserts that his "research of cases over the past 20 years indicates no ev ... |
Ernest Swinton | British Major | saw the potential of a track-laying tractor. He proposed that the Army sho ... |
Eli Heckscher | ... y called factor proportions theory was developed by two Swedish economists, | and Bertil Ohlin. This theory is therefore called the Heckscher-Ohlin theo ... |
Winston Churchill | ... nrich Himmler asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister | and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The m ... |
Spottiswood | ... n and itself superseded the term chirch which was derived from Old English. | , in his account of religious houses in Scotland, mentions that the Franci ... |
W. E. B. Du Bois | ... He was inspired by the writings of black intellectuals like Marcus Garvey, | , and George Padmore, and his relationships with them. Nkrumah's biggest s ... |
Strabo | ... eek navigators from the 6th century BC. They are provisionally described by | as a mixed race of Celts and Illyrians, who used Celtic weapons, tattooed ... |
Julius Caesar | ... of the old Roman aristocracy throughout his career, and later a partisan of | . Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to hi ... |
Allan W. Eckert | ... Revolutionary War. This story, popularized in historical novels written by | in the late 1960s, remains well known in Ohio, where an outdoor drama cele ... |
Kevin Brownlow | ... ition of appropriate original scores. A watershed event in this context was | 's 1980 restoration of Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927), featuring a score by ... |
Choe Bu | ... n the Grand Canal and away from the main delta. Even the shipwrecked Korean | (1454–1504)—while traveling for five months throughout China in 1488—ackno ... |
Bartolomé de las Casas | ... y evidence is the multi-volume History of the Indies by the Catholic priest | who observed the region where Columbus was governor. In contrast to "the m ... |
Raphael Holinshed | ... e's primary source for Henry V, as for most of his chronicle histories, was | 's Chronicles; the publication of the second edition in 1587 provides a te ... |
Sheila Jeffreys | ... views on prostitution include Kathleen Barry, Melissa Farley, Julie Bindel, | , Catharine MacKinnon and Laura Lederer; the has also condemned prostituti ... |
Sima Qian | The Chinese historian | , writing a century after the First Emperor's death, wrote that it took 70 ... |
Jerome | ... been speculated that this may have provided motivation for canon lists. In | 's Prologue to Judith he claims that the was "found by the Nicene Council ... |
Thucydides | ... fragments survive). Sallust was primarily influenced by the Greek historian | , and amassed great (and ill-gotten) wealth from his governorship of Afric ... |
Cassius Dio | ... lled against the tax policy of the Emperor Nero. According to the historian | , Vindex "was powerful in body and of shrewd intelligence, was skilled in ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of | (the 26th US President) and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, hailed from ... |
James Fenimore Cooper | ... n Winkle (1819), followed from 1823 onwards by the Leatherstocking Tales of | , with their emphasis on heroic simplicity and their fervent landscape des ... |
Jerome | | has some additional detail that tends to support the capture at Tarentum a ... |
Roger Ebert | ... hed, enhanced, and consolidated his reputation. After the film was released | , a friend and supporter of Scorsese, named Goodfellas "the best mob movie ... |
Tertullian | The Christian apologist | wrote that as a prelude to the Mithraic initiation ceremony, the initiate ... |
Hsu Dau-lin | On his return, his father assigned a tutor, | , to assist with his readjustment to China. Chiang Ching-Kuo was appointed ... |
Peter Martyr | ... ters were widespread subjects in the Caribbean. The Italian-born chronicler | told of them in a letter to the pope in 1513, though he didn't believe the ... |
John Desmond Bernal | ... acking of the State. Demands in Britain, amongst people such as the Marxist | , for centrally planned scientific research, led Polanyi to argue that sci ... |
Henry Margenau | ... ned this idea, including Henri Poincaré, Arthur Holly Compton, Karl Popper, | , Robert Kane, Alfred Mele, and Martin Heisenberg |
Eusebius of Caesarea | Fragments attributed by the Christian | to the semi-legendary Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, which Eusebius t ... |
Howard Zinn | ... in the U.S. civil rights movement in part due to the influence of activist | , who was one of her professors at Spelman College. Continuing the activis ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... s. Delegates from those seven formed the C.S.A. in February 1861, selecting | as the provisional president. Unionist talk of reunion failed and Davis be ... |
Joseph Jacobs | ... the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, and the Englishman | |
Gottlieb Jakob Planck | ... . At Göttingen he studied Plato with Arnold Heeren; history with Heeren and | ; Arabic, Hebrew, New Testament Greek and scripture interpretation with Al ... |
Aurelius Victor | ... as an appealing candidate for imperial office. The fourth-century historian | described Maximian as "a colleague trustworthy in friendship, if somewhat ... |
Louis Salzman | ... e south doorway of the nave is also from the end of the 12th century. Prof. | considered that the north and south transepts were also 12th century but P ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... aphies dealing with Constantine's life and rule. The nearest replacement is | 's Vita Constantini, a work that is a mixture of eulogy and hagiography. W ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... r the modern evolutionary synthesis was established (roughly 1936 to 1947). | called this approach to explaining evolution as terminal addition; as if e ... |
Agathias of Myrina | ... rocopius' work was written after Procopius' death by the poet and historian | |
Ephorus | ... the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian | . This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's. The Greco-Persian wa ... |
Zenob Glak | ... ishop of Florence and saint, see Saint Zenobius; for the Assyrian abbot see | |
Richard Roeper | ... ifah appeared in a romantic comedy/drama entitled Last Holiday. Film critic | stated that "this is the Queen Latifah performance I've been waiting for e ... |
Marx | ... ased by selling it), then profit was impossible. David Ricardo (seconded by | ) responded to this paradox by arguing that Smith had confused labour with ... |
Herodotus | | , Isocrates, and other early writers all agree that Pythagoras was born on ... |
Michael Ignatieff | ... ing Liberal leader Stéphane Dion was immediately forced out and replaced by | , who quickly distanced the party from the coalition |
Mikhail Lomonosov | ... s of the kinetic theory (which were neglected by their contemporaries) were | (1747), Georges-Louis Le Sage (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1 ... |
Sima Qian | ... opened and there is evidence suggesting that it remains relatively intact. | 's description of the tomb includes replicas of palaces and scenic towers, ... |
Max Nettlau | ... ion from existing states and those advocating creation of new micronations. | in the early 1900s and John Zube in the latter part of the century wrote e ... |
Claudius | ... index, of a noble Gaulish family of Aquitania given senatorial status under | , was a Roman governor in the province of Gallia Lugdunensis. In either la ... |
Tertullian | ... masculated man, or a metaphor for chastity. The early Christian theologian, | , wrote that Jesus himself was a eunuch (c. 200 AD). Tertullian also noted ... |
Roger Ebert | ... en, gave a wooden performance as Bruce Wayne. Other critics though, such as | , had kind words for Kilmer. Batman creator Bob Kane said in a Cinescape i ... |
Claudius | ... en a crossing of the River Thames at Staines since Roman times. The emperor | sent the Romans into Britain in 43 A.D and they settled in Staines the sam ... |
Tim Marlow | ... esented as part of the coverage of the award. The discussion was chaired by | and also included Roger Scruton, Waldemar Januszczak, Richard Cork, David ... |
Jerome | Ambrose ranks with Augustine, | , and Gregory the Great, as one of the Latin Doctors of the Church. Theolo ... |
W. E. B. Du Bois | In 1956, Robeson, along with close friend | , compared the anti-Stalinist revolution in Hungary to the "same sort of p ... |
Robert Osborne | ... sentials on Turner Classic Movies, but was replaced in May 2006 by TCM host | and film critic Molly Haskell. Bogdanovich is also frequently featured in ... |
Cato the Elder | ... sea cabbage and wild cabbage, it was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans | ;praised this vegetable for its medicinal properties, declaring that "It i ... |
Paul Hasluck | ... at stake; Whitlam agreed to Gair's request and had the Governor-General Sir | appoint him Ambassador to Ireland. Word leaked of Gair's pending resignati ... |
Karl Marx | ... uages resulting in many people being unable to communicate with each other. | wrote about the creation of nations as requiring a bourgeois revolution an ... |
Isaac Todhunter | ... es of the Royal Society and the British Museum; but it was left incomplete. | printed the manuscripts in 1865, in a supplementary volume |
Martial Guéroult | ... mans, namely Thought and Extension, signified God's immanence. Furthermore, | suggested the term "Panentheism", rather than "Pantheism" to describe Spin ... |
Élie Benoist | The source followed by most modern historians is the Huguenot refugee | 's Histoire de l'édit de Nantes, 3 vols. (Delft, 1693–95). E.G. Léonard de ... |
Procopius | ... of Dhu Nuwas's persecutions of Christians and Aksumites, and, according to | , was further encouraged by his ally and fellow Christian Justin I of Byza ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... abermas. Different elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, | , Leo Strauss, Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron. According to Austrian ec ... |
Julius Caesar | | initially supported Aristobulus against Hyrcanus and Antipater. Between th ... |
Rudolf Simek | ... originally simply meant "grave," and that "the personification came later." | theorizes that the figure of Hel is "probably a very late personification ... |
Xenophon | ... d to some universally read and admired history, the works of Thucydides and | . Slightly less known because they are more technical and legal are the or ... |
William Siborne | ... cavalry. (composition of brigades), pp. 422–424 (actions of brigades) Note: | was in possession of a number of eyewitness accounts from generals, such a ... |
Livy | According to | , the first 100 men appointed as senators by Romulus were referred to as " ... |
Henri Grégoire | ... politician who manipulates all parties in a quest to secure his own power. | , writing in the 1930s, followed Burckhardt's evaluation of Constantine. F ... |
Abu Rayhan Biruni | ... me. Aruzi Samarqandi describes how before Avicenna left Khwarezm he had met | (a famous scientist and astronomer), Abu Nasr Iraqi (a renowned mathematic ... |
Barbara Rose | ... hysical world, or something in the artist's emotional world. Stella married | , later a well-known art critic, in 1961. Around this time he said that a ... |
Thucydides | ... he Athenians led to some universally read and admired history, the works of | and Xenophon. Slightly less known because they are more technical and lega ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , Heimskringla, also written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and ... |
Hubert Butler | ... ers of the Irish CND included Peadar O'Donnell, Owen Sheehy-Skeffington and | |
Hegelian | ... rancis Fukuyama argued that the world had reached the 'end of history' in a | sense |
Winston Churchill | ... es, increased anti-aircraft batteries were installed at crucial points, and | ordered the construction of a series of causeways to block the eastern app ... |
Justin Vaïsse | ... ic countries has sparked controversy in France. Nevertherless, according to | , in spite of obstacles and spectacular failures like the riots in Novembe ... |
Cornelius Sisenna | ... storiae), a history of Rome from 78 to 67 BC, intended as a continuation of | 's work |
Daniel Guérin | ... hism was strong enough as to call the attention of the CNT–FAI in Spain. So | in Anarchism: From Theory to Practice reports how "Spanish anarcho-syndica ... |
Moses I. Finley | ... ld out of ten was an actual beneficiary) – therefore, the idea, advanced by | , that the whole scheme was at most a form of random charity, a mere imper ... |
Isaac Asimov | Scientist/author | defined two types of scientifi |
James M. McPherson | ... the election of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 elections. Civil War historian | wrote |
Friedrich Schiller | ... chestration. He found time to read the works of Homer, William Shakespeare, | and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he saw London, Niagara Falls, and Rio ... |
Juan Cole | According to historian | it was under Sunni rule that Twelver Shiaism became established in Bahrain ... |
Leonard J. Arrington | ... e Mountain Meadows massacre, which took place in Washington County in 1857. | reports that Brigham Young received a rider at his office on the same day. ... |
Martin of Opava | ... est prominence when it appeared in the third recension (edited revision) of | 's Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum later in the 13th century. This ver ... |
John Malalas | ... ia and her two daughter as hostages: according to the 6th century historian | , at the time Olybrius was in Constantinople. On the other hand, the chron ... |
Dio Chrysostom | #Encomium calvitii, a literary jeu d'esprit, suggested by | 's Praise of Hai |
Joseph Judge | ... rding to calculations made in 1986 by National Geographic writer and editor | based on Columbus's log. Evidence in support of this remains inconclusive. ... |
Larry Collins | ... urma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and | 's Freedom at Midnight (of which he was the main quoted source) — his reco ... |
John Major | ... for appointing 20 special advisers (compared to eight under his predecessor | ) and for the fact that the total salary cost of special advisers across a ... |
Sallust | ... id to have been the author of a Greek translation of the Latin prose author | , which has been lost, and of a birthday poem on the emperor Hadrian |
Edmund Burke | ... t the end of the program by recalling the admonition commonly attributed to | -- "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothin ... |
Société de l'histoire de France | ... 5); Le Nain de Tillemont, "Vie de Saint Louis", ed. by J. de Gaulle for the | (6 vols., 1847–1851); and Paulin Paris, "Nouvelles recherches sur les mœur ... |
Werner Spies | ... Peter Schamoni's 1991 documentary Max Ernst. Dedicated to the art historian | , it was assembled from interviews with Ernst, stills of his paintings and ... |
Molly Haskell | ... es, but was replaced in May 2006 by TCM host Robert Osborne and film critic | . Bogdanovich is also frequently featured in introductions to movies on Cr ... |
Tacitus | ... on Lapponicum as "Fenn". The first known historical mention of Fenni was by | , about 98 CE. The exact meaning of this old term, and the reasons it came ... |
Murray Rothbard | ... n be produced by the free market. This differs from the version proposed by | , where a legal code would first be consented to by the parties involved i ... |
McGovern | ... (this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon's defeat of Senator | in 1972). Johnson's popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a ... |
Nicolae Iorga | ... i people came to Wallachia and Moldavia as free men or as slaves. Historian | associated the Roma people's arrival with the 1241 Mongol invasion of Euro ... |
Harry Turtledove | Humble is the site of a Confederate concentration camp in | 's alternate history novel |
Laurence Echard | ... our kept him from extremes. "By his particular temper and management," said | in his History of England, "he weathered the late great storm with more su ... |
Drew Gilpin Faust | ... evolved primarily around the maintenance or expansion of slavery. Historian | observed that "leaders of the secession movement across the South cited sl ... |
Karl Marx | ... resent value as a valuation methodology dates at least to the 19th century. | refers to NPV as fictitious capital, and the calculation as capitalising, ... |
Mommsen | ... that Catiline had supported the party of Sulla, which Sallust had opposed.) | 's suggestion—that Sallust particularly wished to clear his patron (Caesar ... |
Antoine Varillas | ... Varillas's History of Heresy, written with Edward Hannes, a confutation of | 's account of John Wycliffe. He had already made some translations from th ... |
Harry Houdini | ... including "The Mound", "Winged Death", "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" and for | "Under the Pyramids" (also known as "Imprisoned With the Pharaohs") |
A.H.M. Jones | ... monotheist, a child of his era's religious syncretism. Related histories by | (Constantine and the Conversion of Europe (1949)) and Ramsay MacMullen (Co ... |
Paul Veyne | ... wners restricted it to a small percentage of potential welfare recipients ( | has assumed that, in the city of Veleia, only one child out of ten was an ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... c claims Weber makes in his historical analysis. For example, the economist | argued that capitalism did not begin with the Industrial Revolution but in ... |
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas | ... mization of knowledge" was first used and proposed by the Malaysian scholar | in his book "Islam and Secularism" ISBN 983-99628-6-8 (first published in ... |
Matthew Ridgway | ... el to Vietnam to study and "assess" the French forces there. Chief of Staff | dissuaded the President from intervening by presenting a comprehensive est ... |
Michael Fried | ... Princeton University, where he majored in history and met Darby Bannard and | . Early visits to New York art galleries influenced his artist development ... |
Willem Jan Knoop | ... sh informants, prompted a semi-official rebuttal by Dutch historian captain | in his "Beschouwingen over Siborne's Geschiedenis van den oorlog van 1815 ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... 000 hands in a single day, breaking the record previously held by President | , who had set the record with 8,513 handshakes at a White House reception ... |
Sima Tan | ... Longmen, near present-day Hancheng to a family of astrologers. His father, | , served as the Prefect of the Grand Scribes of Emperor Wu of Han (Emperor ... |
Dio Chrysostom | ... his ideas of honour, justice and wisdom. An example is an epigram quoted by | |
George Woodcock | ... of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today in John Zerzan. For | this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progr ... |
C. Wright Mills | ... itings were produced by such sociological luminaries as Talcott Parsons and | . Parsons in particular imparted to Weber's works a functionalist, teleolo ... |
Demetrius Vikelas | ... irikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, and | . Two Greek authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Georg ... |
Bill Malone | According to | in Country Music U.S.A, country music was “introduced to the world as a so ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | The tower story is repeated and embellished by | in his Historia Regum Britanniae, though he attributes it to Merlin, sayin ... |
Saxo Grammaticus | ... the Norse language, but it may have been introduced by the Danish historian | to distinguish between Fish-Fennians (coastal tribes) and Lap-Fennians (fo ... |
Eutropius | ... n by movements of larger tribes, like the Goths. According to the historian | , the forces of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius battled against the Marcomanni ... |
Dorothy Whitelock | ... albraith's arguments were refuted to the satisfaction of most historians by | in Genuine Asser, in 1967 |
Robert E. Wright | ... rule. Books like Don't Blame the Shorts by Robert Sloan and Fubarnomics by | suggest Cramer exaggerated the costs of short selling and underestimated t ... |
Einhard | ... the Frankish kingdom. The first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by | , the biographer of Charlemagne, whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometim ... |
Newton Arvin | ... uments and records for the day by day Melville Log (1951). In the same year | published the critical biography Herman Melville, which won the nonfiction ... |
Murray Rothbard | ... trian School economist, libertarian theorist and anarcho-capitalist founder | |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... to the Chatahoochee River. It operated for 40 years, and in 1905, President | made a campaign whistle stop in Dunwoody along the way to Roswell, Georgia |
Jerome | ... , and therefore does not "supplement" the history to any noteworthy degree. | , in the introduction to his Latin translation of the books of Samuel and ... |
Władysław Grabski | ... nomic calamities, but there were also signs of progress and stabilization ( | 's economically competent government lasted for almost two years). The ach ... |
Dennis Showalter | ... ber of faculty are widely published and renowned in their fields. Professor | , the 2005 recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for Lifetime Achiev ... |
Herodotus | The ram deity of Mendes was described by | in his History as being represented with the head and fleece of a goat: “. ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... he goals of the progressive movement -- whose most prominent figurehead was | (Class of 1880) and most eloquent spokesman was Herbert Croly (Class of 18 ... |
Bede | ... itain from northwestern Europe, starting in the early 5th century. The monk | , who wrote in the 8th century, considered the Mercians to be descended fr ... |
William of Malmesbury | ... s translation of Gregory's Regula Pastoralis (Pastoral Care). The historian | , writing in the 12th century, believed that Asser also assisted Alfred wi ... |
Ibn al-Qalanisi | ... e placed lamps of gold and of silver." The Damascene nobleman and historian | in his chronicle also alludes at this time to the discovery of relics purp ... |
Frank Graham | ... issue up for discussion again at the 1954 bi-annual convention. ACLU member | , president of the University of North Carolina, attacked the anti-communi ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ), the many jousting scenes and the thin plot. However, notable film critic | gave the film 3 stars out of a possible 4 and commented that "Some will sa ... |
Diego Durán | ... ifferent city wards and markets – often accompanied by large-scale betting. | , an early Spanish chronicler, said that "these wretches... sold their chi ... |
Robert Byrd | Image:Sen robert byrd.jpg|Senator | of West Virgini |
Richard Cork | ... chaired by Tim Marlow and also included Roger Scruton, Waldemar Januszczak, | , David Sylvester and Norman Rosenthal. Emin 'wrote' about the incident in ... |
Arthur Koestler | ... force is guiding the course of biological evolution was the science writer | (1967, 1978). Koestler provided examples of evolutionary development that ... |
Julius Caesar | ... and its inhabitants received full Roman citizenship following the death of | in 44 BC |
John Bryan Ward-Perkins | ... ng was turning over the soil a meter deep, destroying all surface evidence. | , then Director of the British School at Rome, set into motion the South E ... |
Norman Rosenthal | ... luded Roger Scruton, Waldemar Januszczak, Richard Cork, David Sylvester and | . Emin 'wrote' about the incident in her 2005 book Strangeland, describing ... |
Andreas Hillgruber | The German historian | called the expulsions a "national catastrophe" that was just as tragic as ... |
Sherburne F. Cook | Of the history of the indigenous population of California, | (1896–1974) was the most painstakingly careful researcher. From decades of ... |
William Camden | In 1603 the antiquarian | published an edition of Asser's Life in which there appears a story of a c ... |
Roger Ebert | ... tating: "Blow isn't really a classic, but it's a sobering story well-told." | gave the film 2½ out of 4 stars, but questioned the value about making Jun ... |
Hugh Trevor-Roper | ... n Bernadotte and Kersten came to public attention through British historian | . In 1953, Trevor-Roper published an article based on an interview and doc ... |
Roger Ebert | ... The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven. Film critic | speculates in his review that the sequence introducing the leader Kambei ( ... |
Jay Leyda | ... nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating Melville’s literary legacy. | , better known for his work in film, spent more than a decade gathering do ... |
Schiller | ... ällino, der grosse Bandit (1793; subsequently also dramatized), modelled on | 's Die Räuber, and the melodramatic tragedy Julius von Sassen (1796) |
Peter Heylin | ... room. The Church History was angrily attacked from the high-church side by | . At the Oxford Act of 1657, Robert South, who was Terrae filius, lampoone ... |
Josephus | ... 2 Maccabees and the first book of The Wars of the Jews by Jewish historian | (37–c. 100 CE), after Antiochus IV's successful invasion of Ptolemaic Egyp ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... He was well known for aiding Joseph Stalin in the Military Council (led by | ), having become closely associated with Stalin during the Red Army's 1918 ... |
Eutropius | ... eir 285 uprising being their first appearance. The fourth-century historian | described them as rural people under the leadership of Amandus and Aelianu ... |
Winston Churchill | ... der the direction of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Prime Minister | tasked the Royal Navy with helping locate and retrieve the wreckage so tha ... |
St Jerome | ... from Justin's "Apology" of a "Refutation of all Heresies ". Epiphanius and | mention Justin |
David Hume | ... happen thereafter." This restated the Scottish Enlightenment concept which | had put in 1777 as "all inferences from experience suppose ... that the fu ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... ic place name Oddi, site of the church and school where students, including | , were educated. The derivation of the word "Edda" as the name of Snorri S ... |
William Scott | ... alibo, Aklan and Binirayan in San José, Antique. Foreign historians such as | conclusively proved the book to be a Visayan folk tradition. Panay boasts ... |
Martin J. Sherwin | ... al Association president Robert Sternberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian | , preeminent philosopher Daniel Dennett, Nobel Laureate Allan M. Cormack ( ... |
Hans Lietzmann | ... s think that the Creed is derived from the baptismal creed of Jerusalem, as | proposed |
Agnes Strickland | ... . Some blame for this mistake could be attributed to 19th century historian | 's book on the wives of King Henry VIII. Research of documents (including ... |
Adam of Bremen | Cnut died at Shaftesbury in 1035. Symeon of Durham and | suggest that Cnut had reserved the English throne for Harold, while the En ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ommittee report titled German Strategy and Capacity to Resist, prepared for | 's eyes only, predicted that Germany might collapse as early as mid-April ... |
George Chauncey | ... she has reached adult age or has become eligible for marriage. As historian | points out |
Manetho | ... straea (identified as Virgo), the goddess of justice. Libra is mentioned by | (3rd century B.C.) and Geminus (1st century B.C.), and included by Ptolemy ... |
Barbara Ehrenreich | ... on, as has the Boston Women's Health Collective. Other criticism comes from | and colleagues who see this new sexuality as one that privileges the male ... |
Jerome | ... a different person to the Apostle John. This opinion, although reported by | , was not held by all, as Jerome himself attributed the epistles to John t ... |
Bede | | tells of Æthelfrith's great successes over the Britons, while also noting ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... biographies of major southern figures, such as Varina Davis' of her husband | . Later, women began adding more of their own experiences to the "public d ... |
Cato the Elder | ... ng Roman history from the fall of Troy in 1184 BC down to the censorship of | in 184 BC. It was the first Latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter met ... |
Jon Halliday | Jung Chang and | claim that Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to escape on the Long Ma ... |
Flodoard | ... , Gregorovius, von Mosheim, Miley, Mann, Darras, John the Deacon of Naples, | , and others make no mention of this story |
Giorgio Vasari | ... e for Giuliano de' Medici, identified as Bandinelli's by John Pope-Hennessy | , a former pupil in Bandinelli's workshop, claimed Bandinelli was driven b ... |
Kurt Rudolph | ... or those who make the effort, and punishment for those who are negligent" ( | , Gnosis:The Nature and History of Gnosticism, 262) |
Nennius | ... ives in numerous recensions, in manuscripts from the 11th century or later. | is commonly ascribed to be its author, since the the preface is written in ... |
Adolphe Thiers | ... istricts. One of the chief "cannon parks" was on the heights of Montmartre. | was elected "Executive Power" of the new government to postpone the issue ... |
Karl Marx | ... odity is something other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), | quotes Adam Smith and sums up |
Winston Churchill | ... emed destined to reach. This sense of opportunities missed was summed up by | in his book Great Contemporaries (1937) |
Hegel | ... ates, and in particular countering arguments based on militarism. Following | 's exploration of the relationship between history and violence, antimilis ... |
Martin Broszat | ... inclined towards a functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich such as | , Hans Mommsen and Ian Kershaw have been very hostile or lukewarm towards ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... the appointment of John H. Reagan to the position of Postmaster General, by | in 1861, making him the first Postmaster General of the Confederate Post O ... |
Leopold von Ranke | ... erlin, where he came under the influences of Friedrich Karl von Savigny and | , whose most distinguished pupil he was to become |
Henry Corbin | ... ands, Shia faqih Nurullah Shushtari and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, in addition to | , have maintained that he was most likely a Twelver Shia. More recently, h ... |
Hans Mommsen | ... s a functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich such as Martin Broszat, | and Ian Kershaw have been very hostile or lukewarm towards the totalitaria ... |
John Julius Norwich | ... simplest terms, the loss of the Eastern Roman Empire's Anatolian heartland. | says in his trilogy on the Byzantine Empire that the defeat was "its death ... |
Francis Sejersted | ... ent that had dominated post-World War II politics. Some historians, notably | attribute this in large part to the Norwegian Labour Party's exuberant con ... |
Ian Kershaw | ... interpretation of the Third Reich such as Martin Broszat, Hans Mommsen and | have been very hostile or lukewarm towards the totalitarianism concept, ar ... |
John Pope-Hennessy | ... Jerome in wax, made for Giuliano de' Medici, identified as Bandinelli's by | Giorgio Vasari, a former pupil in Bandinelli's workshop, claimed Bandinell ... |
Jung Chang | | and Jon Halliday claim that Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to esca ... |
Ptolemy I Soter | ... vity. His fourth wife was Lanassa and fifth wife was Ptolemais, daughter of | and Eurydice of Egypt, by whom he had a son called Demetrius the Fair. He ... |
Simon Hornblower | ... , but even if this assertion is correct, no such plan was ever implemented. | asserts that Thebes' great legacy to fourth century and Hellenistic Greece ... |
Saxo Grammaticus | In the account of Baldr's death in | ' early 13th century work Gesta Danorum, the dying Baldr has a dream visit ... |
Frank Stenton | ... pporters, Ælfgifu was able to secure the throne for her son. In the view of | , she was probably the real ruler of England for part, if not the whole, o ... |
Mark Pattison | ... ary works. C.P. Snow was inspired for his novel The Masters by the story of | , a fellow at Lincoln, whose enthusiastic hopes for Lincoln were frustrate ... |
Cato the Elder | ... which it had been roused by the presence of Hannibal. Others, most notably | , feared that if Carthage was not completely destroyed it would soon regai ... |
Winston Churchill | ... he gold standard and in 1925 they were able to convince the then Chancellor | to re-establish it, which had a depressing effect on British industry. Key ... |
Eusebius | After Rufinus, Justin was known mainly from St Irenaeus and | or from spurious works. The Chronicon Paschale assigns his martyrdom to th ... |
Sheila Fitzpatrick | ... tly American left-wing historians, some of whose more prominent members are | , Jerry F. Hough, William McCagg, Robert W. Thurston, and J. Arch Getty. T ... |
Taine | The critical establishment was generally hostile to the novel | ;found it insincere, Barbey d'Aurevilly complained of its vulgarity, Gusta ... |
John Fiske | ... ames said most philosophers have an "antipathy to chance." His contemporary | described the absurd decisions that would be made if chance were real |
Herodotus | ... merist version that begins the account of Persian-Hellene confrontations of | , she was kidnapped by Minoans, who likewise were said to have taken her t ... |
Posidonius | ... d to be the biblical Moses) as the inventor of the idea on the authority of | and Strabo. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes, "This theologic ... |
Richard Trexler | ... oked the androgynous creative force often represented in Andean mythology." | gives an early Spanish account of religious 'third gender' figures from th ... |
Diodorus Siculus | ... to the royal historical records. Ctesias' account was later expanded on by | . Ninus continued to be mentioned by European historians (e.g. Alfred the ... |
Jacob Bronowski | ... and artists including James Reeves, Norman Cameron, John Aldridge, Len Lye, | , and Honor Wyatt. The house is now a museum. Progress of Stories (1935) w ... |
R. Joseph Hoffmann | Co-author | has called Wells "the most articulate contemporary defender of the non-his ... |
Hecataeus of Miletus | | believed the earth was flat and surrounded by water. Herodotus in his Hist ... |
Josephus | ... Simon, Seleucid King Antiochus VII Sidetes attacked Jerusalem. According to | , John Hyrcanus opened King David's sepulchre and removed three thousand t ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... h which combines the elements ("battle, hard"), and ("breach, gap, notch"). | Latinised this to Caliburnus (likely influenced by the medieval Latin spel ... |
Strabo | ... lical Moses) as the inventor of the idea on the authority of Posidonius and | . The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes, "This theologically motiv ... |
Karl Marx | ... early labour values theories. Some writers (including Bertrand Russell and | ) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. In his Summa ... |
Winston Churchill | ... temperatures and pressures. Two months later Cunard received a letter from | , then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordering the ship to leave Clydeside a ... |
James Hardiman | | 's History of Galway is considered to be the definitive history of Galway ... |
Gregory of Tours | ... entury Lombardic manuscript, which contains De cursu stellarum ratio by St. | . The Latin text taught readers how to determine the times of nighttime pr ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... 's theories, produced early labour values theories. Some writers (including | and Karl Marx) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. ... |
Herodotus | Hecataeus of Miletus believed the earth was flat and surrounded by water. | in his Histories ridiculed the belief that water encircled the world, yet ... |
Joseph Needham | ... used by Chinese astronomers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian | quotes Zhang Heng (78-139 AD) as saying |
Michael Lind | ... Cambodian Communists. Not one of them in his opinion was the U.S. bombing. | , in his book on the Vietnam War, notes: "In 1970, the Committee of Concer ... |
Tertullian | The earliest possible attestations for 3 John come from | and Origen of Alexandria. Tertullian, "On Monogamy" ch.vi quotes a brief p ... |
Arnold Toynbee | ... e whole of civil society". Credit for popularising the term may be given to | , whose lectures given in 1881 gave a detailed account of it |
Bede | ... mmar was quoted by several writers in Britain of the 8th century - Aldhelm, | , Alcuin - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by Hrabanu ... |
Walter Laqueur | ... uld function with a collective leadership, which led the American historian | to argue that Bracher's definition seemed to fit reality better than the F ... |
Karl Marx | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of | , Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph ... |
Robert Osborne | ... affinity for makeup and often played characters much older. Film historian | notes that his makeup skills were so creative, that for most of his roles, ... |
Julius Caesar | Pliny claims that this very painting had been part of the collection of | , but was destroyed when Caesar's mansion on the Palatine Hill burned down ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ich derives its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies | , Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in ... |
Victor Davis Hanson | ... rought closer the day when all of Greece would be subjugated by an invader. | has suggested that Epaminondas may have planned for a united Greece compos ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... of the buildings are listed, including the Cheltenham Synagogue, judged by | to be one of the architecturally "best" non-Anglican ecclesiastical buildi ... |
St Jerome | ... time Asser entered the church. Asser may have been familiar with a work by | on the meaning of Hebrew names (Jerome's given meaning for "Asser" was "bl ... |
Adam of Bremen | ... the fathers of Svein and Harold were respectively a priest and a shoemaker. | states that Svein and Harold were sons to Cnut and a concubina (but that C ... |
Plutarch | ... of the Maenads or Thyades in the Korykion cave on Mount Parnassos, although | informs us that his friend Clea was both a Priestess to Apollo and to the ... |
Livy | ... ence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, Ovid, | and Persius |
Livy | The principal source of traditions relating to Hersilia is | , I.11 |
Karl Marx | ... ture and Necessity of a Paper Currency" is sometimes credited (including by | ) with originating the concept in its modern form. However, the theory has ... |
Jerome | ... ive, and retains the form deus. "My God!" in Latin is thus mī deus!, though | 's Vulgate consistently (and in deviation from classical use) uses deus me ... |
Paul Hasluck | ... ecember, once Labor's win was secure, Whitlam had the Governor-General, Sir | swear him in as Prime Minister and Labor's deputy leader, Lance Barnard, a ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... y Christian writers, who competed with one another to execrate her worship. | , down the coast, averred that 'men and women vie with one another to hono ... |
R. J. Rummel | or as ethnic cleansing. | has classified these events as democide |
Diodorus Siculus | ... true," which may refer to his knowledge of natural phenomena. According to | , Democritus died at the age of 90, which would put his death around 370 B ... |
Bede | ... n the sub-kingdom of Bernicia and Osric taking power in Deira. According to | , Osric was, like Eanfrith, a Christian who reverted to paganism upon comi ... |
Procopius | Relying upon the accounts of the historian | , it often has been said that Justinian ruled the Empire in his uncle's na ... |
Plutarch | ... Pyrrhus of Epirus. Deidamia bore him a son called Alexander who is said by | to have spent his life in Egypt, probably in an honourable captivity. His ... |
Churchill | ... if it reduced casualties elsewhere by greater amounts. It was thought that | would reverse this decision later (he was then away at a conference); but ... |
John Crawfurd | ... orate, causing a protest from van der Capellen. Finally, Calcutta appointed | , who had followed Raffles for over twenty years, as the Resident of Singa ... |
Julius Caesar | Another temple in Rome was planned by | and was erected after his death by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus on the site of ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... natively been seen as a labour theory of property. Other writers (including | ) have traced back the concept even further to Ibn Khaldun, who in his Muq ... |
Charles Eliot Norton | ... ting a separation from his wife for some time. When Harvard offered him the | professorship for the 1932-1933 academic year, he accepted and left Vivien ... |
Livy | ... mulus, the founder and first King of Rome. She is described as such in both | and Plutarch; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded ... |
Miguel León-Portilla | According to | , in this new vision from Tlacaelel, the warriors that died in battle and ... |
Eliade | ... beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Common beliefs identified by | (1972) are the following |
David Hume | ... nstance of begging the question. Nozick also argues that Rand's solution to | 's famous is-ought problem is unsatisfactory. In response, philosophers Do ... |
Russell Kirk | ... cal theorist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author | . Kirk resided at Piety Hill, currently the location of the Russell Kirk C ... |
Polybius | ... no at Crotone, he sailed back to Africa. These records were later quoted by | . Hannibal's arrival immediately restored the predominance of the war part ... |
W. Grant McMurray | ... xample can be cited from Section 161, presented as counsel to the church by | in 1996: "Become a people of the Temple—those who see violence but proclai ... |
John Major | ... lack of responsiveness in the quality of public services. The government of | sought to tackle this with a Citizen's Charter programme. This sought to e ... |
Diego Durán | ... because they were considered equals in power. 16th century Dominican Friar | wrote, "These two gods were always meant to be together, since they were c ... |
Diodorus Siculus | ... ia and Chandragupta's reign, which have been partly preserved to us through | . Later Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt and contempo ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... strong negative impact on the salmon population, and in 1908 U.S. President | observed that the salmon runs were but a fraction of what they had been 25 ... |
Daniel Garrison Brinton | ... of Nagualism was initiated by noted archaeologist, linguist and ethnologist | who published which chronicled historical interpretations of the word and ... |
Herodotus | ... death Darius I of Persia succeeded his throne. According to Greek historian | , Darius wanted to know more about Asia. He wished to know where the "Indu ... |
Touraj Daryaee | ... found at Shahr-e Sukhteh the fields are fashioned by the coils of a snake. | (2006)—on the subject of the first written mention of early precursors of ... |
Plutarch | ... e founder and first King of Rome. She is described as such in both Livy and | ; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded by Plutarch, ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... , published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies. The critic | found a copy of the poem in the New York Public Library in 1925 "with its ... |
Schiller | ... ed-headed woman holds the mirror of truth, while above it is a quotation by | in stylized lettering, "If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and ... |
Jordanes | ... tion (east of the Swabians) is in the History of the Goths by the historian | dating from 551. Then follows a remark by Venantius Fortunatus in his desc ... |
Claudius | ... C campaign in Spain. The temple was destroyed by a fire during the reign of | and was never rebuilt |
Jefferson Davis | ... vote in both houses of Congress. The only person to serve as president was | , due to the Confederacy being defeated before the completion of his term |
Isaiah Berlin | According to | , Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to bu ... |
Vivian H. H. Green | ... tional spymaster George Smiley was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector | . At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir Maurice Shock, enjoyed a p ... |
Sallust | ... l, and, next to him, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, | , Statius, Ovid, Livy and Persius |
François Furet | ... adequate tools for explaining Soviet history while totalitarianism was not. | used the term "totalitarian twins" in an attempt to link Stalinism and Naz ... |
Donald Spoto | ... sually against his new films, although some critics, such as Robin Wood and | , contend that Marnie (1964) is first-class Hitchcock, and some have argue ... |
Sheila Jeffreys | Even some radical feminist writers, such as | (1985) were dismissive, claiming it as a figment of male fantasy |
David Dumville | Professor | , enquiring into the stemmatics of the recensions (he has published the Va ... |
Julius Caesar | ... own incident of a leader extending his term indefinitely was Roman dictator | , who made himself "Perpetual Dictator" (commonly mistranslated as 'Dictat ... |
Frank Lawrence Owsley | Historian | argued that the Confederacy "died of states' rights." The central governme ... |
Bede | Some traditions call the festival "Litha", a name occurring in | 's "Reckoning of Time" (De Temporum Ratione, 7th century), which preserves ... |
Thucydides | ... , Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, | , and Xenophon |
Joseph C. Keating, Jr. | ... oncept of "innate". For example, in a paper named "The Meanings of Innate", | says that "Innate Intelligence" in chiropractic can be used to represent f ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... 6 December, Kentucky passed in review before President of the United States | as a unit in the Second Squadron. After calling at Trinidad and Rio de Jan ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... published a letter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including | , Albert Einstein, Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which describe ... |
Edward Hyde | ... o ask it to pass finance bills, since the Bishops' Wars had bankrupted him. | recalled the subdued tone of his entrance to Parliament |
Georges Duby | ... ed officially by any of the French republics. According to French historian | , the three leaves represent the medieval social classes: those who worked ... |
Eric Williams | ... f Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect in abolition was downplayed by historian | , who argued that abolition was motivated not by humanitarianism but by ec ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | According to | , Lincoln College preserves "more of the character of a 15th century colle ... |
Sozomen | ... is largely dependent on his predecessors, Eusebius, Socrates Scholasticus, | , Theodoret and Evagrius, his additions showing very little critical facul ... |
Saxo Grammaticus | ... e was largely based on Icelandic Sagas, the history of the Danes written by | , the Russian Primary Chronicle and The War of the Irish with the Foreigne ... |
Philistus | ... s is assumed to have drawn his description from the highly rated history of | , a contemporary of the events then. The introduction of crossbows however ... |
Firishta | ... Asia for illegitimate female children during the Middle Ages. According to | , as soon as the illegitimate female child was born she was held "in one h ... |
Strabo | ... , Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, | , Thucydides, and Xenophon |
Philostephanus | Several authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius, Pliny, | ) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship. Generally it was imagined ... |
Bertrand Russell's | ... ologians. Reverend Canon Brian Hebblethwaite, for example, preached against | |
Leon Trotsky | ... Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, | , and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) leadership in Catal ... |
Voltaire | ... letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to | as an epistolarian. Lovecraft's later correspondence is primarily to fello ... |
Eusebius | ... e first four centuries the author is largely dependent on his predecessors, | , Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, Theodoret and Evagrius, his additions sh ... |
Jacob Bronowski | ... he burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, | , Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Li ... |
Alexandre Herculano | ... ire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of Marcus Aurelius", and | called him: "A Prince whom the general opinion holds as the foremost of hi ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... and his stables housed the horses of President McKinley and Vice President | . Produce from his farm was transported to Georgetown where it became part ... |
Peter Andreas Munch | ... . Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch (1776–1839) and historian | (1810–1863) |
Ibn Khaldun | ... (including Joseph Schumpeter) have traced back the concept even further to | , who in his Muqaddimah (1377), described labour as the source of value, n ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... This made a perfect place to build an irrigation system. In 1902 President | signed the Reclamation Act, and in 1906 the Sun River Irrigation Project w ... |
Jerome | ... n of Jeremiah also includes the Book of Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremiah. | 's says he excluded them: "And the Book of Baruch, his scribe, which is ne ... |
Rodulfus Glaber | ... smay, with far-reaching and intense consequences. For example, Cluniac monk | blamed the Jews, with the result that Jews were expelled from Limoges and ... |
Julius von Ficker | ... 1859–1866, Sybel was engaged in a literary controversy with the historian, | , on the significance of the German Empire |
Joshua Scottow | ... ir loyalty to the Crown and Church of England. This work was republished by | in the 1696 compilation MASSACHUSETTS: or The first Planters of New-Englan ... |
Evagrius | ... n his predecessors, Eusebius, Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, Theodoret and | , his additions showing very little critical faculty; for the later period ... |
Choe Bu | ... –864), the Persian historian Rashid al-Din (1247–1318), the Korean official | (1454–1504) and the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) |
Leslie Alcock | ... . (* For "heap together" used Morris more recent translation as given in ). | , 1971 may have started the recent fad of using "heaped together", but he ... |
Syncellus | ... a Semitic title such as Ba'al, "lord". According to Castor of Rhodes (apud | p. 167), his reign lasted 52 years, its commencement falling in 2189 BC ac ... |
Philippe de Commines | ... racted; both parties were dead by this time, but a clergyman (named only by | as Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells), claimed to have carried ... |
Plutarch | ... st of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying (according to | ) a few years later in Pontus, whilst determining what the tax of new memb ... |
William Whewell | ... ibed as Lyell's first disciple. In a comment on the arguments of the 1830s, | coined the term uniformitarianism to describe Lyell's version of the ideas ... |
Hydatius | ... ssures to retire "from Italy without ever setting foot south of the Po." As | writes |
William L. Shirer | ... of the Prussian political police, ignored the order. Researchers, including | and Alan Bullock, are of the opinion that the NSDAP itself was responsible ... |
Fray Juan de Torquemada | ... american cultures and served purposes beyond that of a mere sporting event. | , a 16th century Spanish missionary and historian, tells that the Aztec em ... |
Jerome | ... ning his bones. However, the oldest sources on Clement's life, Eusebius and | , note nothing of his martyrdom |
Diodorus Siculus | ... r of missiles by strengthening the bow which propelled them”. The historian | (fl. 1st century BC), described the invention of a mechanical arrow firing ... |
Polydore Vergil | ... or its historical accuracy. More's work, and that of contemporary historian | , reflects a move from mundane medieval chronicles to a dramatic writing s ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... "higher authority" by wire, which turns out as an all-ears U. S. President | (Attorney General William Henry Moody: "They say a billionaire from Scotla ... |
Caroline Dormon | ... come under the management of the State of Louisiana in 2007. The naturalist | helped to lay out the park |
William Archer | ... "extremely funny" was Wilde's "first really heartless [one]". In The World, | wrote that he had enjoyed watching the play but found it to be empty of me ... |
Alan Bullock | ... cal police, ignored the order. Researchers, including William L. Shirer and | , are of the opinion that the NSDAP itself was responsible for starting th ... |
Plutarch | ... e of his occasional absence to ravage the defenceless part of his kingdom ( | , Pyrrhus, 7 if.); at length, the combined forces of Pyrrhus, Ptolemy and ... |
Norman Finkelstein | ... best we're likely to see – on the [one-sided diplomacy] Miller describes." | published an article in the winter 2007 issue of Journal of Palestine Stud ... |
Eutropius | The epitomes of Aurelius Victor (De Caesaribus), | (Breviarium), Festus (Breviarium), and the anonymous author of the Epitome ... |
Paul Einhorn | ... za māte – (Mother of the Garden) was governing gardens. She is described in | 's Historia Lettica, 1649, as one of the 'mothers' presiding over the prac ... |
Louis R. Gottschalk | ... lished her poems in The Fugitive magazine. Her first marriage, to historian | (1899–1975), ended in divorce in 1925, at the end of which year she went t ... |
Plutarch's | From | 'Lives' |
John Major | ... as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir | was knighted). The husbands of Dames have no honorific, so Dame Norma's hu ... |
Raphael Holinshed | Aside from | who merely quotes John Bale, the only sixteenth-century references to "Rob ... |
Asser | ... rome and Trent rivers which was ruled by Alfred. According to the historian | , Guthrum’s initial battle with Alfred resulted in a victory, as he was ab ... |
Drew G. Faust | ... oston-area colleges and universities including Harvard University President | and UMass President Jack M. Wilson, and sports figures including Boston Ce ... |
Eric Hobsbawm | ... time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians. | held that it 'broke out' in Britain in the 1780s and was not fully felt un ... |
Gildas | ... A. VIII), but no one now seriously advocates this document to be penned by | , the near contemporary of Arthur |
Jefferson Davis | When General Grant's forces broke through Richmond's defenses, | ordered the destruction of Richmond's militarily significant supplies; the ... |
Mark Pattison | ... ve volumes in 1533, 1534, 1539, 1546 and 1547; of these, a friendly critic, | , is obliged to approve the judgment of Pierre Daniel Huet, who says, "par ... |
John Stockwell | ... i Kotoka and the National Liberation Council. Several commentators, such as | , have claimed the coup received support from the CIA |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... the she-wolf, the twins in a cave, seldom a fig tree, and never any birds ( | ) |
Xenophon | ... vid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and | |
Taylor Branch | ... ller, Damon Strange, who worked for a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Historian | called the conviction of Damon Strange a "breakthrough verdict" on p. 391 ... |
Pherecydes of Leros | ... of myths; the account of Orion is based largely on the mythologist and poet | . Here Orion is described as earthborn and enormous in stature. This versi ... |
Plutarch | ... e minds of many with the Alexander with the spear of the sculptor Lysippus. | was among the unimpressed, deciding that it had failed accurately to repro ... |
Roger Ebert | ... xtraordinary females in movies." In a 2000 review for All About Eve, (1950) | noted, "Davis was a character, an icon with a grand style, so even her exc ... |
Cassius Dio | The Roman Historian | contended that the sole motivation for the edict was a desire to increase ... |
Confucius | ... ty that he established in 124 BCE. Unlike the original ideology espoused by | , or Kongzi (551–479 BCE), Han Confucianism in Emperor Wu's reign was the ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... Libya and the Pentapolis. Other supporters included Eusebius of Nicomedia, | , Paulinus of Tyrus, Actius of Lydda, Menophantus of Ephesus, and |
Marc Bloch | Although he was never formally a student in the circle of scholars around | and Lucien Febvre that came to be known as the Annales School, Duby was in ... |
Georg Ludwig von Maurer | ... the proposal to naturalize Lola, who was an Irishwoman; and the Protestant | took his place. The new ministry granted the certificate of naturalisation ... |
Abraham Geiger | A typical story is reported by | , who formed Ettlinger's acquaintance as a student in 1829. At a school ex ... |
T. S. Ashton | ... Britain in the 1780s and was not fully felt until the 1830s or 1840s, while | held that it occurred roughly between 1760 and 1830 |
Praxagoras of Athens | ... is sons, Constantine was presented as a paragon of virtue. Even pagans like | and Libanius showered him with praise. When the last of his sons died in 3 ... |
Murray Bookchin | ... uch as Derrick Jensen, George Draffan, and John Zerzan; the techno-positive | ; and others including Alan Carter |
Liutprand of Cremona | The pontificate of Sergius III, according to | , was remarkable for the rise of what papal historians saw as a "pornocrac ... |
Dio Chrysostom | ... nt was located on Mount Oeta in Trachis. A similar tradition is recorded by | who mentions the beautiful pyre which the Tarsians used to build for their ... |
Lucien Febvre | ... as never formally a student in the circle of scholars around Marc Bloch and | that came to be known as the Annales School, Duby was in many ways the mos ... |
François Truffaut | The | film Day for Night is about the making of a fictitious movie called Meet P ... |
Oliver Cowdery | ... with the resurrected Peter and the translated John—visited Joseph Smith and | and restored the priesthood authority with Apostolic succession to earth. ... |
John Rushworth | According to | the word was first used on 27 December 1641 by a disbanded officer named D ... |
Snorri Sturluson | Heimdallr is mentioned once in Háttatal. There, in a composition by | , a sword is referred to as "Vindhlér's helmet-filler", meaning "Heimdallr ... |
Petrarch | In the 14th century, | and Giovanni Boccaccio led the literary scene in Florence after Dante's de ... |
Murray Bookchin | Social ecology is closely related to the work and ideas of | and influenced by anarchist Peter Kropotkin. Social ecologists assert that ... |
Ronald Hutton | ... to distract attention from his true magical partner, Edith Woodford-Grimes. | and Leo Ruickbie have concluded that Clutterbuck is unlikely to have been ... |
John Clapham | Some 20th century historians such as | and Nicholas Crafts have argued that the process of economic and social ch ... |
J. Arch Getty | ... Sheila Fitzpatrick, Jerry F. Hough, William McCagg, Robert W. Thurston, and | . Though their individual interpretations differ, the revisionists have ar ... |
Livy | According to | it was "the most memorable of all wars that were ever waged: the war which ... |
Ptolemy I Soter | ... skill at drawing the human face is the point of a story connecting him with | . This onetime general of Alexander disliked Apelles while they both were ... |
Walter Laqueur | Writing in 1987, | commented that the revisionists in the field of Soviet history were guilty ... |
Darras | ... tactics himself" and Schaff, Milman, Gregorovius, von Mosheim, Miley, Mann, | , John the Deacon of Naples, Flodoard, and others make no mention of this ... |
Leszek Kołakowski | Although | 's works were officially banned in Poland, underground copies of them infl ... |
Herodian | ... 8 April AD 217, by Julius Martialis, an officer of his personal bodyguard. | says that Martialis' brother had been executed a few days earlier by Carac ... |
Livy | According to | , after the conflict the Sabine and Rome states merged, and the Sabine kin ... |
R. J. Rummel | ... mately 1.7 million, which was about 21 percent of the country's population. | , an analyst of historical political killings, gives a figure of 2 million ... |
Julius Caesar | ... 49 BC. She organized an army on the site but did not need to use it due to | 's arrival in Alexandria. Ashkelon was later placed under the rule of Hero ... |
Dominique Lapierre | ... et Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and | , and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight (of which he was the main quoted ... |
Alan Cross | ... e Guardian and Classic FM. In his 1995 book, The Alternative Music Almanac, | placed the album in the #1 spot on the list of '10 Classic Alternative Alb ... |
Plutarch | Additionally, according to | 's essay on the meaning of the "E at Delphi"--the only literary source for ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ome of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, | and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conflict and Dream), remained particula ... |
Alan Dershowitz | ... at Camp David came from the Palestinian side, none from the Israeli side." | , an Israel advocate and a law professor at Harvard University, said that ... |
Aurelius Victor | According to | in his Epitome de Caesaribus, the agnomen "Caracalla" refers to a Gallic c ... |
Harry Turtledove | ... al characters in the alternate history novel The Man with the Iron Heart by | |
Alan Lomax | In 1936 | recorded the Soul Stirrers for the Library of Congress's American music pr ... |
Ernst Nolte | ... with regard to Soviet history were highly similar to the arguments made by | regarding German history. Laqueur asserted that concepts such as moderniza ... |
Diodorus Siculus | ... One late explanation, which is first related by the 1st century BC writer, | , tells of a goat herder named Coretas, who noticed one day that one of hi ... |
Diodorus Siculus | ... ow that he wrote on Babylon and Meroe; he must also have visited Egypt, and | states that he lived there for five years. He himself declared that among ... |
Prosper of Aquitaine | ... ise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the Emperor. | gives a short, reliable description of the historic meeting, but gives all ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... ant of Aeneas. This work was also the "single most important source used by | in creating his Historia Regum Britanniae", and via the enormous popularit ... |
Swami Sahajanand Saraswati | ... later came to adopt a militant approach to the movement, while others like | wanted both political and economic freedom for India's peasants and toilin ... |
William L. Shirer | ... earing a potentially devastating Allied retaliatory nerve agent deployment. | , in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, writes that the British high co ... |
Baldinucci | ... truction, including Dürer (1520), Vasari (1568), Molanus (c.1570–1580), and | (1688) |
Louis Duchesne | ... unanimously admitted afterwards, while numerous modern scholars, following | , reject it. The Bollandists however defended it (their Acta Sanctorum, Ju ... |
Tacitus | ... dence of Germanic languages comes from names recorded in the 1st century by | (especially from his work Germania), but the earliest Germanic writing occ ... |
Snorri Sturluson | Hel is referenced in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | , various times. In chapter 34 of the book Gylfaginning, Hel is listed by ... |
Gervase of Canterbury | ... d Chronica, Ralph Diceto's works, William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum, and | 's works |
John Van Seters | ... e Bible, this view has been largely abandoned in recent years. According to | in Abraham in History and Tradition, the existence of Amraphel is unconfir ... |
John Malcolm | ... nce in the Persian Gulf, a policy originally proposed by British politician | . Indeed the British government was engaged in making agreements with loca ... |
Ephorus | Probably born at Colophon in Ionia, he first studied under | of Ephesus, but after he had attained some celebrity he became a student t ... |
Winston Churchill | ... e and the exclusive Bangalore Club, which counts among its previous members | and the Maharaja of Mysore. The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited SC is based ... |
Frank Underhill | ... nterest one way or the other regarding Canadian affairs. Canadian historian | , quoting Canadian playwright Merrill Denison summed it up: "Americans are ... |
Tom Segev | Ha'aretz columnist and Israeli historian | wrote of the Irgun: "In the second half of 1940, a few members of the Irgu ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... nd René Magritte’s paintings 1933 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine, | ’s book (1958) and Masaki Kobayashi’s film trilogy (1959-1961). Ningen no ... |
Claudius | ... st extent; the most notable being the conquest of Britain, begun by emperor | (47), and emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia (101-102, 105-106). In the 1s ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | | 's History of the Kings of Britain is the first non-Welsh source to speak ... |
Harry Houdini | ... onan Doyle had years earlier made a similar accusation against the magician | . A similar event involved Senator Claiborne Pell. Pell believed in psychi ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ied Europe. The Allied leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, | of the United Kingdom and Joseph Stalin of the USSR, had agreed in general ... |
Frederick Taylor | British historian | wrote of the attacks: "The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic q ... |
Strabo | ... its having continued to subsist throughout the period of the Roman Empire. | speaks of it as one of the places on the north coast of Sicily which, in h ... |
Tertullian | ... ch's mention of Hermes Trismegistus dates back to the first century CE, and | , Iamblichus, and Porphyry are all familiar with Hermetic writings |
Leon Trotsky | Jack was close to the inner circle of the new government. He met | and was introduced to Lenin during a break of the Constituent Assembly on ... |
Alan Dershowitz | ... presentatives of Fascist Italy, offering to cooperate against the British." | wrote in his book The Case for Israel that unlike the Haganah, the policy ... |
William of Newburgh | ... of Howden's Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi and Chronica, Ralph Diceto's works, | 's Historia Rerum, and Gervase of Canterbury's works |
Ron Goulart | ... uary 9, 1954) and Mel Keefer (Jan. 11, 1954-May 21, 1955). Comics historian | in his book The Funnies states the frequent turnover of artists on the str ... |
Plutarch | ... he height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, Livy and | documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organization and histor ... |
Caesar Baronius | ... ius and the Church historians, and damned Constantine as a tyrant. Cardinal | , a man of the Counter-Reformation, criticized Zosimus, favoring Eusebius' ... |
Pseudo-Philo | In | , believed to have been composed between 135 BCE. and 70 CE, David picks u ... |
Edvardas Gudavičius | ... we bis zum Jahre 1263) was not published until 1905. In the 1990s historian | published his findings pinpointing a coronation date, which became a natio ... |
Julius Caesar's | ... ssed that of the Aediles under the Republic, as could have been seen during | Aedileship |
Hubert Howe Bancroft | ... itory, and Spain was worried about Russian advances southwards from Alaska. | , in his multi-volume History of California, only notes that, in connectio ... |
Oliver Cowdery | ... G. Williams, two of the Presiding Elders on the committee, were absent, but | and Sidney Rigdon were present. The church membership at the time had not ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... appeared: The Rise of the Russian Empire, a historical study modelled upon | 's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | | 's legendary History of the Kings of Britain makes Caracalla a king of Bri ... |
Livy | ... ms, as Vergil's epic Aeneid and also historiographical works, like those of | . The works of this literary age lasted through Roman times, and are class ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... notable American participants included Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, and | . The war gave impetus to the US policy of Indian removal, in which Native ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... s, Trajan was considered a virtuous pagan, while the 18th century historian | popularized the notion of the Five Good Emperors, of which Trajan was the ... |
Leslie Halliwell | ... lt the film made no sense without the scene, and in later years film critic | described the missing 12 minutes as "vital. |
Livy | ... under Rhodian control since the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC. A fragment from | records a "pitiful embassy" in 178 BC from Lycia to the Roman Senate compl ... |
Robert Conquest | ... , Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, | , Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan Linz describe tot ... |
Zosimus | ... s, and given over to luxury and greed. Following Julian, Eunapius began—and | continued—a historiographic tradition that blamed Constantine for weakenin ... |
Livy | During the height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, | and Plutarch documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organizati ... |
Snorri Sturluson | It was written by the Icelandic scholar and historian | around 1220. It survives in seven main manuscripts, written down from abou ... |
Sima Qian | ... er. The Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Tan (d. 110 BCE) and his son | (145–86 BCE) established the standard model for all of imperial China's St ... |
Richard T. Ely | ... classical scholars Basil Gildersleeve and Charles D. Morris; the economist | ; and the chemist Ira Remsen, who became the second president of the unive ... |
James Bamford | ... uld not have to perform this task itself and thus trigger World War Three." | , a former ABC News producer, in his 2001 book Body of Secrets, proposes a ... |
Sima Qian | ... e diplomat Su Qin in 330 BC when discussing state boundaries. The historian | (145–90 BC) dated it much earlier than the 4th century BC, attributing it ... |
Roger Ebert | In a 2004 review of the film, critic | wrote "Out of the Past is one of the greatest of all film noirs, the story ... |
Eunapius | ... great pagan emperors, and given over to luxury and greed. Following Julian, | began—and Zosimus continued—a historiographic tradition that blamed Consta ... |
Martin Broszat | ... war, plus 350,000 ethnic Germans in the USSR. In 1987 the German historian | (former head of Institute of Contemporary History in Munich) described Naw ... |
Le Nain de Tillemont | ... othèque des Ecoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, vol. lxx. (Paris, 1895) | ;, "Vie de Saint Louis", ed. by J. de Gaulle for the Société de l'histoire ... |
Stephen W. Sears | ... uart relinquished his infantry command on May 6 when Hill returned to duty. | wrote |
Polybius | During the height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as | , Livy and Plutarch documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the org ... |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus | According to | , many Roman historians (including Porcius Cato and Gaius Sempronius) rega ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... he murderers. Without a chance to defend themselves in a hearing, President | dishonorably discharged the entire 167 member regiment due to their accuse ... |
Norman Naimark | ... uvinism and xenophobia that have often resulted from nationalist sentiment. | relates the rise of nationalism to ethnic cleansing and genocide |
Hannah Arendt | ... eonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, | , Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan ... |
Jonas Totoraitis | ... anian state". The first academic study of his life by a Lithuanian scholar, | (Die Litauer unter dem König Mindowe bis zum Jahre 1263) was not published ... |
Sima Tan | ... challenges to Dong's universal order. The Records of the Grand Historian by | (d. 110 BCE) and his son Sima Qian (145–86 BCE) established the standard m ... |
Hector Boece | | offers the following description (original spelling) |
Leonard Schapiro | ... Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jesse, | , Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt ... |
Herodotus | ... Aeschylus, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, | , Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, S ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... s which regulate conduct in war and during peacetime. An early exponent was | , whose Rights of War and Peace (1625) had a major impact of the humanitar ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ategy; he was a gracious host but was kept out of the important meetings by | and Roosevelt |
Sozomen | ... tory, gives a full description of the discovery (that was repeated later by | and by Theodoret) which emphasizes the role played in the excavations and ... |
Woody Holton | Historian | , for example, argued that even though the boundary was pushed west in sub ... |
John R. Commons | ... hrough the UW-Extension system at this time. Later, UW economics professors | and Harold Groves helped Wisconsin create the first unemployment compensat ... |
Livy | ... nt of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, | , Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thuc ... |
William Reeves | ... to the 8th century. Some have suggested that these views were disproved by | (1815–1892), bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore. James A. Wylie (1808–1890 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... initiated the Julian calendar of that name, 46 BC was allotted 445 days by | . Before then, the Romans added whole intercalary months in an unsystemati ... |
Roy Jenkins | ... Rey secured the Community's own financial resources and in 1977, President | became the first Commission President to attend a G7 summit on behalf of t ... |
Tim Pat Coogan | ... cents of the people – are so reminiscent of rural Ireland that Irish author | has described Newfoundland as "the most Irish place in the world outside o ... |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ... ophie of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling and | and others, and without abandoning empiricism, sought in their work to unc ... |
Thucydides | ... ssion of rebellions, Athens exercised hegemony over the rest of the league. | describes how Athens's control over the League grew |
Tacitus | ... refer to the area they invaded as Boihaemum, the earliest mention being in | ' Germania 28 (written at the end of the 1st century AD). The name appears ... |
Thomas Frank | ... ollar, yet conservative political outlook of the backlash mold described by | . It is the headquarters of Lon Mabon, whose Oregon Citizens Alliance has ... |
David Hume | ... ence for their own products. Following their lead, the Scottish philosopher | used Ogilby's work to illustrate the idea that common sense frequently app ... |
Herodotus | The historian | recorded (2.44) |
Karl Marx | ... began essentially as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. According to | , industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie (those who own ... |
Dennis Rawlins | ... in the sky. In late 1975, prior to the formal launch of CSICOP, astronomer | , along with Paul Kurtz, George Abel and Marvin Zelen (all subsequent memb ... |
Warren Lewis | ... y on the money he earned from his writings. Others, including the historian | , attribute his retirement from the theater to qualms of conscience |
Polybius | ... by Rhodes, and that the assignment was only a protectorate. A fragment from | tells a slightly different version of the story, which has the Romans send ... |
Heinz Nawratil | The German lawyer | has published a study of the expulsions Schwarzbuch der Vertreibung (Black ... |
Josephus | ... mmortal, while in the other the honours paid are such as are due to a hero. | records (Antiquities 8.5.3), following Menander the historian, concerning ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... led the Empire novels or trilogy) is a science fiction sequence of three of | 's earliest novels, and extended to one short story. They are connected by ... |
Winston Churchill | ... g the war her photograph was a sign of resistance against the Germans. Like | , Queen Wilhelmina broadcast messages to the Dutch people over Radio Oranj ... |
Charles Champlin | ... ee deleted scenes, an alternate ending, commentary about the restoration by | and Robert Gitt, and a photo documentary with narration by film historian ... |
Jacob Viner | ... tilism dominated economic ideology for 250 years. One group, represented by | , argues that mercantilism was simply a straightforward, common-sense syst ... |
Jacob Burckhardt | Modern interpretations of Constantine's rule begin with | 's The Age of Constantine the Great (1853, rev. 1880). Burckhardt's Consta ... |
Ibn at Athir | ... , caused the place to be closed once more". Similar information is given in | 's Chronicle under the year 1119; "In this year was opened the tomb of Abr ... |
Paul Davidson | ... greater emphases on worker friendly policies and re-distribution. Robinson, | and Hyman Minsky were notable for emphasising the effects on the economy o ... |
Ban Gu | ... d Histories, such as the Book of Han written by Ban Biao (3–54 CE), his son | (32–92 CE), and his daughter Ban Zhao (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries ... |
Fred Patten | ... nal Japanese title of ああっ女神さまっ (Aa! Megami-sama!) proved to be problematic. | , in writing the preface to the collection "Watching Anime, Reading Manga: ... |
Pauline Maier | ... at were effectively state and local declarations of independence. Historian | identified more than ninety such declarations that were issued throughout ... |
Peter Heather | ... the Roman province of Raetia in the winter of 401/402. From this, historian | concludes that at this time the Vandals were located in the region around ... |
Adam Ulam | ... anz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, | , Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Co ... |
Ban Biao | ... of imperial China's Standard Histories, such as the Book of Han written by | (3–54 CE), his son Ban Gu (32–92 CE), and his daughter Ban Zhao (45–116 CE ... |
Stephen Stigler | In his later years he took a deep interest in probability. | feels that he became interested in the subject while reviewing a work writ ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... elieving that anything that could be given a name must refer to a thing and | and others have criticized psychologists for doing just that. A committed ... |
Richard Trexler | ... rature record and in legal documents. At the end of the 12th century, notes | , Roman women threw their newborns into the Tiber river in daylight |
Guillaume de Nangis | ... anied by textual allegory. By the late 13th century, an allegorical poem by | (d. 1300), written at the abbey of Joyenval at Chambourcy, relates how the ... |
Paul Davidson | ... ced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor and | . Keynes's biographer Lord Skidelsky writes that the Post Keynesian school ... |
Winston Churchill | ... on was 12,790 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Callaway County. | made his famous "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech in Fulton at Westm ... |
Thucydides | ... t of the Ionic dialect group. "Old Attic" is a term used for the dialect of | (460-400 BC) and the dramatists of Athens' remarkable 5th century; "" is u ... |
Thucydides | ... he works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and | , and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides |
Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the |
Plutarch | ... es, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, | , Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
Joseph Justus Scaliger | ... uninterrupted happiness, and by the birth of fifteen children who included | |
John of Worcester | ... hter of Ælfhelm, ealdorman of southern Northumbria, who was killed in 1006. | names his wife Wulfrun, but it is possible that he had her confused with t ... |
Thomas Carlyle | ... rongly, and many would say harmfully, influenced by Romanticism. In English | was a highly influential essayist who turned historian, and both invented ... |
Oliver Cowdery | ... tions. This committee of Presiding Elders, consisting of Joseph Smith, Jr., | , Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams, began to review and revise num ... |
Hans Jonas | ... ew that the world consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities. | writes: "The cardinal feature of gnostic thought is the radical dualism th ... |
Edward Gibbon | ... nce. For his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–89), | , aiming to unite the two extremes of Constantinian scholarship, offered a ... |
Robert of Torigni | ... f the events of Becket's life in the chroniclers of the time. These include | 's work, Roger of Howden's Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi and Chronica, Ralph ... |
David W. Blight | The historian | described the day |
John Boswell | ... ] hold it shameful to kill any unwanted child." Modern scholarship differs. | believed that in ancient Germanic tribes unwanted children were exposed, u ... |
Andreas Alföldi | ... es' Constantine the Great and the Christian Church (1929) and reinforced by | 's The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome (1948), a historiographic ... |
Ronald Hutton | According to historian | , the current state of observance of Christmas is largely the result of a ... |
Richard Schickel | ... g Ryan beguiles in three different roles." Fifteen years later, Time critic | listed it as one of his "Guilty Pleasures"; while acknowledging "there are ... |
David Dumville | ... y the supposed Arthurian connection to the site. Following the arguments of | , Alcock felt the site was too late and too uncertain to be a tenable Came ... |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton | ... nard, married Laura Charlotte Haliburton, daughter of author and politician | . The couple had three sons and one daughter |
Julius Caesar | ... hillfort". At Roman contact, it was a town of the Suessiones, mentioned by | (B. G. ii. 12). Caesar (B.C. 57), after leaving the Axona (modern Aisne), ... |
Nikolay Karamzin | ... of the Lethe, 1809), Vasily Zhukovsky (The Bard, 1811; Svetlana, 1813) and | (Poor Liza, 1792; Julia, 1796; Martha the Mayoress, 1802; The Sensitive an ... |
Paul Davidson | ... in the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (founded by Sidney Weintraub and | ), the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Review of Political Economy and ... |
John Kricfalusi | ... forced to drastically compact his sets, and animation director and designer | had to push his team, including Lynne Naylor, Jim Smith and Bob Jaques, to ... |
François Truffaut | ... rançois and Andrej." This is a reference to fellow filmmakers Yasujiro Ozu, | , and Andrei Tarkovsky |
Tacitus | In his book Germania, | wrote that the ancient Germanic tribes enforced a similar prohibition. He ... |
Sir John Summerson | ... ce on palatial architecture, published in 1510. The architectural historian | asserts that the palace shows "the essence of Wolsey—the plain English chu ... |
Oliver Cowdery | ... ined 65 early revelations to church leaders including Joseph Smith, Jr. and | . Before many copies of the book could be printed, however, the printing p ... |
Herodotus | ... be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like | and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripi ... |
Stefano Infessura | The chronicler | 's republican and anti-papal temper makes his diary a far from neutral tho ... |
Ban Zhao | ... written by Ban Biao (3–54 CE), his son Ban Gu (32–92 CE), and his daughter | (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries such as the Shuowen Jiezi by Xu Shen ... |
Silius Italicus | ... nibal belonged, claimed descent from a younger brother of Dido according to | in his Punica (1.71–7) |
Paul Davidson | ... ndency, and the key differences between the primary and industrial sectors. | follows Keynes closely in placing time and uncertainty at the centre of th ... |
Charlotte Brewer | ... trends in textual criticism, critical theory, and the history of the book, | , among others, suggests that scribes and their supervisors be regarded as ... |
Strabo | ... sternmost temple of Tyrian Heracles, near the eastern shore of the island ( | 3.5.2–3). Strabo notes (3.5.5–6) that the two bronze pillars within the te ... |
Josephus | ... corded that the Jews "regard it as a crime to kill any late-born children." | , whose works give an important insight into 1st-century Judaism, wrote th ... |
Ronald Hutton | ... ition for the word "shamanism" among anthropologists. The English historian | noted that by the dawn of the 21st century, there were four separate defin ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... ed by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and | (Brian Cox) have formed |
Edward Augustus Freeman | ... mpshire, an event commemorated in 1825 by the erection of Dead Man's Plack. | debunks the Æthelwald story as a "tissue of romance" in his Historic essay ... |
Burke | ... of a National Liberal school of thought. Sybel had been much influenced by | , on whom he had published two essays. The work was in fact the first atte ... |
Bede | Historians since | have traditionally represented the years preceding AD 1 as "1 BC", "2 BC", ... |
Geoffrey Ashe | ... trade) and Saxon artifacts. The use of the name Camelot and the support of | helped ensure much publicity for the finds, but Alcock himself later grew ... |
Mircea Eliade | ... ve been a dominant religious practice for humanity during the Palaeolithic. | writes, "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the le ... |
Joan Robinson | ... subsequent development was influenced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, | , Nicholas Kaldor and Paul Davidson. Keynes's biographer Lord Skidelsky wr ... |
Vincent Canby | The film earned mixed reviews from critics. | wrote "Not since Howard the Duck has there been a big-budget comedy with f ... |
Thor Heyerdahl | Many species were introduced to the Galápagos by pirates. | quoted documents that mention the Viceroy of Peru, knowing that British pi ... |
Tertullian | ... y new historical situation. This view influences later Ambrose of Milan and | , who wrote about the virgin birth of the Mother of God. The donor of a ne ... |
Karl Dietrich Bracher | The German historian | , whose work is primarily concerned with Nazi Germany, argues that the "to ... |
Sir Edward Hyde | ... g as stewards once again, but after her death Charles II gave the castle to | , whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon and Earl of Clarendon. The ruined c ... |
Roger Ebert | Wings of Desire received "Two Thumbs Up" from Gene Siskel and | on Siskel & Ebert & The Movies. Leslie James of 680 News Toronto claims it ... |
Perry Miller | In his The New England Mind, | writes about the Encyclopaedia |
Michael Wood | ... and 650 BC, the one from Mykonos being known as the Mykonos Vase. Historian | , however, dates the Mykonos Vase to the 8th century BC, some 500 years af ... |
Winston Churchill | ... as Adam Smith represented the ideals of classical liberalism. After the war | attempted to check the rise of Keynesian policy-making in the United Kingd ... |
Ramsay MacMullen | ... ories by A.H.M. Jones (Constantine and the Conversion of Europe (1949)) and | (Constantine (1969)) gave portraits of a less visionary, and more impulsiv ... |
Xenophon | ... be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers, Plato (427–347 BC), | (c. 430–354 BC), and Aristotle ("The Father of Political Science") (384–32 ... |
David Hume | ... rous first-class minds in the sciences including John Playfair, philosopher | and economist Adam Smith. Hutton held no position in Edinburgh University ... |
Herodotus | ... and the Iron Age in Europe and the Middle East. The ancient Greek historian | states in The Histories of the 5th century BC that Glaucus of Chios "was t ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ibuted to it, but there's no disbelieving the grim evidence on the screen." | gave it (3.5 out of four stars) and called it "new and fresh and not shy o ... |
Jordanes | ... known as the Sword of Attila, because of the Miholjanec legend and because | embellished the report of Priscus with a fairytale by describing that Atti ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... aid to be "one in being with The Father," in direct opposition to Arianism. | ascribes the term homoousios, or consubstantial, i.e., "of the same substa ... |
Sorel | ... itical investigation which was carried on with such brilliance by Taine and | |
Leslie Alcock | ... aeological dig in the 20th century. These excavations, led by archaeologist | from 1966–70, were titled "Cadbury-Camelot," and won much media attention, ... |
John of Viktring | The ceremony was first described by the chronicler | on the occasion of the coronation of Meinhard II of Tyrol in 1286. It is a ... |
Ralph Winston Fox | ... ssued, saying: "[t]oday, our advance continued without loss of land". Poets | and John Cornford were killed. Eventually, the Nationalists advanced, taki ... |
Jordanes | According to | ' Getica, the Hasdingi came into conflict with the Goths around the time o ... |
Livy | Hannibal was a faithful worshiper of Melqart: the Roman historian | records the legend that just before setting off on his march to Italy he m ... |
Julius Caesar | In 44 BC | added two plebeian aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the ca ... |
Dumville | ... tten in his name in certain manuscripts. However, more recent scholarship ( | , 1985) dismisses the Nennian preface as a late forgery, and argues for ch ... |
Hume | ... n or vision or intent, nor vice versa - a distinction sometimes credited to | who distinguished also the morality of a statement from its truth. The ver ... |
Roger Ebert | ... a sterling cast, and a wonderful one from newcomer Keisha Castle- Hughes." | gave the film four out of four stars and said, "The genius of the movie is ... |
Nicander | ... n attacks Artemis while hunting on Chios, and the Scorpion kills him there. | , in his Theriaca, has the scorpion of ordinary size and hiding under a sm ... |
Ammianus Marcellinus | ... that the Delphic Pythia sent a lord of Croton to be cured of a chest wound. | (XXII.8) attributes the healing to waters (aquae) on the island |
Joan Robinson | ... ideas and insights. However even in the early years Post Keynesians such as | sought to distance themselves from Keynes himself and much current Post Ke ... |
Brian Johnston | ... ith Bremner impersonating cricket commentators, including Richie Benaud and | , and replacing references to the Vietnam War with references to the Engla ... |
Constantine Zuckerman | Drastically revising the chronology of the Primary Chronicle, | argues that Igor actually reigned for three years, between summer 941 and ... |
James Elkins | ... m modern to postmodern include 1914 in Europe, and 1962 or 1968 in America. | , commenting on discussions about the exact date of the transition from mo ... |
Livy | According to | (vi. 42), after the passing of the Licinian rogations in 367 BC, an extra ... |
David P. Chandler | ... the Khmer language and have published works about Cambodia are Ben Kiernan, | and Michael Vickery. Nayan Chanda, the Indochina correspondent of the Far ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... the "Most overrated" and "Most underrated" authors, Thomas Disch identified | and Gene Wolfe, respectively, writing: "...all too many have already gone ... |
Carl Joachim Friedrich | ... , Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, | and Juan Linz describe totalitarianism in slightly different ways. They al ... |
Thomas Carlyle | ... c after reading Dickens's Christmas books and vowed to give generously; and | expressed a generous hospitality by staging two Christmas dinners after re ... |
Richie Benaud | ... ber one hit, 19, with Bremner impersonating cricket commentators, including | and Brian Johnston, and replacing references to the Vietnam War with refer ... |
David Hume | ... ho traced the idea back through the Principle of Laplace to the philosopher | .) CSI members argue that none of the paranormal claims have met the stric ... |
John J. Robinson | ... as suggested, in the book Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by | , that the Templars went underground among masons in England and later dev ... |
Strabo | ... us, protector of the blacksmiths; he owned another two at Etna and Olympus. | also mentions Thermessa as sacred place of Hephaestus (ἱερὰ Ἡφαίστου), but ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... z Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and | . In the years 2010 and 2011, the Times Higher Education ranked the Univer ... |
Christian Gerlach | ... us the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe! | has argued for a different timeframe, suggesting the decision was made by ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... April 26 to mid-June. By 1916, the June 3 birthday of Confederate President | was observed as a state holiday in 10 southern states. Across the South, a ... |
Karl Dietrich Bracher | ... ond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, | , Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan Linz describe totalitarianism in slightl ... |
Leo the Deacon | Igor was killed while collecting tribute from the Drevlians in 945 ( | describes how Igor met his death: "They had bent down two birch trees to t ... |
Bede | ... mpose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century monk | . He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational rel ... |
Tertullian | ... ommand. So widely accepted was this teaching in Christendom that apologists | , Athenagoras, Minucius Felix, Justin Martyr and Lactantius also maintaine ... |
Alexander McKee | ... er Das Reich claimed that this had occurred. For example, British historian | in Dresden 1945 (1982) quotes eyewitnesses who state that strafing did occ ... |
Paul Veyne | ... ed Christian from early childhood. A similar view of Constantine is held in | 's recent (2007) work, Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien, which does n ... |
Jean Bodin | ... g Italy's Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) and Antonio Serra (1580-?); France's, | , Colbert and other physiocrats precursors; and the Spanish School of Sala ... |
Pavel Polian | ... he Soviet archives have been accessible to researchers. The Russian scholar | in 2001 published an account of the deportations during the Soviet era, , ... |
William Whewell | English philosopher and historian of science | coined the term scientist in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's ... |
Samuel Daniel's | ... en consulted, and scholars have supposed that Shakespeare was familiar with | poem on the civil wars |
Alfred Duggan | ... onze God of Rhodes, which largely concerns itself with his siege of Rhodes. | 's novel Elephants and Castles provides a lively fictionalised account of ... |
Griselda Pollock | ... ged, such as Michael Fried, T. J. Clark, Rosalind Krauss, Linda Nochlin and | among others. Though only originally intended as a way of understanding a ... |
Snorri Sturluson | In the Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century by | , Hel is referred to, though never by name. In chapter 17, the king Dyggvi ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ng and provocative story led by an excellent performance by Edward Norton." | gave the film three out of four stars, regarding it as "always interesting ... |
Livy | ... ulation of the public markets, or what we might call "economic regulation". | suggests, perhaps incorrectly, that both Curule as well as Plebeian Aedile ... |
Edward Hall's | ... ion of the second edition in 1587 provides a terminus ad quem for the play. | The Union of the Two Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York appears al ... |
Michael Fried | After Greenberg, several important art theorists emerged, such as | , T. J. Clark, Rosalind Krauss, Linda Nochlin and Griselda Pollock among o ... |
L. Sprague de Camp | Demetrius appears (under the Greek form of his name, Demetrios) in | 's historical novel, The Bronze God of Rhodes, which largely concerns itse ... |
Plutarch | ... asury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep it safe from Persia. However, | indicates that many of Pericles' rivals viewed the transfer to Athens as u ... |
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas | ... eration of Expellees staunchly defending the higher figure. The writings of | and Rudolph Rummel continue to remain influential in the English speaking ... |
François Truffaut | ... red in Fahrenheit 451 (1966), an adaptation of Bradbury's novel directed by | |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... eir numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from Chester A. Arthur to | . Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all gradually faded from ... |
Roger Ebert | ... pisode." Time also criticized the film's score as absurd and anachronistic. | did not like it. "The movie starts promisingly... a scene where Butch puts ... |
David Garrow | King biographer | disagrees with William F. Pepper's claims that the government killed King. ... |
Sir Paul Hasluck | ... New South Wales in 1972. He was knighted in the New Year's Honours of 1974. | was due to retire as Governor-General in July 1974, and the Prime Minister ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... passive. The stigma began to fall away in the early 1900s when the popular | was regularly photographed wearing eyeglasses, and in the 1910s when popul ... |
Karl Marx | ... attach to their own actions. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and | , as one of the three principal architects of modern social science |
Linda Nochlin | ... art theorists emerged, such as Michael Fried, T. J. Clark, Rosalind Krauss, | and Griselda Pollock among others. Though only originally intended as a wa ... |
Hippolytus | ... ne, the followers of Marcellina use the term gnostikos of themselves. Later | uses "learned" (gnostikos) of Cerinthus and the Ebionites, and applied "le ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... uch as lecturing at Birkbeck College, University of London. The philosopher | took an interest in Vivienne while the newlyweds stayed in his flat. Some ... |
Hannah Arendt | In The Origins of Totalitarianism, | argued that Nazi and State communist regimes were new forms of government, ... |
Onofrio Panvinio | The 16th-century Italian historian | , commenting on one of Bartolomeo Platina's works that refer to Pope Joan, ... |
Voltaire | ... d much attention. Later deism spread to France, notably through the work of | , to Germany, and to America |
Hippolyte Taine | ... na and in 1904 earned a doctoral degree with a thesis on "The Philosophy of | ". Religion did not play a central role in his education. "My mother and f ... |
Lord Acton | ... ecursor of state crimes in the 20th Century. Others, including Macaulay and | , have historicized Machiavelli's Borgia, explaining the admiration for su ... |
Lester B. Pearson | ... as actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs | in the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Sue ... |
Tertullian | It was in the West that precise definition of the doctrine arose. | , Cyprian, Ambrose and Ambrosiaster considered that mankind shares in Adam ... |
Strabo | ... ea by a line of sandhills and connected with it by a channel of Roman date: | speaks of it as a small harbor) north of the west end of the promontory. H ... |
Mary Boyce | ... o be worshipped in the 1st century BC, and to whom an old name was applied. | , a researcher of ancient Iranian religions, writes that even though Roman ... |
Frederick Jackson Turner | ... id-Atlantic region, including Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania. | wrote in 1893 about the important role the Mid-Atlantic or "Middle region" ... |
Philostorgius | ... efer to conflicts between Fritigern and Athanaric. Ammianus Marcellinus and | do not record such conflicts |
Michael Barrier | ... esult as a "typical 1967 limited-animation theatrical". Animation historian | called the film "an offensively bad picture, the kind that makes people wh ... |
Sulpicius Severus | ... contemporary source for the career of Priscillian is the Gallic chronicler | , who characterized him (Chronica II.46) as noble and rich, a layman who h ... |
François Truffaut | ... able directors known for their existentialist films include Ingmar Bergman, | , Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, Terrence Malick ... |
George Sarton | ... r its description of contagious diseases and sexually transmitted diseases, | , Introduction to the History of Science. (cf. Dr. A. Zahoor and Dr. Z. Ha ... |
Zosimus | Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, and | refer to conflicts between Fritigern and Athanaric. Ammianus Marcellinus a ... |
Julius Caesar | ... m in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son of | and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occ ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... declined to return to duty; instead, encouraged by pacifist friends such as | and Lady Ottoline Morrell, he sent a letter to his commanding officer, tit ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ambivalent reviews, but many film critics complimented Dunst's performance. | commented that Dunst's creation of the child vampire Claudia was one of th ... |
Hans Jonas | ... . Thinkers who were heavily influenced by Gnosticism in this period include | , Philip K. Dick and Harold Bloom, with Albert Camus and Allen Ginsberg be ... |
Whitelaw Reid | ... emstone hoax. Meanwhile, as Greeley had been pursuing his political career, | , owner of the New York Herald, had gained control of the Tribune |
Mark Kermode | ... e writer Jo Nesbø's novel The Snowman. In an interview discussing Hugo with | and Simon Mayo on their BBC Podcast Scorsese mentioned that he is working ... |
Adam Hochschild | In King Leopold's Ghost (1998), | argues that literary scholars have made too much of the psychological aspe ... |
Voltaire | ... inting. The collection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, | , Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas H ... |
Arrian | ... the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to | , but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, ... |
Victor Davis Hanson | ... r been out of print and has been adapted for film four times. The historian | has argued that the novel drew from Wallace's life, particularly his exper ... |
Ammianus Marcellinus | ... s, Sozomen, and Zosimus refer to conflicts between Fritigern and Athanaric. | and Philostorgius do not record such conflicts |
Saxo Grammaticus | ... An episode in the Latin work Gesta Danorum, written in the 12th century by | , is generally considered to refer to Hel, and Hel may appear on various M ... |
Josephus | ... uscripts — the Dead Sea Scrolls text of Samuel, the first-century historian | , and the fourth century Septuagint manuscripts — all give his height as " ... |
Sozomen | Socrates Scholasticus, | , and Zosimus refer to conflicts between Fritigern and Athanaric. Ammianus ... |
Joseph Spence | ... e difficult by his own reluctance to leave records. Alexander Pope noted to | that Arbuthnot allowed his infant children to play with, and even burn, hi ... |
Peter Gay | ... particular deist author as "a constructive deist" or "a critical deist". As | notes |
Plutarch | ... orem occurred five centuries after his death, in the writings of Cicero and | |
Karl Marx | ... itutions led by a spontaneous uprising of the working class as predicted by | . On 25 January 1918, at the Petrograd Soviet, Lenin declared "Long live t ... |
Ixtlilxochitl | ... ochimilco, wagering his annual income against several Xochimilco chinampas. | , a contemporary of Torquemada, relates that Topiltzin, the Toltec king, p ... |
Kim Newman | The Anno Dracula series by | —named after Anno Dracula (1992), the series' first novel—is a work of fan ... |
Steven Runciman | The prominent medievalist | , writing in 1954, stated that "There was never a greater crime against hu ... |
George McGovern | ... e Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Dole joined liberal Senator | to lower eligibility requirements for federal food stamps, a liberal goal ... |
Lewis Mumford | ... e traditional, supply-oriented interpretation of the Industrial Revolution. | has proposed that the Industrial Revolution had its origins in the Early M ... |
Winston Churchill | ... provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of | , George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World Wa ... |
Winston Churchill | Mountbatten was a favourite of | (although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famou ... |
Plutarch | ... ed near Athens, once Aegina was under Athenian's power. The Greek historian | (46 AD–120 AD) also refers to an instance during the Parthenon's construct ... |
Diodorus Siculus | ... lexander the Great, described that the infants rolled into the flaming pit. | wrote that babies were roasted to death inside the burning pit of the god ... |
Titus Livius | ... Alba Longa, according to the traditional history of the city handed down by | . He was the successor (and probably son) of Capetus, the eighth king of A ... |
David Hume | ... ose of natural theology. This became a point of attack for thinkers such as | as they studied the "natural history of religion" |
Gregory of Tours | ... his classical pagan education, already being looked on with misgivings (see | ). He was an ascetic mystic and regarded the Christian life as continual i ... |
Alfred Thayer Mahan | ... ting vote from the United States. The American representative, Navy Captain | , justified voting against the measure on the grounds that "the inventiven ... |
Theodor Mommsen | ... the two works have sometimes been attributed to different writers. However, | has shown that the Mathesis was composed in the year 336 and not in 354 as ... |
John Kricfalusi | ... r the Stash label. Around this time, the director of The Ren & Stimpy Show, | , began hot-wiring his cartoon episodes with original Scott quintette reco ... |
Polybius | ... horities, the most important of which was a lost treatise on the subject by | . Perhaps the chief value of Aelian's work lies in his critical account of ... |
Philipp Spitta | ... l musicologists started considering him an important composer, particularly | , who was one of the first researchers to trace Pachelbel's role in the de ... |
Jordanes | ... ar (Isl. Gotar, OEng. Gotenas); on the other, however, the Gothic historian | wrote that the Goths came originally from Dacia to the island of Scandza. ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... of most soviets at the second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, while he and | simultaneously led the October Revolution. As a matter of political pragma ... |
Herodotus | By the time of | (c. 475 BCE), the Royal Road of the Persian Empire ran some 2,857 km from ... |
E. H. Carr | ... stern World (published as a book in 1946), the pro-Soviet British historian | claimed that "The trend away from individualism and towards totalitarianis ... |
Julius Caesar | ... risis and social unrest. Into this turbulent scenario emerged the figure of | . Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Cra ... |
François Truffaut | ... or the set design in his own productions. In his book-length interview with | , Hitchcock/Truffaut (Simon and Schuster, 1967), Hitchcock also said he wa ... |
Julius Caesar | ... Among those who performed this duty in connection with particular roads was | , who became curator (67 BC) of the Via Appia, and spent his own money lib ... |
David Starkey | ... ibuted to the perception that he is "a cantankerous old sod". The historian | has described him as a kind of " H.R.H Victor Meldrew". For example, in Ma ... |
John Leland | ... n's Tale or another ploughman text and thought it was Piers Plowman. (E.g., | , William Prynne, possibly John Milton, and John Dryden.) Given the diffus ... |
Ammianus Marcellinus | ... thi are all attested no earlier than 388. The Greuthungi are first named by | , writing no earlier than 392 and perhaps later than 395, and basing his a ... |
John Arlott | ... cademics, journalists, writers, actors and musicians. Its sponsors included | , Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britt ... |
Amatus of Monte Cassino | ... this date exists in the Chronica monasterii Cassinensis by Leo of Ostia and | gives us our best source on the early Normans in the south |
Dallin H. Oaks | ... , with ten stakes and over 100 wards being added during his administration. | replaced Wilkinson as President in 1971. Oaks continued the expansion of h ... |
Lester B. Pearson | Prime Minister | in 1964 said one song would have to be chosen as the country's national an ... |
Howard Sachar | ... s then called Revisionist Zionism founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. According to | , "The policy of the new organization was based squarely on Jabotinsky's t ... |
Herodotus | ... nection has been a long-standing subject of conjecture. The Greek historian | stated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in Virgil's epic poem ... |
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas | The Spanish record two different stories about what happened next. | writing in the 17th century, records that Olid's soldiers rose up and murd ... |
G. M. Trevelyan | According to the historian | , they were two of the best magistrates in eighteenth-century London, and ... |
Frederick York Powell | ... 03 and became Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford in succession to | in 1904. Firth's historical work was almost entirely confined to English h ... |
Caesar | ... later speculatively 'identified' by the writer Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) as | (100–44 BC) and Pompey (106–48 BC) responsible for the decline of the Roma ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... his beliefs. Hippolytus and Methodius of Olympus also mention or quote him. | deals with him at some length, and names the following works |
Tacitus | ... he ideas and customs of other peoples, which often diverged from their own. | recorded that the Jews "regard it as a crime to kill any late-born childre ... |
Julius Caesar | at:44 text: | murdered. (44 BCE |
Julius Caesar | ... e Saint-Paul. Bernadotte himself added Jules to his first names later, from | , in the classicizing spirit of the French Revolution |
Julius Caesar | ... n Aurelian's time. (It had already been damaged by fire during the visit of | to Alexandria. |
Tertullian | The doctrine also derives in part from a repudiation of Greek thought by | , who argued that a material body was created for each immaterial soul |
Christopher Hussey | ... a favourable account of his talent in Marie-Luise Gothein's which predated | 's positive account of Brown in The Picturesque (1927). Dorothy Stroud wro ... |
Tacitus | ... hem, had their heads shaved at Paul's expense. Among the ancient Chatti, as | relates (Germania, 31), young men allowed their hair and beards to grow, a ... |
Philippe de Commines | The Croyland Chronicle, Dominic Mancini, and | all state that the rumour of the princes' death was current in England by ... |
Neltje Blanchan | ... l marker commemorates the events, including the last great nesting in 1878. | , in her book Birds That Hunt and Are Hunted documented that over a millio ... |
Roger Ebert | Some critics and Hitchcock scholars, including Donald Spoto and | , agree that Vertigo represents the director's most personal and revealing ... |
Julius Caesar | In 42 BC, | was formally deified as "the divine Julius" (divus Iulius). His adopted so ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... n the east and 800 in the west), but a smaller and unknown number attended. | counted 220, Athanasius of Alexandria counted 318, and Eustathius of Antio ... |
Herodotus | According to | |
Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur | ... r King Louis XV, under the supervision of two intendants (Governors), first | then the Marquis (Marquess) de Tourny |
Henry Chadwick | The modern assessment of Priscillian is summed up in Cambridge professor | 's Priscillian of Avila: The Occult and the Charismatic in the Early Churc ... |
John of Fordun | ... s made in the 11th century. According to the fourteenth-century chronicler, | , Malcolm III, King of Scotland (reign 1058–93) married his second bride, ... |
Julius Caesar | at:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~Antipater aid | at Alexandri |
Gregory of Tours | ... In a change of alliances, he also joined forces with Odoacer, according to | , to stop a band of the Alamanni who wished to invade Italy |
Edmond S. Meany | According to | the word moclips comes from a Quinault word meaning a place where girls we ... |
Arrian | ... ut Darius was still outflanked, defeated, and forced to flee. It is told by | that at the Battle of Issus the moment the Persian left went to pieces und ... |
Antipater | at:48 text:Pompey murdered (48 BCE); Hyrcanus and~ | aid Julius Caesar at Alexandri |
Yezid Sayigh | ... ves for human rights, democracy and an open society. According to professor | of the King's College in London, how influential this view is within Hamas ... |
Tertullian | ... ple. Irenaeus quotes Justin twice, and shows his influence in other places. | , in his Adversus Valentinianos, calls Justin a philosopher and martyr, an ... |
Jim Webb | ... 2006, both parties have seen success. In the 2006 Senate election, Democrat | won on a populist platform over the Republican incumbent following a very ... |
Mike Davis | ... of India were affected and millions died, and Curzon has been criticised by | , an American Marxist, for allegedly having done little to fight the famin ... |
Voltaire | ... ving observed it in Istanbul, where her husband was the British ambassador. | , writing of this, estimates that at this time 60% of the population caugh ... |
John Leland | ... nts of Greek that England possessed". Lily's pupils included William Paget, | , Antony Denny, Thomas Wriothesley and Edward North, 1st Baron North. The ... |
Ralph Emerson Twitchell | Historian | once claimed regarding the Old West, "Without exception there was no town ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... stablished in 1906. Kermit was named for Kermit Roosevelt, son of President | , and incorporated in 1909 |
Pevsner | ... uding most of the black-and-white buildings, is Victorian, a result of what | termed the "black-and-white revival" |
Walter Laqueur | ... rs such as Lawrence Aronsen, Richard Pipes, Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, | , Karl Popper, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, C ... |
Américo Castro | Advocates of the New Christian theory, first set forth by | , often suggest Cervantes' mother was a converso. The theory is almost exc ... |
Norman Finkelstein | According to political scientist | transfer was considered as an acceptable solution to the problems of ethni ... |
David Dumville | ... ing with his arrival in Britain with his father Cerdic in 495, are correct. | has suggested that his true regnal dates are 554-581 |
Forrest J Ackerman | ... ublish science fiction stories in fanzines in 1938. Bradbury was invited by | to attend the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met a ... |
Theodor Schieder | ... t the fate of the Germans in eastern Europe. The head of the commission was | , a rehabilitated former member of the Nazi party, and a Nazi Lebensraum c ... |
Howard Zinn | Damon narrated the audiobook version of historian | 's A People's History of the United States, published in 2003. Zinn had be ... |
Stefano Infessura | ... ander VI, was the first pope who openly recognized his children by a lover. | writes that Cardinal Borgia falsely claimed Cesare to be the legitimate so ... |
Ismar Elbogen | ... died under some of the finest Jewish educators of the time: Chanoch Albeck, | , Julius Guttmann, and Leo Baeck. Heschel later taught Talmud there. He jo ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... on was the previous African-American to have dined at the White House, with | in 1901 |
David Landes | Some historians such as | and Max Weber credit the different belief systems in China and Europe with ... |
Howard Colvin | ... lf, which had belonged to Inigo Jones and his pupil John Webb. According to | , "Burlington's mission was to reinstate in Augustan England the canons of ... |
Anna Komnene | ... rence and exclusion, (the word barbarian was used by 12th century historian | to describe non-Greek speakers), a sense of Greek identity and common sens ... |
Abraham ibn Daud | ... is is also the view expressed by some classical Jewish authorities, such as | , Abraham ibn Ezra, and Gersonides |
George Sarton | ... y Books. In strongly worded terms, historians of science Lynn Thorndike and | have dismissed these claims as unsupported |
Lynn Thorndike | ... ubleday and Broadway Books. In strongly worded terms, historians of science | and George Sarton have dismissed these claims as unsupported |
John Leland | In 1542 | reported the locals around Cadbury Castle in Somerset considered it to be ... |
Norman Rosenthal | ... s commissioned by the Anthony d'Offay Gallery for the exhibition curated by | and Max Wigram at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2000 |
Snorri Sturluson | ... al; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written in the 13th century by | ; in the poetry of skalds; and on an Old Norse runic inscription found in ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... ere inspired by the concept of direct democracy are: Cornelius Castoriadis, | , and Pierre Clastres |
David Thomson | ... for Hughes, including Angel Face, directed by Otto Preminger. According to | "if she had made only one film – Angel Face – she might now be spoken of w ... |
Giorgio Vasari | The sources for Paolo Uccello’s life are few: | ’s biography, written 75 years after Paolo’s death, and a few contemporary ... |
Plutarch | ... emeteries were merely the cremated remains of children that died naturally. | (ca. 46–120 AD) mentions the practice, as do Tertullian, Orosius, Diodorus ... |
Alan Lomax | ... chers included , founder of the Archive of American Folk Song, and John and | ; Alan Lomax was the most prominent of several folk song collectors who he ... |
August Neander | ... lische Kirchentag, and two years later founded and edited (1850-1861), with | and Karl Nitzsch, the Deutsche Zeitschrift für christliche Wissenschaft un ... |
Suetonius | The Roman historians | and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium (acc ... |
François Truffaut | ... e MacGuffin is a stolen set of design plans. Hitchcock told French director | |
Karl Marx | ... him; influenced by Albert Brisbane he promoted Fourierism. His journal had | (as well as Friedrich Engels) as European correspondent in the early 1850s ... |
Tillemont | ... November according to the Liber Pontificalis, but on 10 April according to | |
Stansfield Turner | Former CIA chief, Admiral | , claimed that De Beers restricted US access to industrial diamonds needed ... |
Voltaire | Catherine enlisted | to her cause, and corresponded with him for 15 years, from her accession t ... |
Karl Marx | ... kbinder Eugène Varlin, an associate of Michael Bakunin and correspondent of | , and by other radicals) for the creation of a "Committee of Public Safety ... |
Prosper Mérimée | ... ch Romanticism, stating that "there are no rules, or models". The career of | followed a similar pattern; he is now best known as the originator of the ... |
Herodotus | ... ncluding the poet Anacreon) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke ( | i.168). The chief coin type, a griffon, is identical with that of Teos; th ... |
Strabo | ... ves, often giving them names such as "copro -" to memorialise their rescue. | considered it a peculiarity of the Egyptians that every child must be rear ... |
Petrarch | ... to devote himself to poetical composition. He is an undisguised follower of | , carrying the imitation to such a point that he addressed his Cants d'amo ... |
Adam of Bremen | ... described by German monks: Helmold in the manuscript Chronicon Slavorum and | in Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum. The Polabian language surviv ... |
Venerable Bede | In the 8th century, a famous epigram attributed to the | celebrated the symbolic significance of the statue in a prophecy that is v ... |
Hans-Ulrich Wehler | ... n settlers. The other members of the commission included Martin Broszat and | , Schieder's students. In September 1953, West German minister for expelle ... |
Leopold Labedz | Scholars such as Lawrence Aronsen, Richard Pipes, | , Franz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Scha ... |
Roger Ebert | ... am of the Crop" designation) and a 76 metascore on Metacritic. The film led | to call Reiner "one of Hollywood's very best directors of comedy", and sai ... |
Herwig Wolfram | ... entions that they together with the Gruthungi inhabit Phrygia. According to | , the primary sources either use the terminology of Tervingi/Greuthungi or ... |
Julian P. Boyd | ... Archives is usually regarded as the Declaration of Independence, historian | argued that the Declaration, like Magna Carta, is not a single document. B ... |
Henry Corbin | ... and orthodoxy in relation to spiritual mysticism, such as the mysticism of | , Thelema, and even in fiction such as The Theologians by Jorge Luis Borge ... |
Peter Ackroyd | Little Dorrit formed the backdrop to | 's debut novel, The Great Fire of London (1982) |
Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers |
Martin Broszat | ... te "room" for German settlers. The other members of the commission included | and Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Schieder's students. In September 1953, West Germa ... |
Avi Shlaim | ... mission, without the consent of their commander, as described by historian | |
Helmold | ... germanization. Early forms of germanization were described by German monks: | in the manuscript Chronicon Slavorum and Adam of Bremen in Gesta Hammaburg ... |
Giorgio Vasari | ... ician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. | in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his in ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... e. Biodiversity became a cause of major concern as habitat destruction, and | 's theory of punctuated equilibrium revolutionized evolutionary thought |
Polybius | The last ruler in the region was probably Subhagasena (Sophagasenus of | ), who, in all probability, belonged to the Ashvaka (q.v.) background |
Adam of Usk | ... Boccaccio wrote about her in De Mulieribus Claris (1353). The Chronicon of | (1404) gives her a name, Agnes, and furthermore mentions a statue in Rome ... |
Livy | According to | , the hill first became part of the city of Rome, along with the Viminal H ... |
Zosimus | ... s to corrupt officials or soldiers. A secretary of Aurelian (called Eros by | ) had told a lie on a minor issue. In fear of what the Emperor might do, h ... |
Jordanes | ... e the Vesi/Visigothi and the Greuthungi the Ostrogothi is also supported by | . He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to Alaric II as the hei ... |
Alex Haley | ... g them QB VII, and Rich Man, Poor Man. The most successful, Roots, based on | 's novel, became one of the biggest hits in television history. Combined w ... |
Pompeius Trogus | ... l authors give two dates for the founding of Carthage. The first is that of | , mentioned above, that says this took place 72 years before the foundatio ... |
Ammianus Marcellinus | ... d Zosimus (New History 4, 34, 3-5) affirm this, but a more reliable source, | (Res gestae 27, 5, 10) tells us an entirely different story. According to ... |
Emil Fackenheim | | is known for his understanding that people must look carefully at the Holo ... |
Blind Harry | ... an early date a castle on the island. Sir Robert de Lawedre is mentioned by | in The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir Willi ... |
Herodotus | ... 85); Hyde may have been the name of the district where Sardis stood. Later, | (Histories i. 7) adds that the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their ... |
Harry Turtledove | ... fictional Byzantine Emperor ruling in the beginning of the 14th century in | 's alternate history novel Agent of Byzantium |
Juan Ignacio Molina | According to | , the Dutch captain Joris van Spilbergen observed the use of chiliquenes ( ... |
Jordanes | ... of the Lugian federation, which was composed of Germanic and Slavic tribes. | refers to Vandals as Gothic (East Germanic) speakers, and name etymologies ... |
Theophanes the Confessor | ... el's piety won him a very positive estimation in the work of the chronicler | |
H. Arnold Barton | The historian | has suggested that the greatest significance of New Sweden was the strong ... |
Diarmaid Ferriter | The historian | considers that, though he had founded Sinn Féin, Griffith was 'quickly air ... |
Diodorus Siculus | In the Cretan version of the same story, which | follows, Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Persephone, the queen of the Gre ... |
Adam of Bremen | ... he Elbe. The list includes the Nortabtrezi (Obotrites) - with 53 civitates. | referred to them as the Reregi because of their lucrative trade emporium R ... |
Richard Pipes | Scholars such as Lawrence Aronsen, | , Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jes ... |
Zosimus | Orosius (Historiae adversum paganos 7, 34) and | (New History 4, 34, 3-5) affirm this, but a more reliable source, Ammianus ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... gned a $100,000 bond for the release of former president of the Confederacy | . The move was controversial, and many Northerners thought Greeley a trait ... |
Rupert Allason | ... a safe Tory seat, but Liberal Democrat Adrian Sanders overturned spy writer | 's majority by just 12 votes in 1997, widened to 6,708 in 2001 |
Hincmar, archbishop of Reims | ... eigns (see the twelve legendary Paladins). A Frankish capitulary of 882 and | , writing about the same time, testify to the extent to which the judicial ... |
Bamber Gascoigne | ... ion was launched as University Challenge in 1962. The program, presented by | , produced by Granada Television and broadcast across the ITV network, was ... |
Martin J. Sherwin | ... on, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, | , David K. Shipler, and Joseph Rago |
Tertullian | ... wide influence on the immediately following generation. Both Hippolytus and | freely drew on his writings. But his literal hope of an earthly millennium ... |
Josephus | In the Antiquities of the Jews, | refers to Seth as virtuous and of excellent character, and reports that hi ... |
Petrarch | ... happenings. Giacomo Penzio (fl. 1495-1527), in a work falsely attributed to | (1304–74), wrote in his Chronica de le Vite de Pontefici et Imperadori Rom ... |
Herodotus | ... g boats, fishing and other skills required to survive in their environment. | also mentions that Darius had made use of the ocean in this region of Sind ... |
Michael Psellos | ... ound, while the initiative was taken by his uncle John Doukas and his tutor | . They conspired to keep Romanos from regaining power after his release fr ... |
Paul Oliver | ... nted, though they can be seen as the secular counterpart of the spirituals. | has drawn attention to similarities in instruments, music and social funct ... |
Paul Murray Kendall | ... -hand man and sought personal advantage through the new king. Some, notably | , regard Buckingham as the likeliest suspect: his execution, after he had ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... aynard Keynes, Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, | , and G. E. Moore. Moore's philosophy, with its assumption that the summum ... |
Gavin Lambert | ... re he met his lifelong friend and biographer, the screenwriter and novelist | ; Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics; and Magdalen College, ... |
Xenophon | ... early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC work by | , the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great |
J. Carter Brown | ... lery and a member of its building committee, set to work with his assistant | (who became gallery director in 1969) to find an architect. The new struct ... |
Petrarch | ... oles, seigneur of Vaucluse, was the great protector of the Renaissance poet | |
Rashid al-Din | ... history, including the Japanese monk Ennin (794–864), the Persian historian | (1247–1318), the Korean official Choe Bu (1454–1504) and the Italian missi ... |
Spittler | ... created an epoch in German literature, philosophy and law, and, along with | , began the modern period of ecclesiastical history. One of the aims of hi ... |
John Tasker Howard | ... s might arise from American culture, in his 1915 Music in America. In 1930, | 's Our American Music became a standard analysis, focusing on largely on c ... |
Louis Blanc | ... al critics, including Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, | , Charles Hall and Saint-Simon, were the first modern socialists who criti ... |
Confucius | ... ity, and Greek thought. Conversely, Chinese society was founded on men like | , Mencius, Han Feizi (Legalism), Lao Tzu (Taoism), and Buddha (Buddhism). ... |
Mikhail Lomonosov | ... rnment while shortening their terms of service to the state. She encouraged | 's establishment of the University of Moscow and Ivan Shuvalov foundation ... |
Joachim Fest | ... ed these notes out, and returned to them after his release. He was aided by | . The manuscript led to two books: first Erinnerungen ("Recollections") (P ... |
Franz Cumont | ... god. (This point has been understood by Mithras scholars since the days of | .) An early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC w ... |
Timaeus | ... flight in 753 + 72 = 825 BC. Another tradition, that of the Greek historian | (c. 345–260 BC), gives 814 BC for the founding of Carthage. Traditionally ... |
Julius Caesar | ... – began about 449 BC and lasted the approximately 400 years to the death of | in 44 BC. Many historians mark the end of the Republic on the passage of a ... |
Frederick Rolfe | ... g Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, | , Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general Roman Ungern ... |
Harvey Wasserman | ... nd Laurie Lea Schaefer, Miss America of 1972, have also called Bexley home. | , noted writer and leading anti-nuclear activist, lives in Bexley (the fam ... |
Roger Ebert | Despite positive reviews from some critics, including | , Joe Versus the Volcano was a box office flop. It has since attracted a c ... |
Claudius | ... f condemning well-born citizens to work on the roads. It is noticeable that | brought Corbulo to justice, and repaid the money which had been extorted f ... |
Tertullian | Plutarch (ca. 46–120 AD) mentions the practice, as do | , Orosius, Diodorus Siculus and Philo. The Hebrew Bible also mentions what ... |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | ... Johnson was offered the vice-presidential nomination. Some sources (such as | 's) state that Kennedy offered the position to Johnson as a courtesy and d ... |
Donald Bloxham | Historian | states, "The bombing of Dresden on 13–14 February 1945 was a war crime." H ... |
Friedrich Schiller | ... he oldest "Stage" in Germany. In 1782 the premier of Die Räuber, written by | , was shown |
Jordanes | ... unexpectedly came to the East Roman capital of Constantinople. According to | , he negotiated a peace with the new emperor, Theodosius I, that made some ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... lectures, Christian came under the influence of the political philosophy of | and Samuel Pufendorf, and continued the study of law at Frankfurt an der O ... |
Aristobulus of Cassandreia | ... (so Onesicritus, Cleitarchus), while others took it to be only fiction (so | , Chares of Mytilene, Ptolemy I of Egypt, Duris of Samos) |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... n the county has voted for the non-Republican only two times. The first was | 's 1912 run as a Progressive and the second was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. ... |
Richard Crawford | ... American music include Charles Hamm's Music in the New World from 1983, and | 's America's Musical Life from 2001 |
Gavin Lambert | ... g for the influential Sequence magazine (1947–52), which he co-founded with | and Karel Reisz; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Si ... |
Polybius | According to Pausanias and the Greek historian | , an inscribed pillar (stele) was erected near the altar of Zeus on Mt. Ly ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ry furnishings were rented from private collectors, including the estate of | |
Isaac Asimov | ... aims; RSEP disbanded and its members, along with others such as Carl Sagan, | , B.F. Skinner, and Philip J. Klass joined Kurtz to form CSICOP |
Appian | ... me discovered by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first three books of | , and Plutarch's Life of Camillus also embody much of Dionysius |
Chares of Mytilene | ... s), while others took it to be only fiction (so Aristobulus of Cassandreia, | , Ptolemy I of Egypt, Duris of Samos) |
Winston Churchill | ... respect of front-line commanders. He interacted adeptly with allies such as | , Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General Charles de Gaulle. He had s ... |
Bruno Bauer | ... r of Hegelian philosophy in Berlin who lost his teaching license along with | in 1842 |
Griselda Pollock | ... was over, and that the new artistic era is post-liberal and post-progress. | studied and confronted the avant-garde and modern art in a series of groun ... |
Gregorovius | ... [III] indulged in no resurrection-man tactics himself" and Schaff, Milman, | , von Mosheim, Miley, Mann, Darras, John the Deacon of Naples, Flodoard, a ... |
Herodotus | ... ng to fill the gap until history begins with the classical Greek historian, | , who mentions them extensively, except legend. The stories of the early L ... |
Bruno Zevi | ... on. Paolo Soleri participated, among others: Justus Dahinden, Dennis Sharp, | , Jorge Glusberg, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Pierre Vago, Ernst Gisel, Ion ... |
Johann Joachim Winckelmann | ... he borrowed this nom de plume from the German city of Stendal in homage to | |
Hamon L'Estrange | ... sources state that the dodo used gizzard stones. The English historian Sir | , who witnessed a live bird, described it as such |
Milman | ... "Sergius [III] indulged in no resurrection-man tactics himself" and Schaff, | , Gregorovius, von Mosheim, Miley, Mann, Darras, John the Deacon of Naples ... |
David Gerstein | ... blication of the series. The volumes of this Library published to date are: | (co-editor of the series) notes there are enough Gottfredson daily strips ... |
Marx | The thinking of | and Freud provided a point of departure for questioning the notion of a un ... |
Winston Churchill | ... first summit was held in December 1953, at the insistence of Prime Minister | , to discuss relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Particip ... |
Onesicritus | ... urce, Plutarch. He mentions 14 authors, some of whom believed the story (so | , Cleitarchus), while others took it to be only fiction (so Aristobulus of ... |
Jerome | ... ntly used to today, most notably the Synod of Hippo in AD 393. Also c. 400, | produced a definitive Latin edition of the Bible (see Vulgate), the canon ... |
Vincent Canby | ... and Bakshi is certainly the most creative American animator since Disney." | of The New York Times ranked Heavy Traffic among his "Ten Best Films of 19 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... village in Armorica, a province of Gaul (modern France), in the year 50 BC. | has conquered nearly all of Gaul for the Roman Empire. The little Armorica ... |
Winston Churchill | ... night of 26/27 August 1944 and three nights later on the 29/30 August 1944. | (The Second World War, Book XII) had erroneously believed it to be "a mode ... |
Kirk Varnedoe | ... s of art were a part of modernist experimentation as well, as documented in | and Adam Gopnik's 1990-91 show High and Low: Popular Culture and Modern Ar ... |
Cleitarchus | ... h. He mentions 14 authors, some of whom believed the story (so Onesicritus, | ), while others took it to be only fiction (so Aristobulus of Cassandreia, ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... s and sent them by steamboat to Jefferson Barracks, escorted by Lieutenants | and Robert Anderson |
Plutarch | ... genuine exiles, were able to access their income in Attica from abroad. In | , following as he does the anti-democratic line common in elite sources, t ... |
Hannah Arendt | ... nalism, Chauvinism", in The Review of Politics 7.4, (October 1945), p. 457, | , the political theorist, describes the concept |
Joseph Jacobs | The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) contains an article "Gnosticism" by | and Ludwig Blau which deals only with Jewish gnosticism. Jacobs and Blau c ... |
Yoshiaki Yoshimi | According to historians | and Kentaro Awaya, gas weapons, such as tear gas, were used only sporadica ... |
Josephus | ... , a Jewish client king of Rome. Ashkelon may have even been his birthplace. | states Ashkelon was not ceded to Herod the Great in 30 BC, yet he built mo ... |
Sima Qian | According to the Records of the Grand Historian, written by | during the next dynasty and avowedly hostile to Qin Shi Huang, the first e ... |
Onesicritus | ... Plutarch also makes mention of when Alexander's secondary naval commander, | , was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimach ... |
Gilbert Chase | ... nts of European, African and indigenous musics have shifted between fields. | 's America's Music, from the Pilgrims to the Present, was the first major ... |
Joachim Fest | Even his editorial aide, | , noted in later editions of Inside the Third Reich that much of what Spee ... |
Donald Markwell | ... have also cited work relating to Keynes by Hyman Minsky, Robert Skidelsky, | and Axel Leijonhufvud. A series of major bail-outs were pursued during the ... |
Winston Groom | Bayou La Batre is mentioned in the 1994 film Forrest Gump and in | 's book of the same name on which the movie is based as the home of Forres ... |
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak | ... by his father the Mughal Emperor Akbar, alongside Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan and | to defeat the renegade Vir Singh Deo of Bandela and capture the city of Or ... |
Gershom Scholem | | once described Gnosticism as "the Greatest case of metaphysical anti-Semit ... |
Diodorus Siculus | ... the name of a queen who is said to have forbidden the eating of fish. Thus | (2.4.2), quoting Ctesias, tells how Derceto fell in love with a youth and ... |
Strab. | Tindari , anciently Tyndaris or Tyndarion (Greek: , | ; , Ptol.) is a small city (a frazione) in the comune of Patti, in the Pro ... |
Herodotus | Contrary to popular belief, the term delta was not coined by | |
Duris of Samos | ... ion (so Aristobulus of Cassandreia, Chares of Mytilene, Ptolemy I of Egypt, | ) |
Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani | ... King Guy, both of whom Saladin ordered brought to his tent. The chronicler | , who was present at the scene, relates |
Joseph Jacobs | ... e Christian groups first called "gnostic" a branch of Christianity, however | and Ludwig Blau (Jewish Encyclopedia, 1911) note that much of the terminol ... |
Hippolytus of Rome | ... Flavius Josephus, to be derived from the eponymous Lud son of Shem; however | (AD 234) offered an alternative view that the Lydians were descended from ... |
Lynn Thorndike | ... 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. An early critic of this claim was | , starting with a letter in the 1915 edition of the journal Science , and ... |
Yoshiaki Yoshimi | According to historians | and Seiya Matsuno, the chemical weapons were authorized by specific orders ... |
Michel Foucault | ... rong existentialist themes. Ideas from such thinkers as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, | , Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, Gilles Deleuze, and E ... |
von Mosheim | ... ed in no resurrection-man tactics himself" and Schaff, Milman, Gregorovius, | , Miley, Mann, Darras, John the Deacon of Naples, Flodoard, and others mak ... |
Hegel | Kant, | and their successors sought to flesh out the process by which the subject ... |
John Boswell | ... rosecutions are rarely recorded and the provisions of the law are vague; as | has noted, "if there was a law against homosexual relations, no one in Cic ... |
Ctesias | ... o have forbidden the eating of fish. Thus Diodorus Siculus (2.4.2), quoting | , tells how Derceto fell in love with a youth and became by him the mother ... |
Kirk Varnedoe | ... with all uses of the term postmodern there are critics of its application. | , for instance, stated that there is no such thing as postmodernism, and t ... |
Thomas Powers | ... graphy, 1966), Toshio Sakai (Feature Photography, 1968), Lucinda Franks and | (National Reporting, 1971), and David Hume Kennerly (Feature Photography, ... |
Ivo Pilar | ... for high treason and charged with spying for a foreign power together with | , another Croatian historian. Šufflay was sentenced to three years and six ... |
David Lavender | Telluride native | related his experiences working at the Camp Bird Mine in the 1930s in his ... |
Herodotus | According to | , Europa had (at least) two sons, Sarpedon and Minos. When they contended ... |
Garry Wills | ... luence of republicanism rather than Locke's classical liberalism. Historian | argued that Jefferson was influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment, partic ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... urch, which they left to ecclesiastical history—a genre that was founded by | . However, Averil Cameron has argued convincingly that Procopius' works re ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ve-minute hypothesis is a skeptical hypothesis put forth by the philosopher | that proposes that the universe sprang into existence five minutes ago fro ... |
Foucault | Thinkers such as Althusser, | or Bourdieu theorize the subject as a social construction. According to Al ... |
Procopius | ... worthy for the kingdom's excellent relations with the Eastern Roman Empire. | writes that he was "a very particular friend and guest-friend of Justinian ... |
Plutarch | ... nificantly towards its restoration. Hadrian offered complete autonomy. Also | was a significant factor by his presence as a chief priest |
Polyaenus | In his Stratagems, the 2nd-century Macedonian rhetorician | describes a battle between the Spartans and Demetrius of Macedon in 294 BC ... |
Henricus Valesius | ... nt readings. The fundamental early modern edition, however, was produced by | (Henri Valois) (Paris, 1668), who used the Codex Regius, a Codex Vaticanus ... |
François Truffaut | ... he 1950s who wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma, especially critic-turned-director | . Before becoming a director himself, he built his reputation as a film wr ... |
Kim Newman | ... d Duran Duran, as well as Ghastly Beyond Belief, a book of quotations, with | . Even though Gaiman thought he did a terrible job, the book's first editi ... |
Greil Marcus | ... ultimately as close to the depraved edge of the blues and Hendrix." Critic | found his first viewing of the group's performance so shattering that he l ... |
Plutarch | Polybius and | , a Greek author writing under the Roman empire, cite a battle at Mt. Lyka ... |
Adam Hochschild | ... historic background, including possible models for Kurtz, are recounted in | 's King Leopold's Ghost |
William of Tyre | The chronicler | reports on the renovation of the Church in the mid-12th century. The crusa ... |
Thor Heyerdahl | ... is party reached the islands on 10 March 1535. According to a 1952 study by | and Arne Skjølsvold, remains of potsherds and other artifacts from several ... |
Richard Holmes | ... Wales's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons and, according to military historian | , he also dipped a reluctant toe into politics. Shortly before the general ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... ier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | . Scholarly theories have been proposed about the location and its potenti ... |
Gervase of Canterbury | ... ate to become Archbishop of York in September 1186. The medieval chronicler | said that during Henry II's reign, Walter "ruled England because Glanvill ... |
Jim Webb | The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Democrat | , elected in 2006, who announced his intention to retire and not to run in ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ported the protection of the environment. For example, Republican President | was a prominent conservationist whose policies eventually led to the creat ... |
Tacitus | ... f this information to the executive authority of the emperor is attested by | ' statement that it was written out by Augustus himself |
Giorgio Vasari | His daughter Antonia Uccello (1456–1491) was a Carmelite nun, whom | called "a daughter who knew how to draw". She was even noted as a "pittore ... |
Hecataeus of Abdera | ... ophers Democritus, Protagoras and Anaxarchus, and historian and philosopher | |
Carl L. Becker | ... ved", is usually cited as one of the primary influences. In 1922, historian | wrote that "Most Americans had absorbed Locke's works as a kind of politic ... |
Ronald Radosh | In May 1989, Horowitz, | , and Peter Collier travelled to Poland for a conference in Kraków calling ... |
Joseph Needham | ... ertium, extensively analyzed by J. R. Partington, several scholars cited by | concluded that Bacon had most likely witnessed at least one demonstration ... |
Murray Rothbard | ... atened to undermine the post-World War II international economic structure. | , representing the Austrian School of economics, describes it this way |
Louis Duchesne | ... ring of the Popes to exclude Joan from history. Historians have known since | 's critical edition of the Liber Pontificalis that the 'renumbering' was a ... |
Josephus | ... s given in Menander of Ephesus's list of the kings of Tyre, as preserved in | 's Against Apion, i.18. Josephus ends his quotation of Menander with the s ... |
Georges Picot | ... nister of state education Agénor Bardoux, also a granddaughter of historian | and niece of diplomat François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great ... |
Plutarch | ... graphers dispute the claim, including the highly regarded secondary source, | . He mentions 14 authors, some of whom believed the story (so Onesicritus, ... |
Thucydides | ... ss 2009. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 17 February 2011 | , a Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, writes that the Spartan king ... |
Max Hastings | ... f the city provoked unease in intellectual circles in Britain. According to | , by February 1945, attacks upon German cities had become largely irreleva ... |
William Camden | Pedigrees, elaborated by Cecil himself with the help of | the antiquary, associated him with the Welsh Cecils or Sitsylts of Allt-Yr ... |
Strabo | ... ' exact placement was unknown in medieval Europe, though both Herodotus and | give the exact location of Thebes and how long up the Nile one must travel ... |
Dallin H. Oaks | ... Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, | '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents (Juli ... |
Sozomen | ... osopher Socrates, was a Greek Christian church historian, a contemporary of | and Theodoret, who used his work; he was born at Constantinople c. 380: th ... |
George Bancroft | ... nstitution was founded as the Naval School in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy | . The campus was established at Annapolis on the grounds of the former U.S ... |
Hector Boece | | in his Latin history of Scotland (1516), makes the Culdees of the 9th to t ... |
Karl Marx | Another Young Hegelian, | , was at first sympathetic with this strategy of attacking Christianity to ... |
Mircea Eliade | Kehoe is highly critical of | 's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsu ... |
William Rehnquist | ... of congressional power under the Commerce Clause, such as in the opinion of | in United States v. Lopez. Many Republicans on the more libertarian wing w ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... dicisse Pythagorea omnia ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean"). | , in his A History of Western Philosophy, contended that the influence of ... |
Plutarch | ... d by Angelo Mai in a Milan manuscript. The first three books of Appian, and | 's Life of Camillus also embody much of Dionysius |
Frederick Taylor | ... and hamper movement of reinforcements from other fronts". British historian | mentions a further memo sent to the Chiefs of Staff Committee by Sir Dougl ... |
Menander of Ephesus | ... kings are mentioned, as well as Dido, in the list of Tyrian kings given in | 's list of the kings of Tyre, as preserved in Josephus's Against Apion, i. ... |
Cassius Dio | The Roman historians Suetonius and | record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium (account) which list ... |
Herodotus | Thebes' exact placement was unknown in medieval Europe, though both | and Strabo give the exact location of Thebes and how long up the Nile one ... |
Averil Cameron | ... iastical history—a genre that was founded by Eusebius of Caesarea. However, | has argued convincingly that Procopius' works reflect the tensions between ... |
Voltaire | She wrote comedies, fiction, and memoirs, while cultivating | , Diderot, and d'Alembert—all French encyclopedists who later cemented her ... |
Allan Nevins | ... s life, using it as a platform for advocacy of all his causes. As historian | explains |
Tadija Smičiklas | ... reek. Later in life he learned modern Greek, Albanian, Hebrew and Sanskrit. | considered Šufflay his most gifted student and took him as his assistant w ... |
Julius Caesar | ... om time to time undertook to produce a master itinerary of all Roman roads. | and Mark Antony commissioned the first known such effort in 44 BC. Zenodox ... |
William Rehnquist | ... nited States v. Nixon, the Court, which did not include the recused Justice | , ruled unanimously that claims of executive privilege over the tapes were ... |
Alfred Cobban | ... ith their corpses. May this terrible sight serve as a lesson." According to | , 30,000 were killed, perhaps as many as 50,000 later executed or imprison ... |
Philip Jenkins | ... remains as to why the Pope Joan story has been popular and widely believed. | in The New Anti-Catholicism suggests that the periodic revival of what he ... |
Diodorus Siculus | ... Cercopes. Accounts speak of at least one son born to Omphale and Heracles: | (4.31.8) and Ovid (Heroides 9.54) mention a son Lamos, while pseudo-Apollo ... |
Jerome | ... ates Scholasticus recorded more than 300, and Evagrius, Hilary of Poitiers, | and Rufinus recorded 318. Delegates came from every region of the Roman Em ... |
Jeffry D. Wert | ... c images, although the latter seems to have been more deliberately crafted. | wrote about Stuart |
Jerome | ... explains the charge of Manichaeism some levelled against Priscillian (even | , for his talk of the sordes nuptiarum, had been similarly accused, and to ... |
David Hume | Adam Smith and | were the founding fathers of anti-mercantilist thought. A number of schola ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... Ecclesiastica ("Church History"), which departed from its ostensible model, | , in emphasizing the place of the emperor in church affairs and in giving ... |
Fred Donner | In his book The Early Islamic Conquests (1981), | argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominen ... |
Adam of Bremen | ... be and being a collective term including the Geats, and this is the case in | 's work where the Geats (Goths) appear both as a proper nation and as part ... |
Bede | ... nothing else is known of his history or background. The medieval chronicler | says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope Gregory I to report on the ... |
Gerald of Wales | ... earned", or educated at a university. His contemporary, the medieval writer | said of Walter that the Exchequer was his school |
Peter Bogdanovich | ... he people of Hollywood had to face changing from making silents to talkies. | 's affectionate 1976 film Nickelodeon deals with the turmoil of silent fil ... |
Chris Albertson | ... nitial public appearance on 11 April 1953 in Copenhagen. The following day, | recorded the group (as well as a Monty Sunshine Trio, with Donegan and Bar ... |
Julian Hawthorne | ... the failing New York Morning Journal, hiring writers like Stephen Crane and | and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer, own ... |
George Bancroft | ... s, Maryland, United States. Established in 1845 under Secretary of the Navy | , it is the second-oldest of the United States' five service academies, an ... |
Roger Ebert | ... ly the highest quality DVD that's ever been made". Chicago Sun-Times critic | describes the Blu-ray release as "the finest video disc I have ever viewed ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... . It was named for the only President of the Confederate States of America, | . The 2007 Census Estimate showed a population of 13,291. The county seat ... |
Carl Benjamin Boyer | ... e finite.". He also provided a wrong explanation of the rainbow phenomenon. | described Avicenna's ("Ibn Sīnā") theory on the rainbow as follows |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... II, i.e., before 450. The purpose of the history is to continue the work of | (1.1). It relates in simple Greek language what the Church experienced fro ... |
S.R. Gardiner | ... Civil War and the Commonwealth; and although he is somewhat overshadowed by | , who wrote about the same period, his books were highly regarded |
Thucydides | ... stic; they wrote in Attic Greek, their models were Herodotus and especially | , and their subject matter was secular history. They avoided vocabulary un ... |
Claudius | ... s Tied Behind Him Following the Triumphal Chariot of Alexander) the Emperor | later had Alexander's face replaced with that of his grandfather Augustus |
Plutarch | ... inspiration. However, most commonly, these refer to an observation made by | , who presided as high priest at Delphi for several years, who stated that ... |
Ronald Kessler | Author | mentioned Bono in his exposé book Inside Congress. Kessler pointed out tha ... |
Thomas Bailey's | ... belief is even repeated in some widely read textbooks. Previous editions of | The American Pageant stated that "The superstitious sailors [of Columbus' ... |
Winston Churchill | ... made about aerial bombardment of major cities with gas in Mesopotamia, with | , then-Secretary of State at the British War Office, arguing in favor of i ... |
Motolinia | ... each wall along the center line. According to 16th century Aztec chronicler | , points were gained if the ball hit the opposite end wall, while the deci ... |
Marc Bloch | ... such as his wife Marianne, Georg Jellinek, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, | , Robert Michels and György Lukács. Weber also remained active in Verein a ... |
Alexandre Exquemelin | ... d that he left school early, and was "more used to the pike than the book." | , Morgan's surgeon at Panama, says that he was indentured in Barbados. Aft ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ain the causes of the war, the military conflict on land and sea, President | 's back channel diplomacy, and the peace negotiations hosted by the United ... |
David Starkey | ... in, and Italian and began learning Spanish when she was Queen. According to | , Catherine was most likely better educated overall than Anne Boleyn. As a ... |
Plutarch | ... device appeared. A description of how it operated is not known from before | (50-120 AD) |
Claudius | ... and formed the north border of the Roman Empire. Since the rule of Emperor | (41–54 CE), divisions of the Roman army were stationed here. Consequently, ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... writers than those experiencing it at first hand. The first major figure is | , a minor aristocrat who had remained a royalist throughout the Revolution ... |
Herodotus | ... tions of the Second Sophistic; they wrote in Attic Greek, their models were | and especially Thucydides, and their subject matter was secular history. T ... |
Julian Thompson | ... y two years later. However, military historians such as former Royal Marine | have written that these lessons should not have needed a debacle such as D ... |
Yitzchak Ben Tzvi | ... world a better place, " and to eliminate suffering. In 1954, in a letter to | , Israel's second President, the Rebbe wrote: "From the time that I was a ... |
Tertullian | Few details are known about Clement's life. According to | , Clement was consecrated by Saint Peter, and he is known to have been a l ... |
Jerome | ... ed with Priscillian at Trier, was noted as a poet worthy of the ancients by | |
Procopius | ... s, that the promontory ceased to be an island well before Homer's time; but | remarked that the promontory has all the appearance of an island until one ... |
Bruno Bauer | ... known as 'the Free'), a society of intellectuals founded in 1837 and led by | who, by 1838, was writing the most anti-Christian pamphlets in Germany at ... |
David Hume | ... an consciousness began its career with the German Idealists, in response to | 's radical skepticism. The idealists' starting point was Hume's conclusion ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ndmother, heard of this suggestion, she informed the British Prime Minister | , who himself later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declar ... |
Hippolytus | It is believed that the schismatic | was still leading a rival Christian Congregation in Rome, and that he publ ... |
Theophanes the Confessor | | (died c.822) wrote a series of chronicles (284 onwards and 602-813 AD) bas ... |
William L. Shirer | ... tes, including American Gothic painter Grant Wood, journalist and historian | , writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and aerodynamics pioneer Dr. A ... |
Olav Hammer | ... urse with animals to produce giants which were as much as twelve feet tall. | wrote that many of Cayce's readings discussed race and skin colour and tha ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... Herein arose the clerical philosophers—Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, | —whose answer was restoring the House of Bourbon and reinstalling the Roma ... |
Simon Schama | ... "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?", but according to historian | this is incorrect: he accepts the account of the contemporary biographer E ... |
Gaius Julius Caesar | ... rived from the personal name of a branch of the gens (clan) Julia, to which | , the forebear of the first imperial family, belonged. Although the Britis ... |
François Truffaut | ... 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol and | , were among the first to see and promote Hitchcock's films as artistic wo ... |
Livy | According to tradition and later writers such as | , the Roman Republic was established around 509 BC, when the last of the s ... |
J. Robert Wright | ... ing Clement as Bishop of Rome during Peter's lifetime, which the theologian | believes may be Bede's way of criticising the practices of the church in h ... |
Sozomen | ... o have been a monk or one of the higher clergy. The contemporary historians | and Theodoret were combined with Socrates in a sixth-century compilation, ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... h the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collins was chosen as its Chairman, | as its President and Peggy Duff as its organising secretary. The other mem ... |
Oswald Spengler | ... ganicism and saw nations as organic in nature. Gini shared the view held by | that populations go through a cycle of birth, growth, and decay. Gini clai ... |
Prosper Mérimée | ... t of criminality.Particularly notable are classics like the story Carmen by | and the opera based on it by Georges Bizet, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of ... |
François-René de Chateaubriand | ... ike many young writers of his generation, Hugo was profoundly influenced by | , the famous figure in the literary movement of Romanticism and France's p ... |
Cassius Dio | ... an Empire for the purpose of increasing tax revenue, according to historian | . He is also one of the emperors who commissioned a large public bath-hous ... |
Pieter Oud | ... e Comité-Oud, a group of liberal members of the Labour Party (PvdA), led by | . The liberals within the PvdA were primarily members of the pre-war socia ... |
Rudolf Simek | | says that Syn ranks among the female goddesses whose names are recorded fr ... |
Norman Davies | ... a was the largest resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe. For example, | wrote "Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the AK, which could fairly claim to be t ... |
Zora Neale Hurston | ... g the first blacks in the U. S. Signal Corps. Among its faculty members was | ; a historic marker is placed at the house where she lived while teaching ... |
Jon Whiteley | The 27th Annual Academy Awards recognized both | and Vincent Winter with the Juvenile Award honoring their "outstanding juv ... |
Henry of Huntingdon | ... Biedanheafde. It is not known where this battle was, or who was the victor. | , a 12th-century historian who had access to versions of the Anglo-Saxon C ... |
Bruno Bauer | | went further, and claimed that the entire story of Jesus was a myth. He fo ... |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton | ... erence to an early game of hockey on ice occurring in Halifax in that year. | , in The Attache: Second Series, published in 1844, reminisced about boys ... |
Giles Worsley | ... e by ‘Divine Right’, an interpretation supported by architectural historian | and others |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus | ... ounded by colonists from Lydia led by Tyrrhenus, brother of Lydus. However, | was skeptical of this story, pointing out that the Etruscan language and c ... |
William Rehnquist | ... o the Supreme Court to fill the associate justice seat vacated when Justice | was elevated to Chief Justice. Whereas Rehnquist's confirmation was conten ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... ier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | . In addition, she is mentioned in poems recorded in Heimskringla and Egil ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... ch Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, | , Konrad Adenauer, Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, K ... |
William Camden | The antiquarian | (1551–1623) suggested that the name Cardiff may derive from "Caer-Didi" (" ... |
Jerome | ... kes Clement the immediate successor of Peter. And while in one of his works | gives Clement as "the fourth bishop of Rome after Peter" (not in the sense ... |
George Sarton | ... e's theory, and they were echoed by John Maxson Stillman. Robert Steele and | also joined the critics. Needham concurred with these earlier critics in t ... |
Pietro Bembo | ... cesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua as well as a love affair with the poet | . Francesco's wife was the cultured intellectual , the sister of Alfonso, ... |
Pavel Milyukov | In a diplomatic note of the 1 May, the minister of foreign affairs, | , expressed the Provisional Government's desire to carry the war against t ... |
Blind Harry | ... pic poem The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by | . Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Ja ... |
Jacob Viner | ... tilism was a form of rent-seeking has also seen criticism, as scholars such | in the 1930s point out that merchant mercantilists such as Mun understood ... |
Pedro Cieza de León | ... opulation transfers comes from their description by the Spanish chroniclers | and Bernabé Cobo |
Karl Marx | | found it aggravating that the Communards "lost precious moments" organisin ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... s up. Marx and Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, | and Mao Zedong tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in particular as r ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | Other remarkable attendees were Eusebius of Nicomedia | ;, the purported first church historian; Nicholas of Myra, from whom the p ... |
Pierre Batiffol | ... ristian living, is dependent upon Clement of Alexandria, and is assigned by | to the Novatian Bishop Sisinnius (c. 400). The extant work under the title ... |
Oscar Browning | ... d at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. At Eton he was a favorite of | , an over-intimate relationship that led to his tutor's dismissal. While a ... |
Johan Huizinga | In his study of French and Burgundian courtly culture, | noted that "at the close of the Middle Ages, a sombre melancholy weighs on ... |
Rudolf Simek | ... is another name for Mimir, and that the two survivors hide in Yggdrasill." | theorizes that the survival of Líf and Lífþrasir is "a case of reduplicati ... |
Julius Caesar | ... y, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor Augustus (as adopted son of | ). Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian (as son of Vespasian). Aug ... |
Josephus | ... ta (Insurrectionary Synagogue; Yer. Nazir vii.56a; Yer. San. i.18a; compare | , B. J. ii.14, § 5; Jastrow, Dict. p. 838), whence some of the most promin ... |
Edvardas Gudavičius | ... ia, and turning it towards Western civilization. In the 1990s the historian | published research supporting an exact coronation date – 6 July 1253. This ... |
Randy Acord | Aviation historian | (1919-2008) was originally from Donley County |
Petrarch | ... re far more orthodox, but by then the form had become an academic exercise. | , for example, devoted much time to his Africa, a dactylic hexameter epic ... |
Eusebius' | ... e definitely dated. Two prominent sources do exist for Urban's pontificate: | history of the early Church and also an inscription in the Coemeterium Cal ... |
Martin Kemp | ... Barbican's exhibition Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now curated by | , Marina Wallace and Joanne Bernstein. alongside other pieces by Bacon, Kl ... |
Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus | ... ing full account before Virgil's treatment is that of Virgil's contemporary | in his Philippic histories as rendered in a digest or epitome made by Juni ... |
Jim Bradbury | ... y inches [1.78 m] between the points of attachment for the cord". Historian | said they were an average of about 5 feet and 8 inches. All but the last e ... |
Theodorus Lector | ... canus, and a Codex Florentinus, and also employed the indirect tradition of | (Codex Leonis Alladi). The new critical edition of the text is edited by G ... |
Snorri Sturluson | ... refusal. Syn is attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by | ; and in kennings employed in skaldic poetry. Scholars have proposed theor ... |
Edgar O'Ballance | ... third parties affected by the Arab oil embargo. This claim was disputed by | , who claimed that no oil went to Israel during the blockade, and the Eila ... |
Edmund Burke | ... and liberal tendencies within the Church. His basic philosophy was based on | , who championed the need for old roots and an orderly development of soci ... |
Edgar Faure | ... ded to the Tax and Revenue Service, then joined the staff of Prime Minister | (1955–1956) |
Mark Rutte | ... reedom (PVV) to obtain a majority. Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands | is the VVD since May 31, 2006 |
Procopius | ... might have removed it in 533 and brought it to Constantinople. According to | , it was carried through the streets of Constantinople during Belisarius' ... |
Scaliger | ... der Werff) and the Pieterskerk (church of St Peter (1315) with monuments to | , Boerhaave and other famous scholars. From a historical perspective the M ... |
Polydore Vergil | ... Chronicle of London, written around the year 1512, also identified Tyrrell. | , in his Anglica Historia (circa 1513), specifies that Tyrrell was the mur ... |
William of Apulia | ... speration to the Normans own spiritual chief, Pope Leo IX and, according to | , begged him "to liberate Italy that now lacks its freedom and to force th ... |
Sima Qian | ... n Shi Huang" (秦始皇), appear in the Records of the Grand Historian written by | . The longer name "Qin Shi Huangdi" (秦始皇帝) appears first in chapter 5, tho ... |
Philochorus | From | , Atthi |
Bertrand Russell | ... had a solid empirical basis for our modern concepts of atoms and molecules. | states that they just hit on a lucky hypothesis, only recently confirmed b ... |
Ernst Curtius | ... lers and scholars began to systematically tour Sparta and the Peloponnnese. | , Charles Beulé, and Guillaume Blouet published scholarly studies of the a ... |
J. B. J. Delambre | ... ste Biot, to complete the meridian arc measurements which had been begun by | , and interrupted since the death of P. F. A. Méchain in 1804). Arago and ... |
Georges Chastellain | ... champs, "monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme", and in | 's prologue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century ... |
Thomas Walsingham | ... ymondham the right to become an Abbey in its own right. A notable abbot was | |