An abugida ( from Ge ‘ ez አቡጊዳ ’ äbugida ), also called an alphasyllabary, is a segmental writing system in which consonant – vowel sequences are written as a unit: each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary.

Julia Agrippina, most commonly referred to as Agrippina Minor or Agrippina the Younger, and after 50 known as Julia Augusta Agrippina ( Minor Latin for the ‘ younger ’, Classical Latin: ;, 7 November 15 or 6 November 16 – 19 / 23 March 59 ) was a Roman Empress and one of the more prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá (‎; 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 ), born ‘ Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith.

* Page, Norman, ‘ Housman, Alfred Edward ( 1859 – 1936 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 )

Moreover, this disposition – concave in relation to the Allied army – gave Marlborough the opportunity to form a more compact line, drawn up in a shorter front between the ‘ horns ’ of the French crescent ; when the Allied blow came it would be more concentrated and carry more weight.

‘ Dating the Baptism of Clovis .’ In Early Medieval Europe, volume 7, pages 29 – 57.

The author conceives of a date in the future – the ‘ great day of the Lord ’ – when the Lord will judge all the people of the earth.

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

Antonio Gramsci's concepts on cultural hegemony, in particular, suggest that the culture and values of the economic elite – the bourgeoisie – become indoctrinated as ‘ common sense ’ to the working-class, allowing for the maintenance of the status quo through misplaced belief.

An eighteenth-century response to the novel from the Monthly Review reads: “ We must hear no more of enchanted forests and castles, giants, dragons, walls of fire and other ‘ monstrous and prodigious things ;’ – yet still forests and castles remain, and it is still within the province of fiction, without overstepping the limits of nature, to make use of them for the purpose of creating surprise .”

The exploitation of prison labor, the system of squeezing ‘ golden sweat ’ from them, the organization of production in places of confinement, which while profitable from a commercial point of view is fundamentally lacking in corrective significance – these are entirely inadmissible in Soviet places of confinement .”

‘ Wells, Herbert George ( 1866 – 1946 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 21 Mar 2012.

Davidson also states that “ far from being ‘ peripheral ’ to the British economy, Scotland – or more precisely, the Lowlands – lay at its core ”.

Thus his teaching methods often seem paradoxical – Johnstone is often famous for asking his students to ‘ be boring ’, ‘ be obvious ’.

* Martin Postle, ‘ Reynolds, Sir Joshua ( 1723 – 1792 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Oct 2009.

92: 1 ) – meaning the day that is altogether Shabbat – and also it is said, ‘ For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past ’ ( Ps. 90: 4 ) ( Sanhedrin 97a ).”

* Anatomia 1522 – 1867: Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

* Connelly, Thomas L. Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee 1861 – 1862.

* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1972 – Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish screenwriter and director

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist

* 1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )

* 1970 – Thomas Lennon, American actor

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )

* 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator

* 1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer

* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )

* 1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer

* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

* 1974 – Thomas Tevana, American actor

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )

* 1944 – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician