Legend has it that Emperor Shennong, the founder of Chinese herbal medicine, composed the Shennong pen Ts ’ ao ching or Great Herbal in about 2700 BCE as the forerunner of all later Chinese herbals.

* Pen ts ' ao kang mu ( The Great Herbal ), page from 1672 edition, National Library of Medicine

* Publication of Le Grant Herbier (" The Great Herbal ") in Paris.

The common name snowdrop first appeared in the 1633 edition of John Gerard's Great Herbal ( in the first edition ( 1597 ) he described it as the " Timely flowring Bulbus violet ").

Fuchs attended a conference of the Combined Policy Committee ( CPC ) in 1947, a committee created to facilitate exchange of atomic secrets between the highest levels of government of the U. S., Great Britain and Canada ; Donald Maclean, as British co-secretary of CPC, was also in attendance.

In Great Britain, Klaus Fuchs confessed to committing espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union while working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the War.

When Fuchs 1834 separated references to ergotism from erysipelas and other afflictions, he found the earliest reference to ergotism in the Annales Xantenses for the year 857: " a Great plague of swollen blisters consumed the people by a loathsome rot, so that their limbs were loosened and fell off before death.

** " The Great Gas Bag Race " ( 1964 ), first published in Boy's Life ( March 1966 ), with illustrations by Bernard Fuchs

After Fuchs was arrested in Great Britain in 1950, Cohen and her husband fled to Moscow, where she received additional training as a radio operator and cipher clerk.

Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

The Victorian love of anagramming as recreation is alluded to by Augustus De Morgan using his own name as example ; " Great Gun, do us a sum!

The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle ( 1997 ) excerpt and text search

In 1600, William Gilbert published his De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure ( On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth ).

* The De Vere Society of Great Britain

In a 1986 press release to the newspapers and leading magazines in Great Britain, Canada and the USA, the SPR retracted the Hodgson report, after a re-examination of the case by the Fortean psychic Dr. Vernon Harrison, past president of The Royal Photographic Society and formerly Research Manager to Thomas De La Rue, an expert on forgery, as follows: " Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, was unjustly condemned, new study concludes.

* De Laet, Joannes, The Empire of the Great Mogol, trs.

The Great Sand Dunes are in the background as are the Sangre De Cristo Range.

* Great French Romances ( 1946 ) novels by Madame De Lafayette, Choderlos De Laclos, the Abbe Prévost, Honoré de Balzac

* Alistair MacLeod won the 2001 IMPAC Award for No Great Mischief and Rawi Hage won it in 2008 for De Niro's Game.

In the summer of 2004, De La Hoya starred in and hosted a boxing reality television series on Fox and Fox Sports Net titled The Next Great Champ.

De Soto was largely destroyed by the Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925.

Three local corporations, Mr. Goodcents Franchise Systems, Inc., Great American Bank and Custom Foods, Inc., are headquartered in De Soto.

They added to the mounds, including a residence for their chief, the " Great Sun ", on Mound B, and a combined temple and charnel house for the elite on Mound C. Many early European explorers, including Hernando De Soto, La Salle and Bienville, made contact with the Natchez at this site, called the Grand Village of the Natchez.

Seventy-five delegates assembled: from Great Britain, the 6 members of the General Council, Applegarth, Eccarius, Cowell Stepney, Lessner, Lucraft, and Jung ; from France, which sent 26 delegates, among whom we may mention Dereure, Landrin, Chémalé, Murat, Aubry, Tolain, A. Richard, Palix, Varlin, and Bakunin: Belgium sent 5 delegates, among whom were Hins, Brismée, and De Paepe ; Austria 2 delegates, Neumayer and Oberwinder ; Germany sent 10 delegates, among whom were Becker, Liebknecht, Rittinghausen, and Hess ; Switzerland had 22 representatives, among whom were Burkly, Greulich, Fritz Robert, Guillaume, Schwitzguébel, and Perret ; Italy sent but one delegate, Caporusso ; from Spain there came Farga-Pellicer and Sentinon ; and the United States of America was represented by Cameron.

His primary scientific work — much inspired by earlier works of Robert Norman — was De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure ( On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth ) published in 1600.

* The Great Magnet, the Earth — website hosted by NASA — Commemorating the 400th anniversary of " De Magnete " by William Gilbert of Colchester.

During the Han dynasty the Great Learning rose to prominence, and the Classic of Rites had to be re-organized by Dai De and Dai Shang.

This interpretation has been taken up by several Christian authors and preachers since then ( such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth ; Grant R. Jeffrey's Armageddon: Appointment with Destiny ; M. R. De Haan's The Signs of the Times ; Tim LaHaye's Are We Living in the End Times?

With the majority of railways on both sides of the Great Belt thus owned by the Danish state, it was not until October 1, 1885 that the companies of Jutland / Funen and Zealand merged into one national railway company, De danske Statsbaner ( The Danish State Railways ), the merger being finalised on April 1, 1893.

Initially, it was announced that she would portray Catherine the Great in a movie about the Russian empress by Dino De Laurentiis, but that project fell through.

De Forest continued to claim that he developed the Audion independently from John Ambrose Fleming's earlier research on the thermionic valve ( for which he received Great Britain patent 24850 and the American Fleming valve patent (), and became embroiled in many radio-related patent disputes.

De Duve was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, Great Britain, as a son of Belgian refugees.

The original Great Hall of the Tudor house, the chapel and De Caus painted staircase to the state apartments were all swept away at this time.

However, Bede, like Gregory the Great whom Bede quotes on the subject in the Historia, felt that faith brought about by miracles was a stepping stone to a higher, truer faith, and that as a result miracles had their place in a work designed to instruct.

The 9th-century " Historia Brittonum " sees in Lucius a translation of the Celtic name Llever Maur ( Great Light ), says that the envoys of Lucius were Fagan and Wervan, and tells us that with this king all the other island kings ( reguli Britanniæ ) were baptized ( Hist.

March, " Konon and the Great King's Fleet ," Historia ( Franz Steiner Verlag ) vol.

* Abbreviatio chronicorum ( or Historia minor ), another shortened history, mainly covering 1067 to 1253, including a Map of Great Britain, 1255-9 ( probably his final work ), British Library Cotton MS Claudius D. vi.

The Arcana Deorum is a commentary on Ovid's Metamophoses ; the Dictys Cretensis is a history of the Trojan War ; the Historia Magni Principis Alexandri is a history of Alexander the Great ; the Prohemia Poetarum is a commentary on the lives and works of many classical and Christian authors ; the Defensio de praerogativis et dignitatibus ordinem monasticam concernentibus uses historical examples to defend monastic institutions.

Historia Francorum ii. 30-31 directly affirms the parallel Gregory is establishing with the conversion of Constantine the Great before the Battle of Milvian Bridge:

In his Historia Anglorum, Henry of Huntingdon mentions that a King Coel of Colchester was the father of Saint Helena and therefore the grandfather of Constantine the Great.

Angeloni dedicated most of his life in collecting antique coins, medallions, books, paintings, and archaeological artifacts and achieved fame in Europe with the publication in 1641 of his edition of the Historia Augusta, a history of ancient Rome since Julius Caesar to Constantine the Great, illustrated with antique coins of the times.