Alan Cameron, however, argues that it should be interpreted as referring to Plato, and that when Proclus writes that " we must bear in mind concerning this whole feat of the Athenians, that it is neither a mere myth nor unadorned history, although some take it as history and others as myth ", he is treating " Crantor's view as mere personal opinion, nothing more ; in fact he first quotes and then dismisses it as representing one of the two unacceptable extremes ".

According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.

In 1948, Alan Nevins, a Columbia University historian, established the Columbia Oral History Research Office, with a mission of recording, transcribing, and preserving oral history interviews.

The First Test in Brisbane ended in the first tie in Test history, which came about after Benaud and Alan Davidson, rather than settle for a draw, decided to risk defeat and play an attacking partnership, which took Australia to the brink of victory.

* Bell, Alan ( 1928 ) Wookey Hole: The cave & its history.

* Alan Bond's Bond Corporation goes into receivership with the largest debt in Australian history.

From the 1960s, Australian writers began to re-assess European assumptions about Aboriginal Australia – with works including Alan Moorehead's The Fatal Impact ( 1966 ) and Geoffrey Blainey's landmark history Triumph of the Nomads ( 1975 ).

Alan V. Murray, however, has argued that, at least for the accounts of Persia and the Turks in his chronicle, William relied on Biblical and earlier medieval legends rather than actual history, and his knowledge " may be less indicative of eastern ethnography than of western mythography.

Here is a transcription of a conversation between Alan Lomax and Jelly Roll Morton where Morton explains the history of scat:

Thus, although the Naskapis had never filed a formal statement of claim or similar document, except for a draft history prepared by the late Dr Alan Cooke, the parties to the JBNQA accepted the legitimacy of their claims, and they entered into an agreement-in-principle with the Naskapis in the Spring of 1977 to negotiate an agreement that would have the same principal features as the JBNQA.

* Today he still holds five of the six fastest mile times in U. S. high school history ( all sub-four minute ), with Alan Webb ’ s record race holding the other spot.

The Alan B. Shepard Civic Center (" The Dome "), a significant building in the city's history, was constructed in 1958, was dedicated to the career of former Virginia Beach resident and astronaut Alan Shepard.

In his review of Sir Graham Bower's account, Alan Cousins ( 2004 ) notes that, " A number of major themes and concerns emerge " from Bower's history, "... perhaps the most poignant being Bower ’ s accounts of his being made a scapegoat in the aftermath of the raid: ' since a scapegoat was wanted I was willing to serve my country in that capacity '.

The modern history of El Dorado Hills dates back to the early 1960s when original developer Alan Lindsey began its development as a master planned community.

Alan I Marcus ( born August 15, 1949 ) is the author of the history textbook Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam ( 1998 ) and other books.

Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam ( ISBN 0-15-500115-9 ) is a history book written by Alan I. Marcus in 1998.

Symbolic interactionism developed from the same tradition and yielded several excellent sociological ethnographies, including Shared Fantasy by Gary Alan Fine, which documents the early history of fantasy role-playing games.

* Seacoast of Bohemia (" history of four infatuated adventurers, Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, Conrad Milliken and Harry Wagstaff Gribble, who rediscovered the Old Rialto Theatre in Hoboken, and refurnished it ", 1929, illustrated by John Alan Maxwell )

Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz has argued that, while a prior history of victimization may be a contributing factor to a violent crime, victimization alone cannot fully explain an act of violence.

Other exemplars of the new urban history included Kathleen Conzen, Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860 ( 1976 ); Alan Dawley, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn ( 1975 ; 2nd ed.

DJs Jimmy Savile and Alan Freeman presented the first show, which featured ( in order ) The Rolling Stones with " I Wanna Be Your Man ", Dusty Springfield with " I Only Want to Be with You ", the Dave Clark Five with " Glad All Over ", The Hollies with " Stay ", The Swinging Blue Jeans with " Hippy Hippy Shake " and The Beatles with " I Want to Hold Your Hand ", that week's number one ( throughout its history, the programme always finished with the best-selling single of the week ).

Throughout most of its history the studio has published many comic book titles in continuity with each other ( the Wildstorm Universe ), as well as a wide variety of unrelated, creator-driven titles such as Ex Machina, Kurt Busiek's Astro City and Alan Moore's America's Best Comics line.

* In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Grissom was ranked as the # 9 ( tied with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Alan Shepard ) most popular space hero.

Alan Bisbort's survey, Beatniks: A Guide to an American Subculture, was published by Greenwood Press in 2009 as part of the Greenwood Press Guides to Subcultures and Countercultures series.

A 1993 survey for ' Plays and Players ' magazine cited Godber as the third most performed playwright in the UK, after Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn. In 2005 won 2 BAFTAs for ' Odd Squad ', written and directed on location in Hull and screened by BBC children's television.

In 1927, the Singapore I was made famous by Sir Alan Cobham, when he, his wife, and crew made a survey of Africa, and covered about 23, 000 miles.

*" A survey of American History Volume II Since 1865 " By Alan Brinkley, Twelfth Edition, Library on Congress # 20059365862

* November 17 – Sir Alan Cobham sets out from England in a Short Singapore to make an aerial survey of Africa.

* Tewodros features prominently in Alan Moorehead's historical survey The Blue Nile.

On ITV, he was playing naive medical student Alan Moore in Rising Damp ( voted ITV's best-ever sitcom in the Britain's Best Sitcom survey of 2004 ) while also starring in BBC's Porridge as Lennie Godber alongside Ronnie Barker.

The Heritage Foundation has pointed to Alan Greenspan's general economic optimism ( in 2004 ) as support for household survey numbers over payroll numbers.

In his survey of England cricket captains, Alan Gibson suggests that Fender and Carr were the only two realistic candidates by that time — other county captains either lacked the skill to play Tests or had already been tried and discarded — and that when Carr was dropped, Fender may have been the " certain amateur " who journalist Home Gordon reported was waiting by the phone for news that he was to captain England.

Extensive geophysical survey, both magnetometry and earth resistance survey, were conducted by TimeScape Surveys ( Alan Biggins & David Taylor, 1999 & 2004 ) between 1997-2001.

* 1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English writer

* 1970 – Alan Shearer, English footballer

* 1925 – Alan Whicker, English journalist and broadcaster

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE ( born 12 April 1939 ) is a prolific English playwright.

* 1982 – Alan Halsall, English actor

* 1907 – Alan Wheatley, English actor ( d. 1991 )

* 1942 – Alan Price, English musician ( The Animals )

* 1947 – Alan Ward, English cricketer

* 1986 – Alan Rouse, English mountaineer ( b. 1951 )

Speakers included several members of Engelbart's original Augmentation Research Center ( ARC ) team including Don Andrews, Bill Paxton, Bill English, and Jeff Rulifson, Engelbart's chief government sponsor Bob Taylor, and other pioneers of interactive computing, including Andy van Dam and Alan Kay.

* The Tekhne Grammatike of Dionysius Thrax Translated into English by J. Alan Kemp ( Historiographia Linguistica 13: 2 / 3, 1986, pp. 343 – 363 ).

Elfenland is a German-style board game designed by Alan R. Moon and published by Amigo Spiele in German and Rio Grande Games in English in 1998.

* 1946 – Alan Rickman, English actor

The club has produced many English greats including Johnny Haynes, George Cohen, Bobby Robson, Rodney Marsh and Alan Mullery.

In the 12th century David I, Prince of Cumbria and Earl of Northampton and Huntingdon would conquer, with the backing of Henry I of England and a number of English Barons, including a Robert Bruce and Walter fitz Alan ( Stewart / Stuart ), the majority of mainland Scotland.

* 1942 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer ( b. 1903 )

* 1954 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist ( b. 1912 )

* 1929 – Alan Civil, English horn player ( d. 1989 )

* 1927 – Alan J. Charig, English palaeontologist ( d. 1997 )

* 1959 – Alan Wilder, English singer, musician, producer, and composer ( Depeche Mode and Recoil )

* 1915 – Alan Watts, English writer / philosopher ( d. 1973 )