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* " H. G. Wells warned us how it would feel to fight a War of the Worlds ", by Niall Ferguson, in The Telegraph, 24 Jun 2005.

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Financial historian Niall Ferguson writes that what made the Great Depression truly ' great ' was the European banking crisis of 1931.

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* Niall Ferguson, Professor of History at Harvard University

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

This work helped inspire Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals ( 1997 ), a collection of essays exploring different scenarios by a number of historians, edited by the historian Niall Ferguson.

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" In 2002, Hobsbawm was described by right-leaning magazine The Spectator as " arguably our greatest living historian — not only Britain's, but the world's ", while Niall Ferguson wrote: " That Hobsbawm is one of the great historians of his generation is undeniable.

In his review of Hobsbawm's 2002 memoirs, Interesting Times, Niall Ferguson wrote:

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Past or present fellows of the college include the historians Sir Goronwy Edwards and Niall Ferguson, the philosopher Galen Strawson and the political philosopher John Gray.

Soft power has been criticized as being ineffective by authors such as Niall Ferguson in the preface to Colossus.

* Its usefulness ( Giulio Gallarotti, Niall Ferguson, Josef Joffe, Robert Kagan, Ken Waltz, Mearsheimer vs Nye, Katzenstein, Janice Bially Mattern, Jacques Hymans, Alexander Vuving, Jan Mellisen )

" Johnson argued that their fortune was generated to the greatest extent by Nathan Mayer Rothschild in London ; however more recent research by Niall Ferguson, indicates that greater and equal profits also were realised by the other Rothschild dynasties, including James Mayer de Rothschild in Paris, Carl von Rothschild and Amschel Mayer in Frankfurt.

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Niall Ferguson in Empire quotes Kitchener in 1914: " We haven't an army, and we have taken on the foremost military power in Europe ".

* Demographic projections " foresee the population of Egypt overtaking that of Russia by 2045 ," according to Niall Ferguson.

* Niall Ferguson, historian, professor at Harvard University

Past speakers include Ambassador John Bolton, Steve Forbes, Former Attorney General Edwin Meese, and Niall Ferguson, in addition to some of the Manhattan Institute's own senior fellows like Nicole Gelinas, Steven Malanga, and Peter W. Huber.

In 2010, Fareed Zakaria proposed what he described as a " grand bargain " with tax reform for economic adversaries Paul Krugman and Niall Ferguson ; an attempt to bridge their political divide with the creation of a simple and indirect Federal Sales Tax.

Harvard historian Niall Ferguson points out that Florence and Venice, as well as several other Italian city-states, played a crucial innovative role in world financial developments, devising the main instruments and practices of banking and the emergence of new forms of social and economic organization.

* Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World-John Hawkwood features in the second of a four part series by Niall Ferguson, aired on Channel Four

* Niall Ferguson, " The Pity of War ".

In his 1998 work on World War I entitled The Pity of War, Ferguson reviews Fischer's claims about German objectives in a European war.

* Ferguson, Niall The Pity of War, London: Basic Books, 1999.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.

* October 7 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Kings Mountain: Patriot militia forces annihilate a Loyalists under British Major Patrick Ferguson at Kings Mountain in South Carolina.

This system was improved in the 1770s by Colonel Patrick Ferguson and 100 experimental rifles used in the American Revolutionary War.

The final generation of Massey-Harris tractors from immediately after World War II until the name change to Massey Ferguson in 1958 included the 25 horsepower M-H 22 series, the 35 horsepower M-H 33 series, the 45 horsepower M-H 44 series and the 55 horsepower M-H 55 series.

** The War of the World by Niall Ferguson, Allen Lane, ISBN 0-7139-9708-7 Chapters 12-13

William Francis Ferguson Broaddus, a prominent Baptist minister at the time of the American Civil War.

In November 2006, the Imperial War Museum asked Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson to lead a campaign to fund restoration of Spencer's paintings of Port Glasgow's shipyards in wartime and certain other works.

* Lord Cornwallis and Major Ferguson NC state signs ( offered by the American Revolutionary War Living History Center ) with annual events held by the Town of Grover where Major Ferguson is celebrated as having camped and a NC state historical marker exists for such

* Ian Bruce Ferguson, Australian Army officer in World War II and the Korean War

Charles Ferguson Smith ( April 24, 1807 – April 25, 1862 ) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War and as a Union General in the American Civil War.

* John Ferguson ( 2009 ) is an award winning lion tamer, most well known for his role in World War II.

* Charles Ferguson Smith ( 1807 – 1862 ), Union General of the American Civil War

During the War years the Ferguson design team developed many improvements to both tractor and implements and started to make arrangements to manufacture in the United Kingdom ( UK ).

Born near the Passaic Falls in New Jersey, to William, a soldier in the Revolutionary War and descendant of French Huguenots who arrived on America's shores in the 17th century, and Sarah Force ( née Ferguson ), Force grew up New Paltz, Ulster County, New York, and afterward moved to New York City, where he was schooled in the printing trade.

With his military obligations behind him, he became a strong second starter behind Ferguson Jenkins, and the Cubs began making noise in the National League for the first time since World War II.

* Mark Elliott, Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson ( 2006 ).