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Contemporary oral history involves recording or transcribing eyewitness accounts of historical events.
Contemporary tracts and accounts such as that of Francesco Guicciardini have been found to allude to active same-sex relations – alleging Count Ludovico Rangone and Galeotto Malatesta among his lovers.
Contemporary accounts indicate that he just had a sudden illness, possibly a stroke.
Contemporary accounts say he was " not much seen " in the school, and this appears to be true of others in a similar position.
Contemporary accounts show that the land surrounding Carthage was declared ager publicus and that it was shared between local farmers, and Roman and Italian ones.
Contemporary accounts describe him as ugly, short and hunch-backed.
Contemporary accounts make mention of many refugees streaming through the Kiamichi River valley.
Contemporary accounts reported that this was due to the popular Sir Philip Skippon's success in exhorting them to stay on, but historians have suggested that the reasons were economic: the former non-commissioned officers ( NCOs ) did not think they could find work outside the Army.
Contemporary life insurance programs have been extended to include credit and mortgage insurance, key man insurance for small businesses, long term care insurance and health savings accounts.
Contemporary accounts indicate that Eitoku was one of the most highly sought-after artists of his time, and received many wealthy and powerful patrons.
Contemporary accounts of the Stephens Island Wrens describe the species as scurrying on the ground rather than flying.
Contemporary accounts show Peter Easton using a plain black flag by 1612, Captain Martel's pirates using a black flag in 1716, Edward Teach, Charles Vane, and Richard Worley in 1718, and Howell Davis in 1719.
Contemporary accounts noted:
Contemporary accounts, letters, documents, etc., compiled by Graham Padden, TUC, 1984, updated 1997.
Contemporary accounts state that he was buried at the historic Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock, but other accounts indicate that he was buried in an unmarked grave next to the Confederate monument in Oakland Cemetery.
Contemporary accounts differ in details, but most agree the first three acts went smoothly, and the audience listened respectfully.
Contemporary accounts describe Frescobaldi as a child prodigy who was " brought through various principal cities of Italy "; he quickly gained prominence as a performer and patronage of important noblemen.
Contemporary or nearly contemporary accounts of the initiations of the earlier kings of the Lombards stress the importance of the king's taking in hand of a holy lance.
Contemporary newspaper accounts indicate that interest in the case developed on many fronts.
Contemporary accounts talk of some mottes being built in a matter of days, although these low figures have led to suggestions by historians that either these figures were an underestimate, or that they refer to the construction of a smaller design than that later seen on the sites concerned.
Contemporary accounts record that the mob's last sustained assault was around 8 p. m. on the 17th.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, published online 10-19-2006 < sup ></ sup ></ ref > Contemporary accounts describe it as remarkably verdant and beautiful, with Jack pine and oak forest, meadows, fresh water creeks and briny marshes.
Contemporary accounts report that he knelt before Pope Gregory and begged his forgiveness.
His autobiographical works But to What Purpose: The Autobiography of a Contemporary ( 1946 ) and Journey Under the Southern Stars ( 1968 ) give vivid accounts of his physical and intellectual journeys.

Contemporary and note
Contemporary buildings of note are also to be found, primarily the work of the firm SIAL, and include the new Regional Research Library ( 2000 ) and the Česká Pojišťovna office building ( 1997 ).
Of particular note is Hall ’ s transition from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies to the Open University.
Contemporary Byzantine chroniclers note with a mix of terror and fascination that the " Scandinavians were frightening both in appearance and in equipment, they attacked with reckless rage and neither cared about losing blood nor their wounds ".
Some of her other solo exhibitions to note include: Centre Pompidou, Paris ( 1994 ), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago ( 1997 ), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York ( 1998 ), Castello di Rivoli, Turin ( 1999 ), Tate Britain, London ( 2000 ), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Magasin 3, Stockholm ( 2004 ) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney ( 2005 ), Parasol Unit, London ( 2008 ), Darat Al Funun, Jordan ( 2008 ), Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice ( 2009 ) and Beirut Art Center ( 2010 ).
In this respect, it is important to note that Mommsen — at the time employed by the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History — was the first historian in the early 1960s to accept the conclusions of the journalist Fritz Tobias who argued in a 1961 book The Reichstag Fire that the Reichstag Fire of 1933 was not started by the Nazis and that Marinus van der Lubbe had acted alone.
Contemporary historians note the changes in how mestizo de sangley fared in Philippine society.
Contemporary residents of note include record-breaking long distance swimmer and National Public Radio sports commentator Diana Nyad, Earth, Wind & Fire bass player Verdine White, screenwriter / author Stephen Rebello, and Jennifer Nairn Smith, a former featured ballerina and dancer on stage, Broadway, and in films under the direction of such choreographers as George Balanchine, Michael Bennett, and Bob Fosse.

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File: Wayne_gaussoin_performance. jpg | Performance art by Wayne Gaussoin ( Picuris Peublo ), Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2009
In 1995 she worked with Wayne Shorter, on his album High Life, which won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
It also has fine Contemporary Paintings and Creations in the Bloch Building by ; Willem de Kooning, Fairfield Porter (" Mirror "), Wayne Thiebaud (" Bikini Girl "), Richard Diebenkorn, Agnes Martin, Bridget Riley, and Alfred Jensen.
* E. Safer, The Contemporary American Comic Epic: The Novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey, Detroit: Wayne State University Press ( 1988 ).
* Recent Work from Northern Ireland, curated by Wayne Bearwaldt, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada, 2001

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Light Over Water: The Genesis of Music ( 1983 ): This work was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles as the score for the collaborative work Available Light, which was choreographed by Lucinda Childs and had a set design by architect Frank Gehry.
Contemporary chroniclers argued that John had fallen deeply in love with Isabella, and John may have been motivated by desire for an apparently beautiful, if rather young, girl.
The Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, founded in 1988 by the Swedish art collector and financier Fredrik Roos and housed in a former power station which had been built in 1900, was one of the foremost centres for contemporary art in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s.
Contemporary critics were divided in their view of the work's authenticity, but most now believe that Macpherson framed the poems himself, based old folk tales he had collected.
Two of the major institutions dealing with political science-the Institute of Contemporary Social Theories and the Institute of International Affairs-were disbanded, and most of their members were actually left without jobs and had to look for new professional careers.
Adorno resumed his teaching duties at the university soon after his arrival, with seminars on " Kant ’ s Transcendental Dialectic ," aesthetics, Hegel, “ Contemporary Problems in the Theory of Knowledge ” and “ The Concept of Knowledge .” Adorno ’ s surprise at his students ' passionate interest in intellectual matters did not, however, blind him to continuing problems within Germany: The literary climate was dominated by writers who had remained in Germany during Hitler's rule, the government re-employed people who had been active in the Nazi apparatus and people were generally loath to own up to their own collaboration or the guilt they thus incurred.
Contemporary transnational interactions between Hmong in the West and Miao groups in China, following the 1975 Hmong diaspora, have led to the development of a global Hmong identity that includes linguistically and culturally related minorities in China that previously had no ethnic affiliation.
Contemporary chroniclers allege that it was due to the young man's frustration that his father had given him no realm to rule, and feeling starved of funds.
Contemporary rumors of the ropeshaft's demise due to reliability problems are unfounded ; the ropeshaft's durability and performance had been proven in tests in full-size Pontiacs and Cadillacs in 1959, and only adapted to a smaller car in 1960.
They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 top-ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts.
Contemporary reports that Jack Warner had banned the use of the German language throughout the company's Burbank studio were denied by studio representatives, who indicated this move would have prevented scores of studio employees from communicating with each other.
Christian rock was often viewed as a marginal part of the nascent Contemporary Christian Music ( CCM ) and contemporary gospel industry in the 1970s and ' 80s, though Christian folk rock artists like Bruce Cockburn and rock fusion artists like Phil Keaggy had some cross-over success.
According to Jay R. Howard and John M. Streck, by 1981 Stonehill ( like many other Contemporary Christian Music artists ) had transitioned from an evangelistic focus to one of " encouragement, exhortation, and Christian accountability ".
Contemporary chroniclers saw this as a matter of concern ; Robert of Torigni suggested that as many as 1, 115 such castles had been built during the conflict, although this was probably an exaggeration as elsewhere he suggests an alternative figure of 126.
Contemporary reports suggest that Emperor Constantius II had it built to commemorate his victories.
Across the river sits the Stone Mill, home of the Hunterdon Art Museum for Contemporary Craft and Design, located in a former gristmill that had been reconstructed in 1836 and operated continuously until 1952, when a group of local residents conceived of a plan to convert the historic building into a museum.
Returning to New York, Rothko had his first East Coast one-man show at the Contemporary Arts Gallery.
Contemporary chroniclers saw this as a matter of concern ; Robert of Torigny suggested that as many as 1, 115 such castles had been built during the conflict, although this was probably an exaggeration as elsewhere he suggests an alternative figure of 126.
Though he had few performances of his music, and the BBC, the International Society for Contemporary Music ( ISCM ) Festival and the publishers Boosey & Hawkes all turned down the Concerto for Double String Orchestra ( later to be one of his most popular works ), a private recording of the First Piano Sonata by Phyllis Sellick attracted favourable reviews.
By the mid-90s, Pettibon had exhibited extensively, including exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York ; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ( MOCA ); Kunsthaus Zurich ; White Columns, New York.
In the mid-1970s, there was a brief resurgence of talent, energized by Cuti, artist Joe Staton and the " CPL Gang " — a group of writer / artist comics fans including John Byrne, Roger Stern, Bob Layton, and Roger Slifer, who had all worked on the fanzine CPL ( Contemporary Pictorial Literature ).
Since the charges brought against Manstein were almost identical to those brought against Rundstedt, it is worth quoting the remarks made by the prosecutor at Manstein's trial, Sir Arthur Comyns Carr: " Contemporary German militarism flourished briefly with its recent ally, National Socialism, as well as or better than it had in the generals of the past.
Contemporary Ordnance Survey maps show that this wood remained at least until the 1870s but had been cleared for development by the mid-1890s.

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