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The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period.
He even began collecting property taxes for the lots he sold and kept detailed tax records.
He became a land surveyor and continued to write increasingly detailed natural history observations about the township in his journal, a two-million word document he kept for 24 years.
Canaris kept detailed records of these atrocities in his personal diary which he entrusted to Werner Schrader, one of his subordinates and fellow resistance member.
Gandhi's secretary Mahadev Desai kept detailed records of conversations between Gandhi and Patel.
* Dr Rowley Richards, Australian doctor who kept detailed notes of his time as a medical officer on the railway.
Members of 17N kept detailed financial records, found in one of their safe houses in 2002, to document that the stolen money was used for revolutionary purposes.
He and his wife kept a detailed ledger of their works noting such items as “ sad face of woman unlit ”, “ electric light from ceiling ”, and “ thighs cooler ”.
In 1993, it was revealed that the authorities had bugged her flat and kept her under constant surveillance, keeping detailed files on her from this time, accruing some 900 pages of " denunciations, reports of phone taps, quotations from writings, confessions of those close to her ".
Where a detailed study of a waterway has been done, the 100-year floodplain will also include the floodway, the critical portion of the floodplain which includes the stream channel and any adjacent areas that must be kept free of encroachments that might block flood flows or restrict storage of flood waters.
Unfortunately for posterity's knowledge of English Renaissance theatre, neither Tilney nor Buck kept the detailed records that would be produced by their successor, Sir Henry Herbert.
It also gives detailed accounts of Woodward's secret meetings with his source Deep Throat whose identity was kept hidden for over 30 years.
* Stradivari Violin Forms A detailed study of Stradivari's molds and drawings kept in the Cremona Museum ..
Māori established separate tribes, built fortified villages ( Pā ), hunted and fished, traded commodities, developed agriculture, arts and weaponry, and kept a detailed oral history.
Clark kept a detailed journal of the expedition, beginning a lifelong practice.
Throughout the process of invention, Emily kept detailed notes and actively contributed to the process.
The Romans kept detailed statistics of the names, breeds, and pedigrees of famous horses.
As of July 2011, there are detailed records for a total of 726 captive cats since 1964 ; worldwide 74 individuals were kept in 23 institutions in Germany, United Arab Emirates, USA, UK and South Africa.
The CIB kept detailed records of all of von Luckners contacts and when Australia declared war on Germany many of these contacts were rounded up and interned.
When conducting research for Babbitt, Lewis kept detailed journals, in which he drafted long biographies for each of his characters.
Manjirō detailed his travels in a report to the Tokugawa Shogunate, which is kept today at the Tokyo National Museum.
He kept a detailed " Journal and Register of the Weather ..." for each day over 29 years, with remarks on weather and events throughout Britain and the world.
In addition to remarkable skill in the use of both argument and evidence, her work was also augmented through her exceptional personal record keeping ; throughout her life she kept detailed journals which are kept at the University of Chicago in special collections.

kept and observations
Even when dying, Van Leeuwenhoek kept sending letters full of observations to London.
He also kept a series of notebooks, and these observations became the source for Thoreau's late natural history writings, such as Autumnal Tints, The Succession of Trees, and Wild Apples, an essay lamenting the destruction of indigenous and wild apple species.
He also kept a series of journals that contained his notebooks for astronomical observations and his diary.
Dugdale, writing his book The History of Imbanking and Drayning of divers Fenns and Marshes in 1662, which was based on personal observations he made during a trip to the Fens in May 1657, and the records of the Fens Office, most of which were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, thought it was the least of the rivers he had seen, and recorded that it " serveth almost to none other use, but to carry away so much of its own water, with the rill descending from Burne, as can be kept between two defensible banks.
He claimed that his memory was ' not tenacious ' by seventeenth-century standards, but from the early 1640s he kept thorough ( if haphazard ) notes of observations in natural philosophy, his friends ' ideas, and antiquities.
They spent the winter of 1838-1839 at the plantations, and Kemble kept a diary of her observations.
Kemble had kept a diary during the brief period of several months she spent on her husband's Georgia plantations, including observations and opinions about the manager's and overseer's treatment of slaves.
He then travelled in Italy and Switzerland, enriching with copious entries the diary which he religiously kept up through life, and storing his mind with valuable observations.
As he never kept an officer's journal, his voluminous correspondence with Sophie serves as the main documentation of his operations and observations throughout the rest of his naval career.
Detailed observations and records of the decomposition process are kept, including the sequence and speed of decomposition and the effects of insect activity.
Brewster kept detailed records of his observations and continued to do so for the rest of his life.
* The tombs of Benjamin Jesty, a farmer who is reported to have vaccinated his family against Smallpox having made the same observations as Edward Jenner and a while earlier, but kept quiet about it, and his wife are side by side in the churchyard.
Doctors kept her for tests and observations.
In 1500 he observed a comet, and kept observations of its movements from June 1 until the 24th.
From the year 1740 on he made meteorological observations, and kept records of the influence of the weather on agricultural production.
He made it a habit to note all his observations in small notebooks that he always kept with him, illustrating with innumerable sketches.
While in Goa, Jan Huygen kept a diary of his observations of the Portuguese ruled city, amassing information about both the European and the Asian people who lived there.

kept and on
Conchita kept an eye on the twins and little Elena, trying to keep them from falling into the creek by which they persisted in playing.
The dangerous current upon the prairie ceased, but the water stood and kept on rising.
She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.
Cows were kept in backyard barns, boys were hired to drive them to and from the pasture on the edge of town, and familiar to the ear, morning and evening, were the boys' coaxing voices, the thud of hooves, and the thwack of a stick on cowhide.
She kept the dolls on the Lincoln bed.
He always kept a few on his personal staff.
Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.
He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.
Jay Gould kept a cow on one deluxer.
A top official of the New Frontier who kept a record of his first weeks on the job here gives this report of his experiences:
A truth-revealing crisis erupted in Katanga for a couple of days this month, to be quickly smothered by the high pressure verbal fog that is kept on tap for such emergencies.
for he kept on threatening that he would `` pull the ears '' of those responsible for agricultural production.
The morning hawk, hungry for any eatable, killable, digestible item, kept his eyes on the ring of anchored ships that lay off the shores in the bay, sheltered by the Jersey inlets.
I didn't want to touch him and I hoped Ma would do it but she kept looking at the kid's clothes piled on the floor and the pool of water by them and didn't make any move to.
He kept on laughing until she started laughing with him.
Oyster salt roast -- oysters on the half shell, cooked on a bed of coarse salt that kept them hot when served -- was a standby at Manning's.
Keep the retirement age flexible so skilled craftsmen such as tool and die makers can be kept on the job for the convenience of the company.
But they kept on clapping for a long, long time.
`` This time '', Arlene said, and she even kept on wiggling a little bit while she was just talking, `` you're going to tell me what I am and what I'm doing.
we want to know why that book has kept on selling the way it has ; ;
For the use of students and future restorers, a full, day-by-day record was kept of all three undertakings, complete technical reports on what we found and what we did.
Hens are kept on the range and roosters are kept with them for their fertility.

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