Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

Historian Nicholas Edsall writes, Stonewall has been compared to any number of acts of radical protest and defiance in American history from the Boston Tea Party on.

Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke has described this membership roll and other, similar claims as " spurious " and " fanciful ", noting that Feder, Eckart and Rosenberg were never more than guests to whom the Thule Society extended hospitality during the Bavarian revolution of 1918, although he has more recently acknowledged that Hess and Frank were members of the Society before they came to prominence in the Nazi Party.

Historian Nicholas Brooks holds the view that Stigand was not excommunicated at this time, but rather was ordered to refrain from any archiepiscopal functions, such as the consecration of bishops.

Historian Edward Acton argues that " by stubbornly refusing to reach any modus vivendi with the Progressive Bloc of the Duma ... Nicholas undermined the loyalty of even those closest to the throne opened an unbridgeable breach between himself and public opinion.

Historian Nicholas Rogers points to an anti-corporate message where an otherwise successful businessman turns " oddly irrational " and seeks to " promote a more robotic future for commerce and manufacture.

Historian Nicholas von Hoffman wrote in The Washington Post that evidence revealed in the Venona project forced him to admit that McCarthy was " closer to the truth than those who ridiculed him ".

* Nicholas Crafts-Economic Historian

Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke analyzed the topic in The Occult Roots of Nazism.

Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's 1985 book The Occult Roots of Nazism discussed the possibility of links between the ideas of the Occult and the ideas of Nazism.

Historian Nicholas Canny suggests that the violence escalated after a failed rebel assault on Lisnagarvey in November 1641, after which the settlers killed several hundred captured insurgents.

Historian Nicholas Campion has discussed the roots of the notion that celestial and psychological realms are connected, which can be traced to the sixth century BC, and in Ptolemy's case presents a mixture of Aristotelian and Stoic philosophy, resting on the Platonic view that " the soul comes from the heavens " which explains " how human character comes to be determined by the heavens ".

Historian Karin Feuerstein-Prasser has pointed out on the basis of evaluations of the correspondence between both fiancées, what different expectations Wilhelm had of both marriages: Wilhelm wrote to his sister Charlotte, the wife of Nicholas I of Russia, with reference to Elisa Radziwill: " One can love only once in life, really " and confessed with regard to Augusta, that " the Princess is nice and clever, but she leaves me cold.

* Nicholas Tarling Historian

* Nicholas Dujmovic, I ' 80, Historian & Author ()

Historian Strabo writes that the Seleucids later gave the area south of the Hindu Kush to the Mauryas after a treaty was made.

Historian Kennieth Guthrie writes that " Numenius is perhaps the only recognized Greek philosopher who explicitly studied Moses, the prophets, and the life of Jesus.

Historian Richard Altick writes that " To judge from the number of references to it in the private letters and memoirs of the 1840s ... Punch had become a household word within a year or two of its founding, beginning in the middle class and soon reaching the pinnacle of society, royalty itself ".

Historian Martin Duberman writes, " The decades preceding Stonewall ... continue to be regarded by most gays and lesbians as some vast neolithic wasteland ".

Historian Hazel Rowley writes that because the Harding administration and the Republicans were seen associated with prosperity, prominent Democrats were reticent of running for president in 1924.

Historian Edwin Reischauer writes that genres such as the monogatari were distinctly Japanese and that Genji, written in kana, " was the outstanding work of the period ".

Historian and Forrest biographer Brian Steel Wills writes, “ While there is no doubt that Forrest joined the Klan, there is some question as to whether he actually was the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan .” The KKK ( the Klan ) was formed by veterans of the Confederate Army in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866 and soon expanded throughout the state and beyond.

Historian Shelley Rice, in her book Parisian Views writes that " most Parisians during first half of the nineteenth century perceived streets as dirty, crowded, and unhealthy.

* 449 Herodotus, Greek Historian, writes History of Greco-Persian War from 490-479

Historian Walter Laqueur writes that even though Haider welcomed former Nazis at his meetings and went out of his way to address Schutzstaffel ( SS ) veterans, the FPÖ is not a fascist party in the traditional sense, since it has not made anti-communism an important issue, and does not advocate the overthrow of the democratic order or the use of violence.

Historian Leonard Richards writes of these disaffected Democrats:

Historian David Starkey writes, " He may have even sexually abused her ; at the very least he abused his power.

Historian Harold Whetstone Johnston writes of instances in which a slave's former owner chose to ignore custom and simply chose a name for the freedman.

Historian John D. Winters in The Civil War in Louisiana writes that the failure of the Union's Red River campaign " could largely be laid at Banks ' door, but there were many who shared in this failure ".

Historian William G. Thomas writes, " At a cost of nearly $ 300, 000, the N. Y., P. & N. was dredging a new harbor out of a large fresh-water lagoon between King ’ s and Old Plantation creeks in lower Northampton County, and Scott planned to develop a new town around it called Cape Charles City.

Historian of Russian Jewry John Klier writes in Russians, Jews, and the Pogroms of 1881-1882 that " By the twentieth century, the word ' pogrom ' had become a generic term in English for all forms of collective violence directed against Jews.

Historian William Y. Thompson writes that Toombs was " prepared to vote all necessary supplies to repel invasion.

Historian David Chandler writes that upon the order ' First Firing, Take Care !,' in the British platoon firing system, the six platoons of the first firing with the whole of the front rank of each British battalion fired together-explaining the efficacy of the British first volley.

Historian Thomas J. McGuire writes that, " American estimates of British losses run as high as 2, 000, based on distant observation and sketchy, unreliable reports ".

Historian Marcia Gallo writes " They recognized that many women felt shame about their sexual desires and were afraid to admit them.

" In his 64th chapter, " Biography of Sima Rangju ", the Grand Historian writes, " I have read Sima's Art of War.

Historian Gavan McCormack writes that Burchett regretted this analogy, but argues that the factual basis of the description was confirmed by POW Walker Mahurin.

Historian Johann Huizinga writes, “ It is astonishing that the Church, which so rigorously repressed the slightest deviations from dogma of a speculative character, suffered the teaching of this breviary of the aristocracy ( for the Roman de la Rose was nothing else ) to be disseminated with impunity .”

Historian Michael Glover writes that the first day's attack was a failure because of Carnot's interference, while the second day's success resulted from Jourdan using his own tactical judgment.

Historian Peter Longerich observes that Himmler's ability to consolidate his ever-increasing powers and responsibilities into a coherent system under the auspices of the SS led him to become one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich.

" Historian Peter Padfield opined that " Himmler ... appeared the most powerful man under Hitler.

" Historian Jon Parkin likewise describes Cumberland's work as " one of the most important works of ethical and political theory of the seventeenth century.

Historian Ronald Numbers has been quoted as saying: " I can't say much about Gould's strengths as a scientist, but for a long time I've regarded him as the second most influential historian of science ( next to Thomas Kuhn ).

Historian John Stow, writing in his Survey of London ( 1598 ), noted ' this place is called the Star Chamber, because the roof thereof is decked with the likeness of stars gilt ...' The chamber's description is regarded as the most likely explanation for its name by the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Historian Graham White describes the treaty of Winchester as a " precarious peace ", capturing the judgement of most modern historians that the situation in late 1153 was still uncertain and unpredictable.

Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper said in 1977 that More was " the first great Englishman whom we feel that we know, the most saintly of humanists, the most human of saints, the universal man of our cool northern renaissance.

( Historian Jacques Gernet argues that this means a population of over 1 million inhabitants, making Hangzhou the most populous city in the world.

Historian Norman F. Cantor has made the paradoxical statement that he was " the most effective king in Anglo-Saxon history ", despite his not being Anglo-Saxon.

Historian Anne F. Thurston wrote that it " led to loss of culture, and of spiritual values ; loss of hope and ideals ; loss of time, truth and of life ..." Barnouin and Yu summarized the Cultural Revolution as " a political movement that produced unprecedented social divisions, mass mobilization, hysteria, upheavals, arbitrary cruelty, torture, killings, and even civil war ...", calling Mao " one of the most tyrannical despots of the twentieth century.

Historian and linguist Andrew Dalby says most references to butter in ancient Near Eastern texts should more correctly be translated as ghee.

Historian Pierre Chaunu termed the consequences of European navigation " disenclavement ", with it marking an end of isolation for some societies and an increase in inter-societal contact for most others.

Historian John Thornton noted, " A number of technical and geographical factors combined to make Europeans the most likely people to explore the Atlantic and develop its commerce.

Historian Richard Kurin builds a highly speculative case for 1653 as the year of acquisition, but the most that can be said with certainty is that Tavernier obtained the blue diamond during one of his five voyages to India between the years 1640 and 1667.

Historian Alan Brinkley has suggested that the most important domestic achievement of the Great Society may have been its success in translating some of the demands of the civil rights movement into law.

Historian Alan Stewart suggests that many of the phenomena now seen as peculiarly Jacobean can be identified more closely with Anne's patronage than with James, who " fell asleep during some of England's most celebrated plays ".

Historian Sidney Toy has described the Bastille as " one of the most powerful fortifications " of the period, and the most important fortification in late medieval Paris.

Historian Frank Dikötter asserts that " coercion, terror, and systematic violence were the very foundation of the Great Leap Forward " and it " motivated one of the most deadly mass killings of human history.

Historian John Mack Faragher cautions that the folk image of Boone as semiliterate is misleading, however, arguing that Boone " acquired a level of literacy that was the equal of most men of his times.

Historian John Birkenmeier has recently argued that John's reign was the most successful of the Komnenian period.

Historian Graham White describes the treaty of Winchester as a " precarious peace ", capturing the judgement of most modern historians that the situation in late 1153 was still uncertain and unpredictable.