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 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 writes, ' most insurgents seemed anxious for a resolution of their immediate economic difficulties by seizing the property of any of the settlers.

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

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Historian Edward Ingram has noted that if Nelson had successfully intercepted Bonaparte at sea as ordered, the ensuing battle could have annihilated both the French fleet and the transports.

Historian Neil Kent has speculated that the area may have been the victim of an enemy assault.

Historian J. P Harris has pointed out that the Germans never used the word blitzkrieg.

Historian Clinton Rossiter has hailed him as a leading American conservative.

Historian John Lewis Gaddis has summarized the turnaround in evaluations by historians:

The Historian Procopius, in his Secret History, claims that the emperor Justinian attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar in the 6th century, and a modern writer has suggested that this measure may have been directed against the protopaschites.

Historian Isabelle Dervaux has described the reception this painting received when it was first exhibited at the official Paris Salon of 1874: " Visitors and critics found its subject baffling, its composition incoherent, and its execution sketchy.

Historian of fascism Stanley Payne has said about Saddam Hussein's regime: " There will probably never again be a reproduction of the Third Reich, but Saddam Hussein has come closer than any other dictator since 1945 ".

Historian Frank Zelko has commented that " unlike Friends of the Earth, for example, which sprung fully formed from the forehead of David Brower, Greenpeace developed in a more evolutionary manner.

Historian Paul Nagel has noted that this letter reached Washington, and that parts of it were used by Washington when drafting his farewell address.

Historian Thomas Bailey observed, " Seldom has the public mind been so successfully poisoned against an honest and high-minded man.

Historian Jim Bradbury has summarised the contemporary historical opinion of John's positive qualities, observing that John is today usually considered a " hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general ".

Historian David Dumville has written: " I think we can dispose of him quite briefly.

Historian Eric Hobsbawm has called their machine wrecking " collective bargaining by riot ", which had been a tactic used in Britain since the Restoration, as the scattering of manufactories throughout the country made large-scale strikes impractical.

Quoting Gérard de Nerval Art Historian Jean-Yves Heurtebise has further proposed that Dutch mannerism would typically use an otherwise general principle of Art History consisting of " the ability to capture what is different and to become different itself in this process "

The Historian Andre Wink has recorded Hiuen Tsang's notings on the language and script in use in Makran.

Historian S. C. Rowell has described his rise to power as taking place through " the familiar processes of marriage, murder and military conquest.

Historian and Africanist Roland Oliver has described the scene as follows:

Historian Knud Haakonssen has noted that in the eighteenth century, Cumberland was commonly placed alongside Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf " in the triumvirate of seventeenth-century founders of the ' modern ' school of natural law.

Historian Walter Rodney has searched the reports of the early Portuguese travelers to the area and found mention in them of only one, quite particular, kind of slavery among the Africans.

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 Paul Israel has characterized Edison as a " freethinker ".

Historian John Hicks claims that the United States has never possessed for any considerable period of time the two party system in its pure and undefiled form.

" Historian Donald described the speech as a " superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's ( William H. Seward ) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's ( Salmon P. Chase ) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery.

Historian Ernest Kurtz described the schism:

The Xia Dynasty of China ( from c. 2100 to c. 1600 BC ) is the first dynasty to be described in ancient historical records such as Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and Bamboo Annals.

The Greek historian Herodotus described the hippopotamus in The Histories ( written circa 440 BC ) and the Roman Historian Pliny the Elder wrote about the hippopotamus in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia ( written circa 77 AD ).

Historian Sean Wilentz described Webster's account of the meeting as " not wholly reliable.

The Xia Dynasty (; ; c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC ) is the first dynasty in China to be described in ancient historical chronicles such as Bamboo Annals, Classic of History and Records of the Grand Historian.

The Xia Dynasty was described in classic texts such as the Classic of History ( Shujing ), the Bamboo Annals, and the Records of the Grand Historian ( Shiji ) by Sima Qian.

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 Robert Conquest described this system as " a set of phantom institutions and arrangements which put a human face on the hideous realities: a model constitution adopted in a worst period of terror and guaranteeing human rights, elections in which there was only one candidate, and in which 99 percent voted ; a parliament at which no hand was ever raised in opposition or abstention.

Historian Greg Grandin described a disjuncture between official ideals preached by the U. S. and actual U. S. support for terrorism.

" Historian Wilma Dykeman described that night:

Historian David Engel supports this, writing that " there can be no logically or empirically compelling grounds for declaring that some particular episode does or does not merit the label ," but he offers that the majority of the incidents " habitually " described as pogroms took place in societies significantly divided by ethnicity and / or religion where the violence was committed by the higher-ranking group against a stereotyped lower-ranking group against whom they expressed some complaint, and with the belief that the law of the land would not be used to stop them.

Historian R. Allen Brown has described these as " amongst the finest achievements of medieval military architecture England and Wales ".

Historian Richard Kluger, however, described the difficulties of the task:

The only account of the life of Zhuangzi is a brief sketch in chapter 63 of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, where he is described as a minor official from the town of Meng ( in modern Anhui ) in the state of Song, living in the time of King Hui of Liang and King Xuan of Qi ( late 4th century BCE ).

Historian Arnold Taylor has described Beaumaris Castle as Britain's " most perfect example of symmetrical concentric planning ".

Historian Arnold Taylor described Beaumaris as Britain's " most perfect example of symmetrical concentric planning " and for many years the castle was regarded as the pinnacle of military engineering during Edward I's reign.

Historian Arthur Schlesinger described the legacy of Niebuhr as being contested between American liberals and conservatives, both of whom wanted to claim him.

Historian Larry Tagg described Hill as " always emotional ... so high strung before battle that he had an increasing tendency to become unwell when the fighting was about to commence.

Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as, " the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era ".

The Chinese name for Tian Shan may be derived from the Xiongnu language name qilian (), which was described by Sima Qian in the Records of the Grand Historian as the homeland of the pre-Xiongnu peoples of the region, the Yuezhi, and has been said to refer to the Tian Shan rather than to the range further east now known by this name.