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Histories and War
* Herodotus, Histories sets the table of events before Peloponnesian War that deals with Greco-Persian Wars and the formation of the Classical Greece
* Goda, Norman " Black Marks Hitler's Bribery of his Senior Officers During World War II " pages 96 – 137 from Corrupt Histories edited by Emmanuel Kreike and William Jordan, University of Rochester Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-58046-173-3.
* The Second Battle of Ypres in Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914 – 1918 at Library and Archives Canada
Sallust is the earliest known Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which we have Catiline's War ( about the conspiracy in 63 BCE of L. Sergius Catilina ), The Jugurthine War ( about Rome's war against the Numidians from 111 to 105 BCE ), and the Histories ( of which only fragments survive ).
As documented by World War I veteran Laurence Stallings ( in The Doughboys, 1963 ) and by U. S. Divisional Histories, the Medal of Honor was awarded to three American Chauchat gunners in 1918: 1 ) Private Nels Wold ( 35th Division, 138th Infantry ).
* Lloyd, Alwyn T. ( 2000 ) A Cold War Legacy, A Tribute to Strategic Air Command, 1946 – 1992, Pictorial Histories Pub ISBN 1-57510-052-5
* Goda, Norman " Black Marks Hitler's Bribery Of His Senior Officers During World War II " pages 96 – 137 from Corrupt Histories edited by Emmanuel Kreike and William Jordan, Toronto: Hushion House, 2005, ISBN 1580461735.
The Napoleonic Wars: The Peninsular War 1807 – 1814 ( Essential Histories, No 17 ), Osprey, 2002, ISBN 1841763705.
* Symmes, Weymouth War on the Rivers: A Swift Boat Sailor's Chronicle of the Battle of the Mekong Delta Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 2004.
* Lloyd, Alwyn T. ( 2000 ), A Cold War Legacy, A Tribute to Strategic Air Command, 1946 – 1992, Pictorial Histories Publications ISBN 1-57510-052-5
* Lloyd, Alwyn T. ( 2000 ), A Cold War Legacy, A Tribute to Strategic Air Command, 1946 – 1992, Pictorial Histories Publications ISBN 1-57510-052-5
About thirty years before this play, Herodotus argued in his Histories that Helen had never in fact arrived at Troy, but was in Egypt during the entire Trojan War.
* G. Hermon Gill, 1957, Official Histories – Second World War Volume I – Royal Australian Navy, 1939 – 1942 ( 1st ed ,) Ch.
" Andrew Green in ' Writing the Great War: Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories 1915 – 1948 ' ( 2003 ) considered the volumes of the Official History for Gallipoli, the Somme, 3rd Ypres and the German March offensive of 1918 and concluded that Edmonds had been far more objective than others had given him credit for.
" By almost every standard by which the Official Military Histories of the Great War might be judged, one must conclude that the works were of substantial historical, military and literary value ....
Histories and End
Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.
The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's Histories ( Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991 )
The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's Histories ( Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991 )
The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's Histories ( Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991 )
The company is strongly associated with the world stage premieres of Horrible Histories including Terrible Tudors, Vile Victorians, Ruthless Romans, Awful Egyptians, Frightful First World War, Woeful Second World War and its record-breaking production of Barmy Britain, which is the longest running children's show in West End history.
Histories and Empire
* Keen, Antony G. " Alternate Histories of the Roman Empire in Stephen Baxter, Robert Silverberg and Sophia McDougall.
What is known about the easternmost satraps and borderlands of the Achaemenid Empire are alluded to in the Darius inscriptions and from Greek sources such as the Histories of Herodotus and the later Alexander Chronicles ( Arrian, Strabo et al .).
The Uighur Empire according to the T ' ang Dynastic Histories: a study in Sino-Uyghur relations 744 – 840.
* 203 BC – Polybius, Greek historian, famous for his book called " The Histories " or " The Rise of the Roman Empire ", covering in detail the period between 220 and 146 BC ( d. 120 BC )
* Polybius, Greek historian, famous for his book called " The Histories " or " The Rise of the Roman Empire ", covering in detail the period between 220 and 146 BC ( d. 120 BC )
" This line is in fact the inscription over the entrance of the James Farley Post Office in New York and is derived from a line in Herodotus ' Histories ( 8. 98 ), referring to the ancient courier service of the Persian Empire.
Histories he wrote included Scots in Canada ( 1911 ), Steel of Empire: The Romantic History of the Canadian Pacific ( 1935 ), Canadian Mosaic ( 1938 ) and two histories of nursing.
Information taken from Encyclopædia Britannica, Dictionary of the Roman Empire, and Osprey Essential Histories, Caesar's Civil War.
It derives from a quote from Herodotus ' Histories, referring to the courier service of the ancient Persian Empire:
Calhoun launched the SSRC's innovative series of Web forums and has edited or co-edited several SSRC books: Understanding September 11 ( New Press 2002 ), Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power ( New Press 2006 ), and the Dictionary of the Social Sciences ( Oxford 2002 ).
* Simon Schaffer's 2010 Tarner Lectures ” When the stars threw down their spears ”: Histories of Astronomy and Empire
Histories and .
In archaeology, for example, the contributions of Frederick Haverfield and Reginald Smith to the various volumes of the Victoria County Histories raised the discipline from the status of an antiquarian pastime to that of the most valuable single tool of the early English historian.
Hence he commissioned a book entitled The Quintessence of Histories to be worked upon by calligraphers, but forbade its illustration by the by-now largely dissolved Society of Miniaturists.
The Old English versions of Orosius's Histories against the Pagans and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People are no longer accepted by scholars as Alfred's own translations because of lexical and stylistic differences.
For example, the story of the Amazons settling with the Scythians ( Herodotus Histories 4. 110. 1-117. 1 ).
It has with a Baroque portal ( 1667 ), a noteworthy bell tower, presbytery frescoes portraying the Histories of St. Peter and Virgin by Jacopo da Montagnana ( 1495 ) and Palma the Younger's altarpiece depicting Christ Crucifixed Between St. Augustine and St. Jerome.
Herodotus ( Histories iv. 189 ) thought he had identified the source of the ægis in Libya, which was always a distant territory of ancient magic for the Greeks:
Records of the Grand Historian is the first among Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of history from 3000 BCE to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century.
Zizhi Tongjian changed a tradition dating back almost 1, 000 years to the Shiji ; standard Chinese dynastic histories ( collectively the Twenty-Four Histories ) primarily divided chapters between annals ( 紀 ) of rulers and biographies ( 傳 ) of officials.
* The Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of authoritative histories of China, including the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian and the Book of Han by Ban Gu.
* The 2009 CBBC series Horrible Histories, with Mathew Baynton playing Cesare Borgia in one of the sketches.
There is also a song from Horrible Histories ( The Borgia Family ) about him, his father and his siblings.
The Histories of Herodotus vii. 33-37 and vii. 54-58 give details of building and crossing of Xerxes ' Pontoon Bridges.
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