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Although The Histories were often criticized in antiquity for bias, inaccuracy and plagiarism — Lucian of Samosata attacked Herodotus as a liar in Verae Historiae and went as far as to deny him a place among the famous on the Island of the Blessed — modern historians and philosophers take a more positive view of Herodotus's methodology, especially those searching for a paradigm of objective historical writing.

The distinction between a formally polite greeting and an obeisance is often hard to make ; for example, proskynesis ( Greek for " moving towards ") is described by the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who lived in the 5th century BC in his Histories 1. 134:

Histories often state the paper advocated birth control, but some historians disagree.

Deary uses researchers for all Horrible Histories often in specialised fields, such as a military history.

Family Histories are often created as a memorial for the deceased and are written to be passed down to future generations.

Most accounts incorrectly attribute this story to the historian Herodotus, who wrote the history of the Persian Wars in his Histories ( composed about 440 BC ).

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.

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 Histories — his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced — is a record of his " inquiry " ( or historía, a word that passed into Latin and acquired its modern meaning of " history "), being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information.

At its simplest and broadest level of meaning, The Histories is structured as a dynastic history of four Persian kings:

Herodotus, in Book II of his Histories, describes as a " labyrinth " a building complex in Egypt, " near the place called the City of Crocodiles ," that he considered to surpass the pyramids in its astonishing ambition:

Two other books about Huntington include History of Huntington County, IN by Frank Sumner Bash in 1914 ( describing its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests ) and Huntington County, IN: Histories and Families by Turner Publishing Company in 1993 as a result of the Huntington County Historical Society officers and board of directors meeting in the summer of 1992 to discuss the family history of Huntington, the glue that has held together the city and county of Huntington in the heartland of the Midwest for more than 175 years.

In 2007 he launched the long-awaited Stratford theatre redevelopments, including construction of the temporary Courtyard Theatre while work was in progress, designed to house his RSC Histories cycle before its transfer to the Roundhouse in London in 2008.

Histories of the College were written in its Centenary in 1985, and the 125th anniversary of its foundation in 2010:

The most important of his many works is considered to be the Book of Histories, usually called Chiliades (" thousands ") from the arbitrary division by its first editor ( N. Gerbel, 1546 ) into books each containing 1000 lines ( it actually consists of 12, 674 lines of political verse ).

The word μίτρα, mítra, ( or, in its Ionic form, μίτρη, mítrē ) first appears in Greek and signifies either of several garments: a kind of waist girdle worn under a cuirass, as mentioned in Homer's Iliad ; a headband used by women for their hair ; a sort of formal Babylonian head dress, as mentioned by Herodotus ( Histories 1. 195 and 7. 90 ).

She is a signatory of the 2010 Declaration on Crimes of Communism, a patron of its preceding conference, and was a member of the Reconciliation of European Histories Group as an MEP.

His credits include The Rory Bremner Show, The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything, various episodes of Spitting Image and its retrospective documentary Best Ever Spitting Image, Baddiel's Syndrome and the BBC One re-airing of Horrible Histories.

His next theatrical role is his best known one – his performance as King Henry VI in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2001 productions of Shakespeare's trilogy of plays about the king as a part of its season This England: The Histories.

* Spufford, Margaret Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readership in seventeenth Century England, ( Methuen, 1981 )

The Commission has published over a hundred books developing and promoting understanding of aspects of the historic environment, including its centenary volume in 2008, Hidden Histories: Discovering the Heritage of Wales, which includes a brief account of the organisation's development and discussions of the history of Wales seen in the light of its first century of discoveries.

* Spufford, M. ( 1981 ), Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readership in seventeenth Century England.

The upper part of the façade is incomplete, but the lower, with its three portals and sculptures, is a fine example of Romanesque architecture, including two statues by Benedetto Antelami and bas-reliefs depicting the Histories of St. Domninus.

The Histories, written from primary documents and personal knowledge of the Flavian period, is thought to be more accurate, though Tacitus's hatred of Domitian seemingly colored its tone and interpretations.

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.

" This is a tribe ," says Tacitus ( Histories Book iv ) " which inhabits part of the island, and closely resembles the Batavians in their origin, their language, and their courageous character, but is inferior in numbers.

This lack of information regarding Orosius could be due to cooling of relations with Saint Augustine, who never makes any clear unambiguous references to Orosius ’ s " Histories " once they have been published.

The Commonitorium and the Histories are a response, at least in their origins, to the direct influence that Saint Augustine exercised over Orosius. Although Paulus Orosius ’ s most important book was the Historiae Adversus Paganos, his other two surviving books must also be taken into account: Commonitorium and Liber Apologeticus.

Examples of this tendency include narratives of events in the “ Histories ”, that occurred in Braga or the fact that Orosius himself was charged with transporting the reliquaries of Saint Stephen.

Colophon from an Incunable | incunabulum of the Historiae Adversus Paganos by Paulus Orosius, one of the most copied books from the Medieval period. The assumed falling out of Paulus Orosius and Saint Augustine at the end of the former ’ s life does not seem to have had a negative effect on the distribution and impact of his Histories.

Procopius records that after about five years, Abraha deposed the viceroy and made himself king ( Histories 1. 20 ).

Themistocles hosted a banquet in an attempt to curry favour with his colleagues but won nothing by it since each of the commanders subsequently voted himself the most deserving of the prize ( Histories 8. 123-4 ).

" To Dryasdust, who wishes merely to compile torpedo Histories of the philosophical or other sorts, and gain immortal laurels for himself by writing about it and about it, all this is sport ; but to us who struggle piously, passionately, to behold, but in glimpses, the faces of our vanished Fathers, it is death!

Books I through V of The Histories are the introduction for the years during his lifetime, describing the politics in each powerful nation, including ancient Greece and Egypt.

Other important themes running through The Histories are the role of Fortune in the affairs of nations, his insistence that history should be demonstratory, or apodeiktike, providing lessons for statesmen, and that historians should be " men of action " ( pragmatikoi ).

According to the Histories of the Greek historian Herodotus, about 600 BC, Necho II undertook to dig a west-east canal through the Wadi Tumilat between Bubastis and Heroopolis, and perhaps continued it to the Heroopolite Gulf and the Red Sea.

The BBC's Unnatural Histories claimed that the Amazon rainforest, rather than being a pristine wilderness, has been shaped by man for at least 11, 000 years through practices such as forest gardening.

In this article Rábade calls the " Histories " a " universalist history with an apologetic and providentialist character, whose main aim is to compare a pagan past with a Christian present, through their followers, their actions and their geographical and temporal location ".

The BBC's Unnatural Histories claimed that the Amazon rainforest, rather than being a pristine wilderness, has been shaped by man for at least 11, 000 years through practices such as forest gardening and terra preta.

The BBC's Unnatural Histories claimed that the Amazon rainforest, rather than being a pristine wilderness, has been shaped by man for at least 11, 000 years through practices such as forest gardening.

Herodotus adds that he suffered much misfortune: his only daughter, whose corpse was interred in a wooden bull ( which Herodotus claims survived to his lifetime ), died before him ; additionally, the oracle at Buto predicted he would only rule six years, but through his shrewdness, Menkaure was able to rule a total of 12 years and foil the prophecy ( Herodotus, Histories, 2. 129-133 ).

), " Unification through Division: Histories of the divisions of the American Psychological Association ", Vol.

The BBC's Unnatural Histories claimed that the Amazon rainforest, rather than being a pristine wilderness, has been shaped by man for at least 11, 000 years through practices such as forest gardening and terra preta.

In 1707, having been assisted in his research by fellow Welsh scholar Moses Williams, he published the first volume of Archaeologia Britannica: an Account of the Languages, Histories and Customs of Great Britain, from Travels through Wales, Cornwall, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.

Dirk has also worked on audiotape adaptations of Terry Deary's Horrible Histories books and is audio director for the Animated Mr Bean television series, which means that everything heard in the show has gone through Dirk's hands at some point.

* Oral Histories: Compiles and publicizes psychiatric survivor stories detailing the experiences of those who have been through the mental health system.

Tacitus's contemporaries were well-acquainted with his work ; Pliny the Younger, one of his first admirers, congratulated him for his better-than-usual precision and predicted that his Histories would be immortal: only a third of his known work has survived and then through a very tenuous textual tradition ; we depend on a single manuscript for books I-VI of the Annales and on another one for the other surviving half ( books XI-XVI ) and for the five books extant of the Historiae.