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This legend is found in two sources, Hans Svaning's History of King Hans from 1558 – 1559 and Johan Rantzau's History about the Last Dithmarschen War, from 1569.
Aside from the legend that Pilate had made an image of Christ, the 4th-century Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Church History, provides a more substantial reference to a " first " icon of Jesus.
History and legend tell of the ancient trade routes known as the Amber Road leading from the Old Prussian settlements of Kaup ( in Sambia ) and Truso ( near Elbląg-German: Elbing, near the mouth of the Vistula ) southwards to the Black and Adriatic seas.
* Greenland is colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red ( the date is according to legend but has been established as at least approximately correct – see History of Greenland ).
* Marie Delcourt, " The legend of Sarpedon and the Saga of the Archer ", History οf Religion, 2 ( 1962: 33-51 ).
According to a legend, in such circumstances the Pope was slapped by Sciarra Colonna: The episode was, therefore, remembered in Italian History as the Schiaffo di Anagni (" Anagni's Slap ").
Also in 1604, Philips Numann, clerk of the archbishop of Mechelen, described the legend of Scherpenheuvel in his Historie der Mirakelen ( History of Miracles ).
History itself, which was traditionally the sovereign's science, the legend of his glorious feats, became the discourse of the people, a political stake.
Three great historians were Herodotus, regarded as the father of history, known for The Persian Wars ; Thucydides, who generally avoided myth and legend and applied greater standards of historical accuracy in his History of the Peloponnesian War ; and Xenophon, best known for his account of the Greek retreat from Persia, the Anabasis.
Some of the Turpin legend can be sourced directly to Richard Bayes ' The Genuine History of the Life of Richard Turpin ( 1739 ), a mixture of fact and fiction hurriedly put together in the wake of the trial, to satisfy a gullible public.
* Dumville, David N., 1977 ' Sub-Roman Britain: history and legend ', History 62, pp. 173 – 192.
" Philip's speech strikes the only false note in the anecdote, according to AR Anderson, who noted his words as the embryo of the legend fully developed in the History of Alexander the Great I. 15, 17.
The sixteenth century chronicle a History of Tlaxcala, by Tlaxcalan Diego Muñoz Camargo contains a legend of a powerful Tlaxcalteca warrior called Tlahuitzole, who was captured, but because of his fame as a warrior he was freed and then fought with the Aztecs against the Tarascans in Michoacán.
The twelfth century legend was based on a reference in Pliny's Natural History that the ichneumon lay in wait for the crocodile to open its jaws for the trochilus bird to enter and pick its teeth clean.
Srinivasa Iyengar who made research on this topic mentions in his book " History of Tamils " Chapter XVI on topic " Criticism of the legend ", as the years mentioned for the Three Tamil Sangams are too vast.
Billingsgate, as a water-gate to the city of Trinovantum ( the name given to London in medieval British legend ), is mentioned the Historia Regum Britanniae ( History of the Kings of Britain ), written c. 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
This identification makes sense in light of the History of the Lombards and the Second Merseburg Charm, which prove a knowledge and a veneration of Frigg in the same area in the centuries before the Frau Holle legend came to be recorded.
The Old Fort was situated at the banks of the Sutlej ( and now houses The College of Textile Engineering ) and legend has it that an underground tunnel connects it to the Fort in Phillaur-although why this should be is debatable, as the Sutlej was the traditional dividing line between the two principalities, often occupied by enemy forces ( see History section )
The existence of a minster dedicated to Chad in this town seems to be a legend traceable to Burton's 1890 History of Kidderminster, in which the author acknowledges that the only evidence for such a place is the name of the town.
Pérez is a legend in Venezuela, where he is nicknamed " El Hombre de Historia ", or " The man of History ".
John Haywood also mentioned the legend in his The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee although the latter work was an effort to prove that the native tribes of Tennessee were descendants of ancient Hebrews.
The name of the city of Delhi is thought to be based on a legend associated with the pillar ( see History of Delhi ).
In The Secret History of the Mongols speaks legend related to the Ergune-Khun Mongol ancestry.

History and has
`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.
The History Of England has often been compared with Green's Short History.
History has demonstrated many times that concerts of nations based solely on the negative spur of common danger are unlikely to survive when the external danger ceases to be dramatically urgent.
" The book Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America published by Stanford University Press defines the plea as one in " which the defendant adheres to his / her claim of innocence even while allowing that the government has enough evidence to prove his / her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt ".
When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.
In eastern Asia archaeoastronomy has developed from the History of Astronomy and much archaeoastronomy is searching for material correlates of the historical record.
Noth thought the History was composed by a single individual, but this idea has been more or less given up and modern scholars argue for multiple authors active over a considerable period, culminating in the mid-6th century.
' There, in that fixed attitude of grief which Michelangelo has immortalized, the prophet may well be supposed to have mourned the fall of his country " ( Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, History of the Jewish Church ).
In more recent times, Boudica has been the subject of numerous documentaries, including some by Discovery Channel, History International Channel ( now known as H2 ), and the BBC.
Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum ( Natural History ) in South Kensington in 1887.
The original 1753 collection has grown to over thirteen million objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library.
Herodotus, who has been called the ' Father of History ', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ( then under Persian overlordship ).
Since the incident on 19 September 2002 ( see History of Ivory Coast ), a civil war broke out, and the north part of the country has been seized by the rebels, the New Forces ( FN ).
Spivak has published a number of works challenging the " legacy of colonialism " including A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present ( 1999 ), Other Asias ( 2005 ), and " Can the Subaltern Speak?
History has shown time and again that human stupidity can lead to collective traumas capable of being continued for generations.
Pliny the Elder's Natural History has a few brief references to Caligula.
Source code for a Coral 66 compiler ( written in BCPL ) has been recovered and the " Official Definition of Coral 66 " document by HMSO has been scanned ; the Ministry of Defence patent office has issued a licence to the Edinburgh Computer History project to allow them to put both the code and the language reference online for non-commercial use.
The magazine has since excised the article from subsequent editions of the Illustrated History book ; a transcription of it can be found at the link below ( despite his scathing view of Young's career, Marsh gave the album the highest possible rating ).
In his A New History of the Double Bass, Paul Brun asserts, with many references, that the double bass has origins as the true bass of the violin family.
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.
Abbot's studies were chiefly in Oriental languages and textual criticism of the New Testament, though his work as a bibliographer showed such results as the exhaustive list of writings ( 5300 in all ) on the doctrine of the future life, appended to W. R. Alger's History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, as it has prevailed in all Nations and Ages ( 1862 ), and published separately in 1864.
: History of science and technology has consistently taught us that scientific advances in basic understanding have sooner or later led to technical and industrial applications that have revolutionized our way of life.

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