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.

The two most common systems are the classification adopted by the website AmphibiaWeb, University of California ( Berkeley ) and the classification by herpetologist Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History, available as the online reference database Amphibian Species of the World.

There is a Natural History Museum operating under the direction of the University of Crete and two aquariums-Aquaworld in Hersonissos and Cretaquarium displaying sea creatures common in Cretan waters.

* Anders Persson The Coriolis Effect: Four centuries of conflict between common sense and mathematics, Part I: A history to 1885 History of Meteorology 2 ( 2005 )

The " Outlines " became sufficiently common for James Thurber to parody the trend in his humorous essay, " An Outline of Scientists "— indeed, Wells's Outline of History remains in print with a new 2005 edition, while A Short History of the World has been recently reedited ( 2006 ).

The History of Childhood, authored by ten scholars ( including deMause ), is often linked to Edward Shorter's The Making of the Modern Family and Lawrence Stone's The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800, because of the common ground they share in agreeing with a grim perspective of childhood history.

It has a common programme for all pupils, and covers all the classical subjects ( Italian language and literature, History, Geography, Mathematics, Natural sciences, English language, a second Foreign Language-usually French, German or Spanish, Technology, Arts, Music, and Physical Education ).

It constructed a narrative of cultural continuity, set in opposition to the violent disjunctions of Revolutionary France, a comparison common to the period, as expressed in Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution: A History and Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.

World History looks for common patterns that emerge across all cultures.

A common rhetorical cliché states, " History is written by the winners ".

The Oxford English Dictionary dates the English common name " barn swallow " to 1851, though an earlier instance of the collocation in an English-language context is in Gilbert White's popular book The Natural History of Selborne, originally published in 1789:

In his 1988 book A Brief History of Time, he describes The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time as " highly technical " and unreadable for the common reader.

" The Coriolis Effect: Four centuries of conflict between common sense and mathematics, Part I: A history to 1885 " History of Meteorology 2 ( 2005 )

Furthermore, no religious restrictions were placed on applicants ; and, while the Hall had a tradition of noted Theology academics, a wide range of disciplines were studied by students — the most common being English, History, Theology, Geography and Law.

* History of the west coast of North America, referring to the common geographic identity and culture historically shared with the US states of Washington, Oregon and California

Another common sort of book is the comprehensive " Stamps and Postal History " of a single country.

According to Hegel, Political History " is an idea of the state with a moral and spiritual force beyond the material interests of its subjects: it followed that the state was the main agent of historical change " This contrasts with one, for instance, social history, which focuses predominantly on the actions and lifestyles of ordinary people, or people's history, which is historical work from the perspective of common people.

History leaves us in darkness as to the origin of the Furia gens ; but, from sepulchral inscriptions found at Tusculum, we see that the name Furius was very common at that place, and hence it is generally inferred that the Furia gens, like the Fulvia, had come from Tusculum.

The 10 most common majors over the last five years have been English, Economics, Psychology, Government, History, Biological Sciences, International Relations, Anthropology, Human Development, and Art.

The most common double-major combinations are Government / History, Economics / International Relations, and Economics / Government, but graduates in recent years have also chosen interdisciplinary combinations such as Art / Computer Science, Film Studies / Latin American Studies, Biological Sciences and Religious Studies, and Art History / Italian.

However, aside from a common lower division religious studies course ( introduction to biblical literature ), students can take a variety of different courses to fulfill these requirements ( for example, a course on U. S. History and a course on Psychology would satisfy the social science requirement ).

Beam writes that Fomenko and his colleagues were discovered by the Soviet scientific press in the early 1980s, leading to " a brief period of renown "; a contemporary review from the journal Questions of History complained, " Their constructions have nothing in common with Marxist historical science.