The turn of the century, or to be more precise, the two decades preceeding and following it, marks a great change in the history of early English scholarship.

The value of place-names in the reconstruction of early English history had long been recognized.

Most now admit that Bede, Gildas, Nennius and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles cannot be the infallible guides to early English history that Guest, Freeman and Green thought them to be.

Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work.

We have aligned ourselves with that `` liberal '' tradition in Protestant Christianity that counts among the great names in its history those of Schleiermacher, Ritschl, Herrmann, Harnack, and Troeltsch, and more recently, Schweitzer and the early Barth and, in part at least, Bultmann.

After all this destruction of old literature, it should be obvious why we have so little information about the early history and development of the Lo Shu, which was already semisecret anyhow.

As Diggins concludes regarding the highly influential Cooper Union speech of early 1860, " Lincoln presented Americans a theory of history that offers a profound contribution to the theory and destiny of republicanism itself.

Although Tylor undertook a field trip to Mexico, both he and Frazer derived most of the material for their comparative studies through extensive reading, not fieldwork, mainly the Classics ( literature and history of Greece and Rome ), the work of the early European folklorists, and reports from missionaries, travelers, and contemporaneous ethnologists.

Ra II, a ship built from papyrus, was successfully sailed across the Atlantic by Thor Heyerdahl proving that it was possible to cross the Atlantic from Africa using such boats in early epochs of history.

In consolidating his empire and subduing contending factions he was ably assisted by Nizam ul-Mulk, his vizier, and one of the most eminent statesmen in early Muslim history.

thumbAmerica's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball.

Adelaide's early history was wrought by economic uncertainty and incompetent leadership.

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive Annales approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the Année Sociologique ( many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg ) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes.

After the Communists took control in the 1940s Polish scholars were safer working on the Middle Ages and the early modern era rather than contemporary history.

The area's industrial history is reflected in dozens of 19th-and early 20th-century manufacturing sites in the city.

In the early 21st century, Johnson is among those commonly mentioned as the worst presidents in U. S. history.

He especially enjoyed reading and being read to, spending long hours listening to William read early drafts of his history.

Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

Most Protestants deny the need for this type of continuity and the historical claims involved have been severely questioned ; Eric Jay comments that the account given of the emergence of the episcopate in chapter III of Lumen Gentium " is very sketchy, and many ambiguities in the early history of the Christian ministry are passed over " Their reasons are given in detail below.

Arrangements and transcriptions of classical and serious music go back to the early history of this genre.

During the early 1950s the board was divided on whether to defend communists persecuted under McCarthyism.

Important early anthroposophists who were Jewish included Karl König, the founder of the Camphill movement, and a majority of the executive board of the original Anthroposophical Society.

A number of important historical sites, artifacts and documents exist which shed light on early board games.

Experienced players can avoid the chaining phenomenon by making early moves to split the board.

The early versions of the game even included a flier of information and ordering materials for the board game.

In addition, Commodore made the drive's controller board smaller and having a lower chip count than the early 1541s ( which had a large PCB with dozens of TTL chips running the length of the case ).

Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the 20th century and of the surviving states in the early 21st century.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

It formed the basis for some early merchandise in the US in the 1960s, such as a popular model kit by Aurora Plastics Corporation, and a popular board game by Ideal Toys.

In the early 1990s a popular solution to link PCs with the mainframes was the Irma board.

" In an early case, Landis fined the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company the maximum $ 4, 000 for illegally importing workers, even though Winifred Landis's sister's husband served on the corporate board.

She was rearrested when it was decided that she had been mistakenly released a year early from prison due to a miscalculation by the parole board.

* Top Gear-Award 2010-The Agera becomes BBCs Top Gear Hypercar of the Year, beating cars such as the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport ( It's spelled Koenigsiginssegiesgsegg on the lap time board due to confusion and the company being in its early stages )

In the early 1950s a Dr. Lyne Borst of Utah University was given funding by various US railroad line and manufactures to study the feasibility of an electric drive locomotive in which an on board atomic reactor produced the steam to generate the electricity.

In the early 1990s Motorola produced an evaluation board kit for the 68HC11 with several UARTs, RAM, and an EPROM.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, shareware software was widely distributed over bulletin board systems globally and on diskettes ( and, subsequently, CD-ROMs ) by commercial shareware distributors who produced catalogs describing thousands of public domain and shareware programs.

However, bulletin board systems ( BBS ) and computer expositions such as Software Creations BBS were the primary distributors of all early low-cost software.

At a board meeting in fall 2001, Turner's outburst against AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin eventually led to the latter's announced resignation effective in early 2002, being replaced by Richard Parsons.

The genre is known for a number of common conventions that were developed early on, but these do not necessarily appear in all board wargames.

They were also used in most early video games ; and are still used for card and board games such as solitaire, chess, mahjongg, etc.

* 1283 – The Libro de los juegos, an early European treatise on board games ( including chess, dice, and a version of backgammon ), is commissioned by King Alfonso X of Castile between 1251 and 1283.

" During the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, later known as The Day the Music Died, the charter crashed outside Clear Lake, killing all on board.

Whereas RS / 6000 used a mix of early POWER and PowerPC processors, when pSeries came along this had evolved into RS64-III and POWER3 across the board — POWER3 for its excellent floating-point performance and RS64 for its scalability, throughput, and integer performance.

* The Libro de los juegos, an early European treatise on board games ( including chess, dice, and a version of backgammon ), is commissioned by King Alfonso X of Castile between 1251 and 1283.