* Michael Psellus, Greek philosopher and historian

* 1018-1087 Michael Psellos or Psellus a Byzantine monk, writer, philosopher, politician and historian.

Michael Psellos or Psellus ( Greek: Μιχαήλ Ψελλός, Mikhaēl Psellos ) was a Byzantine monk, writer, philosopher, politician and historian.

The historian Suetonius describes the physical manifestations of Claudius ' affliction in relatively good detail.

The ancient historian Tacitus describes Domitian's first speech in the Senate as brief and measured, at the same time noting his ability to elude awkward questions.

Allen had the work, which historian Charles Jellison describes as " rebellion in print ", printed in Connecticut, and began selling and giving away copies in early 1775.

The historian Ibn Khaldun describes fiqh as " knowledge of the rules of God which concern the actions of persons who own themselves bound to obey the law respecting what is required ( wajib ), sinful ( haraam ), recommended ( mandūb ), disapproved ( makrūh ) or neutral ( mubah )".

Although the Australian Official History of 24th Brigade's 2 / 32 battalion describes the counterattack force as " German ", the Australian historian Mark Johnston reports that German records indicate that it was the Trento Division that overran the Australian battalion.

In Norway, the historian Edvard Bull famously proclaimed that " we have to give up all illusions that Snorri's mighty epic bears any deeper resemblance to what actually happened " in the time it describes.

The historian Kelly DeVries describes the period preceding her appearance in the following terms: " If anything could have discouraged her, the state of France in 1429 should have.

Nonetheless, modern historians agree that he also had many faults as king, including what historian Ralph Turner describes as " distasteful, even dangerous personality traits ", such as pettiness, spitefulness and cruelty.

One chronicler had not seen " a siege so hard pressed or so strongly resisted ", whilst historian Reginald Brown describes it as " one of the greatest operations in England up to that time ".

* The Romano-Jewish historian Josephus ( 37 – c. 100 AD ) describes it in his book The Jewish War ( 4. 10. 5 ) when he gives a geographical overview of Egypt.

All that remains of his description of Moses are two references made by Diodorus Siculus, wherein, writes historian Arthur Droge, " he describes Moses as a wise and courageous leader who left Egypt and colonized Judaea.

The Guyanese historian Walter Rodney describes mercantilism as the period of the world-wide development of European commerce, which began in the fifteenth century with the voyages of Portuguese and Spanish explorers to Africa, Asia and the New World.

The historian Andreas Kossert describes that the incorporation happened despite protests of the local populace, the municipal authorities and the German Government, According to Kossert 6, 000 inhabitants of the region soon left the area.

British historian Richard J. Evans describes the difference in technique between historians and revisionists thus:

Stephen's military campaign in England had progressed well, and historian David Crouch describes it as " a military achievement of the first rank ".

The completed film ultimately benefited from the decision, as film historian Joseph Maddrey describes the black-and-white filming as " guerrilla-style ", resembling " the unflinching authority of a wartime newsreel ".

A slightly different accounting can be found in the book Against Apion, by the 1st-century Jewish historian Josephus, who describes 22 sacred books: the five books of Moses, thirteen histories, and four books of hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life.

The historian Eleanor Searle describes William's invasion as " a plan that no ruler but a Scandinavian would have considered ".

The 5th century BC Athenian historian Thucydides describes them as " barbarians " in his History of the Peloponnesian War, as does Strabo in his Geography.

The ensuing Battle of Concepción, which historian J. R. Edmondson describes as " the first major engagement of the Texas Revolution ", was the last offensive against the Texian Army that Cos would order.

Film historian Virginia Wright Wexman describes Antonioni's perspective on the world as that of a " postreligious Marxist and existentialist intellectual.

This time France succeeded in prevailing over Great Britain, in what historian Alfred Cave describes as " French [...] revenge for Montcalm's death ".

He continues to receive praise from film scholars: critic Leonard Maltin calls Tracy " one of the 20th century ’ s finest actors ", while film historian Jeanine Basinger describes his career as a " golden record of movie achievement ".

Writing in 1933, art historian Bryson Burroughs, who at that time attributed to Hubert the Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych and whom he describes as " the fountainhead of northern painting ", suggests he did the underdrawing for the Ghent Altarpiece with Jan painting in after his brother's death.

The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that Xerxes sought his harem after being defeated in the Greco-Persian Wars.

His dialectical success against the Buddhists is confirmed by Buddhist historian Tathagata, who reports that Kumārila defeated disciples of Buddhapalkita, Bhavya, Dharmadasa, Dignaga and others.

The early Greek historian Ctesias c. 400 BC ( followed by Diodorus Siculus ) alleged that the legendary Assyrian king Ninus had defeated a Bactrian king named Oxyartes in ca.

The Roman historian Livy reports that Ancus Marcius, Rome's fourth king, defeated the Latins of Politorium, and resettled them there.

In 320 and 319, the Romans returned for revenge against the Samnites and defeated them in what the Roman historian Livy described as one of the greatest events in Roman history.

( However, Ward Moore reversed this staple of alternate history fiction in his Bring the Jubilee ( 1953 ), where an alternative world where the Confederate States of America won the Battle of Gettysburg and the American Civil War is destroyed after a historian and time traveller from the defeated United States of that world travels back to the scene of the battle and inadvertently changes the result so that the North wins that battle.

Narseh joined Babak's rebellion in southern Kurdistan, but Abbasid armies defeated his forces in 833 and according to the Muslim historian Tabari around 60, 000 of his followers were killed.

He closed by expressing pessimism that the delegates would choose to support social credit, and this pessimism proved well-founded: though sources are inconsistent on the precise outcome — journalist John Barr reports that the exact vote was not recorded, while historian Bradford Rennie states there were 30 affirmative votes out of 400 delegates present — there is agreement that the resolution was handily defeated.

Charles Stewart as a federal cabinet ministerDespite Stewart's involvement in transferring resource rights to Alberta, his relationship with the UFA government that had defeated him in 1921 was frosty: Lakeland College historian Franklin Foster, in his biography of UFA Premier John Edward Brownlee, alleges that this antipathy influenced Stewart's preference for private corporations over the Alberta government in granting hydroelectric power permits.

According to the Roman historian Florus, Quirinius defeated the Marmaridae, a tribe of desert raiders from Cyrenaica, possibly while governor of Crete and Cyrene around 14 BC, declining however the honorific name Marmaricus.

According to Snorri, the Norse historian, Connor, King of Ireland, defeated the raiding Orkney Vikings at Ulfreksfjord in 1018.

The early Greek historian Ctesias c. 400 BCE ( followed by Diodorus Siculus ) alleged that the legendary Assyrian king Ninus had defeated a Bactrian king named Oxyartes in ca.

According to the single remaining source, Roman historian Justin, Eucratides defeated Demetrius of India, but the identity of this king is uncertain: he could be either Demetrius I, or Demetrius II.

However, the Hebrew Bible's suggestion that Jerusalem was victorious rather than defeated, is corroborated by the Jewish historian Josephus.

One historian wrote, " The Indians said afterward that the Christians would have been defeated were it not for a woman on a white horse.

Leading this portion of the Legion is Peter Owensford, along with Ace Barton, the mercenary Falkenberg defeated on Tanith, and Benjamin Whitlock, a sociologist and political historian who, with his Southern U. S. A. roots, may be a stand-in for the author, Jerry Pournelle, who is from Louisiana.

* Australia's national rugby team, the Kangaroos, defeated a team of Rugby Football League stars from England, 63-13, in a game at the Stade Pershing in Paris RugbyLeagueProject. org in a match that one historian called " the birth of rugby league in France "; a French league, the LFRT, would be founded in April.

According to Snorri, the Norse historian, Connor, King of Ireland, defeated the raiding Orkney Vikings at Ulfreksfjord in 1018.

Kalhana, the 12th century historian, places him in the entourage of the king, who was defeated by Lalitaditya, King of Kashmir, in 736 AD.