Edgar Saltus's historical fiction novel Mary Magdalene: A Chronicle ( 1891 ) depicts her as a heroine living in a castle at Magdala, who moves to Rome becoming the " toast of the tetrarchy ", telling John The Baptist she will " drink pearls ... sup on peacock's tongues.

In these essays, he explains that his novels combine fiction and history to place ordinary individuals ( like his novelistic protagonists Arthur Mervyn or Edgar Huntly ) into situations of historical stress ( like the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 or settler-Indian violence on the Pennsylvania frontier after the Walking Purchase ) in such a way as educate his audience about virtuous behaviors and the historical causes and conditions of individual actions.

Edgar Bronfman declared: " It is not only a matter of the Auschwitz convent, but the broader implications of historical revisionism in which the uniqueness of the Holocaust and the murder of the Jewish people is being suppressed.

These included a full week of stories by an American writer, ( Edgar Allan Poe in 1975, Mark Twain in 1976 ); week-long adaptations of classic novels ( The Last Days of Pompeii in 1980, Les Miserables in 1982 ); and original dramas about historical figures ( Nefertiti in 1979, Alexander the Great in 1981 ).

More so than the Deftones, many of Team Sleep's themes and lyrics are fantastical and imaginative in nature, drawing from such literary sources as Edgar Allan Poe and historical events like the Jonestown Massacre.

* Hugh Edgar, butler, The Edwardian Country House, 2002 British historical recreation TV series

The most prominent historical character within Cloudstreet is the Nedlands monster, whose real name is Eric Edgar Cooke, a serial killer whom the book states single-handedly " made Perth into a real city ".

The Outlaw of Torn is a 1927 historical novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, originally published as a five part serial in New Story Magazine from January to May, 1914.

Edgar Pangborn ( February 25, 1909 – February 1, 1976 ) was an American mystery, historical, and science fiction author.

From there Edgar continued writing in science fiction and in other genres as well, including the historical novel Wilderness of Spring and the contemporary courtroom drama The Trial of Callista Blake.

The volume which grew from this conference, Reconstructing Languages and Cultures ( 1992, edited by Edgar Charles Polomé and Werner Winter ), points to the worldwide impact of Lehmann's work on Indo-European and historical linguistics.

This story, popularized in historical novels written by Allan W. Eckert in the late 1960s, remains well known in Ohio, where an outdoor drama celebrating the life of the white Indian chief was performed yearly in Xenia, Ohio from 1981 until 2007.

Allan Wesley Eckert ( January 30, 1931 – July 7, 2011 ) was an American historian, historical novelist, and naturalist.

David Allan ( 13 February 1744 – 6 August 1796 ) was a Scottish painter and illustrator, best known for historical subjects and genre works.

* Interview ( The Event: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida ) with artist Allan McCollum along with an historical archive of sixty-six downloadable PDF's on the subject of fulgurites.

Allan Levine ( born February 10, 1956 ) is a Canadian author from Winnipeg, Manitoba, known mainly for his award-winning non-fiction and historical mystery writing.

Sir William Allan ( 1782 – 23 Feb. 1850 ) was a distinguished Scottish historical painter known for his scenes of Russian life.

Allan Atlas has analysed in detail the different treatments of the death of the Mimi character in both Leoncavallo's and Puccini's versions of La bohème, contrasting the historical success of Puccini's opera and the relative failure of Leoncavallo's.

From 1962 to 2007 Ian Allan also published, jointly with the Light Rail Transit Association, the monthly magazine Modern Tramway — known later as Light Rail and Modern Tramway and currently as Tramways & Urban Transit — and continues to handle printing and some distribution of TAUT, as well as printing of the LRTA's quarterly historical journal, Tramway Review.

The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts.

In addition to historical sources, Poe was influenced by other writers.

* Memory Archive, an online historical preservation project started by Poe.

* Mechanical Icon, a collection of " video essays " on historical photographs produced by Poe.

( Whether historical nationalism helped the peoples of the remainder of the world, and whether today's nationalism in the former colonial areas has equally beneficial aspects, are other questions.

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

Each area has its own historical interests with which much can be done.

To be the Savior and the Lord, Jesus Christ has to be a historical individual with a biography all his own ; ;

Modern Westerners have difficulty comprehending this fusion of moral and material, largely because in the West the historical trend has been to deny the connection.

Following Ernest Becker, he argues that the desire to ' authoritatively disambiguate ' the world and existence has led to numerous ideologies and historical events such as genocide.

The Texas Historical Commission has erected a historical marker near the entrance of what was once his plantation.

The issue has been further complicated by historical revisionists, who have tried to improve the image of the South by lessening the role of slavery.

He " has a sense of identity, a sense of historical and religious tradition, a feeling of belonging to a concrete family, place, and region, which are psychologically and culturally beneficial.

In some expressions it retains this pan-American sense, but its usage has evolved over time and, for various historical reasons, the word came to denote people or things specifically from the United States of America.

The early detailed source, the Germania of Tacitus, has sometimes been interpreted in such a way as to provide yet other historical problems.

Alexander II has been depicted in a historical novel.

Alexander III has been depicted in historical novels.

Johnson's administration has received very poor historical rankings amongst scholars, typically amongst the bottom three.

The principal historical use of ambergris was as a fixative in perfumery, though it has now been largely displaced by synthetics.

Alberta's historical development has been largely influenced by the development of new transportation infrastructure, ( see " trends " below ).

The development of transportation in Alberta has been crucial to its historical economic development.

However, it has been argued that if both texts were written by the same individual, they should have exactly identical theologies and they should agree on historical questions.

The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.

The order is not a simple historical continuation of the earlier north Semitic alphabetic order, since it has a position corresponding to the Aramaic letter

Since 1947, a major historical re-enactment commemorating the Declaration's signing has been held within the roofless remains of the Abbey church.

The lack of correspondence between Ptolemaic and historical names known to be ancient has no defense except in the case of the two Roman colonies, Aleria and Mariana.

Aberfoyle has connections to many historical figures such as Rob Roy and Mary, Queen of Scots.

In contrast to the largely alignment-oriented statistically led methods of Green archaeoastronomy, Brown archaeoastronomy has been identified as being closer to the history of astronomy or to cultural history, insofar as it draws on historical and ethnographic records to enrich its understanding of early astronomies and their relations to calendars and ritual.