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historical and John
In October 2010, John Graham-Cumming started a campaign to raise funds by " public subscription " to enable serious historical and academic study of Babbage's plans, with a view to then build and test a fully working virtual design which will then in turn enable construction of the physical Analytical Engine.
The Muhammadan Period ; by Sir H. M. Elliot ; Edited by John Dowson ; London Trubner Company 1867 – 1877-This online Copy has been posted by: The Packard Humanities Institute ; Persian Texts in Translation ; Also find other historical books: Author List and Title List )
The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.
The first holder of the title was John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), the noted English general, and indeed an unqualified reference to the Duke of Marlborough in a historical text will almost certainly refer to him.
A historical note on the Reverend John Clinch, first Canadian vaccinator.
It is generally believed that Shakespeare originally named Falstaff " John Oldcastle ", and that Lord Cobham, a descendant of the historical John Oldcastle, complained, forcing Shakespeare to change the name.
The historical reliability of John is debated, particularly by secular scholarship.
Following on from " the higher criticism " of the 19th century, Adolf von Harnack and Raymond E. Brown have questioned the gospel of John as a reliable source of information about the historical Jesus.
The opening verse of John is translated as " the Word was with God and the Word was God " in all orthodox and historical Bibles.
Critical scholarship in the 19th century distinguished between the " biographical " approach of the synoptics and the " theological " approach of John, and began to disregard John as a historical source.
According to the majority viewpoint for most of the 20th century, Jesus ' teaching in John is largely irreconcilable with that found in the Synoptics, and scholars consider the Synoptics to be more accurate representations of the teaching of the historical Jesus.
J. D. G. Dunn comments on historical Jesus scholarship, " Few scholars would regard John as a source for information regarding Jesus ' life and ministry in any degree comparable to the synoptics.
" Sanders points out that the author would regard the gospel as theologically true as revealed spiritually even if its content is not historically accurate and argues that even historically plausible elements in John can hardly be taken as historical evidence, as they may well represent the author's intuition rather than historical recollection.
The scholars of the Jesus Seminar identify the historical inferiority of John as foundational to their work.
While a large number of 20th century biblical critics argue that the teaching found in John does not go back to the historical Jesus, they usually agree that gospel is not entirely without historical value.
Recent evidences such as the pool and a turn away from the vestiges of positivism as evidenced by the growing number of books addressing the historicity of John reveal that the final word has not been said on how much of the historical Jesus inhabits John's gospel.
Some scholars today believe that parts of John represent an independent historical tradition from the synoptics, while other parts represent later traditions.
It is widely believed by historians that Federalist newspaper editors Nathan Hale, Benjamin and John Russell were the instigators, but the historical record gives no definitive evidence as to who created or uttered the word for the first time.
John Bellamy Foster asserts that historical materialism is important in explaining history from a scientific perspective, by following the scientific method, as opposed to belief-system theories like Creationism and Intelligent Design, which do not base their beliefs on verifiable facts and hypotheses.
Though he later described his presidency as the unhappiest time of his life, scholars rate John Quincy Adams in the second quartile in the majority of historical presidential rankings.

historical and Fastolf
The name was changed to " Falstaff ", based on Sir John Fastolf, an historical person with a reputation for cowardice at the Battle of Patay, and whom Shakespeare had previously represented in Henry VI, Part 1.
The name Falstaff was derived from Sir John Fastolf, who was also a historical person — allegedly a greedy and grasping individual, who had a ( probably undeserved ) reputation for cowardice at the Battle of Patay.

historical and fought
The Historia Brittonum, a 9th-century Latin historical compilation attributed in some late manuscripts to a Welsh cleric called Nennius, lists twelve battles that Arthur fought.
One school of thought, citing entries in the Historia Brittonum ( History of the Britons ) and Annales Cambriae ( Welsh Annals ), sees Arthur as a genuine historical figure, a Romano-British leader who fought against the invading Anglo-Saxons sometime in the late 5th to early 6th century.
Many other figures, like a great part of those who fought in the Trojan and Theban wars, Menelaus, and the historical pugilist Cleomedes of Astupalaea, were also believed to have been made physically immortal, but without having died in the first place.
After the historical handshake with Yasser Arafat, Rabin said, on behalf of the Israeli people: " We who have fought against you, the Palestinians, we say to you today, in a loud and a clear voice, enough of blood and tears ...
Except for a few basic generalities, such as that the Lycians probably fought in the Trojan War, nothing mentioned by the works produced under the name of Homer, or the other poets, or anything said by Herodotus about Lycians prior to his own time, is generally granted any historical validity.
We recognize something akin to Norns, spirits who decide destinies of men ; to the seeresses, who could protect men in battle with their spells ; to the powerful female guardian spirits attached to certain families, bringing luck to youth under their protection ; even to certain women who armed themselves and fought like men, for whom there is some historical evidence from the regions round the Black Sea.
One of the most significant historical events to occur in Picardy was the series of battles fought along the Somme during World War I.
The park was intended to undertake a teaching role to make people see war period at place and with applications .. With 57th Regiment Martyrdom Renewal Project, applied together with Gelibolu Peninsula Historical National Parks Directorate, was added again to historical values with a proper organization worth for our martyrs who fought heroically.
Due to increased accidents it has also been at the " center of controversy " in modern times as being a safety hazard, though many townspeople have fought against its removal because it is considered an historical landmark in La Russell.
The historical Enrique of Castile wandered, as knight errant and poet, to wage wars in Tunis, Naples and Sicily where he fought in those Battles of Benevento and Tagliacozzo, and became a prisoner of the Pope and Charles d ' Anjou in Canosa di Puglia, and Castel del Monte, from 1268 to 1291, where he would have reputedly written a good part of Amadis, before returning to Spain to become Regent of Castile, before his death in 1304.
The hero Chaereas is not a historical figure, although his name recalls Chabrias, an Athenian general who fought in an Egyptian revolt against Persia in about 360 BC.
At the time, most European countries tried to ensure similar guarantees, and because of the Tunisian crisis Italy found no other big potential ally than her historical enemy, Austria – Hungary, against which Italy had fought three wars in the 34 years before the first treaty signing.
Beside in literature and historical anthropology she was / is engaged in civil actions and confrontations against clientelism and corruption in the scientific domain in the frames of Slovenia ( in May 2000 she co-directed together with Sabina Mihelj a big public manifestation in Ljubljana against corrupted politics of the Ministry of Science and Technology ; in 2004 she fought against illegal takeover of the institution ISH ; in 2010 she again was a militant contra the total neoliberalization, venalization and degradation of the university as an autonomous institution and against the decomoposition of its fundamental scientific disciplines at the Faculty of Human Sciences Koper, University of Primorska ; for the later see web :- site Save the University: ).
Decolonization is rarely achieved through a single historical act, but rather progresses through one or more stages of emancipation, each of which can be offered or fought for: these can include the introduction of elected representatives ( advisory or voting ; minority or majority or even exclusive ), degrees of autonomy or self-rule.
Of Medieval historical interest, the village of Lomer, now only visible as a few small bumps in the ground, was most likely abandoned during the plague in the 14th century while the flat plain to the north of the South Downs Way where it passes Lewes is the site of the famous Battle of Lewes fought by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and Henry III during the Second Barons ' War.
On December 27, 1918 the Uprising of Greater Poland started and involved most of the Prussian Province of Posen, where Germans, identifying themselves as being Polish, formed the majority and fought against the German rule in that province, forming the historical landscape named Greater Poland.
The South African military evolved within the tradition of frontier warfare fought by commando forces, reinforced by the Afrikaners ' historical distrust of large standing armies.
El Cid ( 1961 ) is a historical epic film, a romanticized story of the life of the Christian Castilian knight Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called " El Cid " who in the 11th century fought the North African Almoravides and ultimately contributed to the unification of Spain.
Described in its opening credits as " an account of one of the most mishandled and brutal battles ever fought in Britain ", Culloden was hailed as a breakthrough for its cinematography as well as its use of non-professional actors and its presentation of an historical event in the style of modern TV war reporting.
This category contains historical naval battles and operations fought as part of the World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ).
The historical origin of the use of the term could be, as much in Chile as in Peru and Bolivia, in the war fought by Chile against the Peru-Bolivian Confederation.
While in Chile ( 1556 – 63 ) he fought against the Araucanians, and there he began the epic poem La Araucana, considered the greatest Spanish historical poem.
There are few historical attestations that Viking Age women took part in warfare, but the Byzantine historian Johannes Skylitzes records that women fought in battle when Sviatoslav I of Kiev attacked the Byzantines in Bulgaria in 971.
While some white refugees blamed the French Revolutionary government for sparking the violence in Haiti, many supported the Republican regime and openly expressed their support of the Jacobins There is also some historical evidence suggesting that displaying solidarity with the French Revolution was the easiest way for the refugees to earn the support and sympathy of the Americans, who had just recently fought their own battle for liberty.

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