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The history of Nordland is a tale about the gifts from the sea: One of the most productive seas in the world providing food all year since ancient times, the same sea creates a climate more moderate than any other place in the arctic ; even the bedrock itself enriched by sea living organisms millions of years ago in the geological past.
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But now, when everything depended on a concentration of forces, Charles ' imprudent assumption of the title of " King of the Lapps of Nordland " which people properly belonged to the Danish Crown, involved him in another war with Denmark, a war known in Scandinavian history as the Kalmar War because the Swedish fortress of Kalmar was the chief theatre of hostilities.
history and is
This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).
Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.
What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??
It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.
Admirably written, it is a perfect introduction to Swedish history for readers of other countries.
All of this, I know, is recent history familiar to you.
But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.
For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.
And it would seem that history is a witness to this truth.
The implicit assumption of this response is that history is reversible.
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.
His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.
Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.
This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.
history and tale
However, the story remained a relatively shallow tale — a celebration of US conquest and personal adventures — until the mid-century, since which time the history has been more thoroughly researched and retold in many forms to a growing and appreciative audience.
The tale of Luigi actually starts in Chapter III and the previous chapters I and II build up further mythology behind the name Morgenstern and the backstory of Gondolierian history.
Much of the prior history of Milan was the tale of the struggle between two political factions — the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.
The Skeptical School of early Chinese history, started by Gu Jiegang in the 1920s, was the first group of scholars within China to seriously question the traditional story of its early history: " the later the time, the longer the legendary period of earlier history ... early Chinese history is a tale told and retold for generations, during which new elements were added to the front end ".
The history of the fairy tale is particularly difficult to trace because only the literary forms can survive.
The version of history in the Duan Albanach was long accepted, although it is preceded by the purely legendary tale of Albanus and Brutus conquering Britain.
A legend ( Latin, legenda, " things to be read ") is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude.
His account of the tale of Thyri for example is far more fantastic and blown up than the tale that Sven presents and for this stylization and elaboration of the facts Saxo's history has often been criticized.
A malesk, in contrast, is an adventure or history tale that purports to entertain rather than explain.
He translated the pastorals of Longus, wrote a tale called Diane de Castro, and gave with his Traitté de l ' origine des romans ( 1670 ), his Treatise on the Origin of Romances the first world history of fiction.
The Derwent Valley Museum, located on the Derwent Reservoir dam and run privately by Vic Hallam, tells the history of the Derwent valley and of Derwent, Ashopton and Birchinlee as well as the tale of RAF Squadron 617 and its training for Operation Chastise during the Second World War.
The exhibition, owned and run by Vic Hallam, tells the tale of Squadron 617 and its training for Operation Chastise and also has a display on the history of the Derwent valley and the lost villages of Derwent and Ashopton.
Another common origin tale begins the cocktail ’ s history at the legendary Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas where, in 1948, head bartender Santos Cruz created the Margarita for singer Peggy ( Margaret ) Lee.
The popularity of the almost mythical tale was only enhanced by rapid modernization during the Meiji era of Japanese history, when it is suggested many people in Japan longed for a return to their cultural roots.
( By the 1970s oral history had grown this tale into a 1950s McCarthy-era exercise by an unnamed professor, and that it was a symbolic attack on the " big lie " political style of the Red-hunters of the era.
St-Preux, a neo-romantic hero, will come back ( he who wanted to die ) after " having much suffered, and having seen even more suffering ..." This tale of thwarted love (" Héloïse " refers to the history of Héloïse and Abélard ) was a best-seller at the time, Rousseau's book so scrambled after that it was rented by the hour in the book-shops.
Many readers interpret the history as a tale of Prince Hal growing up, evolving into King Henry V, perhaps the most heroic of all of Shakespeare's characters, in what is a tale of the prodigal son adapted to the politics of medieval England.
Saga is a cognate of the English word say: its various meanings in Icelandic are approximately equivalent to " something said " or " a narrative in prose ", somewhat along the lines of a " story ", a " tale ", or a " history ".
sögur ), and refers to ( 1 ) " what is said, statement " or ( 2 ) " story, tale, history ".
history and about
He knew nothing about the man's history.
I murmured something about a possible difference between New Mexico's history and Mississippi's.
What Krim ignores, in his contempt for history and for accuracy, is that these magazines, Partisan foremost, brought about a genuine revolution in the American mind from the mid-thirties to approximately 1950.
Meanwhile he has been thinking about the facts surrounding the problem, facts which he knows can never be complete, and the general background, much of which has already been lost to history.
To the trained ear of the linguist, talk has always revealed a staggering quantity of information about the talker -- such things as geographical origin and/or history, socio-economic identity, education.
1 ) Every age rewrites the events of its history in terms of what should have been, creating legends about itself that rationalize contemporary beliefs and excuse contemporary actions.
He fed the captain bits of history about the troops and the regiment.
Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.
When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??
Great chapters of history have been recorded along the avenue, now about 169 years old.
But there surely can be no doubt about the slender southpaw belonging with the all-time great lefthanders in the game's history.
Kern began reading a lot about the history and philosophy of Communism, but never felt there was anything he, as an individual, could do about it.
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.
With justified bitterness the author speaks of `` what seems to me to have been an inexcusable body of ignorance about the nature of the Russian Communist movement, about the history of its diplomacy, about what had happened in the purges, and about what had been going on in Poland and the Baltic States ''.
He assembled quantities of facts about the nature of American politics in general, as well as about the day-to-day course of the closest Presidential election in American history.
Most of what is said about his great men of history has already been said, and what has not is largely irrelevant to the contemporary scene.
In later life Ampère claimed that he knew as much about mathematics and science when he was eighteen as ever he knew ; but, a polymath, his reading embraced history, travels, poetry, philosophy, and the natural sciences.
* Adrian Goldsworthy ( born 1969 ), British historian and author who writes mostly about ancient Roman history
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