Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

The British historian Richard Overy wrote that what Hitler thought he was starting in September 1939 was only a local war between Germany and Poland, and his decision to do so was largely because he vastly underestimated the risks of a general war.

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.

In 1876 a local historian speculated that Northup was kidnapped or killed by persons unknown while in Boston, but contemporary historians think the kidnapping unlikely, as he was too old to be of interest to slave catchers.

During a research trip into the cave on January 15, 2005, Park Ranger Amy Wallace, History Professor Joe Douglas, local historian Billyfrank Morrison, and Geologist Larry E. Matthews, discovered Indian Glyphs on the walls of the cave.

Her old house is now home to the writer and historian Geoffrey Ashe, who is known for his works on local legends.

According to the historian Procopius, Majorian, " who surpassed in every virtue all who have ever been emperors of the Romans ", wanted to know personally the military readiness of the Vandals and how the local populations would have reacted to the Roman invasion.

Some are records by a local historian of the time, set out in chronological order according to custom, under the names of archons.

An early supporter of this hypothesis was Sir Montagu Sharpe KC DL, a local historian and a member of the Society of Antiquaries.

The local historian Florence Gladstone, in her much reprinted work " Notting Hill in Bygone Days " defines Notting Hill as the whole of that part of Kensington which is north of the road known as Notting Hill Gate.

* Edward Gibbon, historian, born in Putney, and gave his name to the local telephone exchange

The late Richard Milward MA, a renowned local historian, researched the background of horses in Wimbledon over the years and found that the first recorded stables belonged to the Lord of the Manor, and are detailed in the Estate ’ s accounts of 1236-37.

* Articles by local historian Roland Sparkes for the Belmont Local History group ( established 2009 ).

* The website of Rathlin Islander and local historian, Gusty McCurdy.

Paulus Diaconus, a Lombard historian at the court of Charlemagne, mentioned the local Slavs from the region in his magnum opus Historia Langobardorum.

The late local historian Louis Stein Jr. lived and worked in Kensington, maintaining a pharmacy on the corner of Amherst and Arlington Avenue.

Another is in one of local historian Bob Powers earlier books on Kern Valley.

Several well-known people live here, including Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, who spent nine years building an architecturally authentic, $ 200 + million Japanese feudal castle and man-made lake in Woodside ; Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel and originator of Moore's Law ; John Thompson, CEO of Symantec ; Neil Young, rock musician and songwriter, who owns a ranch and recording studio there ; Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, and her husband David E. Kelley, producer ; Thomas Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems ; Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit, Inc .; John Doerr, venture capitalist ; Dr. Carl Djerassi, novelist and member of team that developed the birth control pill ; Kenneth Fisher, founder of Fisher Investments, Forbes columnist, author, and local historian ; Susan Dawson, philanthropist ; and Joan Baez, folk singer.

According to local historian Olive Tubbs Chendali:

Charles Lord a local historian began collecting and organizing exhibits.

During the summer, the Sycamore Historical Society offers guided walking tours with a local historian.

“ The idyllic family homes of Lindenhurst offered the perfect solution for a home-hungry nation ,” states local historian Joseph Brysiewicz.

* Gregg Seidl-Author of " Images of America: New Albany ," " Wicked New Albany ," and local historian and tour guide.

" Jack Hudgions, local historian and newsman, wrote that " hail as large as partridge eggs fell for ten minutes and that powerful winds uprooted giant trees " and twisted limbs from shade trees in the city.

Sponsored by the Central City Business & Professional Women's Club, the Hall of Fame is located inside the Central City Public Library, 108 E. Broad Street and features a portrait and memorabilia gallery which includes former Governor Martha Layne Collins, Country & Western music giant Loretta Lynn, and local author, editorialist, historian, war correspondent for the Service Star and noted cultivator of roses Agnes S. Harralson.

These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and later found their way between book covers, though rarely into the planters' libraries beside the morocco-bound volumes of Horace, Mr. Addison, Mr. Pope, and Sir Walter Scott.

The President immediately turned to an aide and said, " Call Walter Reed ( Hospital ), or maybe Bethesda ," to which Capp replied, " Hell no, just call a good local mechanic!

He had already shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a " self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician ," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame — James Veitch of Inchbonny — a man who was particularly skillful in making telescopes.

His grandfather, an amateur naturalist by the name of Walter Drawbridge Crick ( 1857 – 1903 ), wrote a survey of local foraminifera ( single-celled protists with shells ), corresponded with Charles Darwin, and had two gastropods ( snails or slugs ) named after him.

In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's " defending the fort " of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out.

John increased the professionalism of local sergeants and bailiffs, and extended the system of coroners first introduced by Hubert Walter in 1194, creating a new class of borough coroners.

On April 5, 1925, George Rappleyea, who worked as a local manager for the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, happened to meet county superintendent of schools Walter White and local attorney Sue K. Hicks at Robinson's Drug Store and convinced them that the controversy of such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity.

His grandfather, Walter Dakin, was the local Episcopal priest, and his maternal grandmother, Rose O. Dakin, was a music teacher.

She lived in Putney in the house of a local attorney, John Welbeck, at the time of her marriage, to Walter Cromwell, in 1474.

He would also provide backup for Sonny Boy Williamson II ( Alex " Rice " Miller ), playing gigs alongside other local blues artists such as Howlin ' Wolf, Charley Booker, Elmore James, Muddy Waters and Little Walter.

It was popular knowledge in Germany that Walter appeared to play better the worse the weather was, and so now the term " Fritz Walter's weather " is used to describe rainy weather conditions, often rendered with odd local dialect grammar " of Fritz, his weather ".

Dundalk and the surrounding area is served by a local newspaper, the Dundalk Herald which was purchased in the 1960s by its present owners ' parents, Walter and Phylis Walls.

It was closed as a church in 1929, and sold in 1972 to a local filmmaker, Walter Helmuth, who used it as a house.

He also appeared that year in the contemporary action-mystery film, Thunderheart ( 1992 ) playing Walter Crow Horse, a gruff, savvy local cop living on an Indian reservation.

A local storeowner offered to use his store as a post office and offered to name the city after Postmaster General Walter Q. Gresham if a post office was granted.

The building housing the museum was donated to the city by the family of Walter C. Ball & Sons, the local undertaking business which was also among the pioneering families that founded Sunnyside.

Walter Alexander, a prominent local resident, touted the clean air and healthy environment of Blowing Rock ; in 1922 he opened his own hotel, called Mayview Manor.

Walter also continued to innovate in local government, as the earliest record of the coroner's rolls, or county records, being used to cross-check oral testimony in the county courts date from 1202 and 1203, during Walter's chancellorship.

Mr. Ryan is angular and vicious as the uneasy king-pin of the town, and Walter Brennan is cryptic and caustic as the local mortician with a streak of spunk.

* Archive Material once collated by local historian Walter Brelstaff

A local high school, Ivanhoe College, for 11 to 14-year-old children, is named after the historical novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott which was set in the area of the castle.

The bridge was conceived, designed, built and funded by local visionary Walter Taylor, a contractor who lived in Graceville ( adjacent to the suburb in Chelmer ).

He started playing in local orchestras at the age of 17, with Bennie Moten, Terrence Holder and Walter Page.