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official and histories
The compilation of official histories usually involved monumental intellectual labor.
The Yuan and Qing Dynasties, which might be thought " foreign " as their imperial families were not of the Han people, faithfully carried out the tradition, writing the official histories of Han-ruled Song and Ming Dynasties respectively.
He later wrote another article, " Re-entering the Lists ", which asserted that the list of those arrested published in the official history was concocted from later case histories.
On several occasions in the life of the AFVA, organization members have requested that an “ official historian ” of the AFVA be appointed and that oral histories be done so that our patrimony is not lost.
This viewpoint pervaded some official U. S. government histories of the conflict.
Chinese fiction, probably rooted in the Yijing, Shiji, and official histories, developed into the novel as early as the Song dynasty.
Under international law, according to Protocol 1 Additions to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Gurkhas serving as regular uniformed soldiers are not mercenaries, According to Cabinet Office official histories ( Official History of the Falkland Islands, Sir Lawrence Freedman ), Sir John Nott, as Secretary of State for Defence, expressed the British Government's concern that the Gurkhas could not be sent with the task force to recapture the Falkland Islands because it might upset the non-aligned members of the fragile coalition of support that the British had built in the United Nations.
* Checklist of official histories
In official North Korean histories, one of the first purported applications of Juche was the Five-Year Plan of 1956-1961, also known as the Chollima Movement, which led to the Chongsan-ri Method and the Taean Work System.
See the French and German official histories of the war ;
There are two official histories of the university:
Ai came from a long line of emperors, all married of course, with male companions listed in their official histories.
Until the 1970s, the pogrom of 1190 was often underplayed by official histories of the castle ; early official guides to the castle made no reference to it.
No official Cardiacs histories or biographies have been published.
The official report of the Commission to the President of the United States, dated January 7, 1868, describes detailed histories of the causes of the Indian Wars including: numerous social and legal injustices to Indians, repeated violations of numerous treaties, acts of corruption by many of the local agents, and culpability of Congress in failing to fulfill certain legal obligations.
Prior to 1996, it was the publisher of virtually all government material, such as command papers, legislation and official histories.
Although these major British poets had effectively been written out of official histories of 20th century British poetry, by the beginning of the 1960s a number of younger poets were starting to explore poetic possibilities that the older writers had opened up.
He was shunned and " written out of the official histories.
There have been three official histories of the College, commissioned to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation, the centenary and the sesquicentenary respectively.
According to official histories from the Qing era, Nurhaci, a military leader of the Jurchen tribes in northeast China and founder of what became the Chinese imperial Qing Dynasty, renamed his tribe after Mañjuśrī.
* Archives — Millions of official operational records, historical documents, personal papers, officer biographies, oral histories, and manuscripts related to naval operations, policy, and strategy, including ships ’ deck logs dating back thirty years and annual command operations reports of active U. S. Navy ships, aviation units, and shore commands
There is little documentation in official histories about this tragedy.
In fact, the extent to which official histories are partisan varies considerably: some are indeed little more than exercises in public relations and promotion, whereas in other cases the authors will have retained sufficient independence to be able to express negative as well as positive judgements about their subjects.

official and old
" The official name is Philotic Parallax Instantaneous Communicator ," explains Colonel Graff in Ender's Game, " but somebody dredged the name ansible out of an old book somewhere.
The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.
The Chinese calendar was also called the " old calendar " ( 舊曆 / 旧历 ) as opposed to the " new calendar " ( 新曆 / 新历 ), i. e., the Gregorian calendar, was adopted as the official calendar.
Atchison was 41 years and 6 months old at the alleged time of the One-Day Presidency, younger than any official President.
When the client doesn't show up, K. explores the cathedral which is empty except for an old woman and a church official.
* Mirror of the old official FGU site
Though it was Rossini's first opera, written when he was thirteen or fourteen, the work was not staged until the composer was twenty years old, premiering as his sixth official opera.
When he was two years old, his father was killed in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father .< ref > Karl Benz family gravestone Karl is the spelling of his first name on all of his official personal and municipal documents throughout his life, such as birth, school, honorary doctorate, the Baden State Metal certificate, and on his family grave marker as displayed to the right.
According to Burton Stein's History of India, " Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad ; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British.
Upon her husband's death, their son, Svyatoslav, was three years old, making Olga the official ruler of Kievan Rus until he reached adulthood.
In 1990 the Prime Minister, Mike Moore, an old friend, appointed him the official Wizard of New Zealand.
He initially refused the honour, saying he was too old, but accepted when Prime Minister Robert Peel assured him " you shall have nothing required of you " ( he became the only laureate to write no official poetry ).
Late in the century Christianity became the official state religion, and the empire's old pagan culture began to disappear.
In 1916, pro-Venizelist Greek army officers and civilians, with the support of the Allies, launched the Movement of National Defence, creating a pro-Allied temporary government by the name of the " State of Thessaloniki " that controlled " new lands " ( lands that were gained by Greece in the Balkan Wars, most of Northern Greece including Greek Macedonia, the North Aegean as well as the island of Crete ); the official government of the King in Athens, the " State of Athens ", controlled the " old lands " which were traditionally monarchist.
It is said that, when one official saw Keaton in full costume and makeup and asked a stagehand how old he was, the stagehand, aware of the situation with the Keatons, then pointed to the boy's mother, saying, " I don't know, ask his wife!
Salerno received the first " Tricolore " in an official ceremony on 7 gennaio 2012 from the premier Mario Monti, to celebrate the glorious story of Italy with her old capitals.
Nowadays, many pleasure and fishing boats are still there, but it is not as economically vital than the other more modern ports, although its touristic and aesthetic charm almost makes the old port the official emblem of the city.
One 419 scam that ended in murder occurred in February 2003, when Jiří Pasovský, a 72 year old scam victim from the Czech Republic, shot and killed 50 year old Michael Lekara Wayid, an official at the Nigerian embassy in Prague, and injured another person, after the Nigerian Consul General explained he could not return $ 600, 000 that Pasovský had lost to a Nigerian scammer.
With the old king defeated and given a proper burial, Alexander's rulership of Persia became official.
The old " golden logo " returned as Feyenoord's official logo, which was presented at the 2007 new years brunch.
* MSO official website ( old, expired )
When Schiele was 15 years old, his father died from syphilis, and he became a ward of his maternal uncle, Leopold Czihaczec, also a railway official.
Thus on 16 January 1968, the Zambian pound was replaced by the kwacha with the new official rate equal to one half the old unit, or US $ 1.
They recognized there was a precise mechanism followed by reactionaries to defuse the role of subversive artists and intellectuals, that is, to reframe them as separated from the most topical events, and divert from them the taste for the new that may dangerously appeal the masses ; after such separation, such artworks are sterilized, banalized, degraded, and can be safely integrated into the official culture and the public discourse, where they can add new flavors to old dominant ideas and play the role of a gear wheel in the mechanism of the society of the spectacle.

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