Benjamin Franklin ( 1938 ), standard older biography excerpt and text search

Sun Yat-Sen ( 1998 ), 480pp, the standard biography

* The standard biography about Christine de Pizan is Charity Cannon Willard ’ s Christine de Pisan: Her Life and Works ( 1984 ).

Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York ( 1989 ) the most detailed standard scholarly biography

* Wolf, John B. Louis XIV ( 1968 ), the standard scholarly biography online edition

Stalin: A Biography ( 2004 ), along with Tucker the standard biography

( 1990 ) online edition with Service, a standard biography ; online at ACLS e-books

706 pp. standard scholarly biography excerpt and text search

The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli ( 1963 ), a standard scholarly biography

* Warfel, Harry R. Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America ( 1936 ), a standard biography

1935 ); abridged one-volume edition, edited by Richard Harwell ( 1961 ); the standard biography

William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1924-1932: The Lonely Heights ( 1963 ) standard biography, online edition.

William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1932-1939: the Prism of Unity ( 1976 ) standard biography online edition.

* Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856 – 1901 ( 1972 ) the standard biography, Volume 1 ; Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee 1901 – 1915 ( 1983 ), the standard scholarly biography, Volume 2.

* Time Lord by Clark Blaise: a biography of Stanford Fleming and the idea of standard time

Thomas E. Dewey and His Times ( 1984 ), the standard scholarly biography

Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union ( 1991 ), a standard scholarly biography

Louis XVI: The Silent King ( 1994 ) 224 pages, the standard scholarly biography

* Wiltse, Charles M. John C. Calhoun, Nationalist, 1782 – 1828 ( 1944 ) ISBN 0-8462-1041-X ; John C. Calhoun, Nullifier, 1829 – 1839 ( 1948 ); John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840 – 1859 ( 1951 ); the standard scholarly biography

* Flick, Alexander C. Samuel J. Tilden ( 1939 ), the standard biography

Asquith: Portrait of a man and an era ( 1978 ), a standard biography

A History of African Americans, by John Hope Franklin, Alfred Moss, McGraw-Hill Education 2001, standard work, first edition in 1947.

It was not until 1922 that Alfred W. Porter proposed the symbol " H " as the accepted standard, thus finalizing the terminology still in use today.

The idea that there was a standard formation for English longbow armies was argued by Alfred Byrne in his influential work on the battles of the Hundred Years ' War, The Crecy War.

Although it is normal to regard the quantity demanded and the quantity supplied as functions of the price of the good, the standard graphical representation, usually attributed to Alfred Marshall, has price on the vertical axis and quantity on the horizontal axis, the opposite of the standard convention for the representation of a mathematical function.

The Saxon street plan laid out by Alfred the Great is still evident today: a cross shaped street system which conformed to the standard town planning system of the day – overlaying the pre-existing Roman street plan ( incorporating the ecclesiastical quarter in the south-east ; the judicial quarter in the south-west ; the tradesmen in the north-east ).

Alfred Marshall was the first to develop the standard supply and demand graph demonstrating a number of fundamentals regarding supply and demand including the supply and demand curves, market equilibrium, the relationship between quantity and price in regards to supply and demand, law of marginal utility, law diminishing returns, and the ideas of consumer and producer surpluses.

Stevenson, Asser's Life of King Alfred, together with the Annals of Saint Neots erroneously ascribed to Asser, is still the standard edition.

The strongest arguments for forgery are that a ) there is actually no new information in ' Asser ' that cannot be found in the surviving Anglo Saxon Chronicles, so that it is not contemporary with Alfred as it claims ; b ) that the Latin translation is simply lifted from the Chronicles ' narrative and interspersed with padding of no importance ; c ) that writing in Latin a contemporary narrative was anachronistic ; d ) that much of the alleged illness of Alfred in ' Asser ' is lifted from standard hagiographic conventions and similarly so are ' Asser's ' claims as to the educational development and attainments of Alfred ; and e ) that much of the dating in ' Asser ' uses the age of Alfred can be shown as incorrect and can be traced to the mis-datings in later rescensions of the Chronicles, so that ' Asser ' cannot have been a contemporary of Alfred.

Until the 1920s the primary aesthetic standard of photography was pictorialism, championed by Alfred Stieglitz and others as the highest form of photographic art.

Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Man and His Letters ( Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1977 ), the standard biography

He travelled in Italy, sat under Schelling at Munich and under Ludwig Tieck at Dresden, became in 1835-36 a member of Madame de Circourt's salon, and numbered among his friends Alphonse de Lamartine, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Alfred de Vigny, Adolphe Thiers, François Guizot, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, and Alexis de Tocqueville, of whose books, Démocratie en Amérique and the Ancien régime, he made standard translations into English.

This is Alfred Hitchcock's first recognizable film cameo and was to become a standard practice for the remainder of his films.

Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, John Ford, and many other forward-thinking film directors were held up in admiration while standard Hollywood films bound by traditional narrative flow were strongly criticized.

The West Country dialects derive not from a corrupted form of modern English, but reflect the historical origins of the English language and its historical pronunciation, in particular Late West Saxon, which formed the earliest English language standard, from the time of King Alfred until the late 11th century.

The appointment of Alfred Panter as Carriage and Wagon Works Manager under Robert Billinton in 1898 ( and Carriage and Wagon Superintendent from 1912 ) led to the introduction of standard bogie carriages for mainline trains in 1905, but the suburban services were operated by 6-wheeled " block trains " with solid wooden buffers and the carriages permanently tight coupled in sets of ten or twelve.

When looking at Table Mountain from the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, or when looking at the standard picture postcard view of the mountain, the skyline is from left to right: the spire of Devil's Peak, the flat mesa of Table Mountain, the dome of Lion's Head and Signal Hill.

Alfred Firmin Loisy ( 28 February 1857, Ambrières, Marne – 1 June 1940, Ceffonds, Haute-Marne ) was a French Roman Catholic priest, professor and theologian who became the intellectual standard bearer for Biblical Modernism in the Roman Catholic Church.

Port Shepstone railway station opened in 1917, serving as both the southern terminus of the standard gauge line from & to Durban, as well as the southern coastal terminus of the narrow gauge Alfred County Railway to Harding, KwaZulu-Natal.

This format is best remembered for being a loose parody of a standard late-night talk show, with host Vince McMahon and " sidekick " Lord Alfred Hayes conducting in character interviews with WWF wrestlers and participating in skits.

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

In Frankfurt, too, he directed the Museum and Opera House concerts which, in addition to the standard repertoire, featured novelties like Erdmann's Piano Concerto and Mahler's Sixth Symphony.

This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.

Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

The liberal-conservative split, to define it further, derives from a basic difference concerning the existential status of standard sought and about the spiritual experience that leads to its identification.

But fifty years later the trilogy still maintains a firm place in the list of standard works on the unification of Italy, a position cautiously prophesied by the reviewers at the time of publication.

Orders of the day began to specify the standard map for the movement.

Then Massachusetts switched to its standard tactics.

They even accept the `` double standard '' of sex morality in a double sense, i.e., both sexes agree that standards for men differ from standards for women, and women apply to both sexes a standard different from that held by men.

after all, feelings of immortality and invulnerability are standard illusions of youth.

Unquestionably Trujillo did some good things for his country: he improved public facilities such as roads and sanitation, attracted industry and investment and raised the standard of living notably.

This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.

We have only to compare the liberty and high standard of living we enjoy in this great country with the oppression and frugality of other nations to realize with humble gratitude that God's Providence has been with us since the very beginning of our country.

undertake economic studies and surveys to determine present and prospective costs of producing water for beneficial consumptive purposes in various parts of the United States by the leading saline water processes as compared with other standard methods.

As a first step toward this goal, arrangements were worked out for comparing the scales now in use through circulation of a group of standard platinum resistance thermometers for calibration by each national laboratory.

That means that, if we are to achieve a new standard of leadership, we must think in terms of the total context of our situation.

Peace Corps volunteers should be given just enough to provide a minimum decent standard of living.

The present proceeding is concerned with the standard broadcast ( AM ) band, from 540 kc. to 1600 kc..

Whenever two or more standard broadcast stations operate simultaneously on the same or closely adjacent frequencies, each interferes to some extent with reception of the other.

By this standard, it is determined that where two stations operating on the same frequency are involved, objectionable interference from station A exists at any point within the service area of station B where station A's signal is of an intensity one-twentieth or more of the strength of station B's signal at that point.

A second fundamental principle is that involved particularly in the present proceeding -- the difference between nighttime and daytime propagation conditions with respect to the standard broadcast frequencies.

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

Perhaps the outstanding standard bearer of Mr. Brown's tradition for accuracy was Mr. Oscar J. Beale, whose mechanical genius closely paralleled that of Mr. Brown, and whose particular forte was the development of the exceedingly accurate measuring machinery that enabled Brown & Sharpe to manufacture gages, and therefore its products, with an accuracy exceeding anything then available elsewhere in the world.