Birthday - Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was born in the village of Ecclefechan, Scotland. He wrote a three volume history of the French Revolution. Other works included; Heroes and Hero-Worship, Life and Letters of Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the Great....
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History of December December’s name originates from the Latin worddecem, meaning “ten,” because it was the tenth month in the oldRoman calendar. Initially, the Roman year began inMarch, which positionedDecemberas the final month of the year with only 29 days. When the Roman senate reform...
History of photographic lens design The vertical distribution of water vapor in the atmosphere of Mars is a crucial, and sometimes the only, diagnostics of several important processes for the... N Niépce 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Comparison of Endoscopy First and Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy First Strat...
Like this: Like Loading... Share Posted in From my diaryTagged Christmas, Dionysius bar Salibi, Information access, Syriac11 Comments on “Scriptor Syrus”, the scholiast on Dionysius bar Salibi: oft-quoted, but from where?Working with Bauer’s 1783 translation of Bar Hebraeus’ “History of...
in Education, History | December 30th, 2020 How many Americans have never heard the name of Martin Luther King Jr.? And indeed, gone more than half a century though he may be, how many Americans have never heard his voice, or can’t quote his...
Fri Dec 20th, 2024 Go CarolingDay Strolling through the neighborhood, singing cheerful tunes, and spreading holiday joy with friends and family — a heartwarming tradition. Fri Dec 20th, 2024 National SangriaDay Take a siesta to sip Spanish and Portuguese punch made with wine and sweeteners and...
Peer HultbergThis is a text in remembrance of Peer Hultberg, died in December 2007, an outstanding Danish Polish scholar, a distinguished expert in Polish literature, especially the turn of 19th and 20th c., and also a writer – the author of avant-garde nove...
In the Dec. 6, 1930 “Notes and Comment,” E.B. White shared his observations on a new type of chair that doubled as a dog house… …and he wasn’t making it up, because the chair he described was featured in this ad from the same issue… * * * Drunk History In the fall of...
History of Mari Lwyd The earliest account of the Mari Lwyd festival dates from 1798, and the tradition became popular in South Wales in the 19th century. The Mari Lwyd is typically made up of a horse’s skull, decorated with colored ribbons and fixed to the end of a wooden pole. Its ...