Documentary historical sources reflect isolated facts. For example, legal documents set down economic or political contracts, agreements between private individuals, or agreements between private individuals and the state. Historical sources such as these are especially trustworthy. Only the aggregate of ...
Set in the 1700’s,Anne Bonnyis a real character, though much about her is legendary and not easily verifiable.Nuala O’Connorhas familiarised herself with facts and read the fictions and re-imagined a version of a deeply unconventional life for Anny Bonny, told in a lilting, of its era ...
Evaluations of writing systems, or a particular script, are all too often based on the twin assumption that it is the purpose of writing to make language visible; and that the alphabet is best suited to achieve this. Such a Euro-centric approach ignores both history and facts....
We also perform some data mining of the dataset to uncover some statistics and facts that might be of interest and use to genealogists. Second, we provide a comprehensive survey of contemporary datasets in the field that are open to the public along with a compact review of word spotting ...