Today in History - June 25--Today in History for June 25:On this date:In 1580, the "German Book of Concord" was published, containing all the official confessions of the Lutheran Church. English translations of the entire work were not available before 1851.In 1630, the table fork was ...
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March 16, 1737 – Deathof Erdmuthe of Dietrichstein, Princess of Liechtenstein, wife of her first cousin Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein, in Vienna, then in the Duchy of Austria, now in Austria; buried in the Old Crypt at Chuch of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Brno, Moravia...
As captain of the third-rate HMS Berwick he took part in the Battle of Toulon in February 1744 during the War of the Austrian Succession. He also captured six ships of a French squadron in the Bay of Biscay in the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in October 1747. 175...
The first-ever written children’s book was “A Little Pretty Pocket-Book,” by John Newbey, in 1744. Since then, thousands of books have been published that can help ignite a passion for reading in youngsters — from “The Monster at the End of this Book” by Jon Stone to “...
The first international golf match was hosted at Leith near Edinburgh in 1682, and the Duke of York and George Patterson represented Scotland and beat two English noblemen. After the Gentlemen Golfers of Leith formed the first club in 1744 and set up an annual competition, then golf officially...
Had some student of Giambatista Vico (13 June 1668–1744 January 23) entered the discussion of Saussure’s day, we might also have had to contend with “sematology” as well as “semiology” in the twentieth-century settlement upon Locke’s “semiotics” as the proper name for the new sc...
took in an itinerant preacher by the name of Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab. In 1744, the compact between the two houses was sealed by the marriage of al-Saud’s son and Ibn Abdul Wahhab’s daughter. This combination of Islam and the al-Saud has formed the basis of the Saudi kingdom...
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive. — Rudolf Virchow In Fielding Hudson Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine (1966), 576. Science quotes on: | Belief (615) | Exclusive (29) | Faith (209) | Science And ...
In this, Fleck is an unusual variation of the Joker character, to be sure, but then again, the Joker has changed repeatedly throughout the characters' various incarnations and chaotic history. Like other modern versions, though, he seeksnarcissisticrevenge, and self-absorbedaggress...