• Volume 4 contains biographical sketches and genealogical information for residents of Cayuga, Chenango, Corltand, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, and Tompkins counties in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (newberry.org)
  • Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • The result is a reference book that details much about the history of the Ulster Irish as well as the Scottish and English who arrived from the 17th century onwards, and is packed with surprising insights into the origins of a complex, turbulent people. (genealogical.com)
  • Emigration from Ireland to the Americas in the early modern period grew from a trickle to a torrent between the 17th century and the 19th century. (genealogical.com)
  • However, most Irishmen who settled in the Americas in the 17th century arrived as prisoners of war banished to the Plantations. (genealogical.com)
  • By the end of the 17th century attempts at settlement by the Irish had occurred at locations stretching from Newfoundland to the Amazon River. (genealogical.com)
  • There was substantial emigration from the north of Ireland by Presbyterians whose ancestors had settled there from Scotland during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century. (genealogical.com)
  • Like most of the villages either side of the Hudson River north of Manhattan, Tarrytown was settled in the 17th century by Dutch farmers, fur trappers, and fishermen on land procured from Native Americans. (christiesrealestate.com)
  • The history of the circus in America is basically recorded in a paper trail, now over two hundred years long. (culturalheritage.org)
  • It was not until the mid-eighteenth century, however, that the British Government began to raise Highland regiments who were sent to fight in North America. (genealogical.com)
  • This picture changed in the early 18th century when most Irish emigrants to America were Anglican, Quakers, or Presbyterians. (genealogical.com)
  • The Hudson River Valley was the ideal-and idealized-setting for depicting discovery, exploration, and settlement, three themes that epitomized 19th-century America. (christiesrealestate.com)
  • Transnational education in the late nineteenth century: Brazil, France and Portugal connected by a school museum 7. (routledge.com)
  • A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. (newbooksnetwork.com)
  • Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2022) is a study of how such data influenced every aspect of Victorian culture and thought, from the methods of natural science and the struggle against disease, to the development of social administration and the arguments and conflicts between social classes. (newbooksnetwork.com)
  • It seems his art had been too adventurous and unconventional for the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, maybe you could even say he was ahead of his time? (poetrynook.com)
  • This image of Scandinavia did not change much during the nineteenth century. (lu.se)
  • They expected adventure and solitude, but travelling also became a search for identity within a bigger context, as documented in the accounts of these early nineteenth-century travellers. (lu.se)
  • The novel emerged as a prominent literary form during the 18th century . (litaid.com)
  • Another significant literary figure of the 18th century was Samuel Johnson. (litaid.com)
  • Biological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the other. (brill.com)
  • Hence, the rivalling influences of the historical sciences and of the life sciences on literary texts are explored, texts from various scientific domains - medicine, natural history, biology, history, and multiple forms of vulgarisation - are investigated. (brill.com)
  • Our present memoir-mad, confessional, and celebrity-obsessed culture had its counterpart in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, in the literary period known as Romanticism. (gmu.edu)
  • Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • From the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella in the fifteenth century through that of Philip IV in the mid-seventeenth century, Spain was the major power in western Europe, possessing a rich colonial empire and respected for its military prowess as well as its literary and artistic accomplishments. (timetoast.com)
  • Her current research focuses on cultures of knowledge making in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries. (routledge.com)
  • He made his court and the University of Jena leading intellectual centres of Germany during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (britannica.com)
  • Is global intellectual history possible and meaningful before modern globalising processes? (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • Known as the Age of Enlightenment, the 18th century witnessed a shift towards reason, science, and intellectual inquiry. (litaid.com)
  • In summary, 18th-century literature reflects the intellectual and cultural shifts of the Age of Enlightenment. (litaid.com)
  • She is currently working on a book on the history of 15th century Europe and starting a project on the late medieval Black Sea as a primary border region of Eurasia. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • Tarot appeared in 72-card form in Italy around 1450, although this model may represents "splice" between preexisting symbol sets: the twenty-two Hebrew alphabet-keyed set called the Major Arcana, and the Turkish Mamluk cards of unknown provenance, a 15th century version of which can be seen in Volume 2 of Stuart Kaplan's Encyclopedia of Tarot (see essay on the Minor Arcana ). (tarot.com)
  • Those very old woodblock decks tend instead to follow the list enumerated in a sermon written by an Italian friar in the late 15th century (see illustration opposite page 1 in Volume 1 of Kaplan's Encyclopedia of Tarot). (tarot.com)
  • The biography published about his life in 1881 offers great insight into the early 19th century free black community of Baltimore. (steinershow.org)
  • The formal record of Howley's steady and sustained professional work during ensuing decades is contained in the Geological survey of Newfoundland , a reprint of the reports for 1864-80 published by Murray and Howley in 1881, and some 40 later reports and special studies which followed from Howley's hand. (biographi.ca)
  • After being shot in 1881, he died not from his wounds but weeks later due to surgeons probing with dirty fingers and instruments. (medscape.com)
  • That meant mostly the 19th century, since there were only 2 presidents in the 18th century and I already know almost all the 20th and 21st century presidents. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • Grant was one of a significant number of Highland priests to work in Nova Scotia during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (biographi.ca)
  • The 18th century was a period of significant social, political, and cultural transformation in Europe, and literature reflected these changes. (litaid.com)
  • Women writers made significant contributions to 18th century literature . (litaid.com)
  • Developed out of a 2015 conference of the History of Education Society, UK, this book explores the interconnections between the histories of science, technologies and material culture, and the history of education. (routledge.com)
  • In The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction James Millward explores the historical background against which the silk road flourished, discusses the significance of old-world intercultural exchange, and puts the silk road into the context of world history. (ncuscr.org)
  • As the case, the romantic era of music gets experienced across the Western world during the mid-18th century and early 19th century. (speedypaper.com)
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven was a composer of romantic music and was able to bridge different music styles of the 18th and 19th centuries. (speedypaper.com)
  • For half a century students of Augustan literature have chafed, but change will come-if it comes at all-only when our leading critics, Romanticists or Romantic theorists themselves, recognize and renounce their cultural imperialism. (vqronline.org)
  • Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. (poetrynook.com)
  • His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of both the Romantic movement and "Pre-Romantic",[6] for its large appearance in the 18th century. (poetrynook.com)
  • Much of history is not romantic, but in history resides humanity. (christiesrealestate.com)
  • In the 14th century, Jean Froissart was seminal in helping to craft the Black Prince's image, much as Shakespeare would later shape Henry V's. (historyextra.com)
  • Not just since Nikephoros in the 14th century, but certainly at all times people most commonly used ceramic for the storage, preparation and serving of food. (reichert-verlag.de)
  • Mr. Bell gives the meaning and history of each Ulster surname, its original form, where it came from - Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales or France - and why it changed to what it is today. (genealogical.com)
  • The Norwegian Vikings came to Scotland during the ninth century. (lu.se)
  • Ferente's research focuses on Europe and the Mediterranean in the 14th to 16th centuries, particularly the history of politics and society in Italy, the history of European political discourse, and gender history. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • The Museum of Byzantine Art in the Bode Museum in Berlin is in the possession of over 1300 Byzantine clay vessels, and others made in the Byzantine tradition, dating from the 4th to the 16th century. (reichert-verlag.de)
  • and Generational Conflict and University Reform: Oxford in the Age of Revolution (2012), which was awarded the 2014 Kevin Brehony prize for the best first book by the History of Education Society UK. (routledge.com)
  • New York: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2000. (newberry.org)
  • Lisburn Branch of the North of Ireland Family History Society has collated the surviving gravestone inscription information from the 4 oldest burying grounds in Lisburn and made a permanent record of this information in two volumes of "These Hallowed Grounds. (nifhs.org)
  • He founded the first chair of history at an English university and with a group of friends established the Society of Antiquaries in London. (westminster-abbey.org)
  • He was arguably Spain's most effective statesman in the eighteenth century. (timetoast.com)
  • During the eighteenth century, Norway and Sweden and partly Denmark represented the northern boundaries of Europe. (lu.se)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that they were engraved by Byres's associate, Christopher Norton, from drawings by Franciszek Smuglewicz. (royalacademy.org.uk)
  • No publication-date appears on the title page, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that the book was published in 1842 (although the title-page names the bookseller T. Cadell, who died in 1836). (royalacademy.org.uk)
  • Following a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he taught British and American History for three decades in Oxford, where he was a fellow of St. Peter's College, and Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-2014. (newbooksnetwork.com)
  • One of the key characteristics of 18th century literature is its emphasis on reason and rationality. (litaid.com)
  • He specializes in the history of philosophy with a particular emphasis on 17th and 18th century thinkers. (nerdnite.com)
  • In an essay "On the Uses of Contradiction: Economics and Morality in the 18th-Century Long Poem," John Barrell and Harriet Guest find in such contradictions (and the false consciousness that gives rise to them) the central strategy not only of Pope's essays and epistles, but of Augustan non-narrative verse as a form. (vqronline.org)
  • Sylvia Nasar, most famous as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Beautiful Mind, the biography of the economics Nobelist John Forbes Nash, Jr., lives in Tarrytown. (christiesrealestate.com)
  • The contributions to this volume demonstrate the diversity and originality of research currently being conducted into the connections between the history of science and the history of education. (routledge.com)
  • This state of affairs, they suggest, is linked to broader divisions in the history of knowledge, which has, for many years, been carved up into sections reflective of the academic subject divisions that structure modern universities and higher education in the West. (routledge.com)
  • She may have acted as late as 1815, but in her last years she was in private life notoriously reclusive. (britannica.com)
  • In this paper Mark Philp will discuss two strands of research that he has followed for more than 20 years - on democracy and on political corruption - as a way of reflecting on Nietszche's comment and on its implications for the belief that history retains a relevance to our understanding and analysis of the modern world. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • The most substantial of his posthumous works grew out of the project that occupied his final years, a history of France. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • I am 82 years old and, though I call myself 20thcentury Woman, sometimes the 19th century seems less strange to me, more like my own century. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • If I had been alive in those years I would certainly have been a Federalist or later a Whig. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • The new biography, more than double the length of the earlier version, is a major achievement, chronicling Toscanini's life from his school days in the Parma Conservatory to his death almost 80 years later. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • After completing his apprenticeship six years later, he joined the Royal Academy of Art. (poetrynook.com)
  • In later years McDonell was to claim that the enraged troops had turned on the O'Gradys, forcing them to flee Brazil. (biographi.ca)
  • Ten years later, in 1356, this promise was fulfilled when the 26-year-old prince decisively defeated the French army near the city of Poitiers and captured the French king, John II. (historyextra.com)
  • Cab Calloway, the jazz singer and bandleader, lived in Tarrytown during his later years. (christiesrealestate.com)
  • Cushing didn't invent neurosurgery per se - penetrating the skull surgically dates back thousands of years - but he did bring it into the 20th century, making it safer, more practical, and more effective. (medscape.com)
  • Thanks for a wonderful history of the time and place, and a great story as well. (charlottebetts.com)
  • All interested in French and German 19th century literature, in the relationship between literature and sciences, and in the history of the concept of time. (brill.com)
  • His works continue to inspire and captivate audiences even centuries after his time. (melhoresmusicasclassicas.com)
  • Perhaps the reason I study history and look back over life is because it seems to lengthen time. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • The present is difficult, and winter is a time for reflection so I have been thinking about history. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • Some time in the late 1820s he and his brother John became attached to disbanded British troops who, under the command of Connell James Baldwin* and with William O'Grady serving as chaplain, emigrated to Brazil. (biographi.ca)
  • Yet in his time, and later centuries, his character was every bit as controversial as another Plantagenet who forged his reputation on the battlefields of France, Henry V. (historyextra.com)
  • Garfield's death was tragically ironic, not only because autopsy revealed the bullet to be in a location where it could have been left safely with no intervention, but also because at the time, the American surgical pioneer Dr William Stewart Halsted, who would later become Cushing's first surgical mentor, was rising to prominence in New York City, fully devoted to Lister's approach. (medscape.com)
  • Cyril Lionel Robert James , a West Indian historian , was one of the preeminent political intellectuals of the Caribbean in the twentieth century, and his papers had been acquired by Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • William Blake and his works have been extensively discussed and criticised over the twentieth and now this century, however previous to that he was barely known. (poetrynook.com)
  • He first became known in 1863 with Alexander Gilchrist's biography "Life" and only fully appreciated and recognised at the beginning of the twentieth century. (poetrynook.com)
  • Call No. Local History Ref F118 S33 1998 (2nd floor open shelf). (newberry.org)
  • With a history dating back to 1998, Artlex was one of the original Art dictionaries on the Web. (artlex.com)
  • Howarth, Lynne C. "Key Lessons of History: Revisiting the Foundations of AACR," in Brian E.C. Schottlaender, The Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules (Chicago: American Library Association, 1998), pp. 6-18. (ala.org)
  • Ocherki po istorii lesnykh obshchestv dorevolyutsionnoi Rossii [Essays on the History of Forest Societies in Pre-Revolutionary Russia]. (urfu.ru)
  • A bibliography covering all the studies on Aquinas and his doctrine, from the 13th century through our days. (lu.se)
  • The purpose of this article is to offer insight into the history of the circus poster, including original manufacturing procedures, types of posters produced, component parts of posters (which are now often altered or lost), and how posters were originally used within the context of the circus itself. (culturalheritage.org)
  • This catalogue thus offers an ideal insight into the craftsmanship of the Eastern Mediterranean and, with its broad range of different items and wealth of information, is a reference work for archaeology and art history. (reichert-verlag.de)
  • Mark Philp is a British political philosopher and historian of political thought who specialises in British political thought in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • Tristram Hunt, a British historian and MP who sits on the all-party Parliamentary group on archives and history, once said: "History is an asset in this country. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • Historian William Bell Clark noted that "Passing reference to him may be found in few histories and biographies. (usni.org)
  • His publications include books on Victorian social science and the history of workers' education, and a biography of the historian and political thinker R. H. Tawney. (newbooksnetwork.com)
  • Lively and well written this biography will appeal to both the historian and the general reader. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • The works of authors like Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and Mary Wollstonecraft, among others, exemplify the diversity and richness of 18th-century literature. (litaid.com)
  • Subsequently, those changes "leaped out" of the Marseilles mold, appearing in the works of de Gebelin and all the Etteilla variants of the following century, effectively obliterating the older versions of these cards except in the case of a nostalgic few Tarot makers who preferred the archaic form. (tarot.com)
  • Her books are set in various eras between the Restoration and the Great War and she draws inspiration from the stories of strong women at turning points in history. (charlottebetts.com)
  • Art Nouveau began as a response to 19th-century academic art and takes inspiration from natural structures and forms, specifically from organic and curvilinear forms of flowers and plants. (artlex.com)
  • 18th and 19th Century British Literature. (newbooksnetwork.com)
  • Together with successive maps based upon them, these trigonometric surveys and descriptions of the topography and resources of the interior of the island complement the coastal surveys begun by James Cook* and Michael Lane in the 18th century and continued after 1795 by the Hydrographic Office of the British Admiralty until the outbreak of World War II. (biographi.ca)
  • Bagendon has long been the poor relation of British late Iron Age oppida, lurking on the distribution's western fringe. (archaeology.co.uk)
  • It was in an account of a journey from Verdun to Tours, sometime in the late 18th or early 19th century, by the British/American Sir Jahleel Brenton, 1st baronet (1770-1844). (theoldfoodie.com)
  • Also, from the late 18th century onwards, the British Army increasingly recruited Irishmen into its ranks. (genealogical.com)
  • For centuries, humans have been using manure as a fertilizer for land. (nerdnite.com)
  • Later, Sadye Wier worked with a librarian to produce a book of remembrances about her own life. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • Millward is, in addition, the author of numerous book chapters, reviews, and articles in The Journal of Asian Studies , Late Imperial China , Inner Asia , and other academic publications. (ncuscr.org)
  • He is currently at work on a book about the globalization of stringed instruments, entitled The World on a String: Chordophone Culture, World History, and the Guitar . (ncuscr.org)
  • It is not, of course, incumbent on biographers to tackle their subjects' posthumous reputations, and Sachs's new biography, Toscanini: Musician of Conscience , only acknowledges this shift of opinion away from the near-universal adulation Toscanini aroused in his lifetime in the closing pages of the book. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • The letter book of Peleg Sanford of Newport, Merchant (later governour of Rhode Island) 1666-1668. (upenn.edu)
  • In Harvey Penick: The Life and Wisdom of the Man Who Wrote the Book on Golf, Robbins tells the story of Penick, the late golf coach, competitor and instructor who in 1992 with Bud Shrake penned the Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings From a Lifetime, considered by many the quintessential golf advice and instruction book. (usga.org)
  • Robbins provides the first biography of the iconic and revered Texan who caddied for Francis Ouimet, served as the longtime head golf professional at Austin Country Club, played with Ben Hogan and Bob Jones, shaped Ben Crenshaw, and distilled his golf wisdom into The Little Red Book, bringing simplicity to a complex yet beloved game. (usga.org)
  • How, in the face of such initial disadvantages, are critics of 18th-century literature to approach their subject? (vqronline.org)
  • The Mount Sinai icon is a rare example of Byzantine art from the 6th century, because it pre-dates the period of iconoclasm (icon destruction) that took place in the 8th and 9th centuries. (albertis-window.com)
  • There is also a list of names from Quaker burial records of all the people buried in Friends' Burying Ground, as well as a background history of Lisburn Cathedral, the Huguenots in Lisburn and Friends' Meeting House. (nifhs.org)
  • In addition there are short biographies of 53 families connected with the grounds, 16 family trees and extra information with the names of some late 18th and early 19th century Lisburn people. (nifhs.org)
  • indeed, Doody finds that she must combat even the view that 18th-century people were somehow less complex and interesting than more modern folk, particularly writers. (vqronline.org)
  • Oral history claims more than 30,000 people fled slavery via the Underground Railroad. (christiesrealestate.com)
  • The Art Deco movement highlighted sleek geometric shapes and modern streamlined figures that reflected the machine age and discoveries emerging during the early 20th century. (artlex.com)
  • Enormous squids have inspired lore throughout history, from ancient myths to modern media hype. (nerdnite.com)
  • Jerry and I watch Teaching Company lectures on history - from ancient to modern and all the in betweens. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • Although nosologies of mental illness have been published since the 18th century (Munsche & Whitaker, 2012), Kraepelin's classification system was one of the first of the 19th century to move toward a modern generalized notion of insanity and away from individual characteristics of mental illness. (bvsalud.org)
  • Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan, studied pre- and proto-history, Christian archaeology and Byzantine art history as well as Near Eastern archaeology in Tübingen, Istanbul and Heidelberg. (reichert-verlag.de)
  • Through looking at the activities of this intriguing individual the author is able to offer many new insights into both American and French history. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • William Camden, author and antiquary, was buried in the south transept of Westminster Abbey on 19th November 1623. (westminster-abbey.org)
  • A new biography by Lund University researcher Ole Birk Laursen delves into the life and ideology of Acharya, the Indian fight for freedom, and global events that influenced it. (lu.se)
  • In 1985 Margaret Doody opened The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered with a challenge: "English poetry of the late 17th and the 18th century has attracted many faithful readers and a number of good critics, but it still seems, among college students and the public at large, to be at a disadvantage. (vqronline.org)
  • As a major English victory over the French, Crécy confirmed his future martial promise, reinforced later when the prince became a founder member of the Order of the Garter. (historyextra.com)
  • In the 18th and 19th centuries, Poitiers would be celebrated alongside Agincourt as one of the great English triumphs of the Middle Ages. (historyextra.com)
  • Millward was elected a member of the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies, later serving on the program committee. (ncuscr.org)
  • He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard ( magna cum laude , 1983), an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London, 1985), and his Ph.D. in history from Stanford (1993). (ncuscr.org)
  • Thomas J. Schaeper , Professor of History at St. Bonaventure University and a member of the board of French Historical Studies. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • ARTURO TOSCANINI'S REPUTATION, including the impact of his career on the classical music world, has undergone radical questioning since Harvey Sachs published his first biography of the Italian conductor in 1978. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • The 18th century also witnessed the rise of the periodical essay, a form of nonfiction prose that appeared in regular publications. (litaid.com)
  • Cushing found himself at Massachusetts General Hospital, home of the famous Ether Dome, where surgical anesthesia had begun a half-century earlier. (medscape.com)
  • He is currently professor of History and Politics at the University of Warwick working on political corruption and the standards of public life, as well as democratic thought in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • James A. Millward is professor of history at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. (ncuscr.org)
  • This early AME pastor was born enslaved in the vicinity of Baltimore County in the late 18th century and later became a minister in the AME Church. (steinershow.org)
  • In the essay entitled "The Major Arcana" I emphasize that "something happened" to the Tarot in the late 1600s, when a new trend emerged in the images of the Major Arcana. (tarot.com)
  • Poetry also continued to flourish during the 18th century . (litaid.com)
  • He started writing poetry at the age of twelve and in 1783 his friends paid for his first collection of verses to be printed, which was entitled "Poetical Sketches" and is now seen as a major poetical event of the 18th century. (poetrynook.com)
  • The mask was located in the National Museum of the American Indian in the last half of the 20th century, only to be repatriated in 2003. (albertis-window.com)
  • Organizatsiya ratsional'nogo ispol'zovaniya drevesnoi rastitelnosti v krupnykh imeniyakh Tsentralnoi Rossii vtoroi poloviny XVIII - nachala XIX v. [The Organisation of the Rational Use of Forest Cover on the Large Estates of Central Russia in the Second Half of the 18th - Early 19th Centuries. (urfu.ru)
  • Most noticeably this has occurred with the history of science, but more recently the history of humanities has been divided as well. (routledge.com)
  • Indeed, it is the materiality of education, a focus on the use of objects, pedagogical practices and particular spaces, which seems to offer some of the most promising avenues for exploring further the relationship between the histories of science and education. (routledge.com)
  • Introduction: science, technologies and material culture in the history of education 1. (routledge.com)
  • Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. (poetrynook.com)
  • Kabul M. Saed: Women in Afghanistan history Ismati, Masoma. (wikipedia.org)
  • By the end of the 19th century my grandmothers, whom I knew well and admired, were young married women. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • Various histories record her as a sloop, ship sloop (the Navy's official Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships refers to her as both), brig, brigantine, ship, and sloop-of-war. (usni.org)
  • It provides a detailed record of the Chinese names, plant parts, preparations, and applications of the specimens contained in glass bottles, which probably reflects the physician's personal interpretation of Chinese medicine in Indonesia at the end of the 19th century. (bvsalud.org)
  • He teaches a variety of classes on Chinese, Central Asian and world history at the undergraduate and graduate levels. (ncuscr.org)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the most renowned and influential composers in the history of classical music, left an indelible mark on the world of music. (melhoresmusicasclassicas.com)
  • The past is suggested with the photograph on the left, which comes from a photograph of a Hopi-Tewa woman that was taken in the early 20th century by Edward Curtis. (albertis-window.com)
  • Upon arrival in the area, O'Grady found an appalling state of affairs - serious irregularities in Crevier's financial management of his parish, neglect of pastoral duties by both priests, and improprieties in their personal lives: in the case of Crevier, a "slovenly & almost filthy appearance even at the altar," and in Fluet's, sexual relations with a woman (whom he later married). (biographi.ca)