Professor Challenger and his Lost Neolithic World The Compelling Story of Alexander Thom and British Archaeoastronomy

Professor Challenger and his Lost Neolithic World  The Compelling Story of Alexander Thom and British Archaeoastronomy

The Gregorian calendar adds an extra day every four years to keep it in line with the seasons and by ignoring one in every three out of four centuries when the correlation is more or less exact. However by 1750 in Britain, ...

Author: Euan W. MacKie

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

ISBN: 9781784918347

Category: Social Science

Page: 158

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This book combines the two great passions of the author’s life: reconstructing the Neolithic mind and constructively challenging consensus in his professional domain. Semi-autobiographical, it charts his investigation of Alexander Thom’s theories regarding the alignment of prehistoric monuments in the landscape across several key Neolithic sites.
Categories: Social Science

Chase s Calendar of Events 2021

Chase s Calendar of Events 2021

Commemorates the 1941 liberation of Addis Ababa by British and Ethiopian forces. ... Serving as an air ferry pilot during WWII, she was lost over the Thames Estuary in 1941. ... 260 www.chases.com ◇ Chase's Calendar of Events 2021 ...

Author: Editors of Chase's

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781641434249

Category: Education

Page: 753

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Since 1957, Chase's Calendar of Events lists everything worth knowing and celebrating for each day of the year: 12,500 holidays, national days, historical milestones, famous birthdays, festivals, sporting events and more. "The Oxford English Dictionary of holidays." NPR's Planet Money.
Categories: Education

A Calendar of British Taste from 1600 1800

A Calendar of British Taste from 1600   1800

It is hard to say on what principle he modulated his lines (Bore a bright golden flowre but not in this soyl, Comus 633). ... when their sister is lost, and at leisure pronounce philosophical panegyrics on the mysteries of Virginity.

Author: E. F. Carritt

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000288582

Category: Art

Page: 492

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First published in 1948, A Calendar of British Taste from 1600–1800 gives a picture of British taste in art, nature and manners during the centuries 1600 to 1800. The book is an anthology from novels, poetry, letters, essays, advertisements and diaries of the period. It is arranged chronologically and covers a wide range of topics including architecture, gardens, manners, music, nature, painting, poetry, sculpture, and the stage. Key authors drawn upon include Pepys, Dryden, Pope, Horace Walpole, Dr. Johnson, Fanny Burney, Cowper, and Wordsworth. Through an extensive and panoramic view, the book traces the development and changes in taste over time. A Calendar of British Taste from 1600–1800 is ideal for anyone with an interest in the cultural and social history of Britain.
Categories: Art

Lives Between The Lines

Lives Between The Lines

A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant Michael Vatikiotis. PRELUDE ... Use of a lunar calendar made the exercise imprecise. ... In addition, each confessional community was permitted to use their own calendars – the Hebrew, the Orthodox ...

Author: Michael Vatikiotis

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781474613224

Category: History

Page: 314

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In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the coast of Palestine in search of opportunity. In the process, he reveals a period where the Middle East was a place of ethnic and cultural harmony - where Arabs and Jews rubbed shoulders in bazaars and teashops, intermarried and shared family history. While lines were eventually drawn and people, including Vatikiotis's family, found themselves caught between clashing faiths, contested identities and violent conflict, this intimate and sweeping memoir is a paean to tolerance, offering a nuanced understanding of the lost Levant.
Categories: History

Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth century British Culture

Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth century British Culture

Celebrating the Calendar Year Clare A. Simmons ... was derived from a lost Elizabethan stage tragedy.62 In 1595, Thomas Millington of Norwich published “The Norfolk Tragedy,” and the story was reprinted without major variation for over ...

Author: Clare A. Simmons

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

ISBN: 9781843845737

Category: Civilization, Medieval

Page: 239

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A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages.
Categories: Civilization, Medieval

The Year of Lost and Found

The Year of Lost and Found

out on the lines.' 'This fella's ready to be fed.' 'Was he good?' 'Not a bother on him. ... Paddy set up a checklist and linked it to the calendar.' 'I know. I'm just trying to get my head round the whole picture.

Author: Felicity Hayes-McCoy

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781529361124

Category: Fiction

Page: 293

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'A page-turning novel filled with wonderful characters. Curl up and treat yourself to the perfect escape' Sinéad Moriarty 'I can highly recommend this beauty, it's a gem! Book of the year so far for me. Utterly glorious, I'm telling everyone to run out and buy it!' Claudia Carroll Ordinary people. Extraordinary secrets ... It's business as usual in the sleepy town of Lissbeg on the west coast of Ireland, but, as local librarian Hanna Casey gathers material for an exhibition on Ireland's struggle for Independence, secrets revealed in her Great-Aunt's diary expose her own family history of love, dishonour and revenge. Will Hanna risk personal and professional fallout by keeping those war-torn secrets to herself, or will she honour the exhibition's spirit of shared storytelling? Meanwhile, newly-wed Aideen has just had her first baby and becomes convinced that she needs to find her own dad, whom she's never known. But is she really prepared for the consequences? Hanna and Aideen each face decisions and it soon becomes clear that, when old wounds are opened and forgotten memories disturbed, history is never just about the past. Will they discover that finding happiness is all about living in the present?
Categories: Fiction

Chase s Calendar of Events 2022

Chase s Calendar of Events 2022

The combatants were Britain's Grand Fleet and Germany's High Seas Fleet. The outcome was inconclusive, but the cost was great: 8,600 lives were lost and 25 ships sunk. COPyRigHT LaW PaSSeD: anniVeRSaRy. May 31, 1790.

Author: Editors of Chase's

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781641435048

Category: Reference

Page: 753

View: 738

Notable birthdays, historical anniversaries, national and international holidays, religious holidays, and thousands of additional days of note from all over the world.
Categories: Reference

Europe s Lost Frontiers Volume 1

Europe s Lost Frontiers  Volume 1

Figure 14.11 Graph showing one calendar year's data of water height and atmospheric pressure effect. ... Figure 15.1 Areas designated for windfarm development within UK and Belgian waters and survey lines associated with the Brown Bank ...

Author: Vincent Gaffney

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

ISBN: 9781803272696

Category: Social Science

Page: 272

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Europe’s Lost Frontiers was the largest directed archaeological research project in Europe, investigating the inundated landscapes of the Early Holocene North Sea – often referred to as ‘Doggerland’. The first in a series of monographs presenting the results of the project, this book provides the context of the study and method statements.
Categories: Social Science

Blood Tears and Folly

Blood  Tears and Folly

here and there they managed to spare a blanket or a hot drink for British wounded suffering exposure in the chill ... catch the British half-asleep, and that in the fury of battle some of the inexperienced British units became lost and ...

Author: Len Deighton

Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 9780141995878

Category: History

Page: 832

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'Every page of Deighton's work glows with the excitement of discovery ... wonderful' Geoff Dyer, Guardian This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pearl Harbor. Rooted in the personal accounts of the soldiers themselves, Blood, Tears and Folly is a sweeping, moving account of the political machinations, the strategy and tactics, the weapons and the men on both sides who created a world of devastation. 'If he had never written a word of fiction Deighton would still be remembered for his scholarly and merciless history of the Second World War, Blood, Tears and Folly' Peter Millar, The Times
Categories: History

The Absent Image

The Absent Image

The lines inscribed below order the votary to read this prayer five times while kissing the Holy Face (Amsterdam, ... At least twenty-nine other lines were lost, with only single letters remaining on a stub on fol. 256ra.

Author: Elina Gertsman

Publisher: Penn State Press

ISBN: 9780271089034

Category: Art

Page: 256

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Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures. Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death. Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.
Categories: Art