... VI. 50 " ;The old memorials Ofthe noble and the holy, Ofthe chiefs of ancient lineage, Ofthe saints of wondrousvirtues; Ofthe Ollamhs and the Brehons, Ofthe bards and ofthe betaghs,"[21]occurred ... all the convents of the order of Our Lady of Mercy and ofthe order ofthe Presentation, to the list of our benefactors. With the exception of, perhaps, two or three convents of each order, they ... record ofthe obit of saint or virgin, archbishop, bishop, abbot, or other noble dignitary of the Church, or king or of prince, of lord or of chieftain, [or] ofthe synchronism of connexion of the...
... nationalities compose the southern branch ofthe Slavonic race. The other inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula are, to the south ofthe Slavs, the Albanians in the west, the another fierce Tartar ... In the fifth century the Huns moved from the shores ofthe Black Sea to the plains of the Danube and the Theiss; they devastated the Balkan peninsula, in spite ofthe tribute which they had ... thing ofthe one people as it is ofthe other. The Bulgarians indeed think themselves superior to the Slavs by reason ofthe warlike and glorious traditions ofthe Tartar tribe that gave them their...
... spirit ofthe people ofthe land took over. Before long, and for decades then to come, anybody staying downtown the night before the Texas- OU game would drift off to sleep to the lullaby of sirens ... traditional historyofthe one-hundred- game series, but rather just a discussion ofthe pan-orama. An issue of Sports Illustrated that appeared in early December 2005 contained several pages ofthe ... those UT guys now living on the shabby side of sixty. The anxiety that was building by the kickoff of that Rose Bowl was boiling out ofthe pot and hissing on the stove. The ones who didn’t travel...
... arrival ofthe Slavs in the Balkan peninsula, of that ofthe Bulgars, and ofthe formation of the Bulgarian nationality has already been described (cf. p. 26). The installation ofthe Slavs in the ... ETHNOLOGICAL]Place-names are a good index ofthe extent and strength ofthe tide of Slav immigration. All along the coast,from the mouth ofthe Danube to the head ofthe Adriatic, the Greek and Roman names ... destroy the power ofthe Turks and thereby make impossible the further advance ofthe Germanicpowers eastward.That Russia was ever in the least jealous ofthe military successes ofthe league,...
... ageneration. The renewal ofthe war with the Persians, continued‘civil’ wars, and the defeat ofthe Spartans by the Thebans at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC thoroughly exhausted the Greeks. ... that quarrelsomeness is one ofthe worst of evils, we mustcertainly not let them embroider robes with the story ofthe Battle of the Giants, or tell them the tales about the many and various quarrelsbetween ... describe the use of propaganda in the service of the state were the Greek historians and philosophers ofthe fourthcentury BC who were beginning to explain the universe in terms of the individual...
... bc,while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes. There they ... Professor of African History at the University ofCambridge and is aFellow of St. John’s College. He is the author of several books on Africa, includingAmodern historyof Tanganyika and The African ... ofthe economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge ofthe West African forest in modern Ghana. This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the...
... agreeable to the majority ofthe house of commons, and suited their religious principles. But as the impatience ofthe people, the danger of delay, the general disgust towards faction, and the authority ... expressed by the parliament, there prevails a story, that Popham, having sounded the disposition ofthe members, undertook to the earl of Southampton to procure, during the king’s TheHistoryof England, ... two months, the parliament met, and proceeded in the great work ofthe national settlement. They established the post-office, wine-licenses, and some articles ofthe revenue. They granted...
... maintained along the middle and lower reaches ofthe Volga, the Bulgarsand Khazars were already there in force. The installation of northerners on the middle Dnieper towards the end of the ninth century ... encountered the tundra lands of the far north before the end ofthe seventeenth century. The tundra, which is the region of swamp, moss, peat, lichen, scrub and perennial grassland to the north ofthe ... Russia. The trade routes along the river systems between the Baltic Sea in the north and the Black and Caspian Seas to the south were important for the development of early Rus’. The soils of the...
... to all [other]national migrations: namely from the west to the east, from the shores of the Volga to the coasts ofthe Pacific Ocean.’ Thehistoryofthe exploration andsettlement of all Siberia, ... Professor ofHistory at the University of Sunderland and the author of Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal inRussia (1998) and The End of Imperial Russia (1997).theodore ... aspect ofthe survival ofthe Old Regime wasthat the dynastic state was less under the control of social elites in Russia thanwas the case elsewhere in the periphery, which added to the sense of...
... public eyewitnesses ofthe nature ofthe movement and the USSR,all the more credible and authentic in the eyes ofthe public by virtue of theirexperience within and break with the party. Within ... advo-cate of appeasement in the 1930s, a philosopher ofhistory and the prolificauthor of a multi-volume historyofthe Soviet Union, 1917–29.93Even in the 1930s when Carr had been sympathetic to the ... controversies ofthe Soviet past. The volume is not simply a historyofthe ethnically Russian part ofthe countrybut rather ofthe two great multinational states – tsarist and Soviet – as wellas the...