Sentences with phrase «mentioned in history books»

If Ubisoft's goal was to put Connor at the forefront of every major Revolutionary event and make the player think it could have been possible for him to be so involved without ever being mentioned in our history books, then Ubisoft failed miserably.
There is a Roman statue in the British Museum known as the Jennings Dog which is remarkably similar to modern day Mastiffs and it is mentioned in history books that they were Julius Caesar's favourite breed.
A manager who is so past it, he should only be mentioned in history books is still the main man and he's the man for the future too.
Women have made lots of contributions to our world yet for a very long time, women and their accomplishments were not given much mention in history books.

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For most Muslims and non-Muslims of today, this type of information is unknown and has never been mentioned in any of the history books.
I think Karen Armstrong, in the good book you mentioned, «A History of God», calls herself a «freelance monotheist».
Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.
At no point in church history have so many people written so many books and articles, not to mention blogs, wikis, and e-newsletters, about the Christian faith.
There are archaeological evidence that cities mentioned in the bible and history books existed long time ago.
due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....
In the Introduction to his book he mentions, «It will be suggested in this book that the founders of the Church were «East Syrian'traders, from the Persian Gulf area, and it will be apparent that a most important feature of its history is the succession of contacts with foreign Christians, drawn to the Malabar coast by trade.&raquIn the Introduction to his book he mentions, «It will be suggested in this book that the founders of the Church were «East Syrian'traders, from the Persian Gulf area, and it will be apparent that a most important feature of its history is the succession of contacts with foreign Christians, drawn to the Malabar coast by trade.&raquin this book that the founders of the Church were «East Syrian'traders, from the Persian Gulf area, and it will be apparent that a most important feature of its history is the succession of contacts with foreign Christians, drawn to the Malabar coast by trade.»
4) Goats: Goats are mentioned three times in the Book of Mormon... The aggressive mountain goat is indigenous to North America, and there is no evidence that it was ever domesticated during the 2500 - 3000 year history of the Book of Mormon.
Also, bear in mind King Josiah's reforms to the hebrew bible not to mention the convenient «discovery» of one of the lost books of Moses during his reign, ie Deuteronomy (which most scholars agree was not written in the time of «Moses»... provided Moses even existed... no evidence he or any of the Patriachs ever existed... except David) when you start to look at the evidence and history of judaism and christianity it becomes quite clear that these religions are not what they claim to be.
I've reviewed the book here, and start with a notorious episode in American literary history that Dearborn only mentions:
You all know that there is history between Zlatan and Arsen, years ago we was going to sighn him up all was agreed and Arsen told Zlatan to come for trial at Colney and Zlatan was offended by this and declined to join AW team, he has mentioned this in his book and he still thinks it was an insult to him, but who knows its football anything can hapen look at Fabragas RVP
When the match race takes its place in racing's history books, the fundamentalists will almost inevitably give decisive weight to the circumstance mentioned by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons elsewhere in this issue: over an off track (in patches slow) Nashua and Swaps raced together at killing early speed: five - eighths of a mile in 58 seconds, three - quarters of a mile in 1:10 2/5 — two seconds faster than Swaps's time at the same point in the Kentucky Derby over a fast track.
Borges, it is known, was fascinated by encyclopedias and by the Naturalis historia8 (perhaps the first encyclopedia in history), which in fact he mentions in «Funes the Memorious»: Funes asks the narrator (Borges) for any Latin text, and Borges obliges with volume VII of Pliny's encyclopedia and Quicherat's Thesaurus, just so the rube will be rudely disappointed upon finding out that one can not learn such a complicated language using only a book and a dictionary.
Now in its third edition, this clearly written book mentions nearly everything from the history of archaeology through excavation techniques to archaeological theory.
With the notable exceptions of The Oxford Companion to the Book (2010) and Bettley's The Art of the Book (2001), most literature in the fields of book history and topics concerning the history of writing and digital textuality, including studies of books as artistic objects and of the material page make no mention of comics at all, in spite of the fact they do refer to other forms of multimedia or text - and - image publications such as collage books and illustrated boBook (2010) and Bettley's The Art of the Book (2001), most literature in the fields of book history and topics concerning the history of writing and digital textuality, including studies of books as artistic objects and of the material page make no mention of comics at all, in spite of the fact they do refer to other forms of multimedia or text - and - image publications such as collage books and illustrated boBook (2001), most literature in the fields of book history and topics concerning the history of writing and digital textuality, including studies of books as artistic objects and of the material page make no mention of comics at all, in spite of the fact they do refer to other forms of multimedia or text - and - image publications such as collage books and illustrated bobook history and topics concerning the history of writing and digital textuality, including studies of books as artistic objects and of the material page make no mention of comics at all, in spite of the fact they do refer to other forms of multimedia or text - and - image publications such as collage books and illustrated books.
Of course, the story will be much easier to follow if the reader has a sense of these artists, but for those who are not up on their art history, the book is loaded with full - color reproductions of some of the great works of art that are mentioned in the story.
Holladay proved that the majority of these artists had in fact been forgotten: they were not exhibited in museums nor even mentioned in art history books.
Protesting parents haven't indicated why they feel Israel should be mentioned in a book that celebrates a portion of Arabic culture, language, and history.
Yet the history books fail to mention these fascinating woman unless in a perfunctory way as wives of powerful men.
Many schools have very few books available in print, and many of those that are available have been donated from the U.S. I remember one example he mentioned, of an African school library collection that included — stop the presses — a history of Utah.
Your communication may exhibit less curiosity and interest in others, and be more focused on book sales — not to mention you'll be entering social environments where you're a stranger in a strange land, unaware of the local «language», etiquette or history.
Shortly after the book's publication, this was disputed by noted videogame historian, Alexander Smith, who said that although this information had been briefly mentioned in David Sheff's 1993 history of Nintendo, Game Over, it simply wasn't true.
Organization with an operating budget under $ 2 million Awardee PAMELA S. WALL, Curator of Exhibitions, Gibbes Museum of Art for The Things We Carry: Contemporary Art in the South at the Gibbes Museum of Art Organization with an operating budget of $ 2 - $ 6 million Awardee STACY C. HOLLANDER, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, Chief Curator, Director of Exhibitions, American Folk Art Museum for Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America at the American Folk Art Museum Organization with an operating budget of $ 6 - $ 15 million Awardees NANCY KATHRYN BURNS, Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Worcester Art Museum KRISTINA WILSON, Associate Professor of Art History, & Chair, Department of Visual & Performing Arts, Clark University Both for Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period at the Worcester Art Museum Organization with an operating budget of $ 15 - $ 30 million Awardees (tie) ANNE - MARIE EZE, Director of Scholarly & Public Programs, Houghton Library, Harvard University NATHANIEL SILVER, Associate Curator, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum both for Beyond Words: Italian Renaissance Books at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum MASSUMEH FARHAD, Chief Curator & Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution SIMON RETTIG, Assistant Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution both for The Art of the Qur» an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish & Islamic Arts at the Freer Gallery of Art Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Honorable Mention JENS HOFFMANN, Deputy Director, Exhibitions & Public Programs, The Jewish Museum CLAUDIA J. NAHSON, Morris & Eva Feld Curator, The Jewish Museum both for Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist at The Jewish Museum Organization with an operating budget over $ 30 million Awardees AL MINER, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston LAURA WEINSTEIN, Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian & Islamic Art & Acting Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston both for Megacities Asia at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
I don't make it a habit to judge people based on a book they mention on their website, particularly without knowing why they mentioned this book (note Tallbloke has a degree in the history and philosophy of science, so I imagine that he reads books about the history and philosophy of science.)
A number of well - written articles chronicle at least some of the history of legal writing in the law school curriculum.1 However, those articles were written with a different purpose in mind: the authors sought to employ history to show the pedigree of legal writing and argue for an equal place in the curriculum with doctrinal courses and an equal position for its teachers with other «case - book» faculty.2 Because of this purpose, they understandably focused a large part of their historical narrative on legal writing in the «modern law - school,» an entity that has existed only since the late 1800s.3 The articles paid considerably less attention to the era that preceded it, beyond brief mentions of the Inns of Court in England, apprenticeship in America, and the private law schools and early attempts at law teaching that preceded Langdell's introduction of the case method.4
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