Sentences with phrase «told by historians»

The maps are completely unique and offer up important narratives as told by historians and storytellers about the history of the United States.

They have been traced as far back as 55 BC as told by historians and Romans that invaded Britain during that time.

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YOUR HISTORIANS tell us by supplying guns and brandy to corrupt fellow Africans!!!

Archeaology and accounts told by other Historians support the Bible.

Of particular importance in this regard, though little noted by historians or popular piety, are Nuechterlein's telling observations on the Lincoln who prosecuted the war through to its conclusion despite its frightful costs» whatever the popular and, in some sense, real perception of Lincoln as tenderhearted.

Science Works We have traced the evolution of salads and food historians tell us salads (generally defined as mixed greens with dressing) were enjoyed by ancient Romans and Greeks.

The Greek historian Herodotus was told that the Assyrian archers had their bowstrings gnawed by mice.

Years later, Constantine told his friend Bishop Eusebius (c.260 - 340), the most eminent of early church historians, that in the early afternoon, as he was praying, he had a vision of a cross of light in the heavens bearing the inscription «Conquer by this».

All I can tell you is thousands by the day, that this new thing Christianity exploded from Judea to Spain that all historians agree on this.

Mark is preaching the gospel; he is doing it by telling a story belonging to the world of actual fact: the world in which Herod Antipas and Pontius Pilate played the parts on the public stage which secular historians ascribe to them; the world in which the machinery of Roman rule operated in ways known to all students of the period; the world which was disturbed by the familiar tensions and conflicts of the last half century of the Jewish state.

On the other hand, his narrative of Louverture's tragic end — lured across the Atlantic by Napoleon and then locked away to die in a stone fortress in the Jura without so much as a trial — is told with more pathos than the average academic historian could manage.

Oh and additionally... you need to study REAL history concerning the crusades because the notion of converting Muslims to our faith by the sword is nothing but a fairy tale told by revisionist historians who desire to create a history that meets their agendas rather than report truthfully.

Ancient historians tell us that severe hardships occurred when that crucial harvest was disrupted by war or social unrest.

At 8:18 am on Tuesday 23 February 2010, a week before Cardinal Murphy - O'Connor debated the virtues of a Catholic England, something happened that may well come to be seen by such historians as an epiphany moment, revealing with telling clarity the contemporary British Church's propensity to get unwillingly sucked into an agenda profoundly at variance with our own.

We never hear about it,» historian and author Bruce Cumings told Newsweek by email Monday.

As someone who's long had an armchair historian's interest in World War II, I was intrigued by Hacksaw Ridge, which tells the true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a conscientious objector who nonetheless wanted to serve his country as a medic.

Mick Jackson's «Denial» tells the gripping fact - based tale of a Holocaust denier, David Irving (played by Timothy Spall), who took a revered American historian, Deborah Lipstadt (played by Rachel Weisz), to court in England, forcing her to prove that the genocide actually took place.

The Daily Prophet told of a popular book by Rita Skeeter, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore, revealing Dumbledore's Dark Secrets (betrayed in part by «magical historian» Bathilda Bagshot, who had studied Dumbledore's history and first met him at his family's home in Godric's Hollow).

Simon Charlesworth tells the story of The Filton Flyer, the two Bristol 406S coupés, one factory - bodied and the other by Zagato, that bracketed production of the last model built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company / In this month's Auto - biography, Matthew Bell travels to Guernsey to meet the motoring historian and prolific author, Nick Georgano, best known for creating definitive encyclopaedias of automotive manufacturers / During WW1, Herbert Austin owned a Hudson Super Six and is known to have taken inspiration from it for his own Austin 20.

August 8: Mysteries from the Lost Galleon Part of the ongoing Contemporary Historians series at the Presidio, this lecture — by maritime scholar Edward Von der Porten — tells the story of the shipwreck of the San Felipe and examines Chinese - Philippine - Mexican trade during the 16th to 18th centuries.

Read more about the history of 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa, as told by Historic Hotels of America 2014 and 2015 Historian of the Year Stanley Turkel.

Luis introduced me to town historian María Cristina Sotomayor Guma who told me that Jovellanos once hosted 44 sugar mills powered by slaves from Benin, with some 800,000 brought to Cuba from West Africa during the slave trade era.

The portrayal of women in the Grimms is a historic survey that reflects real social conditions, and was originally told to the Grimm Brothers by women, according to historian Marina Warner, who has written extensively about the Grimms from the feminist perspective.

They have been selected and arranged unchronologically in telling pairs and trios by Courtney J. Martin, the adjunct curator at Dia and an art historian at Brown University, working with Megan Holly Witko, Dia's assistant curator.

by the time i tell you it will all be forgotten, before inman gallery talk with curator, writer, art historian - katie geha

The couple's accomplishments - as patrons, philanthropists and political activists who lived and worked along a Paris - Houston - New York axis - is told in lively texts and remembrances by contributors such as the artist Dorothea Tanning, architect Renzo Piano, film scholar Gerald O'Grady, architectural historian Stephen Fox, curators Bertrand Davezac and Walter Hopps, and Africanist Kristina Van Dyke.

Modern Art Stories in the OC American Mosaic: Picturing Modern Art through the Eye of Duncan Phillips By Evan Senn Through December 4 As an art historian, the most interesting aspect of a work of art from a time before my own is the story it tells.

Wednesday 16th September 2015 The Olivier Cornet Gallery is participating in Culture Night this year (Friday, 18th September) with a busy programme: Eoin Mac Lochlainn's show «Diaspora» is on of course, but we also have a story telling event with the Art Historian and Storyteller Jean Ryan (at 7 pm repeated at 8 pm, 25 minutes), followed by music (at 8:45 pm) with Pine Marten.

«The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future,» is a tale told with sound and fury by a historian living in the year 2393 who looks back on global collapse caused by global warming.