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| | History refdesk.com |
 | | The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern- Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns and thirty prominent historians have combined their expertise over the past ten years to perfect this comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millennia from prehistoric times to the year 2000. | | | Korean History Project - a multimedia version of a 1,400 page manuscript on the history of Korea. | | | Medieval and Renaissance Fact and Fiction - resources available on the Web about the history, culture, literature and re-creation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. |
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http://www.refdesk.com/history.html
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| | Open Directory - Society: History |
| | History World - Describes world history in interconnecting narratives and illustrated timelines. | | | History Explained - Examines the background history that is needed to understand the major economic and political problems in the world today. | | | History Guide - Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history, maintained at the State and University Library at Göttingen, Germany. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/History
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| | Education World® : History Center |
| | Education World introduces you and your students to 65 years of history from Lewis and Clark to the transcontinental railroad. | | | Author Joy Hakim has changed the face of history instruction with her award-winning 11-book series A History of US. | | | Five lessons that challenge students to use and translate hieroglyphics, solve math problems using Roman numerals, learn about gods and goddesses, explore the society of ancient Egypt, and draw like an Egyptian. |
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http://www.educationworld.com/history
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| | History |
| | But man's interest in the notion that a machine could be given the ability to think can be traced back to the myths and stories of the ancient world." | | | CBI is dedicated to promoting study of the history of information technology and information processing and their impact on society." Don't miss their collection of oral histories. | | | A chronology of significant events in the history of AI, prepared for the Introduction to AI class at the University of Pittsburgh. |
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http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/history.html
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| | Future history - encyclopedia article about Future history. |
| | A set of stories which share a backdrop but are not really concerned with the sequence of history in their universe are rarely considered future histories. | | | Perhaps the first detailed future history was that of Robert Heinlein, who originated the term in the sense described here. | | | He was largely self-educated; he obtained a deep knowledge of science and history: "without subjecting myself to the ridiculous misery of four years in the uncomfortable confines of a raccoon coat." At age eighteen, he went to work as a laborer for the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona yards. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Future%20history
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| | Alternative history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The earliest alternative history published as a complete work, rather than an aside or digression in a longer work, is believed to be Louis Napoléon Geoffroy-Château's French nationalist tale, Napoléon et la conquête du monde, 1812-1823 (1836) – in English "Napoleon and the conquest of the world". | | | In the English language, the first known complete alternate history is Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "P.'s Correspondence", published in 1846 and which recounts the tale of an apparent madman and his purported encounters with various literary and political figures of the 1840s. | | | Secret history, which gives an account of history at odds with our general understanding, presenting its own account as having been lost or forgotten, is not alternate history. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_history_(fiction)
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| | VoS - Voice of the Shuttle |
| | International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam ("world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular") | | | World History Archives (homepage for "documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective") (Haines Brown, Central Connecticut S.) | | | World History of Democracy (drafts from Steve Muhlberger and Phil Paine's book-in-progress on the topic; also gathers links to relevant online resources) (Steve Muhlberger, Nipissing U., Canada) |
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http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2713#id1325
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| | Encyclopedia: Alternative history (fiction) |
| | The earliest alternative history published as a complete work, rather than an aside or digression in a longer work, is believed to be Louis Napoléon Geoffroy-Château's French nationalist tale, Napoléon et la conquête du monde, 1812-1823 (1836) â in English "Napoleon and the conquest of the world". | | | In the English language, the first known complete alternate history is Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "P.'s Correspondence", published in 1846 and which recounts the tale of an apparent madman and his purported encounters with various literary and political figures of the 1840s. | | | Secret history, which gives an account of history at odds with our general understanding, presenting its own account as having been lost or forgotten, is not alternate history. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Alternative-history-(fiction)
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| | Simpson, "Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History", Romanticism and Contemporary Culture, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles |
| | Lanson, we remember, guaranteed his kind of literary history by avoiding "subjective criticism." By this he meant the presentist evaluation of writing as good or bad, enlightening or not, in the eyes of whoever is reading. | | | Literary history, then, has to be the history of everything and in this way risks being the history of nothing. | | | At a time when history in general is increasingly deemed irrelevant, the explicitly conservationist mission of antiquarian history may be our best hope for having something to work with should history ever again become a matter of urgent concern. |
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http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/contemporary/simpson/simpson.html
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| | Future Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | A depiction of the future of mankind as seen in the motion picture, Blade Runner. | | | The future always had a very special place in philosophy and, in general, in the human mind because a huge part of human life needs at least a forecast of events that are to occur. | | | In this sense the future is opposed to the past (the set of moments and events that have already occurred) and the present (the set of events that are occurring now). |
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http://www.matronofthearts.com/encyclopedia/Future
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| | American Historical Association |
| | "History teaching by example" is one phrase that describes this use of a study of the past—a study not only of certifiable heroes, the great men and women of history who successfully worked through moral dilemmas, but also of more ordinary people who provide lessons in courage, diligence, or constructive protest. | | | Biography and military history appeal in part because of the tales they contain. | | | History that lays the foundation for genuine citizenship returns, in one sense, to the essential uses of the study of the past. |
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http://www.historians.org/pubs/Free/WhyStudyHistory.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: History Monks |
| | The Order of Wen the Eternally Surprised, better known as the History Monks, and also sometimes referred to as the Men In Saffron (see Men in Black) and No Such Monastery (see NSA), is a highly secretive religious organisation in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett, based in the Monastery of Oi-Dong. | | | Lobsang was raised by the Thieves Guild of Ankh-Morpork, but was discovered by Soto of the History Monks when Lobsang performed the Stance of the Coyote (personalized time shift) in order to save his own life after falling from a rooftop. | | | The Order first appears in Small Gods where they are described as having the responsibility of observing significant events so that they become history, instead of just things happening. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/History-Monks
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| | Augustan Age - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Augustan Age |
| | The term is used with particular reference to the works of the Augustan poets, Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. | | | The English poet Thomas Gray, who is regarded as a forerunner of Romanticism, wrote Elegy in the Country Churchyard in 1751. | | | The Augustan period in English literature involved the development of both the themes and the structure of the classics. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Augustan+age
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| | History The WWW Virtual Library |
| | This collection is part of the WWW-VL HISTORY project. | | | The Labour History section of the WWW Virtual Library, part of the WWW VL History Network, is maintained by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since October 1996. | | | The History of Art Virtual Library is a collection of links relating to Art History and computer applications in Art History. |
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| | 8llit10.txt |
| | The scope of his history was broadly the same as that of the two great contemporary poets. | | | History might be written in Greek--as, indeed, throughout the Republican and Imperial times it continued to be--by any Roman who was sufficiently conversant with that language, in which models for every style of historical composition were ready to his hand. | | | This may broadly be called an historical work, but it was history treated in a style of great latitude, the meagre, disconnected method of the annalists alternating with digressions into all kinds of subjects-- geography, ethnography, reminiscences of his own travels and experiences, and the politics and social life of his own and earlier times. |
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| | Hitchhiker's Guide to American History |
| | Famous texts from Aristotle to Emerson to Virgil, but not much in the way of US history. | | | A nice page that carries the full text of "An Outline of American History," but falls out of the scope of our course. | | | Interdisciplinary journal devoted to the literature, arts, history, science, and music of the nineteenth century in America, Britain, and Europe. |
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| | Winter's Shadow: History |
| | I will not bother with a detailed history of every event known to fae as far as this city is concerned. | | | Reading the history of what we once were will not teach us how to survive the winter. | | | Other chapters of this book will deal with what the fae are doing now. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: French Literature |
| | The great representative of history in the Middle Ages is Froissart (1337-1410); in him we have to deal with a veritable writer. | | | It is yet too early to attempt the task of determining the due place of the nineteenth century in the literary history of France; the men and affairs of the century are still near to us, and in the study of literature a true perspective can be obtained only from a certain distance. | | | Hence the fondness of the literature of the seventeenth century for general ideas and for sentiments that are common to mankind, and its success in those kinds of literature which are based on the general study of the human heart. |
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| | The Soap Factory - Colonial Soap Making. Its History and Techniques |
| | For making good soap, the tide and the phases of the moon among other things were taken in account. | | | This solution of potash lye was collected by allowing it to flow into the groove around the stone slab and drip down into a clay vessel at the lip of the groove. | | | It is recorded that the Babylonians were making soap around 2800 B.C. and that it was known to the Phoenicians around 600 B.C. These early references to soap and soap making were for the use of soap in the cleaning of textile fibers such as wool and cotton in preparation for weaving into cloth. |
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| | soc.history.what-if FAQ (April 2004) |
| | The other Usenet newsgroups with some level of official interest in alternative history are alt.tv.sliders (about the alternative-worlds TV show), rec.arts.sf.written (the correct venue for discussion of the plot, characters, or literary merit of most published alternative histories), and the specialty group alt.books.harry-turtledove. | | | For example, when discussing an alternative history in which Napoleon is a physically large man, one might write about the differences in behaviour and career of the real Napoleon, and *Napoleon. | | | Alternative history fiction, on the other hand, requires that the world described be visibly the same as ours up to some specific point in history, after which things begin to get different. |
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| | Rethinking Literary History - Comparatively (ACLS Occasional Paper No. 27) |
| | This general intertwining of the literary and the national, however, is not one to be abandoned in a “comparative” literary history, but to limit oneself to it would be to downplay the power of other “imagined communities&; based on, say, language or geographic region rather than nation. | | | The ICLA series of comparative literary histories, as a whole, has sought to do something very different from what national literary histories have done, both in their traditional forms and in their recent, quite differently formatted ones (such as A New History of French Literature). | | | Similarly, literary history is inevitably the history of the past as read through the present. |
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| | Chapter 4 ** History, Philosophical Future and Science |
| | The entire history of mankind is an exertion towards civilization, knowledge and creation. | | | In the exertions towards a philosophical future, the human efforts may be brought to failure by, say, a cataclysm or because society turned out to be unable to use its stock of intelligence and will to survive during the most hard period in its history. | | | This failure by external or internal accident would be a mere event in the hosts of progressions made by all possible consciousness in the universe towards the philosophical future. |
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| | The Shadow in Comics: History |
| | The Shadow even appeared in a crossover involving one of Dark Horse's most popular characters: Ghost. | | | Later, Andy Helfer continued this theme (1987-1989) with his series, culminating in the Master of Darkness becoming a cyborg. | | | Most of the stories were written by The Shadow's author, Walter B. Gibson, while various artists from Vernon Greene to Charles Coll drew the characters. |
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| | A Short History of Monks and Monasteries |
| | The fact that the monk was seeking human fellowship is evidence that he was becoming more humane, and this softening of his spirit betrayed itself in his treatment of himself. | | | The monks of Pachomius were divided into bands of tens and hundreds, each tenth man being an under officer in turn subject to the hundredth, and all subject to the superior or abbot of the mother house. | | | He says: “The truth is Jerome is not only a monk but an artist in words; and his horror of evil, his vivid imagination, and his passion for literary effect, occasionally carry him beyond the region of sober fact. |
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| | New Historicism |
| | Instead, the relationship between history and the work is seen as a dialectic: the literary text is interpreted as both product and producer, end and source, of history. | | | Similarly, the New Historicist effort to assimilate the literary text to history is guaranteed by the poststructuralist doctrine of textuality, which states that the text is not aloof from the surrounding context, that there is a contiguity, an ebb and flow, between text and whatever might once have been seen as "outside" it. | | | The literary text is said to be a constituent part of a culture’s ideology by virtue of passing it on; but the ideology nevertheless exists’ intact’ intelligible, in a form separate from (and therefore prior to) the work. |
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| | History of literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ancient Egyptian literature was not included in early studies of the history of literature because the writings of Ancient Egypt were not translated into European languages until the 19th century when the Rosetta stone was deciphered. | | | Post-1800 literature is covered in the history of modern literature entry. | | | The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry which attempt to provide entertainment, enlightenment, or instruction to the reader/hearer/observer, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces. |
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| | ThePulp.Net: The Shadow |
| | Win Scott Eckert traces a history of The Shadow from the 1893 birth of Kent Allard through the pulps, paperbacks and comics. | | | This essay on collectible paperbacks by Gary Lovisi, taken from Paperbacks, Pulps and Comics, includes a reference to the paperback The Shadow and the Voice of Murder and its role in paperback history. | | | Jim Sutton traces the history of The Shadow in comics — from the newspaper strips, to the reprint comic books, to graphic novels. |
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| | Literary History of Persia |
| | It would be premature to discuss the reign and character of the last, while the very dissimilar characters of his father and grandfather I have endeavoured to depict in my History of the Persian Revolution. | | | This book, however, is written not from the political but from the literary point of view, and the historical part of it is only ancillary, and might have been omitted entirely if a knowledge of even the general outlines of Oriental history formed part of the mental equipment of most educated Europeans. | | | Short-lived as the Zand dynasty was, it began and ended nobly, for its first representative was one of the best and its last one of the bravest of all the long line of Persian monarchs. |
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| | Damon Knight on Robert A. Heinlein |
| | It is a history, not of the future, but of a future -- an alternate-probability world (perhaps the same one in which the retired Rear Admiral is tending his roses) which is logically self-consistent, dramatic, and recognizably an offshoot of our own past. | | | Heinlein's worked the thing out in detail that grows with each story; he has an outlined and graphed history of the future with characters, dates of major discoveries, et cetera, plotted in. | | | "Future History" is Campbell's phrase, not Heinlein's, and the author has sometimes been mildly embarrassed by it. |
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