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31Ecclesiastical Annals — Ecclesiastical Annals † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Annals The historical literature of the Middle Ages may be classed under three general heads: chronicles, annals, and lives of the saints. CHRONICLES Chronicles… …
32Frederic M. Halford — Frederic Michael Halford Frederic M. Halford Detached Badger tying flies[1] Born Frederic Michael Hyam 13 April 1844(1844 04 13) Birmingha …
33Lamdan — Lamden is a late Hebrew expression for a man who is well informed in rabbinical literature, although not a scholar in the technical sense of the term ( talmid hakham ); it does not seem to have been used before the 18th century. Ezekiel… …
34Roger of Hoveden — Roger of Hoveden, or Howden (fl. 1174 1201), was a 12th century English chronicler.From his name and the internal evidence of his work, he is believed to have been a native of Howden in East Yorkshire. Nothing is known of him before the year 1174 …
35William Ward (cricketer) — William Ward (born 24 July 1787 at Islington, London; died 30 June 1849 at Westminster was a noted English cricketer. He was a prominent right handed batsman and an occasional slow lob bowler.Ward s first class career began in the 1810 English… …
36Aeschylus of Alexandria — Aeschylus (Gr. polytonic|Αισχύλος) of Alexandria was an epic poet who must have lived before the end of the 2nd century, and whom Athenaeus calls a well informed man. One of his poems bore the title Amphitryon, and another Messeniaca. A fragment… …
37Manchester — /man ches teuhr, cheuh steuhr/, n. 1. a city in NW England: connected with the Mersey estuary by a ship canal (351/2 mi. [57 km] long). 506,300. 2. a city in S New Hampshire. 90,936. 3. a town in central Connecticut. 49,761. * * * I City (pop.,… …
38Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
39United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
40Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
