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I'm hardly an art historian, but I am passionate about art, and a work this massive can overwhelm me.
Personal seed capital, a publicly established baby trust, what my colleague William Darity at Duke University and I have referred to as baby bonds, a term that was coined by the late historian from Columbia University, Manning Marable.
A French historian said, two centuries later, "Seldom has so mighty an intellect submitted with such humility to the authority of Jesus Christ."
Here are a few quotes indicating that: "Man has no nature," from the historian Jose Ortega y Gasset; "Man has no instincts," from the anthropologist Ashley Montagu; "The human brain is capable of a full range of behaviors and predisposed to none," from the late scientist Stephen Jay Gould.
I am a historian and an expert in the idea that good things happen to good people.
I'm an historian.
And what I love about being an historian is it gives you perspective.
A few years ago, historian Arnold Toynbee said that the world was suffering a huge spiritual crisis.
A historian might tell you Sweden hasn't been in a national conflict for about 200 years.
And historian al-Mas’udi considered the game a testament to human free will compared to games of chance.
As a historian said earlier today, it's important to get up and circumvent sometimes that couch.
I am no historian, ladies and gentlemen.
For years I've been feeling frustrated, because as a religious historian, I've become acutely aware of the centrality of compassion in all the major world faiths.
Now, a historian tells me it's even more difficult to predict about the past.
As a historian, I've long suspected that as language changes, our emotions do, too.
I want to end with an emotion I often feel when I'm working as a historian.
One of my favorite parts of being a historian is when something I've completely taken for granted, some very familiar part of my life, is suddenly made strange again.
And these represent the first game equipment designed by human beings, and if you're familiar with the work of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, you might know this history, which is the history of who invented games and why.
For example, the great Oxford historian who taught here at this university, A.J.P. Taylor, defined a great power as a country able to prevail in war.
Thucydides, the great historian of the the Peloponnesian War, said it was the rise in the power of Athens and the fear it created in Sparta.
As an avid WWII historian, I don't even know where to begin on how historically inaccurate this movie was.
According to the female historian character, who bores us with this fact, America is showing signs of it's decline (Admittedly she goes into greater detail than me).
I am not a historian, but all the events that preceded the decade (a few being the violent deaths of major figures of the American political and cultural scenes, the racial struggles, the emergence of the 1960s counter-culture, the increase of violence and death in the streets...) seemed to influence the vision of filmmakers who were willing to dare, be different, and create entertaining and intelligent motion pictures.
From a military historian's standpoint, nearly everything in this movie is historically accurate.
The attention to detail is wonderful, especially for anyone who has read Sima Qian's account in the Records of the Historian.
The narration by three different German narrators (German film historian Lotte Eisner, Eugen Des Montagnes, and Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg) is solid, and Herzog goes on and on of Eisner's import to this project, himself, and film history, but the English speaker of the translation, James William Gledhill, has a voice that seems downright deific, which lends itself far more perfectly to this project, even though much of the text- in either language, is rather superfluous.
Rosie is an actress; not a historian.
No wonder that the historian Ian Kershaw, author of the groundbreaking Hitler biography, who originally was the scientific consultant for this TV film, dissociated himself from it.
Well first off I'd like to add that I myself is somewhat of a historian so what I look for in a film that is based upon historical events is that it is actually based upon historical facts.
As a practicing Russian historian for many, many years I took exception with YC at almost every turn, and in particular the politically correct depiction of her as the boss who single-handed moved Russia into a direction of dominance.
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