Quotes About Historical

GRAND ST. BERNARD PASS, PENNINE ALPS MAY 1800

APRIL 15, 1950 FLATHEAD LAKE, MONTANA

The Great Frost was, historians tell us, the most severe that has ever visited these islands. Birds froze in mid-air and fell like stones to the ground. At Norwich a young countrywoman started to cross the road in her usual robust health and was seen by onlookers to turn visibly to powder and be blown in a puff of dust over the roofs as the icy blast struck her at the street corner.

Then there's Queen Victoria, like a large tea cosy, & Wellington, sleek as a mastiff with paw extended . . .

Among those in attendance at Santa María de la Victoria that day was a Venetian scholar named Antonio Pigafetta

The date of their escape from disaster was January 10, 1580.

The Portuguese reacted bitterly to the imminent departure of the Armada de Molucca.

The global spice trade underwent an upheaval in 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks

marked the first time that Pigafetta tested his firsthand experiences against the claims of ancient writers, in this case Pliny

The historical record is unequivocal. The United States is ham-handed and brutal in conceiving and executing clandestine operations, and it is simply no good at espionage; its operatives never have enough linguistic and cultural knowledge of target countries to recruit spies effectively. The CIA also appears to be one of the most easily penetrated espionage organizations on the planet. From the beginning, it has repeatedly lost its assets to double agents.

However, the most striking evidence of Brahmanical hostility towards Buddhism comes in the form of silence: the way in which India's Buddhist history, extending over large parts of the country and lasting for many centuries, was excised from the historical record.

If things keep going the way they have in recent years, acrimonious historical debate may soon rival kudzu for prominence on the southern landscape

Dobyns argued that the Indian population in 1491 was between 90 and 112 million people. Another way of saying this is that when Columbus sailed more people lived in the Americas than in Europe.

My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I probably learned tolerance, maybe even literary affection for the person in the wrong historical moment, living such long, never to be mediate wars with other sufferers.

Our task is to decipher the meaning of the historical-theological text in biblical narrative, not to reconstruct the original event.

including Jacques Hillairet's two-volume Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris, a classic that tells the history of every street in Paris. In some cases the history is just a line or two, but more often the entries are detailed, run along for several pages, and are illustrated with archival photographs and drawings.

My aim in this book has been throughout an historical, not an apologetic aim.

Franz Delitzsch, who put it most memorably when he wrote in 1878 that "we see in essence not with two eyes but with three: with the two eyes of the body and with the eye of the mind that is behind them. And it is in this eye of the mind in which the cultural-historical progressive development of the color sense takes place.

So, on May 19th, the woman who had never been the king's wife was executed, for adultery against the king.

El populismo es una continua tentación de la política latinoamericana, porque suele surgir de un hecho histórico también frecuente en nuestras sociedades: el de las modernizaciones inconclusas.

The first way has been excellently presented by David Holt in his lecture on "Jung and Marx." [1] There Holt shows that Jung imagined his work to be theoretically and historically substantiated by alchemy, and that Jung spent a

conception of democracy that includes the goals of human equality, even the limited form of equality of opportunity, and human freedom. … Labor-repressive agricultural systems, and plantation slavery in particular, are political obstacles to a particular kind of capitalism, at a specific historical stage: competitive democratic capitalism we must call it for lack of a more precise term.

Of course people live in the short run, and the average worker trying to make ends meet during economic downturns in, say, 1841 or 1857 lacked the molifying perspective of an historian.

When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?