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...l solar year. Julius Caesar decreed that the year 46 BC should have 445 days (some historians implausibly say: 443 days) in order to bridge the yaw... ...xtended the debate on the Civil Rights Act for 74 days. Filibuster is originally a Dutch word meaning "pirate, hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" ... ... emerged as a leader in the cable industry in Continental Europe by purchasing the Dutch cable company NKF. During the 1990s the consolidated g... ...31 by Electric and Musical Industries (EMI). RCA refined its own system, as did the Dutch Philips. Not until 1951 were the standards for public broa...

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... 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest Empire the world has ever known? Historians have much to say about the British in In... ...in the north of the City. The Residency is, of course, built on land bought from the Nawab by the Dutch, who were the first European Power to acquir... ...a tray of iced drinks under one of these portraits, which Helen learned, subsequently, was of the Dutchman who had erected this building. Isabel de ... ...nie des Indes Orientales. Their rivalry with the British was more fierce and bitter than with the Dutch and Portuguese, because their respective cou...

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... sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman -- The crimes for which he suffers -- In pursuit of the spectr... ...ly ship -- Real spectres of the sea -- Why the spectre ship was commanded by a Dutchman -- Dying superstition 81-89 CHAPTER VII. Marco Polo's visit to... ...ning each vessel brought a rich cargo of gold, silver, and precious wood. Many historians maintain that this fleet sailed to Peru where the riches bro... ...owever, is scarcely to be credited, although there is considerable proof which historians cannot wholly ignore that both the Irish and the Welsh made ... ...by the hostile savages who were known to occupy the country north of him. Many historians maintain that the island or country upon which Zichmni thus ... ...essels of our own times. From the imperfect and too brief descriptions left by historians, we learn that Hiero's great ship had three cabins, or decks... ...he commonly accepted version of the story is that given by Jal: An unbelieving Dutch captain, endeavoring to double Cape Horn against the force of a h... ...to sail the sea, the evil genius of sailors. Thus the appearance of the Flying Dutchman is ever dreaded as the fore- runner of disaster. O'Reilly sing... ...their destined port, they'll see their homes no more; They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore." IN PURSUIT OF THE SPECTRAL SHIP...

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...ery major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the ... ...lates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coin... ...only one thing: the one thing that code allowed them to do and nothing else. Historians and history books cover up this fact. The fact is: Napoleo... ...lization The Effect of Civilization on Humans 423 for making bread. Do historians talk about where the roots of our Civilization come from? T... ... to understand their own Science in the proper historical context. Neither do Historians. Every new generation in every culture, in every neighborh... ... unless you understand all of the thousands of things they took for granted. Historians do not bother with this. Neither do Scientists. There is n... ... they reduce the cost of their gas until the profits go up again. This has a Dutch origin. It’s principle in Dutch is called: Tanstaffl… or loosely... ... until these two small states were the envy of Europe. The Portuguese and the Dutch people were small enough as a population and lived in a small en... ...ortuguese greed to the ultimate limit… Only to be outclassed in greed by the Dutch. Who were then outclassed by the English. Who have been outcla...

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...ever growing segments of the world, conflicts became inevitable. Still, early Roman historians, patriotic to a fault, always describe Roman wars as... ... National Guard and even, in violation of the Constitution, the armed forces. Some historians cast the whole period as a battle of the religious vs... ... retaliation, Atomic Energy Minister, Alexander Rumyantsev, exposed an Anglo-German-Dutch deal with the Iranians, which, he said, included the sale ... ...the pending contracts are with Russian firms ($52 billion) but the French, Chinese, Dutch, United Arab Emirates and Egyptians have also inked agreem...

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...s a year, Norwegians average 1380, Swedes 1580, and Germans 1445. And the Dutch work the least. On the other end of the working scale, Koreans work... ...s and eye witness accounts. But historical evidence is often politicized. Historians can pick and choose what they will examine and report on. Were ... ...y of the past confirming that events never repeat themselves? ―Real historians want the truth, although some rewrite history to back up a polit... ...ious to injuries except for his heel? God can‘t change the past, but many historians do, especially if they are justifying for a cause that is sacred... ... situations of the American Revolution. The facts written by the American historians seem to be different from those reported by the English histori... ...? —―Of course you have to question how much freedom is actually good. The Dutch allowed prostitution and many drugs, but that freedom, or license we... ...d negatives?‖ From a self centered point of view it is immoral. —―A Dutch friend of mine was complaining that while he was working and paying ... ...nment was sending their welfare checks to them in the Canary islands. The Dutch welfare system was not fair from his point of view.‖ ―The sam... ...ut 3% of the total number of deaths. If the U.S. had the same rates as the Dutch approximately 62,000 Americans , that is 2.7 percent of the 2.3 mi...

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...up- port for that position, 18 and, with one significant recent exception, 19 historians of intellectual property have agreed. 20 Jefferson himself had... ... life. So much for the bad side of the enclosure movement. For many economic historians, everything I have said up to now is the worst kind of sentime... ... distribution of wealth that so incensed an earlier gen- eration of critical historians, they argue that there are significant questions about whether ... ...e about these issues is little known, however, outside the world of economic historians. “Everyone” knows that a commons is by definition tragic and th... ...ould not have thought that one could patent the idea of having an electronic Dutch auction on the Internet, working out the daily prices of a bundle o... ...mong the most aggressive of the lot. Year after year academics, critics, and historians pay fairly substantial fees (by our standards) to license tiny...

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...he French, the sharpe state of the Spanish, the strong signifacncy of the Dutch cannot from heere be drawne to life. The sense many keepe forme; the... ...ourse of merchandize, is very strange. I commend fortune for that (as our historians report) it was a Gentleman of Gaskonie, and my Countriman, that... ...l of Montfort had gained against the faction of Charles de Blois, for the Dutchy of Britanie) the victorious conqueror met with the bodie of his enem... ...re beyond measure ambitious. Amongst others, that they openly solicit the Historians of their times not to forget them in their writings: and fortun... ...am our last Duke of Guienne, father to that Eleonore who transferred that Dutchy unto the houses of France and England, the last ten or twelve yeare... ..., and mutable, and of one parcell; so it is not alike. One of the Grecian Historians doth justly accuse his age, forasmuch as the secrets of Christia... ...f RUTLAND) beares the body or chiefe part of an Imprese made for a worthy Dutchesse of Florence: Cum pudore læta fæcunditas: to reape as much joy by... ...y them both:which being so well graffed shall be (as the Italian spake in Dutch) Wan Got will (Ibid.): wherof yet a faire patterne you have here (be ... ...ib. ii. c. 27 & c. 3); since in the Romane proscriptions, as one of their Historians doth testifie, many wives were found exceeding faithful, but fe...

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... Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("Index of Prohibited Books"). A few (mainly Dutch) publishers even went to the stake (a habit worth reviving, some cur... ...rman, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew. We have texts in Old Frenc... ...n pilfering intellectual property digitally. The Italians, Portuguese and Dutch haven't even considered the option. Hardware manufacturers are liv... ... accounts and Web hosting services to encourage them to purchase PC's. The Dutch established public computer literacy centers for the disenfranchised... ...d the diary observation of the technological breaking point (what the old historians called: the "short time" and the "long time"). To combine these ...

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...ind that which is everlasting within the brevity of a human's lifespan); and historians of recorded cultures thread together implication, meaning, and... ...ould have gone through a ceremony of marrying herself as the more outlandish Dutch women did. She could have rented out a large area for the ceremony ... ...home of Michael's parents. But she ended up telling herself that she wasn't Dutch enough for such libertine experiments. And so she believed in a rel...

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...t: Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hieroglyphics....

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...tit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of th... ...nging lamp shed the yellow light which lends such charm to pictures of the Dutch school. The white linen, the silver, the cut glass, were brilliant ac...

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... the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the T appan Zee, and where they always prudently shorten... ...liar char acter of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the origi nal Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of ... ...nity of a church at no great distance. Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collat... ...n this peaceful spot with all possible laud for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New Y... ...inflicting a double portion on some little tough wrong headed, broad skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath t... ...is sources of fearful pleasure was to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives, as they sat spin ning by the fire, with a row of apples roa...

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...sialists, struck by the necessity of correcting popular errors endorsed by historians, made and published to the world very remarkable works. Thus Mon... ...did against the insurgents of the sixteenth century. Therefore the popular historians, who know very well that in a like case the people will do the s... ...rvable, made the subject of accusations by either the Calvinists or modern historians. Though there was no poi- soning, as some grave writers have sai... ...stantly renewed difficulties of her posi- tion, he saw with what injustice historians—all influenced by Protestants—had treated this queen. Out of thi... ...c Pope Leo X., Pope Clement VII., and Alessandro, not Duke of Florence, as historians call him, but Duke della citta di Penna, a title given by Pope C... ...on of the thoughts which lay buried beneath the rich 61 Balzac and florid Dutch skin of the old man; but he understood well enough the advantage he h...

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...ould not count in our artistic and social inheritance, since the English and Dutch colonists found only a wilderness peopled by savages, who had kept ... ...long continuance and a race that has had a recent beginning. The English and Dutch settlers of North America no doubt carried many things with them, s... ... France, and the climate of France, show what the reason was. France, as her historians have long delighted to point out, is a country singularly priv...

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...ary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEI... ...ck. Another version of the Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover... ... all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Loui... ...ghtened world by the whaleman. After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbar... ... the cetacea into groups and families.... Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal” (sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A.D. 1839. “U... ...is the whale which for more than two centuries past has been hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale which the American fi... ...hn Leo) is said to have layn there a hundred Y ears before I saw it. Their Historians affirm, that a Prophet who prophesy’d of Mahomet, came from this...

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...w. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, Swedish. HV ALUR, Icelandic. WHALE, English. BALEINE, French. ... ...ck. Another Version of the whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover... ... all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis... ...ightened world by the whaleman. After its first blunder born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbar... ...ing the cetacea into groups and families. Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal” (sperm whale), says Surgeon Beale, A. D. 1839. “... ...is the whale which for more than two centuries past has been hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale which the American fis... ...ohn Leo) is said to have layn there a hundred Years before I saw it. Their Historians affirm, that a Prophet who prophesy’d of Mahomet, came from this ...

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... lungs, the lamp was blown out. Cornelius muttered vague words and swore a Dutch oath; but he turned and retraced his steps. The young man then rushed... ...s royal majesty with the burgher life. This taste, severely blamed by some historians, was really only a passion for the “incognito,” one of the great... ...ut of lands, which will round out the glory of your crown.” “There, there, Dutchman, you are trying to hoodwink me,” said the king, with frowning brow...

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...et Norman sailors, they fell upon each other tooth and nail. The Irish and Dutch sail Charles Dickens 163 ors took part with the English; the French... ...e known to posterity, by the name of the battle of Azincourt.’ Our English historians have made it Agincourt; but, under that name, it will ever be fa... ...ns that even she could only explain in unintelligible jargon. The other, a Dutch man, named Von Paris, who practised as a surgeon in Lon don. Edwar... ...their recol A Child’s Histroy of England 334 lection, a great Protestant Dutch hero, the Prince of Orange , was shot by an assassin, who confessed ... ... he had been kept and trained for the purpose in a college of Jesuits. The Dutch, in this surprise and distress, offered to make Elizabeth their sover... ...ighting with any foreign enemy went, but for getting into trouble with the Dutch, who in the spring of the year one thousand six hundred and fifty one... ...AMES THE S ECOND WAS A MAN so very disagreeable, that even the best of historians has favoured his brother Charles, as becoming, by comparison, qu...

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... with this: “The Journalists are now the true Kings and Clergy: henceforth Historians, unless they are fools, must write not of Bourbon Dynasties, and... ... with a certain horror at myself and mankind; almost as one feels at those Dutch Cows, which, during the wet season, you see grazing deliberately with... ...erloo, or any other Battle; but an incident passed carelessly over by most Historians, and treated with some degree of ridicule by others: namely, Geo... ...hile, the question of questions were: What specially is a Miracle? To that Dutch King of Siam, an icicle had been a miracle; whoso had carried with hi... ...nowing at least as much of what is going on in the literary way in the old Dutch Mother-land as our brethren of the fast-anchored Isle; but thus far w...

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...landers, for which no apology was necessary. The Gael, great tradi- tional historians, never forgot that the Lowlands had, at some remote period, been... ...s Canarie sack.” 95. Upsees. “Bacchanalian interjection, borrowed from the Dutch” (Scott). Nares criticises Scott for using the word as a noun. It is ... ... for using the word as a noun. It is generally found in the phrases “upsee Dutch” and “upsee Freeze” (the same thing, Frise being = Dutch), which appe... ...reeze” (the same thing, Frise being = Dutch), which appear to mean “in the Dutch fashion.” Cf. Ben Jonson, Al- chemist, iv. 6: “I do not like the du... ...do not like the dullness of your eye, It hath a heavy east, ‘t is upsee Dutch;” that is, looks like intoxication. See also Beaumont and Fletcher, B...