The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, Based on Werner Stein's KulturfahrplanThe Timetables of History spans millennia of human history. Unlike any other reference volume, this book gives a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world by mapping out at a glance what was happening simultaneously, from the dawn of history to the present day. |
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... LEARNING Alcuin leaves monastery at York ( see 735 ) to aid Charlemagne's revival of learning Godescalc : " Evangelistary , " Ada - school manuscript ( Aix - la - Chapelle ) Saxon Duke Widukind baptized Cologne becomes an archbishopric ...
... LEARNING Alcuin leaves monastery at York ( see 735 ) to aid Charlemagne's revival of learning Godescalc : " Evangelistary , " Ada - school manuscript ( Aix - la - Chapelle ) Saxon Duke Widukind baptized Cologne becomes an archbishopric ...
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... LEARNING. HISTORY , POLITICS Tzu - Hsi , Dowager Empress of China , d . ( b . 1834 ) Dutch establish rule in Bali Grover Cleveland , U.S. President , d . ( b . 1837 ) Turkey and Serbia recognize Aust . annexation of Bosnia and ...
... LEARNING. HISTORY , POLITICS Tzu - Hsi , Dowager Empress of China , d . ( b . 1834 ) Dutch establish rule in Bali Grover Cleveland , U.S. President , d . ( b . 1837 ) Turkey and Serbia recognize Aust . annexation of Bosnia and ...
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... LEARNING New York Ulster civil rights campaign leads to fighting between Protestants and Roman Catholics Pope Paul VI : encyclical " Humanae Vitae " against all artificial means of contraception Cardinal Augustin Bea d . ( b . 1881 ) ...
... LEARNING New York Ulster civil rights campaign leads to fighting between Protestants and Roman Catholics Pope Paul VI : encyclical " Humanae Vitae " against all artificial means of contraception Cardinal Augustin Bea d . ( b . 1881 ) ...
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