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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... LITERATURE , 5 THEATER Egyptian hieroglyphs are adapted to demotic script Kallinos , earliest known Greek lyricist ( preserved : battle hymn ) Archilochus , Greek lyricist and author of fables , raises iambic to art form Library at ...
... LITERATURE , 5 THEATER Egyptian hieroglyphs are adapted to demotic script Kallinos , earliest known Greek lyricist ( preserved : battle hymn ) Archilochus , Greek lyricist and author of fables , raises iambic to art form Library at ...
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... LITERATURE , THEATER Richard II starts on expedition to Ireland Wenceslas taken prisoner by his cousin , Jobst of Moravia Ir . rulers do homage to Richard II , receive amnesty RELIGION , PHILOSOPHY , LEARNING Richard II of England ...
... LITERATURE , THEATER Richard II starts on expedition to Ireland Wenceslas taken prisoner by his cousin , Jobst of Moravia Ir . rulers do homage to Richard II , receive amnesty RELIGION , PHILOSOPHY , LEARNING Richard II of England ...
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... LITERATURE , THEATER RELIGION , PHILOSOPHY , LEARNING Inter - Allied military control of Germany ends Economic ... Literature : Henri Bergson ( Fr. ) Georg Brandes , Dan . literary critic , d . ( b . 1842 ) Louis Bromfield : " Early ...
... LITERATURE , THEATER RELIGION , PHILOSOPHY , LEARNING Inter - Allied military control of Germany ends Economic ... Literature : Henri Bergson ( Fr. ) Georg Brandes , Dan . literary critic , d . ( b . 1842 ) Louis Bromfield : " Early ...
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