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Saints and Soldiers: The Void (also known as Saints and Soldiers: Battle of the Tanks), is a 2014 war drama film directed and written by Ryan Little. It serves as the third installment in the Saints and Soldiers film series, and is a standalone sequel to Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed. The film stars K. Danor Gerald, Adam Gregory, and Matt ...
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
Gerald Clough Dunning (20 December 1905 – 16 April 1978) was a pioneering scholar in the development of medieval British archaeology. [1] His most significant contribution was to the study of post-Conquest pottery; he was largely responsible for establishing the first chronological framework by which different types of English ceramics could ...
[1] [2] [3] His formative experiences as a Christian missionary and educator in early 20th-century Imperial China shaped his life's work. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although he did not learn the Chinese language , he became known for his study of the history of China , the history of Japan , his magisterial scholarly surveys on world Christianity , and of ...
G. L. Harriss first came up to read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford as an undergraduate in 1943 where he was tutored by K. B. McFarlane.After two years in the Royal Navy from 1944 to 1946, he returned to complete his degree and went on to research for a D.Phil. under the supervision of C. A. J. Armstrong, [3] being elected to a Senior Demyship of Magdalen, which he held from 1950 to ...
Heard was a guide and mentor to numerous well-known people from the 1940s through the 1960s, including Aldous Huxley, Henry Luce, Clare Boothe Luce, and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. His work was a forerunner of, and influence on, the consciousness development movement that has spread in the Western world since the 1960s.
William Gerald Beasley CBE FBA (22 December 1919 – 19 November 2006) was a British academic, author, editor, translator and Japanologist. He was Emeritus Professor of the History of the Far East at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University .
The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history. It was originally applied to the history of Europe and Western history for events that came after the Middle Ages , often from around the year 1500, like the Reformation in Germany giving rise to Protestantism .