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The Great Rebellion or Great Revolt is a term that is generally used in English for the following conflicts: First Jewish–Roman War in 66–73 CE, also known as the Great Revolt of Judaea; Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381, also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion; English Civil War in 1642–1651, also called English Revolution
The Young Rebels – 1970–1971 television series starring Richard Ely and Louis Gossett Jr. Benjamin Franklin - 1974 four-part miniseries; Bicentennial Minutes - 1974-1976 series of 912 episodes to commemorate the United States Bicentennial; The Bastard – 1978 TV miniseries based on the novel by John Jakes, starring Andrew Stevens
Thomas Prentice Kettell (born 1811, [1] died October 22, 1878 [2]) was a 19th-century American political economist, magazine editor, and author. He was a well-known economic commentator from the 1840s through the American Civil War. Kettell wrote for the New York Herald starting in 1835 as a financial columnist.
Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) was an English composer best known for his operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert. Among his early works were a ballet, a symphony, a cello concerto and a one-act comic opera, Cox and Box, which is still widely performed. He wrote his first opera with Gilbert, Thespis, in 1871.
America: A Personal History of the United States is a British 13-part documentary television series about the United States and its history, commissioned by the BBC and made in partnership with Time-Life Films. It was written and presented by Alistair Cooke, and first broadcast in both the United Kingdom and the United States in 1972. [1]
The term Wars of the Three Kingdoms first appears in A Brief Chronicle of all the Chief Actions so fatally Falling out in the three Kingdoms by James Heath, published in 1662, [7] but historian Ian Gentles argues "there is no stable, agreed title for the events....which have been variously labelled the Great Rebellion, the Puritan Revolution, the English Civil War, the English Revolution and ...
[8] In its summary of the 1986–87 US television season, TV Guide called the miniseries "arguably the most boring miniseries in a decade", adding that "ABC's Amerika tried to hold America hostage for seven tedious nights (and a stupefyingly dull 14 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours) by conjuring up a fuzzy vision of a Communist occupation of the U.S." [15]
The Revolution [1] (also known as The American Revolution) is a 2006 American miniseries from The History Channel composed of thirteen episodes which track the American Revolution from the Boston Massacre through the Treaty of Paris, which declared America's independence from Great Britain. The series is narrated by Edward Herrmann.