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According to the book Cartographies of Time: History of the Timeline, the Synchronological Chart "was ninetheenth-century America's surpassing achievement in complexity and synthetic power." [ 9 ] The Oregon Encyclopedia notes that it is now prized by museums and library collections as an early representative of commercial illustration that ...
Note: This is for articles on Novel sequences - which are a set or series of novels which have their own title and free-standing storyline, and can thus be read independently or out of sequence or in sequence. This includes series described by the same author/authorial partnership that can read sequentially.
The Redgrave family is a British acting dynasty, spanning five generations. Members of the family worked in theatre beginning in the nineteenth century, and later in film and television. Some family members have also written plays and books. Vanessa Redgrave is the most prominent, having won Oscar, Tony, Golden Globe and Emmy Awards.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
A short-title catalogue (or catalog) is a bibliographical resource that lists printed items in an abbreviated fashion, recording the most important words of their titles. . The term is commonly encountered in the context of early modern books, which frequently have lengthy, descriptive titles on their title pa
Arden's House in Faversham, Kent; the scene of his murder. Thomas Arden, or Arderne, was a successful businessman in the early Tudor period.Born in 1508, probably in Norwich, Arden took advantage of the tumult of the Reformation to make his fortune, trading in the former monastic properties dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538.
Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes. In 1998 Modern Library, an American publishing company, polled its editorial board to find the best 100 novels of the 20th century: Modern Library 100 Best Novels. These attempts have been criticized for their ...
The Southern Victory series or Timeline-191 [1] is a series of eleven alternate history novels by author Harry Turtledove, [2] [3] beginning with How Few Remain (1997) and published over a decade. The period addressed in the series begins during the Civil War and spans nine decades, up to the mid-1940s.