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History of the World, Part I is a 1981 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Mel Brooks. Brooks also stars in the film, playing five roles: Moses , Comicus the stand-up philosopher, Tomás de Torquemada , King Louis XVI , and Jacques, le garçon de pisse .
Histoire(s) du cinéma (French: [is.twaʁ dy si.ne.ma]) is an eight-part video project begun by Jean-Luc Godard in the late 1980s and completed in 1998. [1] The longest, at 266 minutes, and one of the most complex of Godard's films, Histoire(s) du cinéma is an examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century; in this sense, it can also be considered a ...
Adam of Eynsham (died c. 1233), English hagiographer and writer, abbot of Eynsham Abbey; Snorri Sturluson (c. 1178–1241), Icelandic historian; Matthew Paris (died 1259), English chronicler and illuminator; Jans der Enikel (c. 1227 – c. 1290), Viennese historian and poet; Templar of Tyre (c. 1230–1314), end of the Crusades; Simon of Kéza ...
The Histories was at some point divided into the nine books that appear in modern editions, conventionally named after the nine Muses. The oldest extant copy of Histories by Herodotus are manuscripts from the Byzantine period dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries CE, the (Codex Laurentianus (Codex A)) [3]
In May and June, Carlyle wrote a review-article on the work of Christopher Hansteen, translated a book by Friedrich Mohs, and read Goethe's Faust. [40] By the autumn, Carlyle had also learned Italian and was reading Vittorio Alfieri , Dante Alighieri and Sismondi , [ 41 ] though German literature was still his foremost interest, having ...
The Spectator, writing on 25 January 1908 and prior to the release of the second half of the series, notes a handful of shortcomings including a fleeting portrayal of Homer and a questioning of the historicity of Christ, but states that "the general reader...will find here a great treasury of knowledge" and that "they form an extremely interesting shelfful."
World history or global history as a field of historical study examines history from a global perspective. It emerged centuries ago; some leading practitioners are Voltaire (1694–1778), Hegel (1770–1831), Karl Marx (1818–1883), Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), and Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975).
Polybius (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ b i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πολύβιος, Polýbios; c. 200 – c. 118 BC) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.He is noted for his work The Histories, a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC.