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51Julian day — (JD) a continuous count of days beginning with January 1, 4713 BC ( 4712 CE), which is start of what is called the Julian period. The French scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540 1609) introduced the Julian period in 1582 (the same year the… …
52better a century of tyranny than one day of chaos — Ibn Taymiyyah (or Taimiya) was a fourteenth century scholar of Damascus; this saying seems to have originated in his Kitāb al Siyasa al Shar’iya (Book of Divinely Ordered [literally, ‘Sharia’] Politics) written c 1311–15 (see quot. 1966). 1966 F …
53Waiting period (Six-Day War) — The waiting period ( he. תקופת ההמתנה, Tkufat HaHamtana ) is the name given in Israel to the period which began on May 15, 1967, with Egypt s crossing of the Suez canal into the Sinai peninsula, and ended on June 5, with the break of the Six Day… …
54Gregory Martin (scholar) — Gregory Martin (c. 1542 [Thomas M. McCoog, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18183 ‘Martin, Gregory (1542?–1582)’] , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004] – 28 October1582), was an English Catholic scholar …
55April Fool's Day — The first mention of this custom is a curt note in Aubrey: Fooles holy day. We observe it on ye first of April. And so it is kept in Germany everywhere. (Aubrey, 1686, 1880: 10). It must have reached England from Germany or France in the mid… …
56List of Hungarians who were born outside present-day Hungary — The borders of Hungary have changed substantially in the past century. Many places that were once part of Hungary now belong to neighboring countries. This is a list of famous Hungarians who were born outside present day Hungary, organised by… …
57John Day (Old Testament scholar) — John Day D.D., is Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford. He is the editor of In search of pre exilic Israel and wrote God s Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea. He is also Fellow, Tutor in… …
58The Promise of the Day — is a music album by the band The Corrie Folk Trio Paddie Bell. It was produced in 1965. Overview The title of the album is a line from The Uist Tramping Song . It was their first album in stereo and The Uist Tramping Song gives the three male… …
59John Day Collis — (1816–1879) was a British headmaster and educational writer.Collis, son of the Rev. Robert Fitzgerald Collis, prebendary of Kilconnell, County Galway, by Maria, daughter of Edward Bourke of Nun s Island, Galway, was born 24 Feb. 1816, and, after… …
60Henry Laurens (scholar) — For the American Revolutionary statesman, see Henry Laurens.Henry Laurens (born in 1954) is a French historian, one of France s foremost experts on the Middle East, and author of several reference works about the Arab Muslim world.He earned his… …
