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Battle of Valmy

Thomas Carlyle in his book The French Revolution: A History describes a dramatic scene of "rain as of the days of Noah", roads turned into mud wallows, little food available except unripe grapes, a mountain called the Vache de Clermont showing sometimes through low clouds, lack of campfire because all wood was wet, and a third of the Prussian force in this invasion dead.

Congo: A History

Congo: A History (original Dutch title: Congo. Een geschiedenis) is a 672 pages non-fiction book by David Van Reybrouck, first published in 2010.

Edmund Joseph Sullivan

Sullivan later also illustrated Carlyle's The French Revolution, though his work was far less varied than for Sartor Resartus.

Edward J. Cowan

Scottish Fairy Belief: A History, with Lizanne Henderson (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001; Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2007) 242pp.

Jason Falkner

He is cited as playing assorted instruments on several tracks of Beck's 2006 album, The Information and 2008 album, Modern Guilt.

Melissa Anelli

Her first book, Harry, A History was released in early November 2008 and debuted at #18 on the New York Times Best Seller List.

She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Harry, A History, which chronicles the Harry Potter phenomenon with exclusive interview material and a foreword written by Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling.

Racism: A History

Under the rule of King Leopold II, the Belgian Congo was turned into a vast rubber plantation.

The Information

#* The Exoskeleton section contains dialogue spoken by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze.

Justin Stanley – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals, percussion, flute

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Research to improve these technologies ultimately led to our understanding the essentially digital nature of information, quantized down to the unit of the bit (or qubit).

Starting with the development of symbolic written language (and the eventual perceived need for a dictionary), Gleick examines the history of intellectual insights central to information theory, detailing the key figures responsible such as Claude Shannon, Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and John Archibald Wheeler.

The Mare's Nest

When it came to the attention of the authorities, "one night I was visited at my flat by men in belted raincoats who came and physically seized the chapter. I was summoned to the Cabinet Office, twelve men sitting around a polished table, where it was explained to me why the information was not being released and we appeal to you as an English gentleman not to release it."


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