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Alyemda

Alyemda was founded in 1971, four years after the independence of South Yemen and operated a network of flight routes throughout Africa and the Middle East, with its hub at Aden Airport, the former Khormaksar Air Force Base.

Eric Hilgendorf

After graduating from high school in Ansbach in 1980, Hilgendorf entered the University of Tübingen where he studied several subjects including philosophy, modern history, religious studies, and law.

Ho Ping-sung

In 1912, Ho went to the United States and studied mainly modern history, economics and international politics.

Yadin Dudai

After working as a professional journalist and news editor for a leading Israeli daily, he switched to study biochemistry and genetics, with supplements in modern history, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.


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Ady Jean-Gardy

Returning to Haiti, he then followed courses at the Center of Sociology and Psychology by Canadian Prof Yves Bergeron, and of the correspondence courses from the Institute of Modern History in Paris.

Alfred Newman Gilbey

Educated by Jesuits at Beaumont College, he went on to study Modern History at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1920, during which time he became chairman of the Fisher Society at the chaplaincy.

Ali-Naqi Vaziri

Ali-Naqi Vasiri (better known as Colonel Ali-Naqi Vasiri) is one of the seven children of Musa Khan Vaziri (a prominent official in the Persian Cossack Brigade) and Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi, a notable Iranian writer, satirist and one of the pioneering figures in the women's movement of Iran; her book Ma'ayeb al-Rejal (Failings of Men, also translated as Vices of Men) is considered by some as the first declaration of women's rights in the modern history of Iran.

Andreu Mayayo i Artal

Andreu Mayayo i Artal (Samper de Calanda, Aragon, 1959) is a professor of Modern History and vice-dean of the Faculty of Geography and History at the University of Barcelona.

Andrzej Bart

It is a novel about the most controversial figure of modern history, Chaim Rumkowski, the leader of the Łódź Ghetto.

Art repatriation

The scale of plundering that took place under Napoleon's French Empire was unprecedented in modern history with the only comparable looting expeditions taking place in ancient Roman history.

Atlantis, Florida

The modern history of what became known as the city of Atlantis originates in a ranch called Mulberry Farms, owned by Philip D. Lewis, a former Florida state senator.

Bay Garnett

After studying art history and modern history at the University of Exeter, Garnett gained initial experience in galleries such as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Pace Wildenstein in New York and working for photographic agency Art Department.

Belfast City Council

Belfast's modern history can be dated back to the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century which brought significant numbers of Protestant Scottish and English settlers to Ulster.

Dariusz Stola

Stola teaches modern history and conducts research on human migrations in the 20th century, the Holocaust as well as the Polish-Jewish relations and the history of communist regime in postwar Poland.

Edward Chancellor

He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with first class honours in Modern History, and from St Antony's College, Oxford with a Masters of Philosophy in Modern History.

Edward Ellis Morris

Morris was educated at Rugby School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1866, with final honours in classics, law and modern history and M.A. 1869.

Ernest Lavisse

In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters; he was appointed maître de conférence (1876) at the École Normale Supérieure, succeeding Fustel de Coulanges, and then professor of modern history at the Sorbonne (1888), in the place of Henri Wallon.

George Webbe Dasent

In 1853 he was appointed professor of English literature and modern history at King's College London and in 1859 he translated Popular Tales from the Norse (Norske Folkeeventyr) by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, including in it an "Introductory Essay on the Origin and Diffusion of Popular Tales."

Gueorgui Otyrba

He was appointed as a Professor in the Department of Modern History at Abkhazian State University in the same year, and through the early 1990s, served as a visiting scholar in a number of universities around the world, including Johns Hopkins University and Maryland University in the United States and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, often dealing in topics associated with the civil war in his homeland.

Haydarpaşa Cemetery

The cemetery was first established for British soldiers from the Crimean War, who died mostly as the result of cholera epidemic in the first organized military hospital in modern history created by Florence Nightingale.

History of Faizabad

However, more accurately, the reference is found in Medieval and Modern history, when Nawab Saadat Ali Khan, Burhan-ul-Mulk was given the charge of the Subah of Awadh around 1722 by the Mughal Court.

History of modern Serbia

History of modern Serbia or Modern history of Serbia covers the history of Serbia since national awakening in the early 19th century from the Ottoman Empire, then Yugoslavia, to the present day Republic of Serbia.

Hugh Hale Bellot

He became senior lecturer in 1926 and in 1927 move to the University of Manchester as Reader in Modern History.

Ijtihad

A woman can be a mujtahid and there are dozens who have attained the rank in the modern history of Iran (for instance, Amina Bint al-Majlisi in the Safavid era, Bibi Khanum in the Qajar era, Lady Amin in the Pahlavi era, and Zohreh Sefati during the time of the Islamic Republic).

James Burton Robertson

In 1855 John Henry Newman nominated Robertson as professor of geography and modern history in the Catholic University of Ireland.

James Raven

In 2004, he returned to his home town of Colchester when appointed Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex.

John Knox Laughton

Beginning his working life as a mathematically-trained civilian instructor for the Royal Navy, he later became Professor of Modern History at King's College London and a co-founder of the Navy Records Society.

Jonathan Reynolds

Reynolds studied Politics and Modern History at the University of Manchester and BPP Law School (Manchester).

Jörg Jenatsch

On the significance of the Valtelline, see the article by Horatio Brown, "The Valtelline", in the Cambridge Modern History, Vol.

Judith Kazantzis

She took a Modern History degree and on 22 February 1998, married lawyer and writer Irving Weinman; Harry Mathews wrote an Epithalamium for Judith Kazantzis and Irving Weinman.

Justin Harvey Smith

Smith worked for Charles Scribner's Sons publishers 1881–1883 and Ginn & Co. 1883–1898 (becoming a partner in 1890); he was Professor of Modern History at Dartmouth 1899–1908.

Kenneth Bloomfield

Between the years of 1943 and 1949, he attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and later went on to read Modern History at St Peter's College, Oxford.

Kjersti Stenseng

She minored in sociology and modern history at the Nord-Trøndelag University College and Lillehammer University College before studying political science and history at the University of Oslo.

Lamkin

Jim Moray recorded a version as "Long Lankin" on his album In Modern History (2010).

Maurice Peterson

He was educated at Rugby School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained a first class degree in modern history.

Max Kohnstamm

He was educated at Amsterdam University, where he studied Modern History, before taking up a fellowship at American University, Washington, D.C..

Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont

Egremont studied modern history at Oxford University and has written books about Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Arthur Balfour and Sir Edward Spears, as well as a historical travelogue of East Prussia.

Moldovenism

One side, rallying many prominent Moldovan intellectuals, such as Grigore Vieru, Eugen Doga or Constantin Tanase, argues that Moldovans have always been Romanians, even if the modern history separated them from the rest of Romanians.

Mr. Methane

There is a lengthy chapter on Mr. Methane called "The Man With the Singing Sphincter" in Jim Dawson's 2006 book Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart.

Nana Osei Bonsu II

Osei Bonsu II was educated at Prempeh College and the University of Ghana, where he graduated in 1972 with a BA in economics, political science and modern history.

Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley

Hargreaves-Mawdsley was born in Bristol in 1921, where he attended Clifton College prior to matriculating at Oriel College, Oxford in 1940, where he read Classics and Modern History.

Norman McLeod Rogers

He went to University College, Oxford (University of Oxford), where he was awarded a BA Honours (MA) degree in Modern History, the B.Litt., and the BCL.

Peggy Duff

She was described by Noam Chomsky as "one of the people who really changed modern history".

Priestley College

Priestley College is named for Joseph Priestley (13 March 1733 – 8 February 1804), a clergyman, chemist and educator who was a pioneer in teaching modern history and the sciences.

Rothschild

The most notable family with this surname are the Jewish descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild who formed a European financial dynasty that was during the 19th, 20th and 21st century, perhaps the wealthiest family by the scale of their private fortune in modern history.

Royal Russell School

Ali Ansari- Professor in Modern History at St. Andrews University

Rubber band ligation

In modern history, ligation using rubber band was introduced in 1958 by Blaisdell and refined in 1963 by Barron, who introduced a mechanical, metal device called the Barron ligator (similar to the McGivney).

The Times Atlas of World History

It was created by Barry Winkleman, the Publishing Director of The Times, and Geoffrey Barraclough, Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University.

Wilfried Loth

Since 1986 he has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Essen.

Winfield Myers

He taught on the Great Books and Renaissance history at Michigan, world history at Xavier University of Louisiana, medieval history at Tulane, and early modern history and the philosophy of history at Georgia.

Yankee Global Enterprises

In 1998, the Yankees had their most successful season in modern history, winning a combined total of 125 regular season and playoff games, culminating in a World Series championship.