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April 30 – The brightest supernova ever recorded, SN 1006, occurs in the constellation of Lupus. It is observed and described in China, Japan, Iraq, Egypt, and Europe and possibly depicted in North American rock art. Modern astronomers now consider its distance at about 7,200 light-years.
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- Musical Comedy
- Works Inspired by 1066
- Works with Titles Inspired by 1066
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Raphael Samuel saw 1066 and All That as a product of the post-First World War debunking of British greatness, very much in the tradition of Eminent Victorians (1918): as he put it, "that much underrated anti-imperialist tract 1066 and All Thatpunctured the more bombastic claims of drum-and-trumpet history". Both the Tory view of a 'great man' histo...
The book is a parody of the style of history teaching in English schools at the time, in particular of Our Island Story. It purports to contain "all the History you can remember", and, in sixty-two chapters, covers the history of England from Roman times through 1066"and all that", up to the end of World War I, at which time "America was thus clear...
In 1935, the musical comedy 1066 – and all that: A Musical Comedy based on that Memorable History by Sellar and Yeatman was produced. The book and lyrics were by Reginald Arkell; the music was composed by Alfred Reynolds. It was revived at the Palace Theatre, London, in 1945.
1066 and All That inspired Paul Manning's 1984 and All That, dealing with the subsequent history of Britain and the rest of the world up to 1984, and written in the same style, with similar prose, illustrations and tests. ("What caused the Wall Street Crash? Speculate wildly.") The title references George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ned Sherrin ...
The title was adapted by Raymond F. Streater and Arthur S. Wightman for their (serious) textbook on axiomatic quantum field theory, PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That. This in turn influenced t...In an unconnected area of mathematics (Mathematical Logic), Franz Baaderand Tobias Nipkow's 1998 "Term Rewriting and All That" was published by Cambridge University Press.The book 3264 and All That: A Second Course in Algebraic Geometry by David Eisenbud and Joe Harrismentions this book as the inspiration for its title.Australian cricketer and cartoonist Arthur Mailey had taken all 10 wickets for 66 runs in a first-class match during the 1921 tour of England, and hence titled his 1958 autobiography 10 for 66 And...W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman (2010). 1066 and All That (2010 new ed.). Methuen. ISBN 978-0-413-77270-1.W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman (1932). And Now All This: Being Vol.I of The Hole Pocket Treasury of Absolutely General Knowledge (2004 reprint ed.). Methuen. ISBN 0-413-77380-9.W. C. Purdue, "Speaking Volumes: W.C. Sellar's and R.J. Yeatman's 1066 and All That", The Times Higher Education Supplement, 29 August 1997. Retrieved 17 April 2017.Paul Manning, 1984 and All That. London: Futura, 1984. ISBN 0-7088-2612-1.- W. C. Sellar, R. J. Yeatman
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寛弘3年; 皇紀1666年; 中国. 北宋 ： 景徳3年; 遼 ： 統和24年; 大理国 ： 明應元年; 朝鮮. 高麗 ： 穆宗9年; 檀紀3339年; ベトナム. 前黎朝 ： 応天13年; 仏滅紀元 ： 1548年 - 1549年; ヒジュラ暦 ： 396年3月21日 - 397年4月1日; ユダヤ暦 ： 4766年4月22日 - 4767年5月3日
t. e. The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan 's hill country during the late second millenium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millenium BCE. This history unfolds within the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
Budget. $102 [3] -150 million [4] Box office. $616 million [4] Casino Royale is a 2006 spy film, the twenty-first in the Eon Productions James Bond series, and the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming 's 1953 novel of the same name. Directed by Martin Campbell from a screenplay by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis, it stars Daniel ...
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