A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is concerned with events preceding written history, the individual is a historian of prehistory. Although "historian" can be used to describe amateur and professional historians alike, it is reserved more recently for those who have acquired graduate degrees in the discipline. Some historians, though, are recognized by equivalent training and experience in the field. "Historian" became a professional occupation in the late nineteenth century at roughly the same time that physicians also set standards for whom could enter the field.
During the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial it became evident that the court need to identify what was an "objective historian" in the same vein as the reasonable person, and reminiscent of the standard traditionally used in English law of "the man on the Clapham omnibus".
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. Since November 2010 he has hosted Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS.
O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and raised in an Irish Catholic family. He served as president of the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, and was a writer for the sketch comedy series Not Necessarily the News. After writing for several comedy shows in Los Angeles, he joined the writing staff of Saturday Night Live, and later of The Simpsons. He hosted Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, followed by seven months hosting The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, the only person to serve as the permanent host for both NBC programs.
O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) to Thomas O'Brien, a physician, epidemiologist, and professor of medicine at Harvard, and Ruth O'Brien (née Reardon), an attorney and partner at the Boston firm Ropes & Gray. He is the third of six children. O'Brien's family is Irish Catholic and descends from pre-Civil War era immigrants. In a Late Night episode, O'Brien paid a visit to County Kerry, Ireland, where his ancestors originated.
How to fight a country that doesn't exist?
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In early America plantation owners exploited the labor of enslaved African-Americans to become wealthy in an agricultrual economy. Chained to the Land, an Electronic Field Trip to Colonial Williamsburg, examines the economic, social, and racial realities of plantation life. A master facing a financial crisis is forced to sell some of his slaves in order to save his plantation, lifestyle, and reputation and, in doing so, tears apart the slaves' families.
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Slaves in eighteenth-century Virginia had no rights. They could not gather in large groups, and they could not travel freely. Slave marriages and families were not legally recognized. Yet slaves built and maintained strong communities capable of passing along information outside the hearing of their white masters. 'Trail of Whispers' is the story of how one African-American community hides a runaway slave using its close networks of 'whispered' news and information.
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Another planet, another time. 1000 years ago the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos has began! The evil race of grotesque birdlike lizards the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. Meanwhile the orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of the peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal which gives the Skesis their power and restore the balance of the universe.
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Another World, Another Time... In the Age of Wonder.
Jen: The prophecy didn't say anything about this!::Kira: Prophets don't know everything!
Historian: Hold her to you, for she is part of you, as we all are part of each other.
Aughra: What was sundered and undone shall be whole - the two made one.
Jen: [reading the prophecy] When single shines the triple sun/What was sundered and undone/Shall be whole, the two made one/By gelfling hand or else by none.
Aughra: End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good. Sometimes bad.
Aughra: Mouldy mildew, mother of mouthmuck, dangle and strangle and death.
Aughra: Another Great Conjunction coming up! Anything could happen! Whole WORLD might burn up! [snorts] End of Aughra! Hm!
Aughra: Ya look like Gelfling... [sniffs] SMELL like Gelfling... [sniffs] maybe y'ARE Gelfling!
Jen: Wings? I don't have wings!::Kira: Of course not. You're a boy.
Aughra: Where is he?::Jen: He's dead.::Aughra: Could be anywhere, then.
Take a moment and remember how things were
But don't get stuck there because
You're future's still unsure
Keep moving forward, there's adventure still in store
Make your way because there's always something more
I know good time days were fun, but the good times have just begun
Historian
We need hope for things that lie ahead
Don't take comfort in the things that cause you dread
It's the unknown that makes us run away
Don't waste it hiding
Reach out and seize the day
It's easy to get lost in a world of yesterdays
Can't move ahead when the past is in your way
Don't look back at the tracks left in the sand
In one eye and out the other.
The heiress turned historian, reach-out!
How did she handle herself
Position herself while writing this?
Book-signing autobiography.
Prize-winning best-seller.
Tie her hands to your heart.
She bore no breath.
She bore no cavity.
Relinquish the pageantry, little girl all grown up.
All is said and done.
Verity was supposed to be 'the dirt.'
All is fair in love and lies.