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1 day ago · Underlying and uniting all these diverse manifestations of Victorian Orientalism is the imperialist philosophy articulated by writers as different as Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx, supported by writings of anthropologists and race theorists such as James Cowles Pritchard and Robert Knox.Toward the end of the Victorian era, the image of the opium addict and the Chinese opium den in the East End of London or in the Orient itself becomes a prominent trope in fiction by Dickens ...
5 days ago · In 1494 Thomas Poulton, who had been cantarist at Tunstall, was found guilty of two cases of incontinence, and in 1500 Robert Burton and Thomas Calet were removed from their stalls for some offence not stated. Burton was afterwards restored.
2 days ago · Robert Burton joined ABC7 in October 2014 as a weekend Sports Anchor/Reporter. In 2020, he began co-hosting Good Morning Washington. His sports background started on the...
5 days ago · Treasurer Southampton's warrant to Robert Burton, late steward of the manor and soke of Kirton in Lindsey, co. Lincoln, to deliver to Sir William Hinckman, appointed steward of same by letters patent of Sept. 3 last, all court books of pleas and suit rolls of the said manor and all verdicts of juries and other writings of rolls and muniments ...
5 days ago · The grant includes the site of the monastery and manor of Eryholme, co. York, divers reserved rents there out of the lands of Robert Burton and others, and lands late of John Swinburne, Esq. in Butterwick, Wolviston, Bruntoft, and Gretham.
3 days ago · Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for his original script for “Chinatown,” died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. His publicist Carri McClure announced ...
3 days ago · Robert Towne, who has died aged 89, was a celebrated Hollywood scriptwriter best known for his 1974 film Chinatown, which is now recognised as a classic of modern cinema. The film...
