(n.) A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.
(n.) One versed or well informed in history.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(2) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(3) Jeanne Haffner is a historian and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(4) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(5) As the historian of neoliberalism Philip Mirowski argues , what the past 30 years have been about is using the powers of the state to divert more resources to the wealthy.
(6) A photograph, first exhibited by the Department of Psychology of Clark University at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is included, and further illustrates the importance of these instruments to historians.
(7) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
(8) Northup eventually detailed his experiences in a book, also titled Twelve Years a Slave , which helped historians build a picture of the slave experience at the time.
(9) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
(10) Others, including sociologist and historian of ideas Pierre-André Taguieff , claim that the media’s “methodical stigmatisation” of Israel and an increasing anti-Israel bias in France in general has encouraged the emergence of a Muslim Judeophobia.
(11) The British historian Simon Schama narrowly escaped death this year when the helicopter he was on caught fire and crash-landed.
(12) MI5 kept close watch on a number of people who were known within the British Communist party as the Historians Group.
(13) Applicants were then required to provide strong evidence to the NSW crown solicitor’s office of connection to country, and included affidavits from traditional owners and reports by an anthropologist, historian and linguist.
(14) But the bigger question, the one that has vexed historians, biographers and holocaust experts for eight decades, is why she was there.
(15) Elsewhere, historian Dominic Sandbrook will look at the global domination of Britain’s post-empire popular culture, and the Hairy Bikers will take 30 retired people to a secondary school in Old School, attempting to transform the lives and experiences of both.
(16) To a packed court, Mr Justice Gray delivered a verdict that excoriated Irving as a man and a historian.
(17) Yet it was as the defining Marxist historian of the century of revolution, the title of one of the most widely studied of his many books, that he became known to generations of students around the world.
(18) Ohler’s book may well irritate some historians; he makes flippant remarks and uses chapter titles such as “Sieg High!” and “High Hitler”.
(19) Susan Greaney, an English Heritage historian, said: "The discovery … has certainly strengthened the case for it being a full circle."
(20) Christian Gizewski a research professor at TU Berlin describes himself as a "general historian" specialising in ancient history.
Schiller
Definition:
(n.) The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes of secondary origin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phil Schiller, Apple's head of marketing, said the phone had made a "great start" and that sales were double those of the iPhone 4 launch in summer 2010.
(2) Updated at 6.51pm BST 6.30pm BST And now Phil Schiller on the Macbook line... (It's a safe bet these won't be free...) Schiller is Apple's head of marketing.
(3) Android phones, said Schiller, are "often given as a free replacement for a feature phone and the experience isn't as good as an iPhone ."
(4) The patients were followed from 1 to 16 years by the triple cytologic, Schiller test and colposcopic examination: none of them showed any recurrence either of intra-epithelial or of invasive type.
(5) While the rumour mill – and the name of Apple's software – had led many to expect that the phone would be called the "iPhone 5", Philip Schiller, the head of marketing, demonstrated the 4S and insisted that it was a complete overhaul of the iPhone 4 released 14 months ago.
(6) Schiller is back on, we've been hearing about the iPhone 5S "our most forward-thinking phone yet".
(7) DNA sequence analysis identified each cDNA encoded epitope including the carboxyl-terminal portions of cytokeratins 8 and 19 (as cataloged by Moll, R., Franke, W.W., and Schiller, D.L.
(8) Subjective parameters (leukorrhea, bloody discharge, odorous discharge, more than three weeks vaginal discharge, itching, pain, burning) and colposcopy (Schiller test reactivity, squamo-columnar junction location, abnormal transformation zones, vascular striae, deepithelialized areas or frail epithelium) appeared more favorable in the treated group, the colposcopic finding of phlogosis being the only unfavorable finding more frequent among the treated patients.
(9) Nevertheless, isoluminant stimuli are not fully accepted as appropriate tools in isolating central mechanisms (Logothetis, N.K., Schiller, P.H., Charles, E.R.
(10) German analyst Markus Schiller, an expert on North Korea’s missiles and rockets, said a geostationary satellite might be a more ambitious goal for the country than a lunar flyby or crash-landing.
(11) Schiller's test, using a weak aqueous solution of iodine, leaves an area of carcinoma unstained but colors normal cervical epithelium a dark brown.
(12) The lesion showed the typical microscopic features including Schiller-Duval bodies and colloid bodies.
(13) Overall 1,021 patients with endometrial carcinoma were treated between 1965 and 1982 at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Radiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena.
(14) The transplanted tumours maintained not only morphological characters, such as Schiller-Duval bodies, but also the ability to synthesise alpha-fetoprotein, lactic dehydrogenase 1, liver and bone type alkaline phosphatase, and some human serum proteins.
(15) Beats Electronics, which makes and sells headphones and speakers, will be overseen by Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of worldwide marketing.
(16) 6.50pm BST iPhone 5S: camera "Most of us just want to take a picture," Schiller says - a dig at Samsung's tons of options which quickly overwhelm you.
(17) Schiller says the new ruling breaks the chain that has trapped women in relationships they want to leave, empowering them to walk away if a marriage fails.
(18) Du Bois read German literature and philosophy - Goethe, Heine, Schiller, above all Hegel.
(19) The observations lead the author to the following consequences: The in situ lesion of the cervix should be treated with a vaginal hysterectomy in combination with a removal of a vaginal cuff after a Schiller test.
(20) Light microscopic examination showed characteristic features including papillary, reticular, tubular and solid growth patterns, complete or incomplete Schiller-Duval bodies and intracellular or extracellular periodic acid-Schiff-positive material.