The texts range from excerpts from the decree establishing Dutch independence from Spain in 1581, to 17th-century descriptions of shipbuilding and atomic theory, to Marie Curie's diary entries.
Jordanes' 6th-century description of the "populous race of the Venethi" range includes the regions near the left (northern) ridge of the Carpathian Mountains and stretching from there "almost endlessly" east, while in the western direction reaching the sources of the Vistula.
Although no seals of the dynasty now survive, there exists several 17th- and 18th century descriptions and depictions of ones believed to have belonged to Magnús' uncle Rögnvaldr, and brother Haraldr.
In this peerless early 14th-century description of life after death, the final one of the concentric spheres of hell is presided over by the devil.
Well known for glass production throughout the Arab world, Western travellers to Palestine in the 19th century provided descriptions of the Hebron glass industry as well.
If you look at the program, it is almost like a 19th-century description of an English country house with a room for the butler to iron the morning newspaper.
An atypical 17th-century description of a dodo and bones found on Rodrigues, now known to have belonged to the Rodrigues solitaire, led Abraham Dee Bartlett to name a new species, Didus nazarenus; it is now a junior synonym of this species.
An atypical 17th-century description of a dodo and bones found on Rodrigues, now known to have belonged to the Rodrigues solitaire, led Abraham Dee Bartlett to name a new species, Didus nazarenus, in 1852.
It may have been derived from the Anglo-Saxon Hnickar, a water spirit who seized and drowned unwary travellers, but the modern name is most likely a corruption of the name Mykelldiche and its variations, as the Anglo-Saxon word micel meant "big" or "great", harking back to the early 13th-century description of the ditch as magnum fossatum.
