- Museum-Preserve by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
a research and cultural and educational institution; a repository of artifacts of natural history and of material and intellectual culture. It comprises, besides exhibits, architectural or historical monuments located on a preserve.Museum-preserves may be concerned with art history, for examples the Zagorsk Museum ...
- Lamprecht, Karl by Hunter Payne
1856–1915, German historian. Opposing the notion of heroes in history, he advocated a history based on broad social, cultural, and psychological trends. His chief works are Die kulturhistorische Methode. (1900) and a monumental multivolume history of Germany (1891–1913). Several of his lectures have been ...
- Vernadsky, George by Hector Bowman
1887–1973, American historian, b. Russia. He emigrated to the United States in 1927 and was research associate in history (1927–46) and professor of Russian history (1946–56) at Yale. His many books on Russian and Ukrainian history include Political and Diplomatic History of Russia. (1936) and a five-volume work, A History of Russia. (1943–69). The first two volumes were written ...
- History by Dictionary of Computing
... was the addition of a command history. This was still inferior to the history mechanism on VMS which allowed you to recall previous commands as the current input line. You could then edit the command using cursor motion, insert and delete. These sort of history editing facilities are available under tcsh and GNU Emacs. 2. (history) The history of computing. 3. See ...
- Oman, Sir Charles William Chadwick by Riley Powell
1860–1946, British historian, b. India, educated at Oxford under William Stubbs. He was a foremost military historian; his most notable works are A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages. (1898, rev. Ed. 1953); its companion study, A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century. (1937); and his exhaustive History of the Peninsular War. (7 vol., 1902–30). His ...