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| –107.24+ | a document known as the Bordereau played a prominent part in the Dreyfus affair, eventually leading to Dreyfus's false conviction (e.g. mentioned in Crépieux-Jamin: Les Éléments de l'Écriture des Canailles 47-48 and in The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Anti-Semitism', 143d) |
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| –125.16+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Archaeology', 344d: 'If it were possible to determine with precision what were the peculiarities of the flint... thus altered by natural agencies, it would be easy to separate them from others purposely made by man... Even the one feature that is commonly held to determine human agency, the "bulb of percussion," cannot be considered satisfactory' |
| –157.02+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Asphalt', 768a: 'The solid or semi-solid kinds of bitumen (q.v.) were termed asphaltos by the Greeks; and by some ancient writers the name of pissasphaltum (pissa, pitch) was also sometimes employed' (from Greek pissa: tar, pitch) |
| –242.09+ | Nerses: 4th century Armenian patriarch (The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Armenian Church', 569d: 'by this time the autonomy of the Armenian church was thoroughly established. On the death of Nerses the right of saying grace at the royal meals, which was the essence of the catholicate, was transferred by the king, in despite of the Greeks, to the priestly family of Albianus, and thenceforth no Armenian catholicus went to Caesarea for ordination. The ties with the Greek official Christendom were snapped for ever') |
| –242.09+ | Nerses the Graceful: 12th century Armenian poet (The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Armenian Language and Literature', 573d: 'Nerses the Graceful (d. 1165), author of an Elegy on the taking of Edessa, of voluminous hymns, of long Pastoral Letters and Synodal orations') |
| –375.07+ | The Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II, 'Arthur', 681c: 'the central hero of the cycle of romance known as the Matière de Bretagne' (i.e. Matter of Britain) |
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