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Fergus of Galloway was a Norse-Gaelic lord who flourished in the reign of David I of Scotland and he divided his princedom between his sons. [3] One of his sons or grandsons was Dougal. [3] The last native Lord of Galloway was Alan who died in about 1234. [3] Alan's daughter was Devorgilla who married Balliol, Lord of Barnard Castle. [3]
Robert Brendan McDowell MRIA [1] (14 September 1913 – 29 August 2011) [2] [3] was an Irish historian. He was a Fellow Emeritus and a former Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin. He was born in Belfast. He was referred to colloquially as "RB", "McDowell" or "the White Rabbit".
He is the author of five books: Children’s Riddling [1] (1979), Sayings of the Ancestors: The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians (1989), [2] “So Wise Were Our Elders”: Mythic Narratives of the Kamsá (1994), [3] based on fieldwork with an indigenous community in Colombia, Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico’s Costa Chica (2000), [4] a study of the ballad tradition ...
There are two online database versions of Reader's Guide available from H. W. Wilson Company: Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature which covers 1983 to the present, [1] and Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890–1982. [2]
A tertiary source is an index or textual consolidation of already published primary and secondary sources [6] that does not provide additional interpretations or analysis of the sources. [7] [8] Some tertiary sources can be used as an aid to find key (seminal) sources, key terms, general common knowledge [9] and established mainstream science on a
Louis John Frederick Ashdown-Hill MBE FSA (5 April 1949 – 18 May 2018), commonly known as John Ashdown-Hill, was an independent historian and author of books on late medieval English history with a focus on the House of York and Richard III. [1] Ashdown-Hill died on 18 May 2018; he had had motor neurone disease for some time. [2] [3]
John Henry McDowell FBA (born 7 March 1942) is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now university professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written on metaphysics , epistemology , ancient philosophy , nature , and meta-ethics , McDowell's most influential work has been in the ...
Robert Harbold McDowell (May 23, 1894 – June 2, 1980) was an American historian and intelligence officer who worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. McDowell, an expert on the Near East , was a professor of Balkan history at the University of Michigan .