Harry Ferguson the inventor and pioneer profile
A review of Colin Fraser's biography of Harry Ferguson sketches Ferguson's drive to perfect farm mechanisation and the four wheel drive system. It covers his early life in Ulster, Belfast beginnings, the Ferguson plough, Ford court case, and later ventures with Massey Harris and Standard Motor, ending with his 1960 death by overdose.
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Colin Fraser
Harry Ferguson
Ollier
Ford
Ferguson
Jeep
Toyota
Fraser
Claude Hill
Bzard
Freddie Dixon
Tony Rojt
Australia
Crass
Ulster
Plymouth
Joe
Belfast
Harry
Belfast Technical College
John Lloyd Williams
May Street Motors
Vauxhall
Darracq
Willie Sands
Sands
Detroit
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
Sir John Black
Standard Motor Company
Massey-Harris
Pucnacious
Marty Ferguson
Ath
Brown's Augustine of Hippo and the end of the ancient world
The reviewer considers Peter Brown's RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF AUGUSTINE a long meditation on late antique history. He praises Brown's independence of mind while questioning whether a world view can unify fourth and fifth centuries. The piece weighs Gibbon against modern critics and notes Augustine's contemporaneity with today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Peter Brown
Faber and Faber
Augustine
Gibbon
Hayinmy
Pharisees and Zealots in China in the Mission Era
A critical portrait of Protestant and Catholic missions in 1860 1900 China. It contrasts imperial attitudes, conflicts among orders, and the Great Rites controversy. Figures like Hudson Taylor and James Gil attempt to explain motives, methods, and failures amid Boxer violence and cultural resistance.
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Jesuits
China
Pat Sarr
Secker
Warhura
Burgh
China Inland Mission Group
Church Missionary Society
Moner
Mrs Barr
Hudson Taylor
China Inland Mission
Yangehow
Joseph Edkins
Peking
Jonathan Lees
Tientsin
James Gil
Traces of Lost Giants Spans Yeti and Sasquatch Theories
The observer reviews Napier's examination of Yeti and Sasquatch legends, noting limited evidence but insisting two tracks and several sightings keep the mystery alive. It weighs footprints, environments, and possible hoaxes, while contrasting fossil absence with living relatives and uncertain origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napier
Jitle
Spain
Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan reviewed
A reader critiques Elaine Morgan's The Descent of Woman, noting its aquatic theory of human evolution and its non-doctrinaire feminist perspective. The review praises the book's engaging narrative and provocative questions while conceding lapses in style and questionable assumptions, yet defends its central plausibility and value for lay readers.
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Elaine Morgan
Robert Ardrey
Konrad Lorenz
Desmond Morris
Morgan
Sir Alister Hardy
New Scientist
Hardy
Popular history JFPEW books on Renaissance reviewed
The review favors JFPEW titles as strong introductions to the Renaissance, noting their bold outlines clear explanations and vivid portraits of major figures. Cronin’s Florentine and Flowering volumes are praised for accessibility and depth, though more art reproductions would enhance them.
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Paradise
Confucius
JFPEW
Vincent Cronin
Fontana
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Augustine of Hippo
ZYG
Igear
Timothy Richard
Donald D. Leslie
Middle Kingdom
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Hwe
Jesus Christ
USA
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Cape
Graham Stone
Tornhazi
Whillans
Rasicz
Shipton
Alex Graham
Punch
Graham
Geoffrey Bles
California
Alberta
Mour
Griffith John
Hankow
William Cassels
Szechwan
Barr
Tory
Hunan
Mao
Wilson
Souvenir Press
Suzanne Edgar
Stokely Carmichael
Popular History
Dame Enid Lyons
Taylor Caldwell
Colin Wilson
the Occult
ABU Hannifah
Heinrich Boll
Forgotten Worlds
Daltons
Gorema Place
Paul A. Samuelson
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology
Samuelson
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