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Attlee conducts us on a latterday grand tour that takes in, among many other places, Turner's Thames, Basho's Japan, Pliny's Vesuvius and Rudolf Hess's solitary cell in Spandau prison.
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review 2011
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Overhead rose a cloud in the form of Pliny's famous pine-tree, apparently quite solid.
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The influence of Pliny's Natural History was deep.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Once Roman authorities start to notice them as we see for instance from Pliny's letters, for instance, or in the persecution in Rome under Nero their attitude to the group is hostile.
More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels James F. McGrath 2010
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Once Roman authorities start to notice them as we see for instance from Pliny's letters, for instance, or in the persecution in Rome under Nero their attitude to the group is hostile.
More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels James F. McGrath 2010
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Bartolomeo Platina also composed an Epitome of Pliny's Natural History in 1463 while employed (with Alberti) as a member of the College of Abbreviators. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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* According to Pliny's Natural History, Zoroaster laughed on the day of his birth.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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If you search out where it came from Pliny's Natural History, Book LXXII, a copy here, the whole sentance reads: "lanae et per se coactae vestem faciunt et, si addatur acetum, etiam ferro resistunt, immo vero etiam ignibus novissimo sui purgamento"
Lanarius - person who does stuff with wool Penny 2009
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If you search out where it came from Pliny's Natural History, Book LXXII, a copy here, the whole sentance reads: "lanae et per se coactae vestem faciunt et, si addatur acetum, etiam ferro resistunt, immo vero etiam ignibus novissimo sui purgamento"
Archive 2009-04-01 Penny 2009
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Before Pliny's action, the most common exclamation about waiting in lines was, "This is so boring, but what else can we do?"
Mark C. Miller: Least Known Contributions of History's Greatest Civilizations 2009
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