Colonel Sir Henry Yule KCSI CB FRSGS (1 May 1820 – 30 December 1889) was a Scottish Orientalist and geographer. He published many travel books, including...
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The Yule log, Yule clog, or Christmas block is a specially selected log burnt on a hearth as a winter tradition in regions of Europe, and subsequently...
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Sir Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell and first published in 1886. Burnell died before the work was finished, and most of it was completed by Yule, who...
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Iesus en la China (1605) Yule, pp. 534–535 Lach & Kley (1993), pp. 1575–1577 Gallagher, p. 500; Yule, pp. 551–552 Henry Yule (1866), p. 530. Duyvendak...
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Xinjiang) but largely blocked when the Parthian Empire fell to the Sassanids. Henry Yule summarized the classical geographers: If we fuse into one the ancient...
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Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 1. Edited and annotated by Henry Yule and revised by Henri Cordier, 3rd Ed. 1903. Biran 1997: 19. Bartol'd,...
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the Ung and Mongols respectively. An explanation offered by Orientalist Henry Yule was that Marco Polo was only referring to the "Rampart of Gog and Magog"...
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Venetian, translated by Henry Yule, London: John Murray. volume 1, volume 2, index — (1903), The Travels of Marco Polo. (Yule-Cordier translation) Volume...
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Henry Yule Oldham, (14 December 1862 – 14 March 1951) was a teacher and geographer who, in 1901, conducted the definitive version of the Bedford Level...
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Mickey Rooney (redirect from Joe Yule Jr.)
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly...
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in De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas (published 1615), annotated by Henry Yule). Waldron 1990, pp. 2–4. Waldron 1990, p. 206. Waldron 1990, p. 209. Hessler...
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Notes and Addenda to Sir Henry Yule's Edition, Containing the Results of Recent Research and Discovery. Translated by Sir Henry Yule. John Murray. Medlycott...
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Sri Lanka is a Unitary State." Henry Yule, A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson : The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, 1903 Henry Yule, A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson :...
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Congress George Yule (linguist) (born 1947), British linguist Henry Youll (also Youell) (fl.1608), English madrigalist and composer Henry Yule (1820–1889)...
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Hartig 1911. Chiesa 2002, p. 132. Bressan 1997, pp. 9. Yule 1913, p. 12. Yule 1913, p. 13. Sir Henry Yule, ed. (1866). Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection...
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Edition 2008 reprinted with corrections 2013, Oxford University Press. Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (1996), Hobson-Jobson, Neem, page 622, The Anglo-Indian...
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Sir Henry Yule Braddon KBE (27 April 1863 – 8 September 1955) was an Australian diplomat, businessman and rugby union player who played for Otago, New...
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Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological..by Henry Yule, AD Burnell). Majumdar, Ramesh Chandra (1977) [1952]. Ancient India (Reprinted ed...
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involved in state affairs, often wielding significant political power. Sir Henry Yule saw many Muslims serving as eunuchs during the Konbaung dynasty period...
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large animals by coiling around their bodies and crushing their bones. Henry Yule in his 1886 work Hobson-Jobson, notes that the word became more popular...
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Garstin & Cana 1911, p. 698. Vitruvius, de Architectura, VII.2.7. Yule, Henry. Sir Henry Yule, Cathay and the way thither: being a collection of medieval notices...
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van Rheede (1678–1703) in the Hortus Malabaricus, vol. iii in Latin. Henry Yule translated the book in Jordanus Catalani's (fl. 1321–1330) Mirabilia descripta:...
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'brinjal'. This in turn supersedes the 1885 OED etymology s.v. 'aubergine'. Henry Yule, A.C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, 1886, reprint...
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The Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. 2nd ed. Trans. Colonel Henry Yule. Vol. 2. London: John Murray, 1875. 461–464. Print....
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baiting-place. — Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo, translated by Henry Yule, 1920 According to a legend of the local Torghut population, in 1372 a...
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which, in the ninth edition of 1882, contained Sir Henry Yule's long "Kafiristan" entry. Yule's entry described Kafiristan as "land of lofty mountains...
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In Hobson-Jobson, an 1886 historical dictionary of Anglo-Indian words, Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British...
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July 16 p. 262 in "The Book of Ser Marco Polo, Book 1" translated by Sir Henry Yule (3rd edition), Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1903 В Рязани производят...
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(coinage) Groschen Kuruş Venetian grosso Yule, Henry; Cordier, Henri. The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition. Third edition (1903)...
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(January 1993). The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition. Translated by Henry Yule; Henri Cordier (New ed of 1903 ed.). Dover Publications...
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