Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, KCMG, FRGS, (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, army officer, orientalist writer and scholar...
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Arabist Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) published over 40 books and countless articles, monographs and letters. Most of Burton's books are travel...
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the wife and partner of the explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890). Isabel Arundell was born in London, England, on 20...
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Arabist (section Richard Francis Burton)
Scotland, Romania, Hungary, Belgium, and Russia. [citation needed] Richard Francis Burton entered Trinity College, Oxford in autumn 1840, after his family...
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Richard Burton (1925–1984) was a Welsh actor. Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), was an English explorer, author, translator and orientalist. Richard...
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Thousand Nights and One Night (1882, nine volumes), and then by Sir Richard Francis Burton, entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885, ten...
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border is studded with silver nails. Visiting the Kaaba in 1853, Richard Francis Burton noted that: The colour appeared to me black and metallic, and the...
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1990 American biographical film depicting the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke in their expedition to Central Africa, which...
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The Kasidah (category Books by Richard Francis Burton)
the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), a well-known British Arabist and explorer. In a note to the reader, Burton claims to be the translator...
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Arabia. In 1853, Sir Richard Francis Burton undertook the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina disguised as a Muslim. Although Burton was certainly not...
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Society of London, likely founded at the same time in 1863 by Sir Richard Francis Burton and Dr James Hunt. The club met in Bartolini's dining rooms near...
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world through a translation from the French in 1886 by Sir Richard Francis Burton. Burton mentions that he considers that the work can be compared to...
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The Perfumed Garden, Shaykh Nefwazi [sic], translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1886. full text available at Internet Sacred Text Archive Archived...
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"benefactors". Among the denizens of the Riverworld, we meet Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Odysseus, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hermann Göring, Tom Mix...
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for the famed sources of the Nile, notably John Hanning Speke, Richard Francis Burton, David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley, to complete the exploration...
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (redirect from Burton's Nights)
Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890). It stands as the only complete translation of the Macnaghten...
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possible etymologies include ones put forth by British explorer Richard Francis Burton who states Harar is an extract of the name of a plain located south...
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was a nickname given to the nineteenth-century British explorer Richard Francis Burton by colleagues in the Bombay Army, who ostracized him because he...
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versions. Probably the best-known English version is that of Sir Richard Francis Burton which is, however, not a translation but a very free adaptation...
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Institute's National Collection of Type Cultures. Francis Burton M.D. (d.1828), uncle of Richard Francis Burton, military surgeon who made Napoleon's Death...
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500 copies, for private distribution, and ceded the work to Richard Francis Burton. Burton's translation (The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night 1885–88)...
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December 9, 2010. "Priapeia, translated by Leonard Smithers and Richard Francis Burton: Irrumation". Sacred-texts.com. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14...
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Richard Burton CBE (/ˈbɜːrtən/; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone...
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tales of Baital), translated as 'Vikram and The Vampire' by Sir Richard Francis Burton in 1870. Bhartrhari was the elder son of King Gandharva Sena, who...
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Francis Burton may refer to: Francis Burton (1696–1744), member of parliament for Coleraine, and for Clare Francis Burton (died 1832) (c. 1744–1832),...
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Caravaggio (redirect from Ecstacy of saint francis)
late nineteenth century, Sir Richard Francis Burton identified the painting as Caravaggio's painting of St. Rosario. Burton also identifies both St. Rosario...
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welcoming Oshima. There he spends his days reading the unabridged Richard Francis Burton translation of One Thousand and One Nights and the collected works...
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now-submerged Kollur mine in the Krishna River valley in the year 1830. Richard Francis Burton described it in an 1876 article: The stone is said to be of the...
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it had been in storage in Hampton Court, mislabeled as a copy. Richard Francis Burton writes of a "picture of St. Rosario (in the museum of the Grand...
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the case of Caabdu- Servant, added Waaq becomes servant of Waaq Richard Francis Burton (1856) describes Abasa in the Awdal Region as home to the Fort of...
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