• Lynn Townsend White Jr. (April 29, 1907 – March 30, 1987) was an American historian. He was a professor of medieval history at Princeton from 1933 to 1937...
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    Nicolas Witkowski, Du Regard Editions, 2003, ISBN 2-84105-128-5. Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (Spring, 1961). "Eilmer of Malmesbury, an Eleventh Century Aviator:...
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    to the hypothesis suggested by Lynn Townsend White Jr. in his 1962 book, Medieval Technology and Social Change. White believed that the stirrup enabled...
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    Winterbottom, 2 vols., Oxford Medieval Texts (1998–9) White 1961, p. 99 Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (Spring, 1961). "Eilmer of Malmesbury, an Eleventh Century...
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    2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, from alvíssmál 7. 1997. 101–104. Lynn Townsend White Jr. (Spring, 1961) "Eilmer of Malmesbury, an Eleventh Century Aviator:...
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  • of Ye] safely, but he was later executed.) Zizhi Tongjian 167. Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (Spring, 1961). "Eilmer of Malmesbury, an Eleventh Century Aviator:...
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    Charles Francis Adams Jr. (May 27, 1835 – March 20, 1915) was an American author, historian, and railroad and park commissioner who served as the president...
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  • French, Dutch and German contributors. According to historian Lynn Townsend White Jr., the Andalusian inventor Abbas Ibn Firnas created "some sort of...
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    Our Ingenuity. Episode 1910. NPR. KUHF-FM Houston. Transcript. Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (Spring, 1961). "Eilmer of Malmesbury, an Eleventh Century Aviator:...
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    the Battle of Tours, stirrups may have been unknown in the west. Lynn Townsend White Jr. argues that the adoption of the stirrup for cavalry was the direct...
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    attributed to his lacking a tail (as birds use to land). The historian Lynn Townsend White, Jr. concluded that ibn Firnas made the first successful flight in...
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    as president) Joseph R. Strayer (1971) Thomas C. Cochran (1972) Lynn Townsend White Jr. (1973) Lewis Hanke (1974) Gordon Wright (1975) Richard B. Morris...
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    or any wheeled cart or box propelled by hand. Scholars such as Lynn Townsend White Jr., Albert Leighton and Andrea Matthies suggest it may have inspired...
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    pulp for making paper was obtained from linen and cotton rags. Lynn Townsend White Jr. credited the spinning wheel with increasing the supply of rags...
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    the lost history and uncertain future of mankind's energy, p.14 Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (April 1960). "Tibet, India, and Malaya as Sources of Western...
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    a land of gold, or a land ruled by women. California historian Lynn Townsend White, Jr wrote that they considered the as-yet undiscovered California "a...
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    doi:10.1038/543164a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 28277535. S2CID 4460265. Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (April 1960). "Tibet, India, and Malaya as Sources of Western...
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  • and forger John Townsend Trowbridge, American author Light Townsend Cummins, American educator and historian Lynn Townsend White, Jr., American professor...
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    Robert Townsend (November 25, 1753 – March 7, 1838) was a member of the Culper Ring during the American Revolution. He operated in New York City with the...
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    thread making by a factor of greater than 10. Medieval historian Lynn Townsend White Jr. credited the spinning wheel with increasing the supply of rags...
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    M. Potter (1971) Joseph Strayer (1971) Thomas C. Cochran (1972) Lynn Townsend White Jr. (1973) Lewis Hanke (1974) Gordon Wright (1975) 1976–2000 Richard...
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    Them. Oxford University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-19-979268-9. Lynn Townsend White, Jr. O'Connor, J. J. & Robertson, E.F. (1996) "Geometry, and its branch...
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    Schwartz, Franz Schurmann, Teng Ssu-yu, James C. Thomson Jr., Theodore White, John E. Wills Jr., Alexander Woodside, Guy S. Alitto, Mary C. Wright. Fairbank...
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    M. Potter (1971) Joseph Strayer (1971) Thomas C. Cochran (1972) Lynn Townsend White Jr. (1973) Lewis Hanke (1974) Gordon Wright (1975) 1976–2000 Richard...
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  • Lynn Avery Hunt (born November 16, 1945) is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her area...
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    topics from late antiquity to early modernity. Founded in 1971 by Lynn Townsend White Jr., the journal published its 50th volume in 2020. In 2021, Viator...
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    Wang Mang, 或言能飞, 一日千里, 可窥匈奴.莽辄试之, 取大鸟翮为两翼, 头与身皆著毛, 通引环纽, 飞数百步堕 Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (Spring, 1961). "Eilmer of Malmesbury, an Eleventh Century Aviator:...
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    Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T. R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving...
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    Woodrow Wilson (category American white supremacists)
    Milton Jr. (1983), The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, Belknap Press, ISBN 978-0-674-94750-4 Cooper, John Milton Jr. (2009)...
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    JSTOR 25595753. "Natalie Zemon Davis, History, University of Toronto | Townsend Center for the Humanities". townsendcenter.berkeley.edu. Retrieved August...
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