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The first book to capture both the arms and family history of the old Irish Septs, and the newer 'settler' families from Scotland and England Documented with Locations, Dates and Sources. The actual Color Coats of Arms and Blazons are included for many of the families, and many others are displayed in black and white exactly as they are found in the old works in the Irish Archives. Seats of power; forfeited arms; Extinct lines; Noble orders; Badges; and Peeresses are included, making this the most complete work of its kind. .
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Charles Eastman was a doctor and writer who helped found the Boy Scouts. His life with an Indian mother taught him the culture of the American Indian. In this volume Eastman tells the stories of some of the most famous Indians in American History. Chapters included are: Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Little Crow, Tamahay, Gall, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Rain-In-The-Face, Two Strike, American Horse, Dull Knife, Roman Horse, Chief Joseph, Little Wolf and Hole-In-The-Day..
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Text extracted from opening pages of book: THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE EARLY TAMILS . Based on the Synchronistic Tables of their Kings, Chieftains and Poets appearing in the^ Sangam Literature. BY K. N. SIVAEAJA PILLAI, B. A., SENIOR LECTURER IK TAMIL, UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS. UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS 1932 Price RS-5 Foreign It-d PREFACE. SINCE the work now presented to the reader rests solely on the strength of the Synchronistic Table accompanying it, I consider it necessary to prefix a few remarks bearing on the undertaking and execution of such a work, remarks for which I have not been able to find a place in the body of the book itself. The History of the Tamils, their language, and their literature cannot be said io have even started its exist ence, for the sufficient reason that a correct chronological frame-work to hold together and in right order the many facts enshrined in their ancient Sangam Literature has not yet been got at. Various have boon the attempts made till now to utilize the facts gathered from that Literature for edifying narratives, descriptions and exhortations; but a genuine history, none of thoso, ii must bo regretfully acknowledged, has boon able to evolve. Lacking the indis pensable initial lime-frame, the so-called histories of Tamil Literature and the long-winded introductions to the various editions of the Tamil Classical poems remain to this day inane and vapid of roal instruction, in spite of their tedious parrot-like repetitions of fictions and facts culled from tradition and the poems themselves. Tho learned authors of these dissertations have been only trying to make bricks without straw, or rather to raise a structure with only bricks without the connecting mortar of Chronology. This lack of a scientific chronology is, however, due not to any paucity of relevant materials in which the Sangam Litera ture is apparently rich but to a failure to apply to them the correct mode of manipulation their valuation and arrangement. Taking this view of the mailer I nerved myself lo the task of tesling whelher Ihe early poems of Ihe vi PREFACE. Tamils when subjected to modern methods could be made to yield the secret of their chronology or should be allowed to lie mute, as of yore, or worse still, to mumble out their incoherences, here and there, in the triad of collections to which a late literary but unhistorical systematist has so kindly consigned them. In entering on this new and diffi cult piece of work T had no reason to be buoyed up by any strong hope of success, so divergent and even conflicting being the views of scholars about the Tamil Sangam and its Literature and so hopelessly disarranged the literary remains. And immediately after I sat down and began preparing the Synchronistic Table a revered scholar, with another friend, one day happened to step into my room and, learning what T was engaged in, lost no time in throw ing a-plentiful douche of cold water on the scheme, urging that he himsolf had been engaged more than once in a similar undertaking 1 but each time had to give it up as a fruitless venture in sheer vexation of spirit. This warning coming from a scholar of his standing and that at the very threshold of my efforts naturally had the effect of very nearly wiping out even the little hope I had behind the back of my mind. Still realising the traditional overpar tiality of some of our scholars for traditions as a class I persuaded myself that the scholar referred to must have weighted his barque with a little too much of unnecessary traditional lumber to have thus sent it to the bottom before reaching its destination. A ray of hope thus gleamed through this idea and accordingly I persisted in my work and went on verifying the various literary references and jot ling down the names for the projected Table. If past failures are but stepping-stones to future success, I thought that this particular scholar's discomfiture should put me doubly on my guard against the intrusion of legendary matter and.
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Ferrin Collins, archaeologist living in modern day Dublin, awakes, in ancient Ireland! Ferrin meets a Druid called Wolf, who tells him the tale of Destiny’s Warriors which is about survival in an ancient, harsh world of magic, horrific monsters, bloody human sacrifices and the brutality of war..
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