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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Society, Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society, B. Franklin, Volume 98, 1897 Henry Yule, A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson : The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, 1903 S. K...
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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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    advise them on court ritual since they held them in high regard. Sir Henry Yule saw many Muslims serving as eunuchs during the Konbaung dynasty period...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Henry Yule. The Travels of Marco Polo, Book 1/Chapter 61, "Of the City of Chandu, and the Kaan's Palace There". from Wikisource, translated by Henry Yule...
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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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    proved that the two countries are one and the same, and, according to Henry Yule, made "Cathay... finally disappear from view, leaving China only in the...
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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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    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, producer, radio entertainer...
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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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    Archived from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2015. Sir Henry Yule, ed. (1866). Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection of Medieval...
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    "-3069961" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database". Henry Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither, Volume II, edited by Henri Cordier for the...
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  • Udny Yule (1813–1886) was a brother of the noted orientalist Sir Henry Yule (1820–1889). His great uncle was the botanist John Yule. In 1899, Yule married...
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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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