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    James Hadley Billington (June 1, 1929 – November 20, 2018) was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving...
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  • James Billington may refer to: James Billington (executioner) (1847–1901), executioner for the British government James H. Billington (1929–2018), American...
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  • Revolutionary Faith is a 1980 book by historian James H. Billington about the spread of ideas. Billington analyzes the ideas that inspired European revolutionary...
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    James Billington (5 March 1847 – 13 December 1901) was a hangman for the British government from 1884 until 1901. He was the patriarch of the Billington...
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    reappointment. The legislation was seen as a critique of Librarian James H. Billington's unwillingness to hire a permanent chief information officer to effectively...
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    sponsored by the Library of Congress, and was founded by Laura Bush and James H. Billington in 2001. In 1995, the First Lady of Texas Laura Bush (a former librarian)...
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    historian James H. Billington as the 13th librarian of Congress in 1987, and the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment. Under Billington's leadership...
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    Algernon Swinburne, historians R. H. Tawney, Christopher Hill and James H. Billington and philosophers J. L. Austin, T. H. Green, Derek Parfit, W. D. Ross...
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    1918–1921, McGill-Queen's Press, 1992, ISBN 0-7735-0828-7, p. 59. James H. Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men, Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0471-9...
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    Retrieved October 20, 2016. "National Press Club Luncheon Speakers, James H. Billington, January 12, 1989". Library of Congress. Retrieved October 20, 2016...
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    Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2003. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, was nominated as a commissioner of the U...
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    (quote #127) in Respectfully Quoted A Dictionary of Quotations by James H. Billington, Library of Congress, as reproduced online by Google Books (click...
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  • On December 17, 2002, it was announced by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington that "All My Babies, George Stoney's landmark educational film used...
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    received the prize at a performance ceremony in November 2014 from James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor...
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    Commune Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith James H. Billington List of Poles (Złotorzycka 1946, p. 8) Zdrada, Jerzy (1973). JAROSŁAW...
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  • UK. Billington 1966, p. 494. Alexandrov, Vladimir (1991). Nabokov's Otherworld. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-06866-6. Billington, James H. (1966)...
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  • Washington, D.C. The magazine was founded in 1976 by Peter Braestrup and James H. Billington. It is noted for its nonpartisan, non-ideological approach to current...
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    Gershwin Prize with its originality, longevity and diversity of appeal. James H. Billington Librarian of Congress In late 2012, the Library of Congress announced...
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    leaving it as part of his generalized spite against the universe. — James H. Billington The Little Demon authorized trans. John Cournos and Richard Aldington...
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  • hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy." James H. Billington's 1980 book Fire in the Minds of Men explores the idea further. At...
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  • unexpected capture of Paz, who mistook enemy troops for his own. James H. Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, Transaction...
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    finest summations of American cinema's wondrous first century." —Dr. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress. Wikimedia Commons has media related to National...
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  • world with Serbs at the centre. Tartarian Empire (conspiracy theory) Billington, James H. (2004). Russia in Search of Itself. Johns Hopkins University Press...
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  • and actor Geoff Billington, British showjumper James H. Billington (1929-2018), United States Librarian of Congress John Billington (1580s–1630), an...
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  • Wind was included in the Library's list. Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington said: This list is a starting point. It is not a register of the...
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  • Banks (d. 2015) Harry Belafonte (d. 2023) Tony Bennett (d. 2023) James H. Billington (d. 2018) Big Bird (original performer Caroll Spinney d. 2019) Larry...
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    Benson 2023 Mitchell Besser 2008 James H. Billington 2008 Forrest M. Bird 2008 Milly Bloomquist 2011 Rusty Bowers 2023 James Scott Brady 1989 T. Berry Brazelton...
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  • (R-California), then Vice-Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, and James H. Billington, then the Librarian of Congress. The Center opened in summer 2002...
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  • ISBN 978-0691610412. OCLC 890439998. James H. Billington, Mikhailovsky and Russian Populism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958. Leopold H. Haimson, The Russian Marxists...
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    Anniversary of the Morrill Act, at the Library of Congress, June 23, 2012 James H. Billington and Vartan Gregorian at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary...
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