See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:THEODORE See also:BENT (1852–1897)
, See also:English traveller, was the son of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Bent of Baildon See also:House, near See also:Leeds, See also:York-See also:shire, where he was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:March 1852
.
He was educated at See also:Repton school and Wadham See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he graduated in 1875
.
In 1877 he married Mabel, daughter of R
.
W
.
See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall-Dare of Newtownbarry, Co
.
See also:Wexford, and she became his See also:companion in all his travels
.
He went abroad every See also:year and became thoroughly acquainted with See also:Italy and See also:Greece
.
In 1879 he published a See also:book on the See also:republic of See also:San See also:Marino, entitled A Freak of Freedom, and was made a See also:citizen of San Marino; in the following year appeared See also:Genoa: How the Republic See also:Rose and See also:Fell, and in 1881 a See also:Life of Giuseppe See also:Garibaldi
.
He spent considerable See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in the See also:Aegean See also:archipelago, of which he wrote in The See also:Cyclades: or Life among the Insular Greeks (1885)
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From this See also:period Bent devoted himself particularly to archaeological See also:research
.
The years 1885–1888 were given up to investigations in See also:Asia See also:Minor, his discoveries and conclusions being communicated to the See also:Journal of Hellenic Studies and other magazines and reviews
.
In 1889 he undertook excavations in the Bahrein Islands of the See also:Persian Gulf, and found See also:evidence that they had been a See also:primitive See also:home of the Phoenician See also:race
.
After an expedition in 1890 to See also:Cilicia Trachea, where he obtained a valuable collection of See also:inscriptions, Bent spent a year in See also:South See also:Africa, with the See also:object, by investigation of some of the ruins in Mashonaland, of throwing See also:light on the vexed question of their origin and on the See also:early See also:history of See also:East Africa
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He made the first detailed examination of the See also:Great See also:Zimbabwe
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Bent described his See also:work in The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland (1892)
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In 1893 he investigated the ruins of Axum and other places in the See also:north of See also:Abyssinia, partially made known before by the researches of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Salt and others, and The Sacred See also:City of the Ethiopians (1893) gave an See also:account of this expedition
.
Bent now visited at considerable See also:risk the almost unknown See also:Hadramut See also:country (1893–1894), and during this and later journeys in See also:southern See also:Arabia he studied the See also:ancient history of the country, its See also:physical features and actual See also:condition
.
On the Dhafar See also:coast in 1894–1895 he visited ruins which he identified with the Abyssapolis of the See also:frankincense merchants
.
In 1895–1896 he examined See also:part of the See also:African coast of the Red See also:Sea, finding there the ruins of a very ancient See also:gold-mine and traces of what he considered Sabean See also:influence
.
While on another See also:journey in South Arabia (1896–1897), Bent was seized with malarial See also:fever, and died in See also:London on the 5th of May 1897, a few days after his return
.
Mrs Bent, who had contributed by her skill as a photographer and in other ways to the success of her See also:husband's journeys, published in 1900 Southern Arabia, Soudan and Sakotra, in which were given the results of their last expedition into that region
.
The conclusions at which Bent arrived as to the Semitic origin of the ruins in Mashonaland have not been accepted by archaeologists, but the value of his See also:pioneer work is undeniable (see ZIMBABWE)
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