historian
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That’s how Wagner found Daniel Paul, an architectural historian who researched and documented the 38-foot-tall cupola-style structure built in 1960 by Van Tassel, who ascribed it miraculous powers including antigravity, rejuvenation and time travel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Perz, the historian, said a debate like the one today around the Hirtenberg site "would have been impossible in the 1980s", adding that there is now "more sensitivity" towards former Nazi sites.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
As Merryl Goldberg relates in her account of the adventure, “Notes of Deception,” written with the intelligence historian Vince Houghton, she and her friends were traveling incognito.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a Calvin University historian who writes about white evangelicals and gender, was not surprised.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
A historian, someone who can explain its importance, its antiquity.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
They are cooks, yes, but also historians, artists, entrepreneurs, educators, travelers, designers and storytellers.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
Many historians and academics accuse him of twisting history to fit his agenda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
"While historians have occasionally noted these remarks, they have generally treated them as unexplained references," said Prof Licence.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
In fact, historians do not really know how it was pronounced, he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
It is a source that historians of the steam engine have overlooked because it does not discuss steam engines.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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