Title: Knight, Sir John by Susanna Fisher
URL: https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-15728
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/15728
Thanks for any assistance!
I hope I'm not taking liberties by posting the link but many people ask me for good irish online resources during lockdown and this is excellent.
There are over 11,000 mini biographies on it and it's overseen by the Royal Irish Academy and the print version is done by Cambridge University.
Here is the link .
https://www.dib.ie/
And a belated St Patrick's Day greetings to everyone.
My subscription appears to be broken and I sadly doubt I will manage to get it fixed this week. Sci-Hub also for some reason refuses to fetch this specific article, I tried adding the doi code in various ways and it just doesn't seem to work. I would appreciate very much if someone could see if they can access the article!
Name: Cromwell, Oliver by John Morrill from Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Link: https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-6765
You can be as sure of evolution as you can that the Earth goes around the Sun.
Please stop telling me that it's just one theory.
On many websites online today, you will find entries about Anne Bonny featuring descriptions like this for her early life (this is from the most recent wikipedia entry):
>Anne Bonny was born around 1690. Her birth name was Anne McCormac, and her birthplace was Cork, Ireland. She was the daughter of servant woman Mary Brennan and Brennan's employer, lawyer William McCormac.
There are plenty of variations on this, though most spell it "Cormac" and push the birth date to the later parts of the 1690s (1698 being pretty common - though lately it seems like I keep on seeing the date getting set back farther in time, making her go into her 20s now for when she became a pirate). The problem is, there is no historical basis for any of this. Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (1724) is responsible for most of the story involving Anne's early life in Ireland and the colonies (before she arrived in the Bahamas). No documents have yet to surface to verify this, and based on way Johnson wrote the section and period literary trends, it would take a lot to prove it wasn't fiction. But, where did the names of the parents and the birth date come from?
The answer: a fiction book from 1964 by John Carlova entitled Mistress of the Seas.
How? The short version of this is that Carlova made claims he did research in his introduction, basically making the book equivalent of films slapping a "based on a true story" label when it barely qualifies. Unfortunately, some historians in the 1980s and 1990s took it for face value and put these things as "facts" in their books. Then the information became three and more times removed from the original source in the 1960s, and assumed to be fact. Eventually, historian David Cordingly incorporated these "facts" into his 2004 entry for Anne Bonny in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Yes, a piece of information that started as fiction 50 years go is now a fact in an Oxford publication. This is why you have to be extremely careful about how you use secondary sources. People kept on passing this information along without checking it. There has yet to be any documents made public regarding this claim that started in a fiction book, though plenty of genealogists have run with it and made some really far reaching claims because of this. It did not help that the serious pursuit of studying
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I started creating a dictionary in notes taking app where I put the scientific expressions with their short definition and a reference to related material for more info on that (for example paper name or the lecture name with timestamp). I add the entries in alphabetic order for a faster lookup, but I realized that it will still quickly get pretty cluttered and confusing.
Is there any app which I could use for the creation of a dictionary, where I would have an option to add an entry and then quickly search over the whole collection? It wouldn't be much hassle to write such app by myself, but maybe there is already a neat solution for that, which could save some time.
I started creating a dictionary in notes taking app where I put the scientific expressions with their short definition and a reference to related material for more info on that (for example paper name or the lecture name with timestamp). I add the entries in alphabetic order for a faster lookup, but I realized that it will still quickly get pretty cluttered and confusing.
Is there any app which I could use for the creation of a dictionary, where I would have an option to add an entry and then quickly search over the whole collection? It wouldn't be much hassle to write such app by myself, but maybe there is already a neat solution for that, which could save some time.
I have created similar topic on r/MachineLearning, but the post got deleted and now I am writing here, since I am not sure which subreddit could fit better. If this does not fit here, please let me know what place would be better for it. Thanks!
