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Oliver Robert Gurney (28 January 1911 – 11 January 2001) was an English Assyriologist from the Gurney family and a leading scholar of the Hittites.

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Oliver Gurney

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Oliver Robert Gurney (28 January 1911 – 11 January 2001) was an English Assyriologist from the Gurney family and a leading scholar of the Hittites. Gurney...

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Cyrus Cylinder

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bones inscribed with cuneiform signs surfaced in China which Professor Oliver Gurney at Oxford later identified as coming from the Cyrus Cylinder. The discovery...

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Hittitology

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Collins Halet Çambel Petra Goedegebuure Albrecht Goetze (1897–1971) Oliver Gurney (1911–2001) Hans G. Güterbock (1908–2000) Harry A. Hoffner (1934–2015)...

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Tarchon

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Tarquins, two of the legendary Seven Kings of Rome. The Hittitologist Oliver Gurney proposed that the name could be related to the name of the Luwian storm...

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Tegarama

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Karkhemish. The exact location of the city in Anatolia is disputed. Oliver Gurney placed Tegarama in Southeast Anatolia. Others have located it in central...

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Anubanini

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of Elam" — The Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin (extracts), translation Oliver Gurney. Original relief. Components of the relief (extracted). Portrait of...

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John Garstang

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his sister R. Garstang and his colleague Oliver Gurney after John was disabled by illness in 1953. Gurney's wife, Diane Grazebrook, provided the maps...

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List of historians

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environment Ranajit Guha (1923–2023), Indian Lev Gumilyov (1912–1992), Soviet Oliver Gurney (1911–2001), Assyria, Hittites John Guy (born 1949), Tudor England    [top]...

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Robert Gurney

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Robert Gurney (31 July 1879 – 5 March 1950) was a British zoologist from the Gurney family, most famous for his monographs on British Freshwater Copepoda...

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Leonie Zuntz

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College and worked for Oxford University Press. In 1934-5 she introduced Oliver Gurney to Hittite. She committed suicide in 1942, at 12, Norham Gardens, Oxford...

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Samuha

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on a navigable river, which tends to support the Euphrates location. Oliver Gurney notes in the above-cited work that the Halys river is also navigable...

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List of Assyriologists

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and philologist known for his contributions to deciphering cuneiform. Oliver Gurney (British, 1911–2001), expert on the Hittites. Joseph Halévy (Ottoman-French...

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Deaths in January 2001

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Gerald Glatzmayer, 32, Austrian football player, traffic collision. Oliver Gurney, 89, British Assyriologist. James Hill, 84, American film producer and...

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Ford GT40

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inches), was enlarged to 4.9 litres (302 cubic inches), with custom alloy Gurney–Weslake cylinder heads. The "40" represented its height of 40 inches (1...

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Donald Wiseman

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College, Oxford, studying Hebrew under Godfrey Driver and Akkadian under Oliver Gurney and obtaining a Master of Arts degree. He joined the Oxford Inter-Collegiate...

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1968 Formula One season

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with Oliver and McLaren colliding on the first lap, Jochen Rindt (Brabham) crashing on lap nine while trying to pass Surtees. Brabham, Dan Gurney and Siffert...

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Josh Brolin

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fiction films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), in which he played Gurney Halleck. Brolin was born on February 12, 1968, in Santa Monica, California...

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Oliver Heywood

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banking firm "Overend, Gurney & Co."; this major bankruptcy caused a serious panic within the English banking sector. Oliver Heywood was in London at...

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The Law of Freedom in a Platform

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Oliver Cromwell to implement its proposals. Marshall 2008, pp. 96–97. Marshall 2008, pp. 97–99. Gurney 2007, pp. 211–212. Gurney 2007, p. 214. Gurney...

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Parkland high school shooting

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on December 15, 2018. Retrieved December 15, 2018. Miller, Carol Marbin; Gurney, Kyra (February 20, 2018). "Parkland shooter always in trouble, never expelled...

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Anthony Newley

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Bassey. An "icon of the early 1960s", his TV series The Strange World of Gurney Slade "continues to have a cult following due to its advanced postmodern...

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