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Historic Town of Ouro Preto
Historic Town of Ouro Preto (Vila Rica), Minas Gerais, Brazil: 18th-century colonial gold-mining town, state capital 1720-1897, Brazil's first UNESCO World Heritage Site (1980), noted for Baroque architecture and Aleijadinho.
Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda
Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda: UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 2000 under criterion (iv); serial property of 22 parts, the 1612 town plus 21 forts, 257.5 ha, the only World Heritage property in Bermuda.
Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns
Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns (Sukhothai, Si Satchanalai, Kamphaeng Phet), a serial UNESCO World Heritage property in Thailand inscribed 1991, covering 11,852 ha of the first Kingdom of Siam's capital, spiritual center, and frontier garrison.
Historic tunnels by period and region
Historic tunnels by period and region is an index of notable surviving tunnels built before 1900, organized by era and country, from Hezekiah's Tunnel to the Simplon.
Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong
Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong, a serial UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 2010 under criteria (iii) and (iv), comprises two Joseon-era clan villages in Andong and Gyeongju, 90 km apart, still inhabited by founding clans.
Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama (白川郷・五箇山の合掌造り集落)
UNESCO World Heritage Site (1995) of three Japanese villages, Ogimachi, Ainokura, and Suganuma, preserving gassho-zukuri farmhouses with steep 60-degree thatched roofs built for heavy snow and silkworm raising.
Historic Walled Town of Cuenca
The Historic Walled Town of Cuenca is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Spain, a medieval fortified town known for its casas colgadas, or hanging houses.
Historical and Cultural Complex "Zaporozhian Sich"
Історико-культурний комплекс «Запорозька Січ» (Zaporozhian Sich Historical and Cultural Complex): open-air museum on Khortytsia island, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine; ~3 ha, opened 14 October 2009; generalized reconstruction of the 16th-18th-century Cossack sich with 20 buildings, part of Khortytsia National Reserve.
Historical background of the New Testament
The historical background of the New Testament, also called its historical context, is the Roman imperial, Greek-speaking world of diverse Second Temple Judaism in which its books were written.
Historical brightest stars
The historical brightest stars are the stars that have held or will hold the title of brightest star in Earth's night sky. Canopus held it 90,000 years ago, and Vega will in 210,000 years.
Historical buildings and structures of Grand Teton National Park
The historical buildings and structures of Grand Teton National Park are the homestead cabins, dude ranches, lodges, and Menor's Ferry works of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, preserved by the National Park Service.
Historical capitals of China
Historical capitals of China: the great ancient capitals Xi'an (西安), Luoyang (洛阳), Beijing (北京), Nanjing (南京), with Kaifeng, Hangzhou, Anyang; covers dynastic capitals, siting logic, planning ideals, and expanded 'great capitals' lists.
Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa
Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa (Centro histórico de la ciudad de Arequipa), UNESCO World Heritage site in Peru since 2000, criteria (i)(iv); 166.52 ha of sillar volcanic-stone colonial architecture, 49 original Spanish-layout blocks, founded 1540.
Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl
The Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005, is the oldest part of Yaroslavl, Russia, at the confluence of the Volga and Kotorosl Rivers.
Historical classifications of Heterobranchia
Historical classifications of Heterobranchia are the superseded schemes, from Gray's 1840 grouping through Milne Edwards's 1848 trichotomy, that divided gastropods into Opisthobranchia and Pulmonata until molecular studies overturned them.
Historical climatology
Historical climatology is the study of past climate using documentary evidence such as annals, diaries, and ship logbooks, pioneered by Hubert H. Lamb and complementing natural proxies like tree rings.
Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian
Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian: UNESCO World Heritage site in Split, Croatia, inscribed 1979 (criteria ii, iii, iv), 20.8 ha, covering the late 3rd- to early 4th-century palace ruins and the medieval city built within them.
Historical components of the Nasdaq-100
Historical components of the Nasdaq-100 are companies that have ever held membership in the index of the 100 largest non-financial Nasdaq companies, launched January 31, 1985.
Historical components of the S&P 500
The historical components of the S&P 500 are the record of which companies have held membership in the index since its 1957 launch, with about 22 stocks added and deleted yearly.
Historical consciousness
Historical consciousness, or Geschichtsbewusstsein, is the interpretation of self and world through time, central to Jörn Rüsen's theory of historical sense-generation, memory, historical culture, and history education, with traditional, exemplary, critical, and genetic types.
Historical cost
Historical cost is an accounting measurement basis under which an asset is recorded at the consideration paid to acquire it, updated over time for depreciation, impairment, and accrued interest.
Historical criticism
Historical criticism, in biblical studies the historical-critical method or higher criticism, investigates the origins, composition, and original meaning of biblical texts through textual, source, form, and redaction criticism.
Historical definitions of races in India
Historical racial definitions in India: colonial-era schemes, chiefly Herbert Risley's 1901 census typology using nasal anthropometry to rank Aryan and Dravidian races, continued by Indian scholars such as B.S. Guha, later discredited by genetics and modern anthropology.
Historical drama
Historical drama, also called period drama or costume drama, is stage, film, or television drama drawn from history rather than legend, spanning Shakespeare's history plays, documentary-drama series, and anachronistic works like Dickinson.
Historical Eclecticism
Historical Eclecticism (Eclectic medicine), 19th-century American medical sect founded by Wooster Beach from Thomsonianism; used indigenous plants, specific medication, Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute; ended after Flexner Report.
Historical European martial arts
Historical European martial arts (HEMA): reconstruction of extinct European swordsmanship and wrestling from 14th–17th century fencing manuals; revived by Alfred Hutton in the 1890s, systematic practice since the mid-1990s.
Historical fantasy
Historical fantasy combines researched historical texture with fantastic elements, placing magic in a specific time and place. It can feature magic coexisting invisibly with ordinary history.
Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre of narratives set in the past, also called the historical novel, founded by Sir Walter Scott. Defined as fiction set 50 or more years before writing, it is widely used in classrooms and shaped by debates over accuracy and anachronism.
Historical GDP of China
Historical GDP of China reconstructs the country's total output from Song-dynasty estimates to official statistics, tracking its fall to 4.9% of world GDP by 1978.
Historical geographic information system
A historical geographic information system (HGIS) digitizes and maps historical sources by adding time to GIS, as in the Great Britain and China Historical GIS projects.