acton

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A habitational surname
An area of London
An aketon
A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail
John Emerich Edward Dahlberg Acton 1st Baron Acton
born Jan.10, 1834, Naples, Kingdom of Naples died June 19, 1902, Tegernsee, Bavaria, German Empire English historian. He served in the House of Commons (1859-65). Editor of the Roman Catholic monthly The Rambler (1859-64), he resigned because of papal criticism of his scientific approach to history. An adviser to William E. Gladstone from 1865, he was raised to the peerage in 1869. In 1895 he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He later coordinated the massive publication project of The Cambridge Modern History. A critic of nationalism, he coined the familiar aphorism "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
John Emerich Edward Dahlberg Acton 1st Baron Acton of Aldenham
born Jan.10, 1834, Naples, Kingdom of Naples died June 19, 1902, Tegernsee, Bavaria, German Empire English historian. He served in the House of Commons (1859-65). Editor of the Roman Catholic monthly The Rambler (1859-64), he resigned because of papal criticism of his scientific approach to history. An adviser to William E. Gladstone from 1865, he was raised to the peerage in 1869. In 1895 he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He later coordinated the massive publication project of The Cambridge Modern History. A critic of nationalism, he coined the familiar aphorism "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
acton

    Расстановка переносов

    Ac·ton

    Турецкое произношение

    äktın

    Произношение

    /ˈaktən/ /ˈæktən/

    Этимология

    [ 'ak-t&n ] (biographical name.) Old English āc (“oak”) + tūn (“farm”).
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