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Distinguished History Has Always: Cultural Influences. Because of their curiosity, ingenuity, and gregariousness, as well as for this basic geographic reason, the Greeks as a people have never developed in isolation from the outside world. Their long and distinguished history has always been tied to that of other peoples and cultures, with periods of cultural borrowing alternating with periods of cultural lending.RODERICK, rod'er-ik (Spanish, RODRIGO), last king of the West Goths in Spain. In 710 he was chosen king. Shortly after the Moors, under Muza, invaded Spain. Roderick met the invaders on the banks of the Guadelete in 711, but was defeated, and perished in the battle. He is the hero of Scott's Vision of Don Roderick (1811) and Southey's Roderick the Goth (1814). RODGERS, name of a family distinguished in American naval history:
In 1745, during the War of the Austrian Succession (1741-1748), when Britain was ranged with Austria against France and Prussia, there took place another Jacobite rising, known as "The Forty-five." What distinguished it from its predecessor was that The Fifteen had organization but no leader, while The Forty-five had no organization but a leader in Prince Charles Edward, the Bonnie Prince Charlie of history and romance. |
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