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    Colonel Sir Henry Yule KCSI CB FRSGS (1 May 1820 – 30 December 1889) was a Scottish Orientalist and geographer. He published many travel books, including...
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    The Yule log, Yule clog, or Christmas block is a specially selected log burnt on a hearth as a winter tradition in regions of Europe, and subsequently...
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  • Henry Yule Oldham, (14 December 1862 – 14 March 1951) was a teacher and geographer who, in 1901, conducted the definitive version of the Bedford Level...
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  • Sir Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell and first published in 1886. Burnell died before the work was finished, and most of it was completed by Yule, who...
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    Iesus en la China (1605) Yule, pp. 534–535 Lach & Kley (1993), pp. 1575–1577 Gallagher, p. 500; Yule, pp. 551–552 Henry Yule (1866), p. 530. Duyvendak...
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    Venetian, translated by Henry Yule, London: John Murray. volume 1, volume 2, index — (1903), The Travels of Marco Polo. (Yule-Cordier translation) Volume...
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    Xinjiang) but largely blocked when the Parthian Empire fell to the Sassanids. Henry Yule summarized the classical geographers: If we fuse into one the ancient...
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    Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 1. Edited and annotated by Henry Yule and revised by Henri Cordier, 3rd Ed. 1903. Biran 1997: 19. Bartol'd,...
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  • Udny Yule (1813–1886) was a brother of the noted orientalist Sir Henry Yule (1820–1889). His great uncle was the botanist John Yule. In 1899, Yule married...
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    the Ung and Mongols respectively. An explanation offered by Orientalist Henry Yule was that Marco Polo was only referring to the "Rampart of Gog and Magog"...
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