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See also:BELZONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1778–1823) , See also:Italian explorer of See also:Egyptian antiquities, was See also:born at See also:Padua in 1778. His See also:family was from See also:Rome, and in that See also:city he spent his youth. He intended taking monastic orders, but in 1798 the occupation of the city by the See also:French troops drove him from Rome and changed his proposed career. He went back to Padua, where he studied See also:hydraulics, removed in 1800 to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and in 1803 went to See also:England, where he married an Englishwoman. He was 6 ft. 7 in. in height, broad in proportion, and his wife was of equally generous build. They were for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time compelled to find subsistence by exhibitions of feats of strength and agility at fairs and on the streets of See also:London. Through the kindness of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Salt, the traveller and antiquarian, who was ever afterwards his See also:patron, he was engaged at See also:Astley's See also:amphitheatre, and his circumstances soon began to improve. In 1812 he See also:left England, and after travelling in See also:Spain and See also:Portugal reached See also:Egypt in 1815, where Salt was then See also:British See also:consul-See also:general. Belzoni was desirous of laying before Mehemet See also:Ali a See also:hydraulic See also:machine of his own invention for raising the See also:waters of the See also:Nile. Though the experiment with this See also:engine was successful, the See also:design was abandoned by the See also:pasha, and Belzoni resolved to continue his travels. On the recommendation of the orientalist, J. L. See also:Burckhardt, he was sent at Salt's charges to See also:Thebes, whence he removed with See also:great skill the See also:colossal bust of See also:Rameses II., commonly called See also:Young See also:Memnon, which he shipped for England, where it is in the British Museum. He also pushed his investigations into the great See also:temple of See also:Edfu, visited Elephantine and See also:Philae, cleared the great temple at See also:Abu Simbel of See also:sand (1817), made excavations at See also:Karnak, and opened up the See also:sepulchre of Seti I. (" Belzoni's See also:Tomb "). He was the first to penetrate into the second See also:pyramid of Giza, and the first See also:European in See also:modern times to visit the See also:oasis of Baharia, which he supposed to be that of See also:Siwa. He also identified the ruins of See also:Berenice on the Red See also:Sea. In 1819 he returned to England, and published in the following See also:year an See also:account of his travels and discoveries entitled Narrative of the Operations and See also:Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and See also:Nubia, &'c. He also exhibited during 1820–1821 facsimiles of the tomb of Seti I. The See also:exhibition was held at the Egyptian See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, Piccadilly, London. In 1822 Belzoni showed his See also:model in See also:Paris. In 1823 he set out for See also:West See also:Africa, intending to penetrate to See also:Timbuktu. Having been refused permission to pass through See also:Morocco, he See also:chose the See also:Guinea See also:Coast route. He reached See also:Benin, but was seized with See also:dysentery at a See also:village called Gwato, and died there on the 3rd of See also:December 1823. In 1829 his widow published his drawings of the royal tombs at Thebes.
End of Article: BELZONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1778–1823)
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