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	Edward William Lane - LoveToKnow 1911
		EDWARD WILLIAM LANE (1801-1876), English Arabic scholar, son of Dr Theophilus Lane, prebendary of Hereford, was born on the 17th of September 1801.
		Returning to England in 1849, Lane devoted the remaining twenty-seven years of his life to digesting and translating his Arabic material in the form of a great thesaurus of the lexicographical knowledge of the Arabs.
		Lane was not an original mind; his powers were those of observation, industry and sound judgment.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Edward_William_Lane (766 words)

	William Lane
		William Lane was born in Brighton in 1818, the son of Rebecca and William Lane, a fruiterer and orange merchant of Brighton Place, Brighton.
		William Lane now had a wife and two children to support and clearly the earnings of a ticket writer were not sufficient to provide for a young family.
		William Lane appears to be one of the few photographers who issued specially struck coin-like medallions or tokens to advertise their studios.
	www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk /BTN-LaneWm.htm (3557 words)

	Egypt: Edward William Lane: Early Anthropologist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Edward William Lane (1801 - 1876), an English scholar was born at Hereford, England, on September 17, 1801.
		Lane was, thus able to differentiate between form and content and properly interpret extremely complex manifestations.
		Lane's book "An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians" is organized in several chapters including Islamic creed, system of government, state administrative machinery, household life, women's ornaments, men's costumes, industry, means of entertainment, wedding habits, etc..
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/lane.htm (1166 words)

	Drew Louisa Lane - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Drew, Louisa Lane (1820-1897), American actor, theater manager, and matriarch of a well-known family of actors.
		Lane, Dick (1928-2002), American football player, widely considered the top cornerback of the National Football League’s (NFL) first 50 years....
		Lane, Edward William (1801-1876), English scholar, translator, and lexicographer who studied the life and language of the Egyptians.
	encarta.msn.com /Drew_Louisa_Lane.html (111 words)

	Lane Family Tree - lang02.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ervin Lane was born in Jan 1885 in TN.
		Elizabeth Lane was born in Mar 1886 in TN.
		Minnie Lane was born in Feb 1888 in TN.
	www.webformatt.com /genealogy/lane/lang02.htm (163 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Books \| The true father of Egyptology
		Lane came from a family of artists and engravers and had received a thorough technical grounding in his early years.
		High points of the text for this reviewer are Lane's brisk and enthralling 53-page account of the career of Mohamed Ali and his extended description of the Ramesseum on the west bank at Luxor, which quietly refutes a century of error.
		Lane was in a position here to make use of real Egyptology, not amateur guesswork, as represented by the discoveries of Gardner Wilkinson and Champollion; and the consequent difference between what he tells us and what Napoleon's savants were able to say is simply enormous.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/503/books5.htm (1242 words)

	Britannia Biographies: Sir Ralph Lane, Governor of Virginia
		He was the son of Ralph Lane and his wife, Maud, daughter of William, Lord Parr, and is thought to have been a cousin of Edward Dyer, the poet.
		However, Lane was not much suited to the life of an administrator and appears to have jumped at the chance to accompany Sir Walter Raleigh on his second expedition to the New World.
		Lane dispatched parties to make the first maps of North America and what is now Virginia; but the settlement depended heavily upon the Native Americans for food and this led to many disputes.
	www.britannia.com /bios/rlane.html (815 words)

	Harriet Lane
		In September 1860 she embarked Edward Albert, the Prince of Wales, the first member of the British Royal Family to visit the United States, for passage to Mount Vernon where he planted a tree and placed a wreath on the tomb of George Washington.
		During her passage to Hampton Roads, Harriet Lane was taken under fire by the Confederate battery at Shipping Point, Va., which inflicted such damage to her port wheel that her departure for Key West was delayed another 2 days.
		Edward Lea, were killed, she fell into Southern hands.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/h3/harriet_lane.htm (1056 words)

	Review of Description of Egypt
		Lane (1801-76) is one of the greatest of the early orientalists, author of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), translator of the classic English version of The Thousand and One Nights (1839-41), compiler of An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-74), one of the most ambitious dictionary projects every attempted.
		Even here, Lane's keen eye and sharp prose, plus his thorough immersion into the life of Egypt, bring the descriptions to life (a great thoroughfare street in Cairo, he writes, "is generally somewhat irregular both in its direction and width.
		Lane's 160 detailed and accurate illustrations rise indeed, as Thompson notes, to the rank of minor works of art.
	www.danielpipes.org /article/42 (431 words)

	et - Full Story
		Lane visited Egypt three times: from 1825 to 1828, from 1833 to 1835 and finally in 1841, when he stayed for seven years, perfecting his knowledge of Arabic.
		In the summer of 1842, Lane’s sister, Sophia Poole, and her two sons joined Lane and Nefeeseh in Egypt.
		Lane suggested that Sophia write her own book and provided her with ample background information on the monuments, which she often copied verbatim.
	www.egypttoday.com /article.aspx?ArticleID=6064 (1169 words)

	Descendants of Richard Lane
		Notes for John CARR: John Carr and his brother William were soldiers with General John Sevier in the Sevier and Tipton riot in behalf of the Territory of Franklin.
		Soon after the Rev. War was over people from the mountains of NC and Western Virginia began moving west through the mountain passes and down the rivers into the heavily forested land of the valley of the Clinch and the Powell rivers.
		William Sterling died on Dec 5, 1887 at Hancock Co., Tn.
	www.joepayne.org /lane.htm (3724 words)

	Chapter Lane <i>to</i> Lanier of L by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
		Lane, Edward William (1801-1876).—Arabic scholar, son of a prebendary of Hereford, where he was born began life as an engraver, but going to Egypt in search of health, devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages and manners, and adopted the dress and habits of the Egyptians man of learning.
		Lane was regarded as the chief European Orientalist of his day.
		He is chiefly remembered as being the translator, jointly with his brother, Rev. William Langhorne, of Plutarch’s Lives, but in his day he had some reputation as a poet, his chief work in poetry being Studley Park and Fables of Flora.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/259/1255/23167/1.html (819 words)

	Lane Family History Page 1
		Thomas Lane, son of John Lane and a nephew of Lambert, Corbin and Dutton, came to Greene County about 1805, and it is possible that his brother John and three sisters came with him.
		From DONALD LANE: Corbin Lane surveyed 250 acres of land at Red Hill on Feb 18 1782, and it was recorded in Le co VA. He was on the 1781 tax list in Washington Co NC (now TN) and sold 150 acres on a branch of Lick Creek on Jan 14 1783.
		William Proctor was a judge in Bedford Co, PA in the 1770s.
	ladytuffie.tripod.com /LaneFamilyTree/id4.html (7553 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture \| The bridegroom blows away the dust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lane's handwriting, Thompson said, was remarkably easy to decipher: of the 300,000 words, there was only one he could not read.
		When Lane, an accomplished artist (he was a nephew of Gainsborough), arrived in Egypt in 1825 he had already learned as much about it as he could.
		Lane was intensely disappointed over his failure to find a publisher for his Description.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/521/cu7.htm (495 words)

	USCGC HARRIET LANE
		Following blockade duty in Mobile Bay, Harriet Lane sailed for Galveston, Tex., which she bombarded and captured with the aid of Westfield, Osasco, Clifton, and Henry Janes, 3 October 1862.
		The second HARRIET LANE, built in 1926, was a 125-foot patrol boat, commonly known as a “buck-and-a-quarter.” The cutter was primarily designed to interdict smugglers during the Rum War (1924-34).
		The current HARRIET LANE is the third of thirteen 270-foot medium endurance cutters.
	www.uscg.mil /lantarea/cutter/harrietlane/history.html (1330 words)

	The Qur'an Institute, Inc.: Arabic Lexicon Projects Archives
		Edward William Lane's Lexicon is regarded as the best Arabic-English lexicon in the world, and is now available FREE in the searchable pdf format.
		The purpose is, to acknowledge the diverse utility of Lane's amazing work, to prompt our visitors to think "outside the box" on the usefulness of expertise in Arabic, identify candidates for Edward William Lane Award, etc. If you have any reservations in sharing your comments, then please let us know.
		FREE Lane's Lexicon is a Study Qur'an project.
	www.qaiu.org /archives/quran/arabic_lexicon_projects/index.html (682 words)

	Lane Genealogy Report
		In 1469 (9 Edward IV) William Lane was possessed of Orlingbury Manor or Lordship, and died 1546, leaving it to his eldest son Sir Ralph Lane." This Ralph Lane married Maud Parr, who was a first cousin of Katherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII.
		The name Lane is outstanding in pioneer history of Tennessee, for as ministers and soldiers members of this family took an active part in the early settlement of the state.
		The son of Ralph Lane and Joyce Cresset was Richard Lane, whose wife was Anne Harcourt, of Rauunton.
	lady3248.tripod.com /lanegenealogy.htm (2205 words)

	Arabic Reference Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In two books: the first containing all the classical words and significations commonly known to the learned among the Arabs; the second, those that are of rare occurence and not commonly known.
		Lane died around Qaf, after which the number of entries substantially declines.
		This is a good dictionary for words not found in Wehr or Lane.
	www.lib.washington.edu /NearEast/arabic/aradict.html (319 words)

	Arab Society in the Time of The Thousand and One Nights
		After visiting Egypt in the mid-nineteenth century, British scholar of Arabic Edward William Lane translated the Arabian Nights, appending at the end of each chapter elaborate, explanatory notes that made the book a virtual encyclopedia of Middle Eastern life and manners.
		The present volume, containing only Lane's notes as they appeared in the original 1859 edition, provides an intriguing picture of Islamic society as it existed during the Middle Ages, when Tales of the Arabian Nights was first written.
		Individual chapters consider the importance of religion, literature, festivals, and education, as well as the role of women in society, slavery, and rituals observed for the dead.
	www.doverdirect.com /0486433706.html (325 words)

	Edward Said - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Edward Wadie Said (November 1, 1935 – September 25, 2003; Arabic: إدوارد سعيد‎) was a well-known Palestinian-American literary theorist, critic, and outspoken Palestinian activist.
		Edward Said died at the age of 67 in the early morning of September 25, 2003, in New York City, after a decade-long battle with chronic myelogenous leukemia.
		Edward Said and the Double Standards of Inside-out Colonialism," rev. of Culture and Imperialism, by Edward Said, Times Literary Supplement February 19, 1993: 3-4.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Edward_Said (4321 words)

	Ghawazee and ghazeeyeh, dancers of egypt
		In the historic book "The manners and customs of the modern egyptians" of Edward William Lane, Lane dedicated an entire chapter of Egypt's' public dancers.
		Edward Lane, born inEnglandd 1801 was engraver of profession.
		He studied arabic and spent most of the years between 1825 and 1845 in Egypt.
	www.belly-dance.org /ghawazee.html (368 words)

	Edward William Lane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward William Lane (September 17, 1801, Hereford, England—August 10, 1876, Worthing, Sussex) was a noted scholar of the Arabic language and Arabic literature.
		White, Jon Manchip — Introduction to the 1973 Dover edition of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
		This page was last modified 04:12, 18 September 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_William_Lane (379 words)

	George Ladhams, James Lane, Jonathon Leach, Edward Lee, William Anthony Lester, Isaac Lloyd, William Lock, Joseph ...
		George Ladhams, James Lane, Jonathon Leach, Edward Lee, William Anthony Lester,
		Isaac Lloyd, William Lock, Joseph Albert Loftus, William Charles Lyte,
		I was very interested to see in your family tree William Charles Lyte, from Jersey and his family.
	www.geocities.com /Wellesley/Garden/8547/kl/l4.html (1236 words)

	Lane Edward William - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Lane Edward William - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	Lane Marriages In Indiana
		Lane In Indiana / 1820 Lane/ 1830 Lane/ 1840 Lane /USGenWeb Indiana Counties
		Ollie LANE William Fitch Sept 3 1874 - Sept 6 1874
		Lane Amanda A JacobW Ethceson Sept 6 1882
	www.spingola.com /genealogy/lanemarriages.htm (6164 words)

	24TH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		William Edward Lane and Jane Branstrom had the following children:
		William Edward Lane and Luella Hayes had the following children:
		William Edward Lane and Zella May Louella Merrill had the following children:
	www.zianet.com /ynika/cochran/d5830.html (32 words)

	free Lane Arabic English Lexicon / Dictionary
		The DVD can be copied using a DVD-writer drive, so when you receive your DVD, please copy it for others if you can.
		Read about the background to Project Lane's Lexicon and other projects here
		Lane's Lexicon is being arranged for faster and easier lookup of roots below:
	www.studyquran.co.uk /LLhome.htm (276 words)

	The Qur'an Institute, Inc. :: View topic - Edward William Lane Award
		Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:18 am Post subject: Edward William Lane Award
		Resource permitting, we will launch an Edward William Lane Award in the near future.
		Initially the award will be given to those who are using Lane's Lexicon in the most creative ways in the service of humanity.
	www.quraninstitute.org /bb/viewtopic.php?t=78 (238 words)

	Edward William Lane (1801-1876), Arabic scholar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lane was an eminent Arabic scholar who made voyages up to the Nile, 1826 and 1827.
		He was fascinated by Egyption life, people and customs and went to live in Cairo where he studied and adopted Egyptian dress, 1833-5.
		National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp02619 (150 words)

	Arabic English Lexicon: 8 Volume Hardcover Set (Pakistani print) Edward William Lane
		Arabic English Lexicon: 8 Volume Hardcover Set (Pakistani print) Edward William Lane
		This monumental work from the 19th century, a product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor, is to this day the supreme authority as the most scholarly dictionary available.
		A majour source behind all dictionaries produced today and every majour work on Arabic studies in this century.
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