Burney
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname from Anglo-Norman.
A census-designated place in Shasta County, California, United States.
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Examples
Another text influenced by Enlightenment values was Charles Burney 's A General History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period (1776), which was a historical survey and an attempt to rationalize elements in music systematically over time.
At the age of eight, Frances had not yet learned the alphabet, and some scholars suggest that Burney suffered from a form of dyslexia.
Althoff, William F., USS Los Angeles, Washington DC, Brassey's, 2004, p. 48, ISBN 1-57488-620-7 In 1922 Sir Dennistoun Burney suggested a plan for a subsidised air service throughout the British Empire using airships (the Burney Scheme).
Burney concludes that “policymakers often think about greenhouse gas emissions as a separate problem from air pollution, but the same processes that cause climate change also produce these aerosols, ozone, and other compounds that cause important damages.
Burney 1987 There is some suspicion that cannabis may have reached Africa 3000 years ago.
Commire, Klezmer 228. Esther Sleepe Burney also bore two other boys, both named Charles, who died in infancy in 1752 and 1754.