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History

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: humanities
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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Scholars who write about history are called historians.
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Every decade or so, the world is tested by a crisis so grave that it breaks the mould: one so horrific and inhumane that the response of politicians to it becomes emblematic of their generation —their moral leadership or cowardice, their resolution or incompetence. It is how history judges us.
Jo Cox, Don’t leave Syria to become a graveyard — this generation’s responsibility to the world (13 October 2015)
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Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.
The world's history is the world's judgment.
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Today is Yesterday's Pupil.
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1751).
Thanks to a recent EU-funded study, geological chemists now understand how tectonic plates and convection in the mantle are connected.
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