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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to…
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
— Herodotus
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En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen…
— Jose Saramago
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Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's…
— Peter Ackroyd
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The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is…
— Peter Ackroyd
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He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is…
— Gottfried Benn
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In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the…
— Simon Schama
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Sabes bien que nuestra historia Tatuada se ha quedado ah� en tu piel.
— Thalia
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Hay amores que no se olvidan Y esta es la historia papa.
— Ivy Queen
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Yo ha esto si le meto. Yo planto respeto. Yo cambie mi historia. Por momentos de gloria.
— J Balvin
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