historians
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It is taboo in China to crack jokes about Mao, who died in 1976 and whose drastic policies are blamed by historians for mass starvation and millions of deaths.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
Many historians would disagree; Pierre Duhem and Herbert Butterfield dated the start of the scientific revolution to around 1300.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
He added that Fr Doyle was a prolific letter writer whose personal correspondence has become an important eyewitness source for historians.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Some historians have proposed that the eruption occurred later in the fall of 79 CE.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Nor had historians translated that term tomean the emergence of a more authentically democratic brand of politics, a translation that Jefferson would have understood dimly, if at all.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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