history
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“If the President’s House is left dismembered throughout this dispute, so too is the history it recounts, and the City’s relationship to that history,” Rufe wrote.
From Los Angeles Times
In winning her sixth Olympic medal, she tied speedskater Bonnie Blair as the most decorated U.S. woman in Winter Olympics history.
From Los Angeles Times
“I can’t think of anybody in history,” he said, “that should get the Nobel Prize more than me. And I don’t want to be bragging, but nobody else settled wars.”
The handful of others with such history are typically much smaller enterprises, like wineries, he said.
Everyone agreed he was miscast as a history major.
From Los Angeles Times
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