history
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History repeated itself the following year, this time in South Carolina.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
His book, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783, published in 1890, found disciples in Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the Japanese imperial naval ministry, and shaped 20th-century history.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
To put that in to perspective, dying of a shark attack in a lifetime has odds of one in 4.3 million, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History, home to the shark attack register.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
She is president of the National Council on Public History, which represents historians and museum administrators.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
History is full of far more idiotic miscalculations.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Vocabulary lists containing history
Culture
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