Definition of History

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History

A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.

A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.

To narrate or record.

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History Quotations

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett

History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill

History Translations

history in Afrikaans is geskiedenis, verhaal
history in Danish is historie
history in Dutch is geschiedenis, historie, verhaal
history in Finnish is historia
history in German is Geschichte
history in Italian is storia, storia
history in Norwegian is historie
history in Spanish is historia
history in Swedish is historia

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