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.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. John F. Kennedy
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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