Word Finder - history

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The aggregate of past events.

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History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes.

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The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.

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He teaches history at the university.   History will not look kindly on these tyrants.   He dreams of an invention that will make history.

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A set of events involving an entity.

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What is your medical history?   The family's history includes events best forgotten.

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A record or narrative description of past events.

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I really enjoyed Shakespeare's tragedies more than his histories.

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A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

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A personal medical history is required for the insurance policy.   He has a history of cancer in his family.

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A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

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I visited a great site yesterday but forgot the URL. Luckily, I didn't clear my history.

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Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

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I told him that if he doesn't get his act together, he's history.

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Shared experience or interaction.

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He has had a lot of history with the police.

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To narrate or record.

Is there some history I should know about?

I can think of a thousand scenes and places in history I'd visit!

History is the life of nations and of humanity.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

Our battles with diseases go as far back into history as we can see.

And if history is an accurate guide, that wealth will be partially redistributed to the poor—even the poorest of the poor, the bottom billion.

They are rare in the history of the world.

This is the whole history of "My Prisons."

The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us.

I don't remember much history.

At that point, the iffy parts of human history are behind us and it is blue skies and clean sailing ahead.

History must do the same.

We introduced ourselves one by one, each adding a brief history.

There's no other history, unless they're at it again and trying to use Jonny to try to get to me.

The Dawkinses were history and no one seemed to miss the feuding quartet.

But during the whole of this active life, many details of which are very interesting as illustrative of the life and manners of the time, he never lost sight of a design which he had formed at a very early period, of writing the history of those civil wars in France in which he had borne a part, and during which he had had so many opportunities of closely observing the leading personages and events.

This, in history, is called the Battle of Lexington.

That is the dreadful history of the final, and deadliest, century of smallpox.

If you would know the history of these homesteads, inquire at the bank where they are mortgaged.

The theory of the transference of the collective will of the people to historic persons may perhaps explain much in the domain of jurisprudence and be essential for its purposes, but in its application to history, as soon as revolutions, conquests, or civil wars occur--that is, as soon as history begins--that theory explains nothing.

The recognition of man's free will as something capable of influencing historical events, that is, as not subject to laws, is the same for history as the recognition of a free force moving the heavenly bodies would be for astronomy.

Come on back to New Hampshire and get on with your life and forget about history.

Even without their shared history, there had always been something about Tim that Brady liked.

It wasn't until she mentioned that goats were as much a part of American history as Longhorns that he realized how much she missed them.

At the university he made rapid progress, especially in jurisprudence, though preferring the study of history, literature, juridical science and philosophy.

The best account of the life of Davila is that by Apostolo Zeno, prefixed to an edition of the history printed at Venice in 2 vols.

The Mercians, however, recovered their independence in 658, and from this time onward Northumbria played little part in the history of southern England.

He was a priest of the Jerusalem temple, probably a member of the dominant house of Zadok, and doubtless had the literary training of the cultivated priesthood of the time, including acquaintance with the national historical, legal and ritual traditions and with the contemporary history and customs of neighbouring peoples.

But what about a reasoned belief based on a balanced look at both history and current reality that leads you to be optimistic?

At the very least, history can clearly show the range of outcomes that are likely.

It is a tale that history repeats with surprising consistency.

Notable examples exist, but the flow of history in this regard has rendered its verdict.

I took the greatest delight in these German books, especially Schiller's wonderful lyrics, the history of Frederick the Great's magnificent achievements and the account of Goethe's life.

In the finals, no one read my work over to me, and in the preliminaries I offered subjects with some of which I was in a measure familiar before my work in the Cambridge school; for at the beginning of the year I had passed examinations in English, History, French and German, which Mr. Gilman gave me from previous Harvard papers.

The first book that gave me any real sense of the value of history was Swinton's "World History," which I received on my thirteenth birthday.

I felt it, and still remark it almost daily in my walks, for by it hangs the history of a family.

But all I can learn of their conclusions amounts to just this, that "Cato and Brister pulled wool"; which is about as edifying as the history of more famous schools of philosophy.

Still more difficult would it be to find an instance in history of the aim of an historical personage being so completely accomplished as that to which all Kutuzov's efforts were directed in 1812.

Modern history, in theory, rejects both these principles.

If we unite both these kinds of history, as is done by the newest historians, we shall have the history of monarchs and writers, but not the history of the life of the peoples.

In history we find a very similar progress of conviction concerning the part played by free will in the general affairs of humanity.

But in the Crusades we already see an event occupying its definite place in history and without which we cannot imagine the modern history of Europe, though to the chroniclers of the Crusades that event appeared as merely due to the will of certain people.

Betsy was enthralled with the area and became an immediate student of the history.

She had a history with Wynn, and he was right.

He was easy to talk to, despite knowing his history and his elevation to a god.

The atomic theory has been of priceless value to chemists, but it has more than once happened in the history of science that a hypothesis, after having been useful in the discovery Present and the co-ordination of knowledge, has been aban- position doned and replaced by one more in harmony with later of the discoveries.

There is what looks like an excellent contemporary portrait in one of the windows of All Souls College, which is figured in the Victoria County History for Hampshire, ii.

See Victoria County History, Berkshire; Joseph Stevenson, Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon, A.D.

He was the author of an important History of the Constituent Assembly (Paris, 2 vols., 1828-1829).

Among his numerous works is a history of Pomerania, which remained unpublished till 1728.