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«History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.»
«I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates & Vessels, dressd and adornd with all imaginabe Pomp: but, above all, the Thrones, Arches, Pageants & other representations, stately barges of the Lord Major, & Companies, with varius Inventions, musique, & Peales of Ordnance from both the vessels & shore, going to meet & Conduct the new Queene from Hampton Court to White-hall, at the first time of her Coming to Towne, exceeding in my opinion, all the Venetian Bucentoro?s &c on the Ascention, when they go to Espouse the Adriatic: his Majestie & the Queene, came in an antique-shaped open Vessell, covered with a State or Canopy of Cloth of Gold, made in forme of a Cupola, supported with high Corinthian Pillars, wreathed with flowers, festoones & Gyrlands: I was in our new-built Vessell, sailing amongst them»
Author: John Evelyn
(Writer)
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Literature,
Society
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Adriatic, antique, antiques, arches, canopy, cloth, companies, Considering, Corinthian, cupola, espouse, espoused, Hampton, innumerable, magnificent, ordnance, pageant, pageants, pillars, pomp, representations, sailing vessel, stately, supported, Thames, The Adriatic, thrones, Venetian, wreathe, wreathed
«Ideas shape the course of history.»
«I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood.»
«History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.»
«History will be kind to me for I intend to write it»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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History
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history, intend, intending, kind, The Histories, write
«Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
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History
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catastrophe, catastrophes, Human history, more and more
«History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.»
«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.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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History
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appall, appalled, appalling, appalls, clamor, clamoring, period, record, social, strident, tragedy, transition, transitions
«I have a dream.»
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