Quotes from Philip Parker

history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains

Okres wiki?ski, który zapocz?tkowa? na Wyspach Brytyjskich przera?aj?co brutalny najazd, zako?czy? si? zastawem nie wykupionym przez skandynawskiego monarch?, który przekona? si?, ?e cen? nowoczesno?ci jest mi?dzy innymi niemo?no?? wyruszenia na wypraw? ?upiesk? dla zdobycia potrzebnej gotówki.

Cattle die, kindred die, we ourselves shall die, but I know one thing that never dies: the reputations of each one dead.

him do so on the other side and offered him great thanks.' All Torberg's improvements were to no avail, for Olaf's fleet was overwhelmed at the Battle of Svold in 999

What actually happened in the past is gone- history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains.