Quotes About History

We know the future only by the past we project into it.

The issue for historians , then, is not whether we should make moral judgments, but how we can do so responsibly, by which I mean in such a way as to convince both the professionals and non-professionals who'll read our work that what we say makes sense.

Scale sets the ranges within which experience accrues. If, in evolution, edges of chaos reward adaptation; if, in history, adaptation fortifies resilience; and if, in individuals, resilience accommodates unknowns

This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any single, sacrosanct, and therefore unchallengeable theory of history.

Margaret Thatcher was part of the team that invented Mr Whippy ice cream.

In ancient Greek the word 'idiot' meant anyone who wasn't a politician.

Casanova was a librarian.

There is more information in one edition of the New York Times than the average person in 17th-century England would have come across in a lifetime.

All blue-eyed people are mutants. The first ones appeared as recently as 5,000 years ago.

The name 'United Nations' was Franklin D. Roosevelt's idea. He rushed to tell Winston Churchill, who was towelling himself stark naked in his bathroom.

France has the best military record in Europe. The French have fought more military campaigns than any other European nation and won twice as many battles as they have lost.

The number of Homo sapiens sapiens that have ever lived, fought, loved, fussed pottered and finally died over the last 100,000 years is around ninety billion.

everyone alive on the planet today is related both to Confucius (551–479 BC) and to Nefertiti (1370–1330 BC). So

Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit.

Before dentists' chairs were invented, the patient's head was clenched between the surgeon's knees.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

4% of the sand on Normandy beaches is made up of tiny metal particles from the D-Day landings.

Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs.

The Victorians made tiepins out of badgers' penis bones.   Some

Where does Chicken Tikka Masala come from? Glasgow.

An Example from Recent History Before the Second World War, Adolf Hitler began to preach the doctrine of the Aryan "super race." This gospel of Aryan superiority enabled world rulers of this present darkness to move that corporate stronghold over the German mentality. Whoever among the German nation

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

The disease has survived in memory more than in any literature. Nearly all those who were adults during the pandemic have died now. Now the memory lives in the minds of those who only heard stories, who heard how their mother lost her father, how an uncle became an orphan, or heard an aunt say, "It was the only time I ever saw my father cry." Memory dies with people. The writers of the 1920s had little to say about it.

H1N1 virus of 1918, the virus that created its own killing fields.