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Revision as of 13:07, 23 December 2005 by CJ (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)History is the study and interpretation of the record of human people, societies and civilisations. The term history comes from the Greek "ιστορία" historia, "an account of one's inquiries," and shares that etymology with the English word story. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica remarked that "history in the wider sense is all that has happened, not merely all the phenomena of human life, but those of the natural world as well. It includes everything that undergoes change; and as modern science has shown that there is nothing absolutely static, therefore, the whole universe, and every part of it, has its history."
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