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history
The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
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noun
The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
“He teaches Medieval history”
noun
All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
“The dawn of recorded history”
noun
A record or narrative description of past events
“A history of France”
noun
The aggregate of past events
“A critical time in the school's history”
noun
The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
“All of human history”
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He teaches Medieval history
History takes the long view
The dawn of recorded history
From the beginning of history
A history of France
He gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president
The story of exposure to lead
A critical time in the school's history
All of human history
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