To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be. – Le Corbusier Understanding the history allows an individual to reflect on how the present modern times has come into existence,
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul – Lord Acton On This Day: 48 BC – Pompey is defeated by Julius Caesar in the battle of Pharsalus. Pompey then flees to Egypt. 1173 – Construction of Leaning Tower of Pisa begins, however it takes 2 centuries to complete. 1842 – Webster – Ashburton
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History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. – Stephen Spender. On this day: 1509 – Krishnadevaraya, one of the most powerful Hindu rulers of then India, is crowned the king of Vijayanagara Empire by defeating Sultans of Bijapur, Golconda, the Bahmani Sultanate and the Gajapatis of Odisha. 1854 – Smith & Wesson registered their patent for metal bullets for their revolvers. It
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History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children. – Nelson Mandela On this day: 1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future. – Benjamin Cardozo. On this day: 910 – The last major Viking army to raid England was defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred. 1100 – Henry I was crowned
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. – George Bernard Shaw. On this day: 367 – Gratian receives the title of Augustus under his father, Valentinian I. 1704 – Britain gained control of Gibraltar during the War of the Spanish Succession, with “The Rock” subsequently becoming a British colony
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History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. – Leonard Louis Levinson. On This Day: 1492 – Christopher Columbus, Italian Navigator, set sail with three ships from Palos de la Frontera to find new lands and landed on the islands Bahamas which is part of West Indies. 1527 – First ever Letter known to mankind was sent from (St
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History is written by the victors, the strongest and the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places. – Kate Mosse On this day: 30 BC – Mark Antony achieves minor victory over Octavian in the Battle of Alexandria, but with most of his army deserting him, Octavian invades Egypt. 1423 – The French
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man – Percy Bysshe Shelley On this day: 1279 – Five emissaries dispatched by Kublai Khan from the Mongol Yuan dynasty are beheaded by Japan. 1588 – The Spanish Armada, the great fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain to invade England was defeated by an English
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History is not history unless it is the truth – Abraham Lincoln. We may not be aware of everything that conspired, and the accuracy of the historical events, but, a study of history makes even the start of the great World War I, a simple incident initiated by an individual, with no support from the government. On This Day: 1586
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Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence. – Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam On this day: 1214 – King John of England was defeated by the French King Philip II in the First battle of Bouvines, following which the English King lost Normandy and his other possessions, earning the nickname – John
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Everyone has a history. What you do with it is up to you. Some repeat it. Some learn from it. The really special ones use it to help others. – John Mark Green On This Day: 1775 – Establishment of the U.S Postal Service by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin was named the first Postmaster General. 1865 – New
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There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in – Kay Boyle. History has always been very important, as to know nothing of what happened before you took place on earth, is to remain a child forever and ever. On
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History is Philosophy teaching by examples – Thucydides Starting with everything simplest thing we do, like eat, walk, talk, everything is embedded in History, and it is very much necessary to study the past, if you have to define the future. On this day: 1534 – Jacques Cartier, a French-Breton explorer landed in Canada and claimed it for France 1567
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History is the witness of the past, the light of the truth, the living memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero History is just simply having the life of the dead in the memory of the living, as the past should serve as a lesson to the future, in an effort to attain the
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