There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
Greece’s history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history’s most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
When a television show like ‘Scandal’ becomes the biggest show in recent history, suddenly advertisers and networks want to jump on that. And what it’s showing is that people want to see diversity.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
‘The Last Kingdom’’s got its roots in history, and it’s a lot grittier. It doesn’t have the ‘Game of Thrones’ gloss.
Marty Baron, ‘The Post’s executive editor, stopped me in the elevator lobby late one debate night and suggested we look into the Trump Foundation specifically. I also became interested in researching Trump’s broader history of charity.
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation’s civil rights history.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.
George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.
Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.
There will always be people saying things can’t be done. And history shows that time and time again things ‘couldn’t be done’ and they were done.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
I would like to pass into history as the man of the economic miracle of Angola… That’s my mission.
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That’s pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.
We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.
I have found Delhi so much more beautiful than Mumbai. South and central Delhi, especially, are just so beautiful – the roads, the trees, the buildings, the history.
I decided to start my channel because my followers on Instagram told me that they wanted to learn how I did the looks I was wearing! So I started YouTube for my Mannyacs, and the rest is history!
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
