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  2. Presentism (historical analysis) - Wikipedia

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    In literary and historical analysis, presentism is a term for the introduction of present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the past. Some modern historians seek to avoid presentism in their work because they consider it a form of cultural bias, and believe it creates a distorted understanding of their subject matter. [1]

  3. Understood Betsy - Wikipedia

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    The child thrives in her new environment, learning to make butter, boil maple syrup, and tend the animals. [1] She also loves to read to herself and to her family. When Frances announces she is to be married and has come to "save" Elizabeth Ann from the dreaded Putney cousins, she is amazed to discover that the little girl is quite content to stay.

  4. Flesch–Kincaid readability tests - Wikipedia

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    "The Flesch–Kincaid" (F–K) reading grade level was developed under contract to the U.S. Navy in 1975 by J. Peter Kincaid and his team. [1] Related U.S. Navy research directed by Kincaid delved into high-tech education (for example, the electronic authoring and delivery of technical information), [2] usefulness of the Flesch–Kincaid readability formula, [3] computer aids for editing tests ...

  5. Visual literacy - Wikipedia

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    Charles Joseph Minard's Carte Figurative illustrates facts related to Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign.. Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image, extending the meaning of literacy, which commonly signifies interpretation of a written or printed text.

  6. Information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    Information retrieval is the science [1] of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for the metadata that describes data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds. Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called information overload. An IR system is a ...

  7. Glossary of history - Wikipedia

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    Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...

  8. Raygor readability estimate - Wikipedia

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    A rendition of the Raygor Graph. The Raygor estimate graph is a readability metric for English text. It was developed by Alton L. Raygor, who published it in 1977. [1]The US grade level is calculated by the average number of sentences and letters per hundred words.

  9. Periodization - Wikipedia

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    In historiography, periodization is the process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified, and named blocks of time for the purpose of study or analysis. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This is usually done to understand current and historical processes, and the causality that might have linked those events.