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  2. First Triumvirate - Wikipedia

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    The term "First Triumvirate", while well-known, is a misleading one which is regularly avoided by modern scholars of the late republic. Boards of a certain number of men such as decemviri were a feature of Roman administration, but this alliance was not one of them.

  3. Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, however, newspapers are considered primary sources. The key, in most cases, is determining the origin of the document and its proximity to the actual event". [6] Similar definitions of primary sources are cited by the policy on original research. While most news stories are considered primary sources, some can be secondary ...

  4. Primary source - Wikipedia

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    This wall painting found in the Roman city of Pompeii is an example of a primary source about people in Pompeii in Roman times (portrait of Terentius Neo).. In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time ...

  5. Recorded history - Wikipedia

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    These are sources which, usually, are accounts, works, or research that analyse, assimilate, evaluate, interpret, and/or synthesize primary sources. Tertiary sources are compilations based upon primary and secondary sources and often tell a more generalized account built on the more specific research found in the first two types of sources.

  6. Historical source - Wikipedia

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    A tertiary source is an index or textual consolidation of already published primary and secondary sources [6] that does not provide additional interpretations or analysis of the sources. [7] [8] Some tertiary sources can be used as an aid to find key (seminal) sources, key terms, general common knowledge [9] and established mainstream science on a

  7. Wikipedia : Identifying reliable sources (history)

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    The fact is derived from a scholarly source; The primary source used is the one used from a scholarly source, or a very close analogue; The primary source is attributed, allowing readers to understand the origin of the quote; Finally, the use of primary sources should be considered in terms of the policy regarding the use of images.

  8. Wikipedia talk : Identifying and using primary sources

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    Examples of common primary source formats can include...contemporary newspaper articles…. Newspaper articles, although often written after an event has occurred, are traditionally considered a primary source…. ""Examples of primary information: A current news report that is reporting the facts (not analysis or evaluation) of an event."

  9. Wikipedia : Primary Secondary and Tertiary Sources

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    An eyewitness account of a traffic accident is an example of a primary source. Other examples include archeological artifacts; photographs; videos; historical documents such as diaries, census results, maps, or transcripts of surveillance, public hearings, trials, or interviews; untabulated results of surveys or questionnaires; the original ...