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The Lessons of History is a 1968 book by historians Will Durant and Ariel Durant. The book provides a summary of periods and trends in history they had noted upon completion of the 10th volume of their momentous eleven-volume The Story of Civilization. Will Durant stated that he and Ariel "made note of events and comments that might illuminate ...
Notes [ edit ] ^ Madeleine Albright , for example, in a lengthy account of German sympathizers in Czechoslovakia in the first years of World War II , does not use the phrase to describe their actions until she considers their possible response to a German invasion: "Many, perhaps most, of the Sudetens would have provided the enemy with a fifth ...
[9] [10] 507: Spring: The Franks under Clovis I defeat the Visigoths in the Battle of Vouillé. The Visigoths retreated into Spain. [11] c. 524: Boethius writes his On the Consolation of Philosophy: It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West on Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity. [12] 525
The Fifth Column is set during the Spanish Civil War.Its main character, Philip Rawlings, is an American-born secret agent for the Second Spanish Republic.The play was poorly received upon publication and has been overshadowed by many of the short stories in the anthology.
Historical determinism is the belief that events in history are entirely determined or constrained by various prior forces and, therefore, in a certain sense, inevitable. It is the philosophical view of determinism applied to the process or direction by which history unfolds. Historical determinism places the cause of the event behind it.
The entire history of civilized humanity would, on this scale, take up only one fifth of the last second of the last hour.' The here-and-now, which as the model of messianic time summarizes the entire history of humanity into a monstrous abbreviation, coincides to a hair with the figure, which the history of humanity makes in the universe.
The 5th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Primarily recruited from the London Artisan class, the Fifth Monarchists attracted attention disproportionate to their actual numbers because these included senior officers of the New Model Army. Among them were Major Generals Thomas Harrison and Robert Overton , along with Colonels Nathaniel Rich , John Jones Maesygarnedd and William Goffe ...