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Everyone had
the History lessons at school, but it doesn't mean that all
of us studied the same history. We live in different
countries with various pictures of our past. If you try to
speak about Physic or Math with a person from another
country, you would find a lot of common things. Biology or
Geography? Almost the same...perhaps one knows better his
own area and could have some problems with remembering far
countries animals, plants, rivers and mountains. Sure, we
have different languages and study the literature of our
native writers. Well, even the less educated person still
could find on his mind several names of foreign authors.
The only
school subject which is absolutely different in every
country it's History. I hope that Russian History corner
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interesting
events and persons, which are well known for every Russian
pupil. It's impossible to know the country without the most
important periods in its past.
My interest
towards the subject started many years ago, during school
lessons. The teacher's personality is the main reason to
love or hate a school subject. I was lucky to meet a right
one. Galina Fedorovna made her lessons a kind of theatre
play. Her strict voice could change easily and various
characters from the far past appeared in front of us. The
usual pointer, which other teachers use for showing
something at the maps, became a tool of a prehistorical
hunter. After her lessons there was a strong wis to read
more and find new details about that period.
If you are
fond of adventure books, so just read about the Russian
History. There isn't even a year which could be called calm
or happy. Hard life but fascinating reading. I would be glad
to help you answering your questions, if you have some. And
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The
question of whether world peace will ever be possible can
only be answered by someone
familiar with world history. To be familiar with world
history means, however, to know human
beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast
difference, which most people will
never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will
be and viewing it as one might like
it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has
never paid heed to human desires and
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The common
man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement,
comfort -- "happiness."
He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world
history, for it contains nothing of
the sort. The best that history has created is great
suffering.
Oswald
Spengler |
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In
history it is not idealism, goodness or morality that reign
-- their kingdom is not of this
world -- but rather resolve, energy, presence of mind, and
practical ability. One cannot erase
this fact with laments and moral judgments. That is the way
man is; that is the way life is;
that is way history is. Oswald Spengler |
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All the
historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.--Anatole
France
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.--Samuel
Butler
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering
questions that no one has asked them.--Leo Tolstoy
History: gossip well told.--Elbert Hubbard, The
Roycroft Dictionary
The very ink with which all history is written is merely
fluid prejudice.--Mark Twain
Those who don't study the past will repeat its errors. Those
who do study it will find some
other ways to err.--Charles Wolf Jr., U.S. economist
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.--George
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The British
never remember it, the Irish never forget it, the Russians
never make it, and the
Americans never learn from it.--Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
(1895--1979), Catholic archbishop
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant
because it isn't here.--Finley
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