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Amateur historian Rick Rogers has spent decades developing a theory that either Dutch or Spanish traders visited Hawaii before Captain Cook's 1778 arrival. Maps from 1589 showing an approximation of Hawaii's shape and location; remains of a 1664 women indicating she had syphilis and the disappearance of 5 Spanish ships plying the Manila to Acapulco trade in the 1500 and 1600s make his case.
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Viggo Mortensen theorizes: "Great men don't make history, little men do. Whenever change as happened, it has been through protest, dissent, struggle, social movements, ordinary people picketing, striking, boycotting, sitting down, sitting in." We make history through our everyday decisions.
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Catherine the Great Didn't Horse Around
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View of history associated with the French 'annales' group of historians. History should attempt to give as encompassing an account of the social, economic, and cultural structures of the past as possible, rather than narrate events. P Burke, ed., Economy and Society in Early Modern Europe (London,...
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Theory of historical periods. Prehistory can be divided into Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages. The terms have survived longer than the historical theory on which they were based. Alan Bullock, Oliver Stallybrass, and Stephen Trombley, eds. The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought, 2nd edn (London, 1988)...
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Optimistic theory of history. Human societies move towards higher and higher forms of culture or organization. There is much disagreement as to the character of this improvement, as there is also much scepticism about it. David Miller et al., eds. The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought (Oxford,...
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Optimistic theory of history. Human societies move towards higher and higher forms of culture or organization. There is much disagreement as to the character of this improvement, as there is also much scepticism about it. David Miller et al., eds. The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought (Oxford,...
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Anonymous theory of the role of chance in history.History is as much influenced by unpredictable and unique factors as it is by general processes, movements, or trends. The shape of Cleopatra's nose, which was allegedly one of her more alluring features, beguiled Anthony and thus caused havoc amongst...
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Thomas Friedman says multinational supply chains like Dell prevent war.