In the 1954 film The Barefoot Contessa, Harry Dawes, a screenwriter and director played by Humphrey Bogart, summarizes the difference between a movie script and real life. “A script has to make sense. Life doesn’t.” The comment explains why some people prefer fiction over…
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Why did states and empires emerge earlier in some parts of the world than in others? The question has long intrigued historians, who have wanted to…
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Music as time goes by
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Florence Nightingale’s diagram of deaths
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Don't bother to write
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How we got here and where we’re going
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Fairness and justice
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(Catalog of Amazing Ideas)
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A User's Guide to History