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Subject: Re: A Blast from the past - Feng Hsu Let's start with the Rules

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:39:22 04/26/05

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On April 26, 2005 at 16:01:57, chandler yergin wrote:

<big snip>

>
>You really don't believe this?
>"No contemporary writer can give an accurate view of anything."
>
>"Only long after purported events as information is accumulated,  and
>the Historians assimilate the totality of the evidence, can a more accurate
>picture of what really happpened be provided."
>
>"This is true for War.. Politics, Stock Market, Religious thought,
>and 'Cultural' events."
>
>Then not only am I surprised, I'm appalled.


The be appalled.  I want to know what actually happened.  Now what someone
"thought" happened based on speculation, conjecture, rumor, fantasy, etc.

History is a precisely recorded enumeration of events as they happen.  With no
"interpretation" or "justification" built in.  What you are wanting is "not"
history.

I can figure out what happened by reading an accurate report about Little Big
Horn, or the Alamo.  I don't need any "interpretation" or "spin" thrown in to
confuse things.  Just an exact account of events.  That is history.



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