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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