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— Ambrose Bierce"God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past."
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Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.
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