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(Background), noun account, adventures, all aspects, all sides, delineation, depiction, each and every deeail, entire universe, epic, events, exposition, facts, information, intelligence, narrative, recapitulation, recital, record, representation, retelling, review, saga, series of incidents, story, summary

history

(Past), noun annals, archives, bygone era, chronicle, days of old, earlier point in time, historical times, old days, prior point in time, prior time, record, schedule, the past, times gone by, tradition, yesterday
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HISTORY, evidence. The recital of facts written and given out for true.
2. Facts stated in histories may be read in evidence, on the ground of their notoriety. Skin. R. 14; 1 Ventr. R. 149. But these facts must be of a public nature, and the general usages and customs of the country. Bull. P. 248; 7 Pet. R. 554; 1 Phil. & Am. Ev. 606; 30 Howell's St. Tr. 492. Histories are not admissible in relation to matters not of a public nature, such as the custom of a particular town, a descent, the boundaries of a county, and the like. 1 Salk. 281; S. C. Skin. 623; T. Jones, 164; 6 C. & P. 586, note. See 9 Ves. 347; 10 Ves. 354; 3 John. 385; 1 Binn. 399; and Notoriety.

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(32) The Free Will, American, and Missionary Baptists all have recent official histories. (33)

Baptist historiography in the new century: what themes should we be addressing?

According to this logic, individuals should write their own histories, or record the events of their lives, like a masterful Rinehart or Trueblood, who slips outside of history and into a mask to manipulate or take advantage of a given historical context, to define his own identity.

Plunging (outside of) history: naming and self-possession in Invisible Man

Please call 202-433-2321 or DSN 288-2321 if you have any questions regarding command histories.

How to make history

This requires segmenting policyholders into groups with similar credit histories and studying the relationship between these policyholder groups and their subsequent loss experience.

Credit Check

My point, simply stated, is that there are certain motives and compulsions, that have affected the Orientalist reception and presentation of Oriental histories, which are not purely imperial.

Orientalism and Arab-Islamic history: an inquiry into the orientalists' motives and compulsions

As the 1993 case in northern Ohio illustrates, criminal histories can prove valuable for identifying and prosecuting repeat offenders.

Criminal history investigations: the key to locking up the repeat offender

We have 19 oral histories from Kaiser Permanente, but that still only covers the leaders.

Oral histories: the most overlooked public relations tool

Earl Caldwell, a Hampton University professor, former New York Times reporter and New York Daily News columnist and a founding director of the institute, has been recording the oral histories and preparing them for public use.

Leaving a trail: oral history project seeks to record a pioneering generation of journalists

Reacting to this preoccupation with ideology, Grene argues that Shakespeare's serial histories were as much a response to market pressures and theatrical practice as they were to Tudor propaganda or post-Armada politics.

Nicholas Grene. Shakespeare's Serial History Plays

In the video, Dion declares the whole practice to be "like an archaeological discovery" in which treasures and histories can be found under the top layer of paint ("one artwork discovered under another").

Mark Dion: American Fine Arts/Aldrich Museum. (Reviews: New York/Ridgefield, CT)

In Arrowhead, a short drama-cum-documentary, Ray Bud (Don McKellar) is our deadpan tour guide through his personal suburban Toronto history, imagining the long-buried histories of those--native tribes or mastodons--who once strode through the primeval swamps of Thorncliffe Park before him.

The herd: Peter Lynch and the secret history of Canada

Added to this is the way in which the way the histories of imperial role have tended to map on to the division of labor of colonial scholarship in Middle East studies.