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Herodoto (c. 484 a. C. - c. 425 a. C.) es a menudo considerado el "padre de la historia".
Herodoto (c. 484 a. C. - c. 425 a. C.) es a menudo
considerado el "padre de la historia".


La historia (del griego ἱστορία , historia , que significa "indagación; conocimiento adquirido mediante la investigación") es el estudio del pasado. Los eventos que ocurrieron antes de la invención de los sistemas de escritura se consideran prehistoria . "Historia" es un término general que se relaciona con eventos pasados, así como con la memoria, el descubrimiento, la recopilación, la organización, la presentación y la interpretación de información sobre estos eventos. Los historiadores colocan el pasado en contexto utilizando fuentes históricas como documentos escritos, relatos orales, marcadores ecológicos y objetos materiales que incluyen arte y artefactos.

La historia también incluye la disciplina académica que usa la narrativa para describir, examinar, cuestionar y analizar una secuencia de eventos pasados ​​e investigar los patrones de causa y efecto que están relacionados con ellos. Los historiadores buscan comprender y representar el pasado a través de narrativas. A menudo debaten qué narrativa explica mejor un evento, así como la importancia de las diferentes causas y efectos. Los historiadores también debaten la naturaleza de la historia y su utilidad al discutir el estudio de la disciplina como un fin en sí mismo y como una forma de proporcionar "perspectiva" sobre los problemas del presente.

Las historias comunes a una cultura en particular, pero no respaldadas por fuentes externas (como los cuentos que rodean al Rey Arturo ), generalmente se clasifican como herencia cultural o leyendas . La historia se diferencia del mito en que está respaldada por pruebas . Sin embargo, las influencias antiguas han ayudado a generar interpretaciones variantes de la naturaleza de la historia que han evolucionado a lo largo de los siglos y continúan cambiando en la actualidad. El estudio moderno de la historia es amplio e incluye el estudio de regiones específicas y el estudio de ciertos elementos temáticos o de actualidad de la investigación histórica. La historia a menudo se enseña como parte de la educación primaria y secundaria, y el estudio académico de la historia es una disciplina importante. en estudios universitarios.

Herodoto , un historiador griego del siglo V a. C. a menudo se considera (dentro de la tradición occidental) como el "padre de la historia" o el "padre de las mentiras". Junto con su contemporáneo Tucídides , ayudó a sentar las bases del estudio moderno de la historia humana. Sus obras se siguen leyendo hoy en día, y la brecha entre el Herodoto centrado en la cultura y el Tucídides centrado en el ejército sigue siendo un punto de discusión o enfoque en la escritura histórica moderna. En el este de Asia, se sabía que una crónica estatal , los Anales de primavera y otoño , se compilaba desde el 722 a.  C., aunque solo se  han conservado textos del siglo II a . C. ( Artículo completo ... )

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  • The first wave of US troops lands on Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, 29 February 1944

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    Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who had already tried and failed to draw Coalition troops into costly ground engagements by shelling Saudi Arabian positions and oil storage tanks and firing Scud surface-to-surface missiles at Israel, ordered the invasion of Saudi Arabia from southern Kuwait. The 1st and 5th Mechanized Divisions and 3rd Armored Division were ordered to conduct a multi-pronged invasion toward Khafji, engaging Saudi Arabian, Kuwaiti, and U.S. forces along the coastline, with a supporting Iraqi commando force ordered to infiltrate further south by sea and harass the Coalition's rear. (Full article...)
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    Richard III, the final ruler of the Plantagenet dynasty, was killed on 22 August 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses. His body was taken to Greyfriars Friary in Leicester, where it was buried in a crude grave in the friary church. Following the friary's dissolution in 1538 and subsequent demolition, Richard's tomb was lost. An erroneous account arose that Richard's bones had been thrown into the River Soar at the nearby Bow Bridge. (Full article...)
  • The cliffs of Waterloo Bay

    The Waterloo Bay massacre, also known as the Elliston massacre, was a clash between European settlers and Aboriginal Australians that took place on the cliffs of Waterloo Bay near Elliston, South Australia, in late May 1849. Part of the Australian frontier wars, the most recent scholarship indicates that it is likely that it resulted in the deaths of tens or scores of Aboriginal people. The events leading up to the fatal clash included the killings of three European settlers by Aboriginal people, the killing of one Aboriginal person, and the death by poisoning of five others by European settlers. The limited archival records indicate that three Aboriginal people were killed or died of wounds from the clash and five were captured, although accounts of the killing of up to 260 Aboriginal people at the cliffs have circulated since at least 1880.

    Aboriginal people from the west coast of South Australia have oral history traditions that a large-scale massacre occurred. In the 1920s and 1930s, several historians examined the archival record and concluded that there is no formal or direct evidence of a massacre on a large scale, and opined that the recorded events were exaggerated by storytellers over time. More recently, another historian concluded that the rumours relating to a massacre are founded in fact, and that some form of punitive action did take place on the cliffs of Waterloo Bay, but that it had been embellished into a myth. (Full article...)

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    Munro was born in Canada to an American father and a British mother, and his family moved to the United States when he was a child. He was raised in South Cle Elum, Washington, and attended Central Washington College of Education before volunteering for military service shortly before the United States entered World War II. Munro and his shipmate Raymond Evans were known as the Gold Dust Twins, so-called because they were inseparable. (Full article...)
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    Nine years later, he defeated and killed Edwin's eventual successor, Oswald, at the Battle of Maserfield; from this point he was probably the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon rulers of the time, laying the foundations for the Mercian supremacy over the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. He repeatedly defeated the East Angles and drove Cenwalh the king of Wessex into exile for three years. He continued to wage war against the Bernicians of Northumbria. Thirteen years after Maserfield, he suffered a crushing defeat by Oswald's successor and brother Oswiu, and was killed at the Battle of the Winwaed in the course of a final campaign against the Bernicians. (Full article...)
  • James Bryant Conant in 1932

    James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Conant obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard in 1916. During World War I he served in the U.S. Army, working on the development of poison gases, especially Lewisite. He became an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard in 1919 and the Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1929. He researched the physical structures of natural products, particularly chlorophyll, and he was one of the first to explore the sometimes complex relationship between chemical equilibrium and the reaction rate of chemical processes. He studied the biochemistry of oxyhemoglobin providing insight into the disease methemoglobinemia, helped to explain the structure of chlorophyll, and contributed important insights that underlie modern theories of acid-base chemistry.

    In 1933, Conant became the President of Harvard University with a reformist agenda that involved dispensing with a number of customs, including class rankings and the requirement for Latin classes. He abolished athletic scholarships, and instituted an "up or out" policy, under which scholars who were not promoted were terminated. His egalitarian vision of education required a diversified student body, and he promoted the adoption of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and co-educational classes. During his presidency, women were admitted to Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School for the first time. (Full article...)
  • Aerial view of Indefatigable at sea, 7 November 1944

    HMS Indefatigable was an Implacable-class aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy (RN) during World War II. She was completed in 1944, and her aircraft made several attacks that year against the German battleship Tirpitz, inflicting only light damage; they also raided targets in Norway. The ship was transferred to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) at the end of the year and attacked Japanese-controlled oil refineries in Sumatra in January 1945 before joining the American forces in March as they prepared to invade the island of Okinawa in Operation Iceberg. Indefatigable and the BPF joined the Americans in attacking the Japanese Home Islands in July and August. Following the end of hostilities she visited ports in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

    After returning to the UK in early 1946, Indefatigable was modified for transport duties, and ferried troops and civilians for the rest of the year before she was reduced to reserve. She was recommissioned in 1950 as a training ship for service with the Home Fleet Training Squadron, participating in exercises and making several port visits overseas. The Board of Admiralty decided that she was redundant in early 1954 and decommissioned her later that year. Indefatigable was sold for scrap the following year. (Full article...)
  • Thomas Baker as a cadet pilot c.1917

    Thomas Charles Richmond Baker, DFC, MM & Bar (2 May 1897 – 4 November 1918) was an Australian soldier, aviator, and flying ace of the First World War. Born in Smithfield, South Australia, he was an active sportsman in his youth and developed a keen interest in aviation. He was employed as a clerk with the Bank of New South Wales, before he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in July 1915, for service in World War I. Posted to an artillery unit on the Western Front, he was awarded the Military Medal for carrying out numerous repairs on a communications line while subject to severe artillery fire. In June 1917, Baker was awarded a bar to his decoration for his part in quelling a fire in one of the artillery gun pits that was endangering approximately 300 rounds of shrapnel and high explosive.

    In September 1917, Baker applied for a position as a mechanic in the Australian Flying Corps. He was instead selected for flight training, and was posted to courses in the United Kingdom. He graduated as a pilot and was commissioned a second lieutenant in March 1918. Posted for active duty in France that June, Baker joined the ranks of No. 4 Squadron AFC. Over the next four months, he rose to the rank of captain and was credited with bringing down 12 German aircraft. He was shot down and killed on 4 November 1918. In February 1919, he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. (Full article...)
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    The episode depicts its main characters' final hours before a major British offensive on the Western Front of the First World War, and Captain Blackadder's attempts to escape his fate by feigning madness; after he fails to convince General Melchett, and Field Marshal Haig's advice proves useless, he resigns himself to taking part in the push. "Goodbyeee" has a darker tone than other episodes in the series, culminating in its acclaimed ending in which the main characters are assumed to die in machine-gun fire. The episode's theme of death ties in with the series' use of gallows humour, its criticism and satire of war, and its depiction of authority figures contentedly sending their subordinates to face the enemy, while unwilling to do so themselves. (Full article...)
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La Cleopatra de Berlín , una escultura romana de Cleopatra con una diadema real , de mediados del siglo I a.C. (alrededor de la época de sus visitas a Roma en el 46-44 a.C.), descubierta en una villa italiana a lo largo de la Via Appia y ahora ubicada en Altes. Museo en Alemania.

Cleopatra VII Philopator (en griego Koin :: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ ; 69 a. C. - 10 de agosto del 30 a. C.) fue reina del reino ptolemaico de Egipto y su último gobernante activo. Miembro de la dinastía ptolemaica , era descendiente de su fundador, Ptolomeo I Soter , ungeneral griego macedonio y compañero de Alejandro Magno . Después de la muerte de Cleopatra , Egipto se convirtió en una provincia del Imperio Romano , marcando el final del penúltimo estado helenístico y la eraque había durado desde el reinado de Alejandro (336–323 a. C.). Su lengua materna era el griego koiné y fue la única gobernante ptolemaica que aprendió el idioma egipcio .

En el 58 a. C., Cleopatra presuntamente acompañó a su padre, Ptolomeo XII Auletes , durante su exilio a Roma después de una revuelta en Egipto (un estado cliente romano ) que permitió a su hija Berenice IV reclamar el trono. Berenice murió en el 55 a. C. cuando Ptolomeo regresó a Egipto con la ayuda militar romana. Cuando murió en el 51 a. C., comenzó el reinado conjunto de Cleopatra y su hermano Ptolomeo XIII , pero una pelea entre ellos condujo a una guerra civil abierta . Después de perder la batalla de Pharsalus en Grecia en el 48 a. C. contra su rival Julio César (un dictador y cónsul romano ) enEn la Guerra Civil de César , el estadista romano Pompeyo huyó a Egipto. Pompeyo había sido un aliado político de Ptolomeo XII, pero Ptolomeo XIII, a instancias de los eunucos de su corte, hizo que Pompeyo lo emboscara y lo matara antes de que César llegara y ocupara Alejandría . Luego, César intentó reconciliar a los hermanos ptolemaicos rivales, pero el principal consejero de Ptolomeo, Potheinos, consideró que los términos de César favorecían a Cleopatra, por lo que sus fuerzas la sitiaron a ella y a César en el palacio . Poco después de que el sitio fue levantado por los refuerzos, Ptolomeo XIII murió en el 47 aC Batalla del Nilo ; La media hermana de Cleopatra, Arsinoe IV , finalmente fue exiliada a Éfeso.por su papel en la ejecución del asedio. César declaró a Cleopatra y su hermano Ptolomeo XIV como gobernantes conjuntos, pero mantuvo un romance privado con Cleopatra que produjo un hijo, Cesarión . Cleopatra viajó a Roma como reina cliente en los años 46 y 44 a. C., donde se hospedó en la villa de César . Después de los asesinatos de César y (bajo sus órdenes) Ptolomeo XIV en el 44 a. C., nombró a Césarión co-gobernante. ( Artículo completo ... )

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