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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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"As American public opinion, both on the left and right, for different reasons, is turning against the aid, it's always good to stop yourself before you're being forced," Israeli military historian Danny Orbach told AFP.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

“Many of the big Expos were commemorative,” says Paul Greenhalgh, a British historian and author of two books on World’s Fairs and Expositions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

In 2025, fellow historian Gérard Wettstein tried again.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants.

From Salon • May 14, 2026

The kouros it most resembled, it turned out, was a smaller, fragmentary statue that was found by a British art historian in Switzerland in 1990.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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