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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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One day in December 2022, Ruben Molina — DJ, record collector, and community historian — received a call about a collection of 78rpm records in Azusa.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

“It’s a historic moment,” said Sergio Aguayo, a historian and security analyst at the Colegio de Mexico university in Mexico City.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Early in the process, Quezon, a historian and grandson of a former Philippine president, learned to his dismay that the local hardwood and water-resistant species used to build the galleons had long been wiped out.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

According to historian Patrick Weil, author of “The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic,” more than 22,000 Americans had their citizenship revoked between 1906 and 1967.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

But he was an expert horseman, a self- taught violinist, and an amateur geologist, astronomer, and natural historian.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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