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historical record

NOUN
  1. writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)

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  • And as the abundant historical record shows, wolves responded to capture (they were regularly caught in traps or in their dens) not by lashing out but by submission; human beings as a matter of course ignored "a frightened creature's obvious pleas for mercy" and proceeded to torture. Wolves, Actors, Jihadis
  • Guide writers have a traditional obligation to honour the historical record, alongside their duty to point out present circumstances.
  • They were neither peaceful nor modest instances of historical agency — in spite of the prevailing social paradigm which rigidly curtailed the scope of women's activities and life choices across the social classes and which persisted well into the twentieth century — and nor were their contributions obscured from the historical record. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
  • The multiple erasures of the historical record, as successive occupations and regimes rewrote truth, have left interesting legacies in Poland.
  • She demonstrates how this colossal structure of deceit clouds the historical record.
  • It aimed to restore to the historical record the contributions made by the Resistance generation to the Greek nation, after decades of partisan vilification and estrangement from the polity. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
  • In terms of the historical record, Royall's personality and hilarious, though often caustic and "impolite" attacks on religious figures--both right and left, from Protestant fanatics of the Jacksonian era like Ezra Stiles Ely to New England abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe--as well as the corrupt political stalwarts of all persuasions, have unfairly dominated and often biased her portrayal in many histories. Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
  • Historical records of solar activity indicate that solar radiation has been increasing since the late 19th century.
  • In consequence, there developed two varieties of wedge-writing: the one that may be termed lapidary, used for the stone inscriptions, the official historical records, and such legal documents as were prepared with especial care; the other cursive, occurring only on legal and commercial clay tablets, and becoming more frequent as we approach the latest period of Babylonian writing, which extends to within a few decades of our era. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • The historical records of the period are, at best fragmentary.
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