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= = =__** WELCOME TO YEAR 8 **** HISTORY **__ Or HERSTORY! = =HISTORY TOPICS: =
 * **THE RENAISSANCE **
 * **THE AGE OF EXPLORATION **
 * **AUSTRALIAN HISTORY **

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__**Here are some Quotes about History to get you thinking............. **__

//"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach"// **Aldous Huzley, English novelist and critic, (1894-1963) ** 

//"There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it" // **Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish novelist and Nobel Prize winner for Literature (1916-2002)** 

//"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday" // **Pearl Buck, American author, (1892-1973) **

//"Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up" **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">﻿ ** // **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Author Unknown ** **<span style="color: #676567; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">﻿ **

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present" // **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">David Thelen, American historian and academic, (1936-present) **

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Take from the altars of the past, the fire - not the ashes" // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jean Jaures, French socialist leader, (1859-1914) **

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians" // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian theologian and Baptist minister (1861-1918)**

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Legend: A lie that has attained dignity of age" // <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**H.L Mencken, American journalist and critic (1880-1956)** <span style="color: #c85ba5; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 190%;">

//<span style="color: #c85ba5; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 190%;">"Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians" // **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Franklin P. Jones, American humourist and writer, (1908-1980) ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down" // <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**A. Whitney Brown, American Emmy Award winning writer and comedian, (1952-present)** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">

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