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Comment on Cursus Honorum: The Roman Hierarchy by James

James — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:55:30 +0000

thanks

Comment on The Dow Jones by bali handicraft

bali handicraft — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:43:24 +0000

dow moving up so fast but now moving down so fast too…..why was that ? its just recession ? or speculation ?

Comment on The Dow Jones by dowswingtrader

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Comment on Themistocles: The Forgotten Hero by markinboone

markinboone — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:27:58 +0000

I couldn’t find a place to leave general comments – only ones for the articles. This is about your site banner. “Those who do not learn…” Whom is the objective case. I know this is a History site, but right up there at the top you’ve got a glaring English error.

Historically, you’ve quoted (though without reference) a misquote. This aphorism is attributed to George Santayana who actually wrote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Here it is in more of the context:

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

– George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 (from http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Santayana)

Comment on One reason for the Fall of Rome by opentopsightseeing

opentopsightseeing — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:25:43 +0000

Thanks
For giving history information of Rome.

http://www.opentopsightseeing.com/

Comment on One reason for the Fall of Rome by peebody

peebody — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:59:22 +0000

you are rong. it fell because it was pushed.

Comment on The Hysksos by rillincorn

rillincorn — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:40:09 +0000

Thank you

Comment on Joan of Arc by Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:43:32 +0000

Nice history of Joan of Arc. For more detailed information about her life try Joan of Arc - MaidofHeaven.com

Comment on Misconceptions of Hellenes (Greece) by Karatheodori

Karatheodori — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:40:54 +0000

I am a Thracian, like Karatheodori and i am Hellin, not Athinian, not a Spartan, Not a Scythian, not a pontic, not a macedonian, not a Korinthian. But all these brides were and are Hellines. Please reed some books….

Comment on Misconceptions of Hellenes (Greece) by Karatheodori

Karatheodori — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:32:45 +0000

Please, it is not very clever and very polite to say: the ancient Greece did not this, was not the other and mostly expressing yourself with a negative no and no and not……. Please say to the people only the truth, as example the Democracy made in Rome or Egypt or Britons…. Also all the words in scientific and philosophic level derive from Ancient Greece. Please tell us, if the Greece is not all these concepts, what people can tell us about these concepts. The oldest skeleton in the world was excavated near the Olympos – Mountain. The 12 Ancient Gods was not Gods but something else, first you need to learn the ancient greek language and after that, it is necessary to go to Greece (Hellenic Republic) to read some books. It is the right of the human kind to know better the original meaning of Hellenismos than reading books from other sources.