A historical source encompasses "every kind of evidence that human beings have left of their past activities — the written word and spoken word, the shape...
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Look up source or unsourced in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Source may refer to: Historical document Historical source Source (intelligence) or sub...
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Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary...
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relative terms, with sources categorized according to specific historical contexts and what is being studied.: 118–246 Many sources can be considered either...
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History (redirect from Historical change)
about the past. Historical research relies on primary and secondary sources to reconstruct past events and validate interpretations. Source criticism is...
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English word "source". For example, German usually uses Sekundärliteratur ("secondary literature") for secondary sources regarding historical facts, leaving...
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software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative, public manner. Open-source software is...
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Historicity of Jesus (redirect from Sources of Jesus)
non-Christian sources. Reconstructions of the "historical Jesus" are broadly debated for their reliability, but two events of this historical Jesus are subject...
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Historical sources of the Crusades: pilgrimages and exploration include those authors whose work describes pilgrimages to the Holy Land and other explorations...
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Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the...
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Reconstructions of the historical Jesus are based on the Pauline epistles and the gospels, while several non-biblical sources also support his historical existence...
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software, which is licensed restrictively or has undisclosed source code. The historical precursor to FOSS was the hobbyist and academic public domain...
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The Source is a historical novel by James A. Michener published in 1965. It is a survey of the history of the Jewish people and the land of Israel from...
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Wikisource (redirect from Wiki source)
public domain or freely licensed: professionally published works or historical source documents, not vanity products. Verification was initially made offline...
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These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus. Biblical figures that are identified in...
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century, historical criticism became refined into various methodologies used today: philology, textual criticism, literary criticism, source criticism...
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Protohistory (redirect from Proto-historical)
traditions may complicate matters, as they can provide a secondary historical source for even earlier events. Colonial sites involving a literate group...
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Historicity of Muhammad (redirect from Historical Mohammed)
of Muhammad refers to the study of Muhammad as a historical figure and critical examination of sources upon which traditional accounts (the Quran, sīrah...
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conception of historical method, limiting the methodical character of history to source criticism. (Lorenz, 2001) In the early 21st century, source criticism...
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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
in the 1572 publication Octo Mundi Miracula using a combination of historical sources. The seven traditional wonders are the Great Pyramid of Giza, the...
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Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature...
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event and can thus serve as primary sources as important ingredients of the historical methodology. Significant historical documents can be deeds, laws, accounts...
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Historiography of Alexander the Great (redirect from Sources on Alexander the Great)
It is the oldest surviving Greek source (1st century BC). Diodorus regarded Alexander like Caesar as a key historical figure and chronological marker....
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Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events. Although the term is...
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The Buddha (redirect from Historical Buddha)
"The Historical Authenticity of Early Buddhist Literature". Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies. XLIX: 35–70. Embree, Ainslie (1988). Sources of Indian...
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The Acts of the Apostles ("Acts"), the principal historical source for the Apostolic Age, is of interest for biblical scholars and historians of Early...
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Historical negationism, also called historical denialism, is the falsification, trivialization, or distortion of the historical record. This is distinct...
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The Taiwan Historical Relic Source Research Society (台灣史蹟源流研究會), formerly the Taiwan History Seminar (台灣史講習會), was an organization founded by China Youth...
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Hugo (2008) Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Historical Ecology Phase 1: Historical Sources Survey Report. Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary...
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of historical source materials, producing their own publications, and organizing congresses. The title of the first formally established historical society...
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