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History
Historical Facts
An attempt is made first to establish a ''hard core'' of indisputable facts and, on the basis of these, to theorize, because with a truly scientific spirit, the historian should collect all the facts.
Historical facts are immutable, then it would seem to be easy enough task to collect them so that it can being with a body with evidence to develop out interpretation.
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Facts
Such facts are not history itself, but the building blocks from which history is made
- The French Revolution began in 1789
- The first Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove in 1788
- Caesar crossed the Rubican in 49 BCE
- The Battle of Bosworth Field took place in 1485, on Bosworth Hill.
- Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997
The problem of sources
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A ''hard core'' of pure, untainted evidence is a difficult one to maintain.
The view that all the historian has to do is to collect the facts and let as Mach said, 'the bare data confront us' is naïve and untenable.
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