Early Middle Ages - History

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“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
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“The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”
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“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)