History
The first oil was discovered by Mobil Oil in February 1953, and it started a boom that saw the investment of $900 million in the area.
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“History takes time.... History makes memory.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments.”
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“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)