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CONTEMPORARY HISTORY: MODERN ERA

It covers the events from cold war to present situations. The events in world war 2 is also a coverage.

TRIVIA COLLECTION 

• In England and the American colonies they year 1752 only had 354 days. In that year, the type of calendar was changed, and 11 days were lost.
  
• In the Holocaust between 5.1 and 6 million of Europe's 10 million Jews were killed. An additional 6 million 'unwanted' people were also executed, including more than half of Poland's educated populace.

QUOTES OF THE MOMENT

• To know the truth about history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.
   Roy P. Basler
• With the historians it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
  Kenneth Stampp
• The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

          Aldous Huxley