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  2. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    1 History. 2 See also. 3 References. ... [1] Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [2] ...

  3. Historical method - Wikipedia

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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 sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...

  4. Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (history) - Wikipedia

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    The primary source used is the one used from a scholarly source, or a very close analogue; The primary source is attributed, allowing readers to understand the origin of the quote; Finally, the use of primary sources should be considered in terms of the policy regarding the use of images. There should not be too many, and they are not required.

  5. Year Without a Summer - Wikipedia

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    The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). [1] Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000, [ 2 ] resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern ...

  6. List of United States federal executive orders - Wikipedia

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    Executive orders per year Period 1: George Washington: Independent: 8 Unnumbered 7.95 1.0 April 30, 1789 – March 4, 1797 2: John Adams: Federalist: 1 Unnumbered 4 0.3 March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801 3: Thomas Jefferson: Democratic-Republican: 4 Unnumbered 8 0.5 March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809 4: James Madison: Democratic-Republican 1 ...

  7. Help:Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup/reliable ...

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    The Center for Urban Forest Research estimates that shade from the 26,000 trees in Claremont, California, saves the city more than 2.1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year in reduced air conditioning costs, equivalent to more than $468,000 in savings.

  8. Historical source - Wikipedia

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    A tertiary source is an index or textual consolidation of already published primary and secondary sources [6] that does not provide additional interpretations or analysis of the sources. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Some tertiary sources can be used as an aid to find key (seminal) sources, key terms, general common knowledge [ 9 ] and established mainstream ...

  9. Primary source - Wikipedia

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    This wall painting found in the Roman city of Pompeii is an example of a primary source about people in Pompeii in Roman times (portrait of Terentius Neo).. In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time ...