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  2. Historical significance - Wikipedia

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    Historical significance is a historiographical key concept that explores and seeks to explain the selection of particular social and cultural past events for remembrance by human societies. This element of selection involved in both ascribing and analyzing historical significance is one factor in making the discipline of history distinct from ...

  3. Signified and signifier - Wikipedia

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    French semiotician Roland Barthes used signs to explain the concept of connotation—cultural meanings attached to words—and denotation—literal or explicit meanings of words. [2] Without Saussure's breakdown of signs into signified and signifier, however, these semioticians would not have had anything to base their concepts on.

  4. Timeline of post-classical history - Wikipedia

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    Significance 602–629: Last great Roman–Persian War. Long conflict leaves both empires exhausted and unable to cope with the newly united Arab armies under Islam in the 630s 604–609: Grand Canal in China is fully completed [16] Its main role throughout its history was the transport of grain to the capital. 618: 18 June: Tang dynasty is ...

  5. History - Wikipedia

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    History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') [1] is the systematic study and documentation of the past. [2] [3] History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyse past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect.

  6. Meaning of life - Wikipedia

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    The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.

  7. Significant figures - Wikipedia

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    The significance of trailing zeros in a number not containing a decimal point can be ambiguous. For example, it may not always be clear if the number 1300 is precise to the nearest unit (just happens coincidentally to be an exact multiple of a hundred) or if it is only shown to the nearest hundreds due to rounding or uncertainty.

  8. Gemstone Meanings: Power and Significance of the 25 Most ...

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    And, like Zodiac signs, each gem has its own meaning. Gemstone meanings are inspired by everything from royal traditions and chakras to ancient cultures and spiritual thoughts. “The myriad of ...

  9. Statistical significance - Wikipedia

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    The term significance does not imply importance here, and the term statistical significance is not the same as research significance, theoretical significance, or practical significance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] For example, the term clinical significance refers to the practical importance of a treatment effect.