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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters is not a novel, according to the staider definitions; it possesses no character who rises above the level of a cipher and no plot worth speaking of. It is sharp, funny and brilliant without suggesting that this sharpness, humour and brilliance is sufficient to carry through its purpose to any ...
Human history or world history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers. They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
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The series, four years in planning, began on 18 January 2010 and was broadcast over 20 weeks. [1] A book to accompany the series, A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor, was published by Allen Lane on 28 October 2010. [2] The entire series is also available for download along with an audio version of the book for purchase.
When We Cease to Understand the World (Spanish: Un Verdor Terrible; lit. ' A Terrible Greening ' ) is a 2021 book by Chilean writer Benjamín Labatut . Originally written in Spanish and published by Anagrama , the book was translated into English by Adrian Nathan West and published by Pushkin Press and New York Review of Books in 2021.
The book is a light study in science and history, portraying the preludes to and times and settings of discoveries that have been the basis of further development, including space travel, flight and nuclear power. Each chapter of the book is divided into sections titled Veni, Vidi, Vici. The reviews of the book have been mixed.
The book is a parody of the style of history teaching in English schools at the time, in particular of Our Island Story. [5] It purports to contain "all the History you can remember", and, in sixty-two chapters, covers the history of England from Roman times through 1066 "and all that", up to the end of World War I, at which time "America was ...