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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.
Two days later, the German-language Wikipedia, the largest non-English language version, passed the 10,000 article mark. On 20 June 2003, the same day that the Wikimedia Foundation was founded, "Wikiquote" was created. A month later, "Wikibooks" was launched. "Wikisource" was set up towards the end of the year.
Title is the debut major-label studio album by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor (pictured), released on January 9, 2015.Initially a songwriter for other artists in 2013, Trainor signed with Epic Records the following year and began recording material she co-wrote with Kevin Kadish.
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001 [20] (referred to as Wikipedia Day) as a single English-language edition at www.wikipedia.com, [W 6] and was announced by Sanger on the Nupedia mailing list. [22] The name originated from a blend of the words wiki and encyclopedia.
The term history comes from the Greek historia (ἱστορία), "an account of one's inquiries," and shares that etymology with the English word story as narrative. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica stated that "history in the wider sense is all that has happened, not merely all the phenomena of human life, but those of the natural world as well.
The English Wikipedia is the most edited Wikipedia's language version of all time. The English Wikipedia reached 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April 2007, [22] over a year since the millionth Wikipedian registered an account in February 2006. [23] Over 1,100,000 volunteer editors have edited Wikipedia more than 10 times. [24]
Old English is essentially a distinct language from Modern English and is virtually impossible for 21st-century unstudied English-speakers to understand. Its grammar was similar to that of modern German: nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs had many more inflectional endings and forms , and word order was much freer than in Modern English.
Local history – study of history in a geographically local context; Military history – study of warfare and wars in history; Naval history – branch of military history devoted to warfare at sea or in bodies of water; Paleography – study of ancient texts; Philosophy of history – philosophical study of history and its discipline.