Learn from yesterday and live for today
August 02, 2014, Saturday/ 17:00:00/ MARION JAMES / ISTANBUL
Sadly, sometimes history is taught as a dry, closed book. You can learn by rote a set of dates and names. You know the sort of thing I mean -- 1066 and all that. In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. All well and good, but this is an academic exercise and it seems totally unconnected with everyday life.
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