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historical

Historical , events, record, leaders, etc. all relate to things that happened in the distant past. We tried to look at the problem in its historical context, not just how it is today. The historical record shows that the country grew dramatically during that period.

historical

of or relating to the study of history historical scholars a historical perspective having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary the historical Jesus doubt that a historical Camelot every existed actual historical events (= historic) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past historic victories historical (or historic) times a historical character (= diachronic) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time diachronic linguistics

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Simple sentences

You'll find that book in the historical section of the library.
The story approximates to historical truth.
The actors appeared in historical costumes.
Christopher Columbus abhorred historical inaccuracies.
Tom spent all weekend reading a historical novel.
This is an historical moment.
This is a historical moment.
It's sad that many historical buildings got destroyed during the war.
That film was an extremely inaccurate portrayal of key historical events.
This city has many historical buildings.
The historical building was repaired using traditional methods.
This historical building is beautiful.
We have a rich historical heritage.
And as with so many aspects of British life, there's a good historical reason for it.
He will be reading a historical novel.
What's your favorite historical movie?
A historical event at Tatoeba: on July 12, 2012, Esperanto outstripped Japanese in terms of number of sentences and took second place in the ranking of languages.
If you were only able to meet with one historical figure, who would you like to meet?

Movie subtitles

Well, at least you picked historical figures.
This movie has been shot in the Belvedere castle in Prague in Lobkowitz and other historical places.
I must confess, the historical significance of the ballroom doesn't impress me at all.
The events in this film are based on historical facts.
These are facts, historical facts not schoolbook history, not Mr. Wells' history, but history, nevertheless.
Historical precedents for this hope range from Jacob's pillow to Freud's couch.
We've tried to teach you the accepted historical styles.
One of historical significance.
He's practically a historical character by now.
I like to visit historical places.
Citizens of Maysville, you are about to witness the start of an historical event, which may well be remembered as the classic contest of all time.
It's kind of an educational, kind of historical kind of place.
A historical killer.
A presentation from a cultural and historical point of view in 7 chapters of moving pictures.
The BoIsheviks are violating historical processes.
You've presented your arguments in every historical spot.
In this legendary, historical heaven of yours.
On the walls of this rotunda are eight historical paintings. - with the landing of the Pilgrims.
But the historical character. - It's not so important to Sophie.
The Flood's been proven to be a historical fact.
Almost a historical act!
A historical act?
Here is where the real historical significance of the case lies.
If war comes for us these kids shouldn't fight just for historical dates but for the ideals behind them.
Leap into it with the same hearts that got you across the Rhine River and other historical places.
That's a historical fact.
This movie was filmed in Castle Belvedere in Prague, Palazzo Furstenberg, in Lobkowitz and in other historical places.
Today we are not going to concern ourselves with chemical equations. Geographical questions or matters of historical import.
Railway Historical Accident Session of Congress, no.
Actually, I'm a historical Republican, but I'm also a centrist anarchist.
Today's a historical day.
Dr. Galbraithe is viewing the historical records of the years just after your flight.
Aren't you going to look at the historical records?
I like to call this war a process of historical energy.
I told you these are historical times.
What historical Italian figure would you like to play? Do you like men with beards?
And then some places that have to do with the case, historical aspects.

News and current affairs

PARIS - As the economic crisis deepens and widens, the world has been searching for historical analogies to help us understand what has been happening.
Using this macro-historical framework, we can see Japanese deflation, European debt, and even the Arab Spring as phases of systemic changes within complex structures that are interacting with one another in a new, multipolar global system.
But Serbia claims that the province remains an essential part of its historical and cultural tradition.
Ideological hawks view the occupied territories as an integral part of the historical Land of Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people.
For them, the territories are part of the Jewish patrimony, which is why they insist on referring to the West Bank by its Hebrew historical appellation - Judea and Samaria.
For them, Jewish settlements in the territories are not a return to historical lands, but security outposts, aimed at preventing - or repelling from a better strategic position - an attack on the Israeli heartland.
For ideological hawks, compromises are treason: how can you jeopardize the historical patrimony of the Jewish people, let alone God's promise to Abraham?
He will be remembered as an African leader of major historical significance: visionary, despotic, and indispensable.
We are skeptical about unfettered individualism because of our awareness of man's sins, but also because of our profound awareness of the historical defects and aberrations in Germany's 20 th century history.
The first is that democracies have, as a matter of historical record, never fought each other.
The occasion for this latest round of historical jousting is the release of Clooney's new film The Monuments Men, which details Allied efforts to rescue art works from the Nazis during World War II.
At that point, only one conclusion is possible: The plundered Marbles must be reunited in their historical home and exhibited to the world as the ancient artists intended.
The emergence of kings and queens as specifically national figureheads is a relatively recent historical development.
This historical analogy, though increasingly popular, is misleading.
The end of the East-West ideological divide and the end of absolute faith in markets are historical turning points.
We can only hope that, in the end, the consequences of 2009 similarly prove to be far less dramatic than we now - intuitively and in our historical reflexes - feel them to be.
Finally, historical issues could still resurface to cause new problems.
Africa has thus contributed nothing to the historical accumulation of greenhouse gases through carbon-based industrialization.
The colonial powers' arbitrary demarcation of borders lumped together in one state diverse ethnic groups which may have been historical antagonists.
The ascendency of the mandarins is a legacy of Japan's unique historical development dating back to its early modern period.
September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point.
To be sure, Bush reinforced both trends, but their real causes lie in objective historical factors, namely America's being the sole world power since 1989 and Europe's self-inflicted weakness.

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