HISTORICISM

historicism

(noun) a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

historicism (countable and uncountable, plural historicisms)

A theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.

(arts) The use of historical styles in contemporary art.

(theology) A method of interpretation in Christian eschatology which attempts to associate Biblical prophecies with actual historical events and symbolic beings with historical persons or societies.

Source: Wiktionary



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2 September 2024

TWAYBLADE

(noun) orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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