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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A historian.
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Examples
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Like the nobles in Boccaccio’s The Decameron, these seven women and three men – among them, a "historician" who becomes the group’s de facto leader, the Indo-Canadian medico who is his partner, a famous South African tenor caught on tour, a striking, near-mute young horseman, and a Cuban-born jill-of-all-trades – use the power of narrative to help them ride out the effects of a plague, and eventually adjust to a frighteningly changed world.
12/10/2006 - 12/17/2006 Miss Snark 2006
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Like the nobles in Boccaccio’s The Decameron, these seven women and three men – among them, a "historician" who becomes the group’s de facto leader, the Indo-Canadian medico who is his partner, a famous South African tenor caught on tour, a striking, near-mute young horseman, and a Cuban-born jill-of-all-trades – use the power of narrative to help them ride out the effects of a plague, and eventually adjust to a frighteningly changed world.
HH Com 73 Miss Snark 2006
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Like the nobles in Boccaccio’s The Decameron, these seven women and three men – among them, a "historician" who becomes the group’s de facto leader, the Indo-Canadian medico who is his partner, a famous South African tenor caught on tour, a striking, near-mute young horseman, and a Cuban-born jill-of-all-trades – use the power of narrative to help them ride out the effects of a plague, and eventually adjust to a frighteningly changed world.
Archive 2006-12-10 Miss Snark 2006
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I didn't know until the year I turned 30 - my husband, the historician, checked the old records of the family from before World War II.
Archive 2001-03-01 Torill 2001
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I didn't know until the year I turned 30 - my husband, the historician, checked the old records of the family from before World War II.
thinking with my fingers Torill 2001
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I didn't know until the year I turned 30 - my husband, the historician, checked the old records of the family from before World War II.
03/01/2001 - 04/01/2001 Torill 2001
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