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History is the study of the past.

Contents

• General
• Arts, entertainment, and media
• Literature
• Music
• Periodicals
• Television
• Other arts, entertainment, and media
• Computing
• Other uses
• See also

History may also refer to:

General

• History of Earth
• Human history
• History of life
• Philosophy of history
• Chronology of the universe

Arts, entertainment, and media

Computing

• Command history, a feature that allows users to recall, edit and rerun commands that were previously entered
• history (command), an implementation of the command history feature found in many operating system shells
• HISTORY (CONFIG.SYS directive), a console history configuration setting in any issue of DR DOS
• Changelog, or history, a log or record of changes in computer projects
• A database transaction schedule, also called a history, in the fields of databases and transaction processing
• Web browsing history, the log of pages a user has visited on the web

Other uses

• History, a concept in the study of internal validity
• Medical history, the history of a patient
• History (venue), a music venue in Toronto, Ontario Canada

See also

Search for "history" on Wikipedia.

• All pages with titles beginning with History
• All pages with titles containing History
• His Story (disambiguation)
• Historia (disambiguation)
• Histoire (disambiguation)
• Histories (disambiguation)
• Hitstory (disambiguation)
• Natural history (disambiguation)
• Her Story (disambiguation)
• Prehistory (disambiguation)

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