But without committing any of these useful sins, how is a history of Europe to be written?
All of this is building towards a summit on 28 June, which the French Finance Minister, Pierre Moscovici, said "will be a turning point in the history of Europe".
This elevation of a uniquely shameful event in the history of Europe into a source of religious inspiration and even of national pride for Americans has happened as a result of successive surges of interest.
Much of what economists know about structural unemployment has been gleaned from the sorry history of continental Europe, where fat benefits and rigid firing rules dulled labour-market efficiency.
Some of these were failures such as his history of the rise of Christian Europe.
He said the brief history of biosimilars in Europe, where the medicines are approved, showed the need for "actively promoting" the medicines in order to get them used.
This approach has a name functionalism and a history of success in continental Europe.
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In this sense, Japanese history resembles that of western Europe, particularly England, in that the nation was never trampled under by the military aggression of the Chinese, Mongolian, or Islamic empires.
Are also invited directors and high level experts from other European museums, professional institutions or international organizations to allow for an exchange of ideas and best practices (Peace Memorial in Caen, Museum of Europe in Brussels, German Historical Museum in Berlin, National Museum of the Risorgimento in Turin, Council of Europe, International Association of Museums of History, ICOM South-East European Regional Alliance).
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With crackerjack moviemaking and none of the mustiness or restraint of official history, it chronicles the Allied conquest of Nazi-occupied Europe.
Then Mother Nature plugged the rain and the golfing stars shone in "one of the best days in Europe's history" as a "phenomenal" afternoon of golf washed away frustrations of moaning in the morning rain.
So too, with the US's weak economy, Obama's Muslim Brotherhood friendly foreign policy, and Europe's history of responding to economic hardship with xenophobia, Israel's need to develop the means of militarily defending itself from a cascade of emerging threats becomes all the more apparent.
Given the brutal history between Russia and so much of Europe and speculation that so much of the money is ill gotten it is clear why it would be so politically unpalatable to countries in the euro zone, Germany in particular, to bail out Russian depositors.
Mr Lang, until last year a head of history in a sixth form college, also wants a greater awareness of world history, looking beyond the United Kingdom and Europe.
Eastern Europe, with its history of state-sponsored doping and relatively few anti-doping initiatives, will provide more than its share.
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But the white men of Europe, and of America, have shaped Haiti's history from the arrival of Columbus to the exile of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
After five years at the pub, he left to return to music full-time and developed the Rockin' in Rhythm show, which charted the history of jazz and played at theatres throughout Europe.
This intricate web of history places the Middle Eastern societies in a special tension with Europe that is not similarly present in the story of modern India, nor China.
The Budapest-based European Roma Cultural Foundation described Stojka as an "outstanding Austrian Romani woman... and a key figure for the history, art and literature of Romani culture in Europe", reported Reuters news agency.
More Gypsies are beginning to lay claim to their own history, holding a string of memorial services across Europe and North America in August to commemorate the month when several thousand of them had been sent to their deaths at Auschwitz.
History of the U.S., Europe, the U.K. and its former dominions repeatedly shows that environmental protection is a luxury good.
The team's energy-sapping schedule isn't merely the longest in team history, but the most arduous of any team in Europe's five major leagues.
It is this story that Rick Atkinson tells in "The Guns at Last Light, " the third and concluding volume of his history of the U.S. experience fighting in Europe between 1942 and 1945.
In any case, by comparison with most other parts of the world, and with any other era of human history, the United States and western Europe are converging in their attitudes to danger.
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It is criticised for failing to lead, for being a prisoner of its history, for acting selfishly while also being disliked for imposing a culture of austerity on the rest of Europe.
Yet the history that Mr Milosz has witnessed epitomises the tragic story of Europe for nearly a century: from the first world war to the fall of the great monarchies, from Auschwitz and the Warsaw ghetto to the imposition of Soviet control, from the struggles of Solidarity to the globalised market-place.
Until April, Reykjavik and much of northern Europe are forecast to be treated to some of the best showings of the Aurora Borealis in history.
"If you go back to 2002, and look at the recent history of rotation ... it's been Asia, Europe, Africa and with 2014 going to South America, " CONCACAF general secretary Chuck Blazer told The Associated Press.
As a captive of history, Germany appears to be creating the conditions for a Europe wide meltdown.
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