And just to give you some small defense of that approach, I always like to ask students, "Suppose we didn't have a single historical record, no newspaper, no diaries. You know nothing totally reliable for what happened in the latter part of the eighteenth century in America."

我可以给你们一个反驳的理由,我总是问学生们,"如果没有历史文献,报纸和日记,那么对于美国十八世纪后期的历史,你们将一无所知"

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And with Apple supposedly in content delivery talks with the nation's newspaper of record, well, the remarks that begin at about 8:15 are certainly suspicious.

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It is the daily newspaper of record in Los Angeles.

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The Times, which has been regarded as the U.K.'s newspaper of record for most of its 221-year history, is published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly-owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ).

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