56 (number) - History

History

  • The number of men who signed the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776.
  • The number of men of Netophah at the census of men of Israel upon return from exile (Ezra 2:22).

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    Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.
    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    They are a sort of post-house,where the Fates
    Change horses, making history change its tune,
    Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states,
    Leaving at last not much besides chronology,
    Excepting the post-obits of theology.
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    There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to “realize” myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have “succeeded” this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is “realizable.” Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
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