History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past.

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Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone and that aims to provide free encyclopedic information to its readers. It was formally launched on 15 January 2001.

Please see the MediaWiki User's Guide to page history on meta for full details on this feature. For example, this User's Guide shows how to view the successive revisions to a page.

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