Events, Verisoph

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c. 270 The destruction of the Library of Alexandria contested 0 cit. no story The great library declined and was damaged across several events, not one dramatic fire: Caesar’s war in 48 BCE, later imperial turmoil, and the destruction of the Serapeum in 391 CE. The single catastrophic burning is largely a later legend; the real loss was gradual. ●●
1918 Cecil's Birmingham speech on the League contested ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The day after the armistice, Cecil set out the kind of League he expected, one that would only delay war and leave state sovereignty intact. Quigley reads it as proof the Group never meant the League to enforce collective security. ●●
1918 Gatto's claim of a 1918 Carnegie history meeting contested ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto asserts that in 1918 Andrew Carnegie funded a London meeting of the American Historical Association where, he claims, an agreement was made to rewrite American history for social efficiency. This is Gatto's contested reading of the event. ●●
1948 Quigley: Wallace's 1948 run destroyed U.S. Communism contested ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley argues that Henry Wallace's third-party campaign, engineered with Michael Straight, drove Communists out of the unions and progressive movements, ending Communism as a U.S. political force by December 1948. ●●
1990 Bush proclaims a 'new world order' to Congress contested ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President George H.W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress on September 11, 1990, at the start of the first Iraq War, describing the emergence of a 'new world order,' a phrase that later became subject to conspiracy theories. ●●