his·tor·i·cal

(hĭ-stôr′ĭ-kəl, -stŏr′-)

adj.

a. Of or relating to history; concerned with past events: a historical account.

b. Based on past events or set in the past: a historical novel.

c. Used in or providing evidence of the past: historical costumes; historical records.

2. Concerned with phenomena as they change through time: a historical dictionary.

3. Important or famous in history. See Usage Note at historic.

his·tor′i·cal·ly adv.

his·tor′i·cal·ness n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	historicalness - the state of having in fact existed in the past reality - the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be; "businessmen have to face harsh realities"
	2.	historicalness - significance owing to its history significance - the quality of being significant; "do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power"

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I argue that, as lines and dots are put in place to demarcate what is historical and what is not, cartography is not a problem-free objective instrument, but a tool to conveniently map historicalness of a site while the larger, more complex historicity of that site is largely ignored.

Mapping the historic city: mapmaking, preservation zoning, and violence

Schmidt, it is clear, is another sort of photographer altogether, one whose activity does not coalesce in a relatively few monumental and definitive single images but rather involves taking numerous photographs of related everyday, nondescript-seeming motifs (motifs of no outstanding "visual" interest, often ones that allow no imaginative entry into the picture world for all its marked historicalness) and working with these, sometimes long after they were shot, either to group and order them in intensely "musical" (and also, to my mind, intensely poetic) sequences or to print individual pictures at a larger-than-usual scale, simultaneously adjusting the range of values--typically heightening the contrasts--so as to give the resulting works a truly magisterial allure.

Michael Schmidt

Eleven of the fourteen articles originated in English, two in French (one translated for this volume), and one-Christian Meier is given the last word on the world historicalness of Athenian politics--from German.

Athenian Democracy

In lending Berlin the pleasant "historicalness" the tourism industry demands, the castle will irrevocably remodel (sanieren, which also means "to sanitize" and "to restore to profitability") the site's actual history.

Machen Sie Platz: the re-rebranding of Berlin