Ah, history.....................................

      There is so much we don't know. And not just about the future, but the past.

      History knows three things: 1) what's been photographed, 2) what someone wrote down or recorded, and 3) the words spoked by people whom historians and journalists wanted to interview and who agreed to be interviewed.

     What percentage of everything important that's ever happened falls into one of those three categories?  No one knows.  But it's tiny.  And all three suffer from misinterpretation, incompleteness, embellishment, lying, and selective memory.

-Morgan Housel, as cut-and-pasted from here