1.   History teaches that the lack of a railroad stop condemned many towns to a lingering death a hundred years ago.

2.   If history has taught us anything about imaginary customers, it is that they have a way of doing unexpected things.

3.   Although we found the evidence convincing, history teaches caution when it comes to executing people convicted on largely circumstantial evidence.

4.   American social history teaches us that the pendulum almost inevitably swings back.

5.   And history teaches us that the bad times will prevail.

6.   And film history has taught us that many of the best movies are made from minor and shrewdly trashy work.

7.   And that history also teaches that ceding government to theocrats leads only to tyranny and trouble.

8.   As history should have taught us, it is not the original misdemeanor that brings down a public figure but the ensuing cover-up.

9.   Because history teaches us that those people are inevitably a vanguard for fascism and totalitarianism.

10.   Because market history teaches that when earnings growth is hottest, gains in stocks are disappointingly cool.