11.   This is a surprising fate for a man described by historian Lerone Bennett Jr. as enormously influential in black America.

12.   They were found not far from where the Greek historian Herodotus first described seeing a race of Amazons.

13.   While the newly released recordings provide little startling news, they add what historians describe as texture and heft to the record of Watergate and the presidency.

14.   While some amateur historians have described the de la Pena papers as an elaborate hoax, most mainstream scholars of the period say they believe the memoir is authentic.

15.   Historians describe the month-long battle as one of the great tragedies of World War II and a half century later still debate whether it was even necessary.

16.   Historians describe the Bataan battles as exceptionally bloody.