Another is to regard it merely as a parable whose historical foundation can be ignored.
With the advent of Napoleonic and Restoration France, July 14 became the date whose historical significance dared not be spoken.
Harris, whose historical thrillers include "Fatherland" (1992) and "Pompeii" (2003), sets this novel — a variation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" — in the rarefied world of hedge funds.
The next section of the show, "Florence 1401: The Dawn of the Renaissance," displays three objects whose historical significance exceeds by far their modest size.
Dominating the Geste de Garin de Monglane is Garin's great-grandson, Guillaume d'Orange, whose historical prototype was the count of Toulouse and Charlemagne's cousin.
These works represent the cornerstone of Mr. Stella's reputation, the Stellas whose historical importance, as with Picasso's Cubist paintings, is most widely, if somewhat predictably, accepted.
But for many Poles, whose historical relations with Jews are barely less troubled than with Germans (though for quite different reasons), he epitomised a longed-for reconciliation.
It is the only city in Italy whose historical center has not been repaired since it was bombed by the Allies 48 years ago.
Among the earliest Kazakh bards whose historical existence has been established is Buqar Zhıraw, an adviser to Ablay Khan, an 18th-century ruler of the Middle Horde.
The participation in this terrible action of Germany and Turkey, whose historical guilt before the Serbian people is far from forgotten, adds to the anger.
That year, she lost decisively to the Nationalist Party candidate, Ma Ying-jeou, whose historical ties to the mainland made him Beijing's preferred choice.
