"history is a practice based on fact." (where did i read that? where? where??)

"history is a practice based on fact."

really? i mean, sure, king kumquat was the ruler of kumquatia in 1034. good. dat's da fack, jack. but just ask someone you were with last tuesday what y'all did last tuesday together, and i can betcha they'd have a different memory than you do. so? so. the point here is that history lessons may be BASED on fact but they are not a RECITATION of fact. that's where the folkses get all confusalized.