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    <title><![CDATA[History Wire - Lost Time]]></title>
    
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      <title><![CDATA[With Glowing Hearts?]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/20931]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[Did the flag waving and anthem singing at the Olympics in Vancouver express patriotism or do these periodic outbursts mask unsettling fissures in our national identity?]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>James Marsh</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Olympic Memories]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/20794]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[A disappointing pairs competition brings back memories of magic in Calgary in 1988.]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>James Marsh</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Silence and Remembering]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/20406]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[In this twittering world, silence and reflection are even more precious.]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>James Marsh</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[If You Don’t Have an Identity, Who Are You?]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19994]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[I have sometimes used my privileged position as editor in chief of Canada's compendious reference work,  The Canadian Encyclopedia , to pronounce on that enduring Canadian debate about the “Canadian identity.” True this has never happened on a&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>James Marsh</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Biography History?]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19971]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[Biography is as old as the writing of history, as the biblical stories of Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Joseph attest. Xenophon’s Memoirs of Socrates, Plutarch’s 46 Lives and Suetonius’ Lives of the Twelve Caesars are still read today. Nevertheless, for&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>James Marsh</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Leonard Cohen]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19897]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[So it was that Leonard Cohen entered my life when I first became entangled in the tousled threads of love.]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>James Marsh</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[First Robin]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19862]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[I took this picture last spring, the day after this fellow fledged from a nest in our neighbour's trough. Robins always provoke strong feelings in me, from when I was a boy in Toronto. The first robin. Robin red breast. Such a powerful reminder of&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>James Marsh</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Of Narrative and Beaver Pelts]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19617]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[After reading  Breastplate and Buckskin  in grade 7, I did not encounter another history book until I became editor of a university textbook, called  Unity in Diversity , at a Toronto publishing house. The book had four authors, three of whom wrote&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>James Marsh</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[What's Past is Prorogue]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19547]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[Political developments in Ottawa these days are having one “good” effect in my milieu at least. Talk and debate about Canadian politics, and yes even Canadian history, is more vehement than at any time since the days of Meech and Charlottetown. I&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>James Marsh</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Obama Invokes History]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19351]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[It was heartening to see the United States try to turn the page on the past eight years and impressive to watch Barack Obama invoke history in his victory speech. Personalized neatly in the lifespan of the Black voter who embodied his support, Ann&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>James Marsh</dc:creator>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[A Culture of Forgetting]]></title>
      
      <link><![CDATA[http://historywire.ca/en/post/19278]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[Why are we so alienated from our past and so reluctant to study it? Why does the prevailing attitude seem to be that the past has nothing to teach us?  The common assumption, shared by our political leaders, is that current issues have no real&nbsp;...]]></description>
      
      <dc:creator>James Marsh</dc:creator>
      
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