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 ==Explanation==
-In this comic [[Ponytail]] is a representative of the history department, which might be a department of a university or other organisation. She presents the year report of 2018. In this, she explains, the department has fully analyzed over four months of history. In the meantime, due to the passage of time, another year of history has been added to their workload (implied to be the year spanning between the current meeting and the previous one).{{Citation needed}} This presents a cycle in which the department would only be able to keep up if they could analyze, within a one year period, more than or exactly one year of history.
+In this comic [[Ponytail]] is a representative of the history department, which might be a department of a university or other organisation. She presents the year report of 2018. In this, she explains, the department has fully analyzed over four months of history. In the meantime, due to the passage of time, another year of history has been added to their workload (implied to be the year spanning between the current meeting and the previous one).{{Citation needed}} This presents a cycle in which the department would only be able to keep up if they could analyze, within a one year period, at least one year of history.
 A department in a business, such as the finance department, is typically required to keep up with their own workload and complete an entire year's worth of workload every year.  A business that fails to manage this minimum would almost certainly fail: bills would not get collected, invoices would not get paid, employees would not get paid, etc.  A history department fails to follow this model in two very important ways.  First, the subject of history cannot be fully processed.  New discoveries change what we know about certain time periods.  Even current events cannot be fully processed, as future events will cause historians to see connections in things not previously thought to be connected.  Second, the standard model for history departments focuses on specific eras or specific subjects for the purpose of explaining the events to students.  History departments do not process years, but instead process the subject so that it stays relevant to the understanding of the current student body.

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 ==Explanation==
-In this comic [[Ponytail]] is a representative of the history department, which might be a department of a university or other organisation. She presents the year report of 2018. In this, she explains, the department has fully analyzed over four months of history. In the meantime, due to the passage of time, another year of history has been added to their workload (implied to be the year spanning between the current meeting and the previous one){{cn}}. This presents a cycle in which the department would only be able to keep up if they could analyze, within a one year period, more than or exactly one year of history.
+In this comic [[Ponytail]] is a representative of the history department, which might be a department of a university or other organisation. She presents the year report of 2018. In this, she explains, the department has fully analyzed over four months of history. In the meantime, due to the passage of time, another year of history has been added to their workload (implied to be the year spanning between the current meeting and the previous one).{{Citation needed}} This presents a cycle in which the department would only be able to keep up if they could analyze, within a one year period, more than or exactly one year of history.
 A department in a business, such as the finance department, is typically required to keep up with their own workload and complete an entire year's worth of workload every year.  A business that fails to manage this minimum would almost certainly fail: bills would not get collected, invoices would not get paid, employees would not get paid, etc.  A history department fails to follow this model in two very important ways.  First, the subject of history cannot be fully processed.  New discoveries change what we know about certain time periods.  Even current events cannot be fully processed, as future events will cause historians to see connections in things not previously thought to be connected.  Second, the standard model for history departments focuses on specific eras or specific subjects for the purpose of explaining the events to students.  History departments do not process years, but instead process the subject so that it stays relevant to the understanding of the current student body.

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 ==Explanation==
-In this comic [[Ponytail]] is a representative of the history department, which might be a department of a university or other organisation. She presents the year report of 2018. In this, she explains, the department has fully analyzed over four months of history. In the meantime, due to the passage of time, another year of history has been added to their workload (implied to be the year spanning between the current meeting and the previous one). This presents a cycle in which the department would only be able to keep up if they could analyze, within a one year period, more than or exactly one year of history.
+In this comic [[Ponytail]] is a representative of the history department, which might be a department of a university or other organisation. She presents the year report of 2018. In this, she explains, the department has fully analyzed over four months of history. In the meantime, due to the passage of time, another year of history has been added to their workload (implied to be the year spanning between the current meeting and the previous one){{cn}}. This presents a cycle in which the department would only be able to keep up if they could analyze, within a one year period, more than or exactly one year of history.
 A department in a business, such as the finance department, is typically required to keep up with their own workload and complete an entire year's worth of workload every year.  A business that fails to manage this minimum would almost certainly fail: bills would not get collected, invoices would not get paid, employees would not get paid, etc.  A history department fails to follow this model in two very important ways.  First, the subject of history cannot be fully processed.  New discoveries change what we know about certain time periods.  Even current events cannot be fully processed, as future events will cause historians to see connections in things not previously thought to be connected.  Second, the standard model for history departments focuses on specific eras or specific subjects for the purpose of explaining the events to students.  History departments do not process years, but instead process the subject so that it stays relevant to the understanding of the current student body.

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