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Knowledge of history is essential for newspaper articles.
Solution
- Newspapers provide current news to its readers.
- While reporting news in detail, sometimes, the reporters compare it with parallel events which happened in the past. These events are then printed in separate columns.
- The writer while writing these columns take help of historical documents or written history.
- In order to commemorate certain special occasions, newspapers publishes supplements or special issues to their regular edition. Therefore, knowledge of history is essential for newspaper articles.
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