World's Worst Mistakes

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“Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.” -George Santayana. As a person, when we make mistakes, we are told to learn from them to keep ourselves from repeating them over again. Some of the world’s worst mistakes are events that have happened multiple times, but instead of learning from it, we have chosen to forget about it, and we have had to rehash some horrific times. One time in which we have relived history is when both of the world wars happened. World War II was like a sequel to World War I. Another time that history has repeated itself was when first, the less commonly known Armenian Genocide happened, and then the one everyone knows about: The Holocaust. Finally, our past has repeated with the sinking

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