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A fact from Nikolay Danilevsky appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 February 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Nikolay Danilevsky was the first writer to present an account of history as a series of distinct civilisations? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/February.

My main source for this article is an article in the Sage Encyclopedia of Anthropology; unfortunately this is written in rather broken English (apparently untouched by editorial hands), and there are places where the meaning isn't wholly clear. I'll find other sources and return, but in the meantime other hands are of course welcome to correct any mistakes that have crept in as a result. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 14:49, 4 February 2006 (UTC) reply