The phrase "history buff" is an informal term used to describe someone who has a strong interest in or knowledge about history.
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Being
something of a history buff as well as TreeHugger writer, a recent visit to the Briare Bridge Canal in France's Loire River Valley caught my attention.
A
coalition of history buffs led by National Parks Conservation Association and The Pew Charitable Trusts, highlighted the nearly $ 1 billion in deferred maintenance at sites across the state to call attention to the dire maintenance backlog at National Park Service.
In the end, Iñárritu has made a historical reenactment with a budget: movie stars in the
place of history buffs, with top of the line digital cameras.
If you're not
much of a history buff, the area's also full of theatres, boutiques, great restaurants, galleries and a bustling nightlife.
He may be a mechanical engineer but he isn't much
of a history buff.
I am not much
of a history buff, I used to play a strategy war game that generated random maps for each new game, what a great feature it would be for the total war series — a new game each time without the predertimined winner by history (it let you choose land, islands, continents etc....!!
As a bit
of a history buff, I should be offended by the alternative result of World War Two that is being presented in the Wolfenstein trailers.