# History

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/history/295637>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [September 2, 2009, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/history/295637 "2009-09-02T07:57:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![soyo123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@soyo123](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/soyo123)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/history/295637/1 "2009-09-02T07:57:38Z")

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Humankind has been concerned with random physical processes from early history. Examples are [divination ([URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleromancy”]cleromancy), reading messages in casting lots), the use of [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition”]allotment in the [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian\_democracy”]Athenian democracy, and the frequent references to the casting of lots found in the [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old\_Testament”]Old Testament](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination).

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