“The culprit of many unfortunate typos, ‘annals’ is another word for historical records. The plural noun has been used in English since the 1560s, tracing back to the Latin annales libri, meaning ‘chronicles’ or ‘yearlies.’
“During the early Roman Republic, public events were recorded on tablets called Annales Maximi.”
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