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Who's bigger: Washington or Lincoln? Hitler or Napoleon? Charles Dickens or Jane Austen? That depends on how you look at it. When we set out to rank the significance of historical figures, we decided to not approach the project the way historians might, through a principled assessment of their i...
Who’s Biggest? The 100 Most Significant Figures in History; The Tyranny of the ‘Sexy’ Mom; How To Increase Your Powers of Observation; Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Is Texting Killing the English Language?
These Are the 30 People Under 30 Changing the World. Our panel of millennials worked with TIME editors to select young digital moguls, health pioneers and teachers from around the globe.
Fifty years ago, 65 percent of the people volunteering to join the Peace Corps were men and 35 percent were women. Today, those numbers have flipped, with 66 percent of volunteers during the 2000s women and 34 percent men.
When RMS Titanic, the largest ship on earth, struck that iceberg and sank, killing 1,500 people (and a very high percentage of the poorer passengers), the disaster became one of those few truly landmark events before which things were one way and after which things were quite another.
Unlike the postmodern authors of the ’60s and ’70s, for whom bureaucracy was perhaps the greatest evil, Wallace offers redemption for those who seek meaning in the tedious drudgery of modern life.
It was commissioned by the island’s Norman ruler, King Roger II, and drew on Greek, Islamic and Christian knowledge in creating one of the greatest medieval compendiums of geographical knowledge. The book contained seventy regional maps, and began with this exquisite circular world map, oriented with south at the top.
Who’s Biggest? The 100 Most Significant Figures in History; The Tyranny of the ‘Sexy’ Mom; Do Muslim Women Need Saving? A History of the World in Twelve Maps; Can ‘Mindfulness’ Really Help You Focus?
A neighborhood of 10 sets of 100 homes, each connected to the others — that’s more like it. In this kind of network, small acts of citizenship can compound. To be sure, there are many neighborhood watches in America that have made such a pivot: from street patrols to street parties, from roadblocks to roadside gardens.
Who’s Biggest? The 100 Most Significant Figures in History; The Tyranny of the ‘Sexy’ Mom; How To Increase Your Powers of Observation; Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer; A History of the World in Twelve Maps