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Time Magazine: Man of the Millennium

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Mon Sep 28 21:28:03 EST 1998


Ketil Z Malde wrote in alt.memetics:

>junkmail at moreira.mv.com (Alberto Moreira) writes:
>
>> There has been no event that was more influential
>
>The French revolution?  The Russian revolution(s)?  The English
>Magna Carta-"revolutions"?  The German revolutionary election of Hitler?
>
>> to so many people
>
>The Chinese communuist "revolution"?  The Industrial revolution?
>
>> as the American Revolution.

>If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants

Cute line there. :-)

As to the consequences of the American Revolution, even in regard to
those benefits I (an American) would place the American Revolution
marginally ahead of the Magna Carta - in fourth place among
second-millennium events.

The top three, in no particular order:

The Great Plagues (which is itself a plural event, and turned the
common peasant into a scarce resource)

The European invention and spread of the printing press

England's Glorious Revolution somewhere in the general area of 1680.  

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