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- SPECIAL ISSUE: MILLENNIUM -- BEYOND THE YEAR 2000 LOOKING BACK, Page 25Millennium:Top Ten
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- Time's Staff, after much debate, makes its contribution to the
- game of listmaking:
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- GREATEST PEOPLE (Listed in the order of their birth):
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- St. Francis of Assisi
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Michelangelo
- Martin Luther
- Galileo
- William Shakespeare
- Thomas Jefferson
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Albert Einstein
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- THE 20TH CENTURY
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- Sigmund Freud
- Henry Ford
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Pablo Picasso
- Pope John XXIII
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Margaret Sanger
- Mother Teresa
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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- WORST VILLAINS
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- Genghis Khan
- Tamerlane
- Vlad the Impaler
- Cesare Borgia
- Ivan the Terrible
- Robespierre
- Joseph Stalin
- Adolf Hitler
- Idi Amin
- Pol Pot
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- EVENTS (In chronological order):
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- -- The Crusades
- -- Signing of the Magna Carta
- -- The Black Death
- -- The Renaissance
- -- Discovery of the Americas
- -- The Industrial Revolution
- -- American and French Revolutions
- -- World War II
- -- Rise and Fall of Communism
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- MOST FAMOUS QUOTES
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- "Here I stand. I can do no other."
- "To be, or not to be: that is the question."
- "I think, therefore I am."
- "All men are created equal."
- "Workers of the world, unite!"
- "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
- "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
- "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
- "I have a dream."
- "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for
- mankind."
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- WHO SAID IT? From the top: Martin Luther William Shakespeare
- (Hamlet) Rene Descartes Thomas Jefferson Karl Marx Sir Henry
- Morton Stanley Franklin D. Roosevelt Rhett Butler in Gone With
- the Wind Martin Luther King, Jr. Neil Armstrong.
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- MEDICAL ADVANCES (listed in the order of their discovery):
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- Vaccines
- Anesthesia
- Hypodermic Needle
- Antiseptic
- Aspirin
- X-ray
- Antibiotics
- Birth control pill
- Organ transplants
- Genetic engineering
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- INVENTIONS (in chronological order):
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- Movable type
- Telescope/Microscope
- Sextant
- Telephone
- Electric Light
- Automobile
- Radio/TV
- Airplane
- Nuclear fission
- Computer
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- DEBUNKED IDEAS
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- Utopia
- Innate racial superiority
- Flat earth
- Earth as center of the Universe
- Alchemy
- Communism
- Male superiority
- Earth was formed in 4004 B.C.
- Bloodletting
- Divine right of kings
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- INVENTIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED
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- Air conditioning
- Ball-point pen
- Contact lenses
- Window glass
- Screwdriver
- Toilet paper
- Paper bag
- Zipper
- Watch
- Fork
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- TIME CAPSULE (20 things to show how we live now):
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- REMOTE CONTROL
- CONDOM
- GARTH BROOKS CD
- 9-MM PISTOL
- AIR BAG
- CASH-MACHINE CARD
- INFLATABLE GLOBE
- MINERAL WATER FROM ALPS
- DISPOSABLE CAMERA
- MALCOLM X CAP
- POCKET T-SHIRT
- BAGGY JEANS
- SUNSCREEN #15
- ROLLERBLADES
- PALMTOP COMPUTER
- DOLPHIN-SAFE TUNA
- BEEPER
- 8-MM CAMCORDER
- ADVIL
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