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...Sir Winston Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millennium Top Ten | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millennium Top Ten | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...Galileo, Rene Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton and other scientists had clarified the principles by which machines work, an essential step in building ever better machines. Henceforth Western civilization's technological supremacy was beyond challenge. Mechanical invention led inexorably to another step in the West's commercial and political hegemony over the world: the Industrial Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Millennium of Discovery | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...gets scarcely more space than two more limited choreographers, Leonide Massine and Michel Fokine. The paragraph on Mr. B. mentions none of his landmark ballets but cites instead his glitzy dances for films like I Was an Adventuress. Ignored also are Balanchine's two greatest contemporaries: Antony Tudor and Sir Frederick Ashton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conventional Wisdom | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...sir, we're running out of storage space, and Lynne says absolutely no more Vultures in the garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Costly Addiction of All | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

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