MUCH as George W. Bush’s presidency was ineluctably shaped by Sept. 11, 2001, so the outbreak of the French Revolution was symbolized by the events of one fateful day, July 14, 1789. And though 18th-century France may seem impossibly distant to contemporary Americans, future historians examining Mr. Bush’s presidency within the longer sweep of political and intellectual history may find the French Revolution useful in understanding his curious brand of 21st- century conservatism.

We are talking, here, about the possibility of opening up an entirely new era in the history of human kind. By Morgan Meis I came to the current religion debates a bored man. Started by the discussions around “intelligent design” and by the books of Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, and Harris (The Four Horsemen), the debate seemed to pit two irreconcilable views against one another, both vying for an empty prize. Religion, I gathered, will always have its place, as will the practices of science and rational inquiry. Perhaps one day some other arrangement, some other separation of powers, will come about, but it won’t be any time soon, and it will happen when no one is looking. It will happen on its own time, with the lazy mastodon movements of history, which lumbers and rarely sprints.

Scent of a Führer Hitler wanted to control the world. But he couldn't even control his flatulence. By Tony Perrottet Guests at the Berghof, Hitler’s private chalet in the Bavarian Alps, must have endured some unpleasant odors in the otherwise healthful mountain air.

Tim Berners-Lee View profile More options Aug 7 1991, 6:37 am Newsgroups: alt.hypertext From: timbl@info .cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee) Date: 6 Aug 91 16:00:12 GMT Local: Wed, Aug 7 1991 2:00 am Subject: WorldWideWeb: Summary Reply to author | Forward | Print | View thread | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author In article <6...@cernvax.cern.ch> I promised to post a short summary of the WorldWideWeb project. Mail me with any queries. WorldWideWeb - Executive Summary

"Poodle" and "lackey" are among the epithets Tony Blair has had to endure for his support of President George W. Bush through the wars that followed the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States. Such mockery has demonstrated a flippant disregard for

hile he was President, Ronald Reagan kept an almost daily diary. He was the only President during the last century to do so, and the result—in a form that is greatly reduced but still makes a very long book—“The Reagan Diaries” (Harper-Collins; $3

ctober arrived in 1998, and Gordon Bell went paperless, after hearing from a professor at Carnegie Mellon who was engaged in a project to scan a million books and post them online. The professor, a friend of Bell’s named Raj Reddy, had called to ask if

his all began on a very long plane ride, East Coast to West, when I was reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals,” her book about Abraham Lincoln and his political competitors, and how, in the course of the Civil War, he turned them into a col

BY ADAM KIRSCH May 16, 2007 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/54613 ADVERTISEMENT The short answer to the question Cullen Murphy asks in "Are We Rome?" (Houghton Mifflin, 262 pages, $24) is no. "Press it too far," Mr. Murphy himself confesses near

A musical animation, on YouTube, showing The United States/U.S. map changing from The American Civil War in four minutes. One second is equal to one week for timing.