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Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (first published in 1949) is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, in which the author discusses his theory of the mythological structure of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world myths.
"Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" is an essay by the Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle. It was first published anonymously in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country of London in December 1849, [ 1 ] and was revised and reprinted in 1853 as a pamphlet entitled " Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question ". [ 2 ]
Although the question-and-answer interview in journalism dates back to the 1850s, [4] the first known interview that fits the matrix of interview-as-genre has been claimed to be the 1756 interview by Archbishop Timothy Gabashvili (1704–1764), prominent Georgian religious figure, diplomat, writer and traveler, who was interviewing Eugenios Voulgaris (1716–1806), renowned Greek theologian ...
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.
The Ages of the Avengers: Essays on the Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Changing Times. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-7458-5. Darowski, John (2014a). "The Earth's Mightiest Heroes and America's Post–Cold War Identity Crisis". In Darowski (2014), pp. 92–102. Kohl, Paul R. "'The Kree-Skrull War' and the Growth of Uncertainty in the Cold ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. List of great powers from the early modern period to the post cold war era Great powers are often recognized in an international structure such as the United Nations Security Council. A great power is a nation, state or empire that, through its economic, political and military strength ...
Cheney regarded the Gulf War as an example of the kind of regional problem the United States was likely to continue to face in the future: [70] We're always going to have to be involved [in the Middle East]. Maybe it's part of our national character, you know we like to have these problems nice and neatly wrapped up, put a ribbon around it.