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By Joseph Janes

ISBN-10: 1538100339

ISBN-13: 9781538100332

Documents are milestones and markers of human task, a part of who and what we're. Our tale could be informed throughout the items, profound and trivial, well-known and forgotten, wherein we take into accout and are remembered. Documents that modified the best way We Live examines dozens of compelling tales that describe those records; their production, motivation, impact, significance, historic and social context, provenance; and their connections to modern info items, applied sciences, and developments. those files comprise the following:

  • “Exaltation of Innana,” a Sumerian hymn composed c. 2300 BCE by way of the excessive priestess Enheduanna, most likely the 1st identified author…of anything
  • The “We Can Do It!” poster everyone understands is Rosie the Riveter calling girls to paintings within the factories in international warfare II. other than it’s no longer, and he or she isn’t
  • Joseph McCarthy’s “list” of Communists that ruined lives and careers, since it was once believed - although it by no means existed
  • The “He has waged merciless war…” passage on slavery, deleted from the announcement of Independence
  • The poorly designed Palm seashore County “butterfly ballot,” on which the 2000 U.S. presidential election can have hinged
  • And the lesser-known tales in the back of the Zapruder movie, the Watergate tapes, the Obama start certificates, aircraft black bins, Thanksgiving, IQ checks, the Star-Spangled Banner, why americans spell the best way they do, Nobel Prizes, Wikipedia, and the way you’re cooking dinner tonight

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