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Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6
Drinks have had a closer connection to the flow of history than is generally acknowledged, and a greater influence on its course. Understanding the ramifications of who drank what, and why, and where they got it from, requires the traversal of many disparate and otherwise unrelated fields: the histories of agriculture, philosophy, religion, medicine, technology, and commerce.
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Tom Standage _ The Victorian Internet
However, one listing of common abbreviations compiled in 1859 includes "1 1" {dot dot, dot dot} for "I AM READY"; "G A" {dash dash dot, dot dash} for "GO AHEAD", "S F D" for "STOP FOR DINNER"; "G M" for "GOOD MORNING.
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Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6
Six beverages in particular-beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola-chart the flow of world history. Three contain alcohol, and three contain caffeine, but what they all have in common is that each one was the defining drink during a pivotal historical period, from antiquity to the present day.
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Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social
The practice of linking entire networks, rather than individual computers, came to be known as "internetworking" or
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Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social
One survey of American newspapers found that the number of articles written by papers' own writers increased from 25 percent to 45 percent between the 1820s and 1850s.
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Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social
social media is not new. It has been around for centuries. Today, blogs are the new pamphlets. Microblogs and online social networks are the new coffee houses. Media-sharing sites are the new commonplace books. They are all shared, social platforms that enable ideas to travel from one person to another, rippling through networks of people connected by social bonds, rather than having to squeeze through the privileged bottleneck of broadcast media. The rebirth of social media in the Internet age represents a profound shift-and a return, in many respects, to the way things used to be.
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Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social
This new, telegraphic writing style also influenced public speaking: short sound bites became popular because they were easier for stenographers to transcribe, and cheaper and quicker for reporters to transmit.
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Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social
In the United States radio listeners were gathered up by networks that saw them as consumers to be sold to; in Britain they were the masses to be instructed and improved; in Germany they were the people to be indoctrinated and misled."
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Tom Standage _ Writing on the Wall: Social
At the time there were no printing presses and no paper.
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Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6
There were no musicians or dancers, for Plato believed that educated men ought to be capable of entertaining themselves by "speaking and listening in turns in an orderly manner.
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Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a period defined by the struggle for individual political, economic, and personal liberty against various forms of oppression, and marked by war, genocide, and the threat of nuclear annihilation.
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Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6
Descendants of de Clieu's original plant were also proliferating in the region, in Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. Ultimately, Brazil became the world's dominant coffee supplier, leaving Arabia far behind.
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