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<text id=92TT2300>
<title>
Oct. 15, 1992: Millennium
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Oct. 15, 1992 Special Issue: Beyond the Year 2000
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
SPECIAL ISSUE: MILLENNIUM -- BEYOND THE YEAR 2000
LOOKING BACK, Page 25
Millennium:Top Ten
</hdr><body>
<p>Time's Staff, after much debate, makes its contribution to the
game of listmaking:
</p>
<p> GREATEST PEOPLE (Listed in the order of their birth):
</p>
<p> St. Francis of Assisi
Johannes Gutenberg
Michelangelo
Martin Luther
Galileo
William Shakespeare
Thomas Jefferson
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Albert Einstein
</p>
<p> THE 20TH CENTURY
</p>
<p> Sigmund Freud
Henry Ford
Mohandas Gandhi
Sir Winston Churchill
Pablo Picasso
Pope John XXIII
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Margaret Sanger
Mother Teresa
Martin Luther King Jr.
</p>
<p> WORST VILLAINS
</p>
<p> Genghis Khan
Tamerlane
Vlad the Impaler
Cesare Borgia
Ivan the Terrible
Robespierre
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Idi Amin
Pol Pot
</p>
<p> EVENTS (In chronological order):
</p>
<p> -- The Crusades
-- Signing of the Magna Carta
-- The Black Death
-- The Renaissance
-- Discovery of the Americas
-- The Industrial Revolution
-- American and French Revolutions
-- World War II
-- Rise and Fall of Communism
</p>
<p> MOST FAMOUS QUOTES
</p>
<p> "Here I stand. I can do no other."
"To be, or not to be: that is the question."
"I think, therefore I am."
"All men are created equal."
"Workers of the world, unite!"
"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
"I have a dream."
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for
mankind."
</p>
<p> WHO 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.
</p>
<p> MEDICAL ADVANCES (listed in the order of their discovery):
</p>
<p> Vaccines
Anesthesia
Hypodermic Needle
Antiseptic
Aspirin
X-ray
Antibiotics
Birth control pill
Organ transplants
Genetic engineering
</p>
<p> INVENTIONS (in chronological order):
</p>
<p> Movable type
Telescope/Microscope
Sextant
Telephone
Electric Light
Automobile
Radio/TV
Airplane
Nuclear fission
Computer
</p>
<p> DEBUNKED IDEAS
</p>
<p> Utopia
Innate racial superiority
Flat earth
Earth as center of the Universe
Alchemy
Communism
Male superiority
Earth was formed in 4004 B.C.
Bloodletting
Divine right of kings
</p>
<p> INVENTIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED
</p>
<p> Air conditioning
Ball-point pen
Contact lenses
Window glass
Screwdriver
Toilet paper
Paper bag
Zipper
Watch
Fork
</p>
<p> TIME CAPSULE (20 things to show how we live now):
</p>
<p> REMOTE CONTROL
CONDOM
GARTH BROOKS CD
9-MM PISTOL
AIR BAG
CASH-MACHINE CARD
INFLATABLE GLOBE
MINERAL WATER FROM ALPS
DISPOSABLE CAMERA
MALCOLM X CAP
POCKET T-SHIRT
BAGGY JEANS
SUNSCREEN #15
ROLLERBLADES
PALMTOP COMPUTER
DOLPHIN-SAFE TUNA
BEEPER
8-MM CAMCORDER
ADVIL
</p>
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