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thenewgreen · 4645 days ago · link · · parent · post: AskHubski: What are the top ten most positively influential events in human history?

Off the top of my head in no particular order:

  1. Beatlemania
  2. Analog Recording
  3. Analog Film
  4. Recreation/Invention of Sport (with a heavy emphasis  on hockey)
  5. Distillation of spirits
  6. Language -both spoken and written
  7. Visual Art
  8. Use of Instrumentation 
  9. Architecture
  10. Engineering

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b_b · 4644 days ago · link ·

Beatlemania--the band or the phenomenon?

+discuss