31 December 2018

Chiselled-In-Stone Forever By Axios: 2018 Was An Epic Year Making History

That's what Mike Allen sent out from Axios.com
Here's to Memorialize An Epic Year: Living History in 2018
A pair of hands chiseling out 2018 in Roman numerals
Illustration: Lazaro Gamio/Axios
 
During many of the peaks and troughs of history,
the people living it didn't fully realize what was unfolding: Societal change builds slowly, and the events only added up in retrospect.
  • But we all know we're navigating breathtaking history: Nearly every day could be — maybe will be — a book.
  • Part of soaking it in, and understanding and appreciating these consequential times, is hitting "pause" now and then.
Here are just 32 of the momentous events we lived through in 2018, as told on the front page of The New York Times:
(Yours to discover .....)

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