Revolution

Examination of posts by bloggers using the term revolution provides a reminder that there have been, throughout history, very many changes to which this label has been attached.

Going right back, you can start with the Neolithic revolution, occurring in different times in different parts of the world, which saw the human race of wanderers settle down to farming.

Moving into historical times, there have been many political revolutions; most historians would say that the French was the real biggie, but for truly modern history the Iranian Revolution stands out.

Moving right up to the present day, there's talk of a green energy revolution.

After you've seen all of that, do be careful about applying the term to, say, changes in the fashionable length of skirt...

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Revolution”

• Musea Art Quiz 11/9/09

  
  Musea Zine — Authority: 112
  The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of: This 1930 groundbreaking book of literary criticism centers on a list of different types of ambiguity. Name book and author. IS Seven Types of Ambiguity, by William Empson. This for me was the most sophisticated look at literature I’ve ever ...
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• Why People Don’t Give

  
  My World — Authority: 139
  Saturday I spoke on tithing, giving and generosity. It is topic that some people don’t like to hear about and even more pastors don’t like to preach on it. For me, giving is a spiritual gift as much as leadership is and we need to develop that in our churches and people the same way we develop the gift of ...
  4 hours ago

• Not the Red Flags of Marx and Mao, but those of Christ and Muhammad

  
  Hundie Jo [dot] Com — Authority: 125
  In one possible scenario of the world to come, an incredibly wealthy although numerically shrinking Northern population expouses the values of humanizm, ornamented with the vestiges of liberal Christianity and Judaism.  Meanwhile, this future North confronts the poorer and vastly more numerous global masses who wave ...
  4 hours ago

• Path to a Peace Economy

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 558
  "Now imagine that the trillions of dollars that went to bailing out Wall Street banks had instead been added to the stimulus package to directly help homeowners facing foreclosure, create new jobs, and to fund education, health care, and public infrastructure."
  5 hours ago

• Some fireplace owners nevertheless like using firewood as it inspires feelings of relaxation and nostalgia

  
  Neversomeday.com — Authority: 159
  The look of fireplaces is able to bring back sweet and nostalgic memories of families gathering around the lounge when the weather is just too cold for outside activities. Fireplaces are definitely functional but most often, fireplaces are also assembled for cultured applications. Folk started to understand the ...
  6 hours ago

• How to End Wars

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 558
  There is still and will always be a role for journalists, bloggers, authors, and pundits to expose the abuses of any and all government officials, including the president. But the primary role of peace activists should have nothing to do with presidents, or with senators.
  6 hours ago

• The Fires Defensive Play: "A tremendous team effort"

  
  Fire Confidential — Authority: 476
  When their season on the line, the Fire needed a big-time performance from the back line in Saturday nights second leg of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the New England Revolution. And did the defense ever deliver, putting together a comprehensive performance to shut down (and shutout) the Revolution and ...
  6 hours ago

• Use of laser guns to catch speeders questioned

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 558
  Many tickets are thrown out if use of lidar is challenged
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• Germany celebrates Berlin Wall Fall’s 20th anniversary

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Berlin, Nov 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Prayers, blaring music and pomp, marked the 20th anniversary of the day the historic Berlin Wall fell, when the East Germans started moving west and the country’s reunification soon followed.November 9, 1989, marked the beginning of a new unification era in history. It signaled the ...
  7 hours ago

• Doomed Dome: The Future That Never Was

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 558
  In the bright and shiny future, we all live in green, gleaming communities, monorailed shuttles at the ready, climate-controlled at all times -- a sort of Logan’s Run, but without the forced euthanasia. It almost happened in, of all places, an old mill town in northern Vermont.
  7 hours ago

• You Say You Want A Revolution?

  
  Rehaul by Lance Haun — Authority: 118
  I just got home from HRevolution and I am beat. I’ve been wrapping my head around some of the things we talked about, how it intersected with Talent Camp and some of my own personal revelations. There’s good news and bad news but first I wanted to touch on the unconference itself. HRevolution Was A Resounding ...
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• Resist the Government

  
  The Final Redoubt — Authority: 531
  Good advice from America, as their problems with representational government, mirror our own.
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• Iran Forces Largest Public Church to Halt Friday Services

  
  Early Today — Authority: 421
  TCP By Ethan Cole   The largest church that gives open, public services in Iran will no longer hold Friday worship services due to government pressure, local sources reported this past week. According to reports, authorities had threatened the Rev. Sourik, the bishop and overseer of the Assemblies of ...
  8 hours ago

• BBC Starts In Tennessee…

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 430
  … to see what is obvious to the rest of us.   http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/the_p_word/newsid_10000000/newsid_10002600/10002666.stm Story and audio at above link… Barack Obama was elected on 4 November 2008 after a campaign that promised change. One year on, BBC’s Newsbeat traveled across the country to ...
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• New York Radical Muslims Rejoice In Carnage At Fort Hood

  
  The Final Redoubt — Authority: 531
  Revolution Muslim
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• Wir sind die Leute

  
  Wonko's World — Authority: 127
  It is 20 years to the day since the Berlin Wall fell and East Germans were allowed to leave the country that was their prison. I was only 12 when it happened and I didn’t really understand what was happening but the constant news coverage and sight of people dismantling the wall by hand as soldiers stood by and ...
  11 hours ago

• Football gets on the park with Facebook

  
  pr-media-blog.co.uk — Authority: 422
    In today’s guest blog post Staniforth Manchester intern, Andrew Doyle, checks the scores of UK football clubs when it comes to the Facebook league. With the season just under a third of the way through, English football’s most successful clubs are battling against each other for domestic dominance. But it ...
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• The Ruby revolution is over

  
  Merbist — Authority: 99
  According to wikipedia, a revolution (from the latin revolutio , “a turn around”) is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. Somehow, I believe this is exactly what Ruby has done in the programming world, especially with the help of ...
  12 hours ago

• Greatest second in movie history.

  
  craig — Authority: 435
  Greatest second in movie history.
  13 hours ago

• The Politics of Publishing

  
  UKCBD: The Christian Bookshops Blog — Authority: 108
  USA Edition: $24.99 UK Edition: £25.00 Today, I am annoyed. Annoyed from my own perspective as a retailer, but more annoyed on behalf of my customers who are being asked to pay £10 over the odds for a new book simply because of the perversity of an international rights deal between publishers. On this ...
  13 hours ago

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