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Voices In Time

1940 | London

Once More Unto the Breach

Winston Churchill predicts Britain’s finest hour.More

Voices In Time

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Question and Answer

Gandhi on taking India back to nature.More

Voices In Time

1861 | Shanghai

Borrow the Barbarian’s Tools

A Chinese scholar looks to the West.More

Voices In Time

1998 | Washington, DC

About a Mountain

Bureaucracy for the end of human history.More

Voices In Time

1718 | Adrianople

Life Insurance

The benefits of smallpox parties.More

Voices In Time

1778 | Paris

The Eighteenth Hour

Ben Franklin observes the brief life of a fly.More

Voices In Time

c. 95 | Patmos

Stormy with a Chance of Locusts

When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven.More

Voices In Time

c. 55 | Rome

Back to the Future

No one will bring back the years.More

Voices In Time

1808 | Lyon

Whither Civilization?

Cease to be astonished if your societies destroy each other.More

Voices In Time

1812 | Moscow

Connecting the Dots

Looking for Napoleon in the Book of Revelations.More

Voices In Time

c. 305 BC | Athens

Dust to Dust

Menander searches six feet under.More

Voices In Time

c. 335 BC | Henan

Leave It All to Fate

Confucius offers some advice on patience.More

Voices In Time

c. 2890 | London

Looking Forward

Jerome K. Jerome receives a guided tour of the future.More

Voices In Time

1878 | London

After the Revolution

Friedrich Engels seizes the means of production.More

Voices In Time

1840 | Paris

Managing the Future

Alexis de Tocqueville explains the role of religion in a democracy.More

Voices In Time

c. 1795 | London

Game Changer

The telegraph writes, reads, and sends news fifty miles in an hour.More

Voices In Time

1899 | Tuskegee, AL

School Ties

Booker T. Washington laments the state of Southern schools.More

Voices In Time

480 BC | Athens

Deconstructing the Oracle

Interpreting the interpreters in Ancient Greece.More

Voices In Time

44 BC | Rome

Varying Interpretations

Julius Caesar misreads a dream.More

Voices In Time

1835 | Paris

Furor Teutonicus

Heinrich Heine predicts a meteoric rise for Germany.More

Voices In Time

1791 | Paris

Vain Babbling

O my fatherland! What a terrible fate the future reserves for you! More

Voices In Time

1904 | Alexandria

Endgame

C.P. Cavafy waits for the barbarians.More

Voices In Time

1536 | Basel

Predestination

John Calvin plans a final trip.More

Voices In Time

1862 | Russia

New Men and Old

Ivan Turgenev explores the generation gap.More

Voices In Time

c. 1525 BC | Egypt

Divination

Pharaoh turns to Joseph to interpret his dreams.More

Voices In Time

c. 590 BC | Lesbos

Lest We Forget

Sappho will be remembered.More

Voices In Time

c. 370 BC | Athens

Unintended Consequence

Writing as the enemy of memory.More

Voices In Time

1841 | Ockham

All in Good Time

Ada Lovelace discovers the hidden realities of nature.More

Voices In Time

c. 1220 | Iceland

The Fenriswolf, the Midgard Serpent, and Thor Walk into a Bar

A Norse creation myth.More

Voices In Time

c. 429 BC | Thebes

Blind Fate

Oedipus confronts a murderer.More

Voices In Time

1776 | Philadelphia

Birthday of a New World

Thomas Paine honors the creation of America.More

Voices In Time

1170 | Germany

God’s Pure Foreknowledge

Hildegard of Bingen on the perfection of physical forms.More

Voices In Time

c. 1190 BC | Argos

Unwelcome Prophet

“From divination what good ever has come to men?”More

Voices In Time

1969 | Washington, DC

Plan B

The dark side of going to the moon.More

Voices In Time

802701 | London

Time Traveler

H.G. Wells examines the people of the future.More

Voices In Time

c. 1910 | Paris

Measured Out with Coffee Spoons

T.S. Eliot dares to disturb the universe.More

Voices In Time

c. 1790 | New York

Washington Irving Interrupts a Nap

Rip Van Winkle sleeps his way into the future.More

Voices In Time

524 | Pavia

Wheel of Fortune

The many deceptions of that monster, Fortune. More

Voices In Time

c. 200 | Ephesus

What Futures May Come from Dreams

Artemidorus has a very strange dream.More

Voices In Time

c. 620 | Arabia

Gardens Bright with Sinuous Rills

The Qur'an describes our ultimate place in the cosmos More

Voices In Time

1949 | New York City

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Giving in to the inevitable.More

Voices In Time

1865 | San Francisco

Forecast

Mark Twain predicts the weather for the apocalypse.More

Voices In Time

c. 7 BC | Rome

Better Than Nothing

The decline and fall of the Sibylline oracles.More

Voices In Time

1778 | London

The Dying Is Easy

Confounding annihilation with the apprehension of it.More

Voices In Time

1919 | Oxford

On the Bright Side

W.B. Yeats envisions the second coming.More

Voices In Time

1992 | New York City

Remembering the Future

Philip K. Dick’s precogs see the future, but they can’t change it.More

Voices In Time

1916 | New York City

Springtime for Women

Jill will no longer have to ask, “Can Jack support me?”More

Voices In Time

1839 | Washington, DC

Manifest Destiny

The boundless future of American greatness.More

Voices In Time

c. 1635 | Holland

Futures Market

The roots of Dutch tulip mania.More

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