Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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Irving Babbitt, Critic (1865) |
James A. Baldwin, Author (1924) |
Jim Capaldi, Musician (1944) |
Caleb Carr, Novelist (1955) |
James Fallows, Journalist (1949) |
Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Composer (1905) |
Lance Ito, Judge (1950) |
Victoria Jackson, Comedian (1959) |
George Kimble, Historian (1908) |
Enrico Caruso, Musician (1921) |
Thomas Gainsborough, Artist (1788) |
Warren G. Harding, President (1923) |
John Keegan, Historian (2012) |
Fritz Lang, Director (1976) |