William Price
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Daniel Boorstin said, "We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so 'realistic' that they can live in them." All creation wears a veneer of our making. We have "paved paradise," wall-papered nature with our designs and patterns, our wants and wishes. Walter Cronkite closed his news hour with the phrase, "And that's the way it is." But now, all men and women see not what is but what...
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As warfare ground to a halt in the static, bloody trenches of the Western Front in 1914, the Allied command sought to lever Germany's Turkish allies out of the war. Although the British had but a small standing peacetime army, she possessed the largest fleet in the world, and planned to use the awesome power of her huge naval guns to blast a passage through the Turkish defences of the strait. Constantinople would thereby be threatened and Turkey forced...