...VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again Inventors strived from the... ...here I built the world‘s first electronic library in 1988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking i... ...h books using the SEARCH function on your own computer, import quotations into paper e-mails, etc., and copy the book. Reading Forward Or Backward ... ...tely captivated me. During the heyday of Linotypes—from the late 1940s into the late 1980s—I worked at city editor and managing editor jobs which... ...nne Lily Tomlin (1939–) Did Water Monkeys Swim Before We Spoke? In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or ... ... than two hundred million years ago.) Whence Cometh Our Language? The Bible makes no mention of from whence came such a wondrous gift. Believ... ...yptian, and Roman learning from being lost forever. Only by using Islamic translations of the Greek‘s writings would European philosophers rediscove... ...ern democracy. Bloody revolts against nobility and the church, furtive translations of the Bible into the vernacular, and the burnings of hundred... ...he ―Morning Star‖ of the Reformation. Martyrs‘ blood christened newer translations because the church feared the following:  People who coul...

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every liv...

...m the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in b...