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When his father sent for the family, a seriousness came over Da-i. The 12-year-old packed his own bags and stayed awake throughout the flight to watch over his mother and his younger brother. They were traveling to a land they did not know and whose language they...
A diffident David did two things: he became an introvert and stuck close to the family, and he focused on school and achievement. Says Phillip, now a dentist: "He knew what it was he had to do." Sonia recalls, "If he got even one question wrong, he'd be very...
Still, the lessons of these defiant early believers stayed with the church, whose devotees spent much of the next millennium obsessively copying and recopying their sacred texts. It was a brutally inefficient process. Cloistered Benedictines toiled for years in musty scriptoriums, transcribing copy after copy of the Bible into leatherbound...
Appropriately enough, the first book Gutenberg printed was the Bible. His simple press passed sheets of paper under specialized plates that could be changed in minutes instead of weeks, revolutionizing intellectual commerce. Ideas that once could be communicated only in person, or at large universities in cities such as London...
When Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of a church in Wittenberg, they entered the German zeitgeist with seemingly supernatural speed. "It almost appeared," marveled one 16th century writer, "as if the angels themselves had been their messengers and brought them before the eyes of all the...