Word: fifteenth
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Last year's swarm of millennial retrospectives put a peculiar emphasis on Gutenberg's invention of moveable type, as if it prefigured all subsequent media revolutions: television, the Internet, etc. What the Discovery Channel failed to drool over was the near-simultaneous development of printmaking. In the fifteenth century, woodcuts and engravings were accessible to an audience much larger than the small literate classes, and even today we cannot claim to be anything other than a visual culture. Early prints should be as important to us as early editions of the Bible...
...want them diverting scarce resources and manpower into keeping alive an orbiting derelict," says Kluger. "But that won't make much difference to Moscow, because Mir is an enormously emotional issue for Russia - it's the last surviving achievement of their once-great space program." And in its fifteenth year in space, they'd rather see it turned into a millionaires' motel than incinerated over the Pacific...
Saturday night, the heavier police presence was visible. Students from an undergraduate group received permission to hold a party on the fifteenth floor, but a security guard, mishearing one of the students, notified HUPD dispatchers that the group was affiliated with animal rights protesters...