sixteen hundred twenty-three years before the here and now, the last recorded utilization of Egyptian hieroglyphs occurred, in the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom; sixteen years hence, in 410, Visigoth forces accelerated the declining imperial colossus that had been Rome with a pillaging of the city itself; five years shy of half a century thereafter, in 455, Vandal armies agree to spare Roman lives in their looting of much of Rome’s imperial ‘treasure,’ itself ‘loot’ from Rome’s conquests; seventy-three decades past that conjunction, in 1185, an evolution of this culture of plunder took place with the Norman overthrow of the redoubt at Thessalonica, along with the sacking of the Sicilian Kingdom’s metropolis and the slaughter of thousands of the city’s populace; forty years further along, in 1215, the Pope invalidated the recently enacted Magna Carta, throwing English ruling processes into flux; six hundred sixty-eight years back, meanwhile, Mainz’s citizens joined in a popular response to the spread of the Bubonic Plague, slaughtering as many as six thousand local Jews as somehow bearing responsibility for the pestilence; forty-two years later, in 1391, across Europe in Southern Spain, as many as a thousand Jews faced death as residents of Mallorca, rising up against indebtedness and grasping for Jewish property, rioted violently against Jewish people and those who protected them; sixty-five years past that conjunction, in 1456, early printers finished the first edition of a Gutenberg bible; another six decades henceforth, in 1516, Ottoman Turks completed the conquest of Syria, routing Arabic Muslims in the process of consolidating imperial rule; ninety-two years subsequently to the day, in 1608, English merchants established their first outpost in India at Surat; eighty-two years further onward, in 1690, the consolidation of saltpeter production at a factory in Bengal led both to a significant enrichment of the East India Company and to the manifestation of what came to be the great city of Calcutta; two centuries and three years back,British troops razed and burned much of what was the first incarnation of the United States capitol at Washington; seven years still nearer to now, in 1821, the Treaty of Cordoba established the Mexican nation’s independence from Spain; thirty-six years still later, in 1857, one of the initial worldwide ‘panics’ gripped centers of capital everywhere, in particular destroying wealth and afflicting property in the United States; precisely a quarter century more proximate to the present, in 1872, an upper crust English family welcomed a new son, who would mature as the caricaturist and critic and multifaceted writer, Max Beerbohm; a hundred twenty-six years in advance of this moment in time, Thomas Edison gained the patent for a motion picture camera that was to change the face of culture and human communication; seven years after that juncture, in 1898, a baby boy was born who would grow up as the critic, writer, and editor Malcolm Cowley; three hundred sixty-five years more along time’s path, in 1899, an Argentine boy child gave voice en route to a life as the prolific and peripatetic Jorge Luis Borges; three years hence in France, in 1902, another male infant came along whose destiny was intellectual insight and legerdemain as the historian and philosopher Fernand Braudel; seven years hence, in 1909, Southwest across the Atlantic, U.S. contractors poured the first concrete that went into the formation of the Panama Canal; a half decade farther down time’s road, in 1914, U.S. Poet Alan Seeger, a classmate of John Reed’s at Harvard, volunteered for the French Foreign Legion, learning prior to his being shot to pieces two years hence that modern industrial warfare had little or nothing of glory and elan in it; eight years additional along the temporal path, in 1922, the infant male took breath who would gain acclaim and audience as the popular historian, Howard Zinn; seven years beyond that point in time, in 1929, in British mandate Palestine, a massacre of several score Jews took place in Hebron at the hands of Palestinian Arabs who were rioting about immigration and possible plans for a Jewish homeland; another seven years onward, in 1936, the baby girl opened her eyes who would soon enough see her way to write the iconic and disturbing novels of A.S. Byatt; a year after on the dot, in 1937 on the Iberian Peninsula, Basque forces surrendered en masse to fascist Italian volunteers who had been assisting Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War; half a dozen years later, in 1943, the French philosopher and mystic-idealist Simone Weil drew here last breath; four years still closer to today, in 1947, the Brazilian boy baby shouted out who would end up the popular and critically acclaimed writer Paulo Coelho; seven hundred thirty-one days onward, in 1949, the formal papers that created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization came into force; another year afterward, in 1950, Edith Sampson became the first Black representative of the United States to the United Nations; another year later still, in 1951, a baby boy opened his eyes on his way toward life as the thinker and storyteller Oscar Hijuelos, and another male infant was born, to the Mormon Card family in Richland, Washington, who would go on to great popularity and critical controversy as Orson Scott Card; three years yet nearer to the here and now, in 1954, the Communist Control Act took effect, essentially outlawing the American Communist Party; a dozen years after that, in 1966, the trust fund baby entered our midst who, as Nick Denton, would go on to monopoly media success with Gawker; another year even closer to today’s light and air, in 1967, Abbie Hoffman led Youth International Party activists in raining dollar bills onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, setting off a scramble that temporarily halted trading; seven hundred thirty-one daily passages round the sun farther along, in 1969, a different sort of ‘protest’ against empire transpired when an entire U.S. Army Company‘s soldiers refused their commanding officer’s order to continue a punishing and likely fruitless attempt to reach a downed helicopter; thirty-four years ago, the iconic thinker and leader, Scott Nearing, took a final breath just after his hundredth birthday; six years hence, in 1989, Colombian drug gangs ‘declared war’ on the central government there; fifteen years later still, in 2004, the renowned thinker and psychologist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross died.

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