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And let me conclude by saying not too far from here, right down the road in Kittyhawk, North Carolina, a little more than 100 years ago history was made when we had the first powered flight of an airplane on Earth.
It's real slavery in exactly the same way that slavery would be recognized throughout all of human history.
Now, that kind of slavery is, again, pretty much what slavery has been all through human history.
Sometimes a knowledge of history and the past failures of Utopian ideals can be a burden, because you know that if everything were free, then the food stocks would become depleted and scarce and lead to chaos.
As history points out, regimes become oppressive when they're fearful about keeping control.
And I was amazed to find opposition: opposition to what is, after all, the most effective public health measure in human history.
And we did, we made a movie, which had to be the worst movie ever made in the history of movie making, but it was a blast.
My interest is in artists who understand and rewrite history, who think about themselves within the narrative of the larger world of art, but who have created new places for us to see and understand.
I was interested in the idea of why and how I could create a new story, a new narrative in art history and a new narrative in the world.
And I bring this up because it's important to locate this practice in history.
To look at 1968, in the incredible historic moment that it is, and think of the arc that has happened since then, to think of the possibilities that we are all privileged to stand in today and imagine that this museum that came out of a moment of great protest and one that was so much about examining the history and the legacy of important African-American artists to the history of art in this country like Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden.
This series of exhibitions was made specifically to try and question the idea of what it would mean now, at this point in history, to see art as a catalyst; what it means now, at this point in history, as we define and redefine culture, black culture specifically in my case, but culture generally.
I named this group of artists around an idea, which I put out there called post-black, really meant to define them as artists who came and start their work now, looking back at history but start in this moment, historically.
Another thing all these molecules are telling us that, apparently, bioluminescence has evolved at least 40 times, maybe as many as 50 separate times in evolutionary history, which is a clear indication of how spectacularly important this trait is for survival.
They not only recorded history; they helped change the course of history.
At the time I was photographing in these different places, I thought I was covering separate stories, but on 9/11 history crystallized, and I understood I'd actually been covering a single story for more than 20 years, and the attack on New York was its latest manifestation.
Military medicine has become so efficient that the percentage of troops who survive after being wounded is much higher in this war than in any other war in our history.
This is an idea they may well have borrowed from Australia when it faced one of the worst droughts of the country's history from 1997 to 2009.
After the war, lots of these songs were lost, but they are a part of our childhood and our history, and we should not forget them."
Bosnians, Croats and Serbs find a rare shared space of pride in their history, and Lesbor reminds them that the songs one group often claims as theirs alone really belong to them all.
Obviously, one of the huge concerns right now is that extinction is happening at a faster rate than ever in history.
They diverged quite recently in evolutionary history.
But we're about to write a very radical, brand-new chapter of history.
We give records back their rightful place in music history.
Well, the history of physics would have us believe that the rule for the universe must be pretty complicated.
I really believe that we stand at a very important point in history.
Into this mix, people like us, who are not in public office, have more power to do good than at any time in history, because more than half the world's people live under governments they voted in and can vote out.
What it is now is mud, and the area of the ocean floor that has been transformed from forest to level mud, to parking lot, is equivalent to the entire area of all the forests that have ever been cut down on all of the earth in the history of humanity.
We don't teach American history in Britain.
But to a fashionista, what it really is is a sign of Prada's genius: that she can root through the history of fashion and pick the one jacket that doesn't need to be changed by one iota, and to be current and to be now.
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