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TIME Person of the Year 2018: From BTS to Michelle Obama, who will be on this year's cover?
Evening Standard ^ | 12/10/2018 | Georgia Chambers

Posted on 12/10/2018 6:35:01 AM PST by sodpoodle

Every year, TIME Magazine announces who it will name person of the year, the individual who done the most to influence global events "for better or for worse."

But the TIME person of the year accolade actually started by accident.

The final week of 1927 had been a series of slow news days, and editors were struggling to find someone to lead their Person of the Week feature.

According to a letter to readers that appeared in the 1944 edition, “no one had done anything newsworthy enough to put his picture on TIME’s cover, so somebody suggested we stop looking for a Man of the Week and pick a Man of the Year.

“This was an easy choice: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who had soloed the Atlantic in only 33 hours and 39 minutes, was the hero of 1927.”

(Excerpt) Read more at standard.co.uk ...


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There are several articles/sources with lists of potential nominees.

I'll keep posting the 'possibles'.

1 posted on 12/10/2018 6:35:01 AM PST by sodpoodle
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https://www.today.com/news/time-person-year-2018-shortlist-revealed-t144795


2 posted on 12/10/2018 6:38:10 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: sodpoodle

What’s ‘Time’?


3 posted on 12/10/2018 6:38:12 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: sodpoodle

Mueller of course!


4 posted on 12/10/2018 6:38:25 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: sodpoodle

Mueller no doubt.


5 posted on 12/10/2018 6:39:17 AM PST by V_TWIN
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/time-person-year-2018-shortlist_us_5c0e58c0e4b0ab8cf6957b54


6 posted on 12/10/2018 6:39:20 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

beat me by a minute.


7 posted on 12/10/2018 6:39:43 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: sodpoodle

George H W Bush is my guess.


8 posted on 12/10/2018 6:40:16 AM PST by kalee
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To: sodpoodle

What is “BTS”?


9 posted on 12/10/2018 6:40:26 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: sodpoodle

Someone who damaged Trump or some democrat running for President in 2020...


10 posted on 12/10/2018 6:40:29 AM PST by GOPJ (Term limit DC bureaucracies - a permanent unelected 'ruling class' is a threat to our democracy.)
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To: BenLurkin

Blessing The Swamp?


11 posted on 12/10/2018 6:43:57 AM PST by Migraine
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To: sodpoodle

If it’s not trump, they should leave it blank.

Every potential POTY candidate is such because they work against Trump.


12 posted on 12/10/2018 6:44:26 AM PST by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: sodpoodle

#metoo


13 posted on 12/10/2018 6:45:59 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: sodpoodle

Clearly it will be Alexandria Occasionally Coherent, lead dog for all of the new Socialists who will be infesting Nancy’s house starting next month.


14 posted on 12/10/2018 6:46:05 AM PST by ssaftler (From Governor Moon Bat to Governor Gruesome. We're doomed, I tell you!)
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To: BenLurkin

https://www.iheart.com/content/2018-12-09-is-bts-going-to-win-times-person-of-the-year/

some singing group!


15 posted on 12/10/2018 6:46:30 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: sodpoodle

Christine Blasey Ford.


16 posted on 12/10/2018 6:48:04 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: kalee

You are correct.

A dead Republican or a live Democrat.


17 posted on 12/10/2018 6:51:21 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: sodpoodle

Herr Mueller, head of das Gestapo, as he prepares to unload on Trump right after the first of the year, paving the way for impeachment proceedings.


18 posted on 12/10/2018 6:53:30 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: sodpoodle

PERSON of Year.

Group is not A person A GROUP iS 2 or more.

Not saying You are wrong but “they” are.


19 posted on 12/10/2018 6:57:08 AM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: sodpoodle

Probably those poor, desperate innocents trying to cross over our southern border. /s


20 posted on 12/10/2018 6:57:20 AM PST by gloryblaze
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