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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 TIMEs 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.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Music/Entertainment; Society
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To: a fool in paradise
Based on the last weeks news coverage, there is no doubt it must be George HW Bush
I doubt it. They use PERSON OF THE YEAR to push an agenda.
Bush is history.
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12/10/2018 7:33:49 AM PST
by
CIB-173RDABN
(I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
To: sodpoodle
Subway Employees...making sandwiches for America while women were goofing off harrassing President Trump and Judge Kavanaugh.
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12/10/2018 7:35:03 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: sodpoodle
Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther)
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posted on
12/10/2018 7:36:10 AM PST
by
EdnaMode
To: sodpoodle
What about the gilets jaunes ?
To: sodpoodle
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posted on
12/10/2018 7:46:03 AM PST
by
dforest
(Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
To: Verginius Rufus
I could see them giving it to Karl Marx in 2021 if more leftists win in 2020.
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posted on
12/10/2018 7:50:58 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
To: sodpoodle
Whoever it is, the decision will be totally political and calculated for effect. I dont care who it is. They could do Hitler or Stalin again for all I care.
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posted on
12/10/2018 8:01:51 AM PST
by
Spok
To: sodpoodle
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posted on
12/10/2018 8:05:38 AM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: rktman
TIME Person of the Year 2018: From BTS to Michelle Obama, who will be on this year's cover?
Whoever the Establishment wants to be President in 2020. So probably not the Korean boy band.
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posted on
12/10/2018 8:14:45 AM PST
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
To: sodpoodle
Do I care what is used to wrap a fish? NO!
To: sodpoodle
Dunno but whoever it is will be brown.
To: ssaftler
The Air We Breath or Methane Gas
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posted on
12/10/2018 8:26:05 AM PST
by
nikos1121
(With Trump, we have our own Age of Pericles)
To: sodpoodle
Bigger question: Who cares?
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12/10/2018 10:09:55 AM PST
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberal is lies.)
To: sodpoodle
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posted on
12/10/2018 10:11:17 AM PST
by
Jmouse007
(Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
To: Jmouse007
They have gone the way of Miss America.
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12/10/2018 11:45:07 AM PST
by
Cowgirl
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