That's an overly simplistic explanation for the six-sided display on hand at the MIT Media Lab today, which is quite limited in its current form, but could eventually serve an enormous variety of applications.
Or so it seemed until the 1950s, when collector Forest Sweet, who had accumulated six stray leaves (a leaf being a single two-sided page), deduced they came from Washington's original.
Over the past six months, for example, the Greeks would probably have sided with the anti-war camp in Europe over Iraq, had they not been constrained in their role as EU president to be scrupulously neutral.