Today marks the publication of an extraordinary new book on the subject, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terror, by former Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith.
But none is like the three seminal jumps in the modern era of TV, which should be remembered as: the birth of big screen projection sets, the development of DVD, and the dawn of the HDTV era.
With the rise of the mortgage lending industry in the late 1990s and the dawn of the 21st century and the proliferation of mortgage originating sales people, mortgage pre-qualification shifted from real estate agents to mortgage reps.
For the people Alex Heard has been talking to across the United States for roughly the past decade, the dawn of the 21st century involves waiting for enlightened space travellers, stockpiling food and ammunition for an environmental Armageddon or preserving severed human heads for the day when all disease can be cured.
She dabbled in Las Vegas schmaltz, made an ambitious album with Quincy Jones and came bouncing back with the assertive "She Works Hard for the Money" at the dawn of the MTV era.
When I came down the garage stairs and relieved myself in the stand of bamboo, the cool air of the dawn welcomed me with a soft breeze.
If the volume of knowledge at the dawn of the 20th century could fit into a shoebox, that knowledge today would fill Gillette Stadium 20 times over.
To mark the end of the old transmission technology and the dawn of the fully digital TV era, BBC One Northern Ireland and UTV are jointly broadcasting a live TV programme on Tuesday night.
At the age of 19, he played in his first World Cup in South Africa, which signalled the end of amateur rugby and the dawn of the professional era.
The Thompson-Torricelli legislation underscores the burgeoning recognition that, at the dawn of the 21st century, the bulk of the world's available development capital resides in the U.S. markets.
The centre of world economic and commercial activity from about the eighth and ninth centuries until around the dawn of the 18th century was the area encompassed by the Islamic empires, India, Southeast Asia and the coastal areas of China.
It has kept you, or someone you love, from having to fight and possibly die in the kind of global cataclysm using non-nuclear (or "conventional") weapons that engulfed our countrymen and untold millions of others twice in the last century, before the dawn of the nuclear age.
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The latest discovery pushes the dawn of the Jomon era in Japan back 3, 500 years to a period when glaciers were rampant in much of the northern hemisphere.
Parallel computing has been the holy grail of supercomputer design almost since the dawn of the silicon age.
The golden period of the zombie movie was the late 70s and early 80s, after George Romero made the first of his Dead sequels with the apocalyptic Dawn of the Dead.
Closing deals and driving revenue has been at the top of the agenda since the dawn of commerce.
The turn of the 20th century was the dawn of a new, greased-lightening manufacturing age, the era of Ford Motor 's assembly line.
The turn of the 20th century was the dawn of a new, greased-lightening manufacturing age, the era of Ford Motor 's (nyse: F - news - people ) assembly line.
The rise and fall of Napster, the dawn of digital, and the ubiquity of high-standard equipment that allows artists to produce without relying on an established (and expensive) recording studio or major label backing, have led to a revolution in the industry in just a few short decades.
The prize for general non-fiction was awarded to Gilbert King for Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America, which details racial injustice in Florida in 1949.
Most said they were planning to dance through the night to greet the first dawn of the new millennium - just to confirm if really had arrived.
Traveling at a fraction below the speed of light, the particles would crash into each other, creating conditions similar to those at the dawn of the universe for scientists to observe.
They also represent a radical departure from the way companies have been operating since the dawn of the industrial age.
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"For anyone who witnessed the onset of computers and the dawn of video games, 'Tron' spoke to a lot of us with concepts about what it was like to be inside a computer or a virtual world, " he said.
With all the inevitable pressures she will be facing from this point on, why assume the additional burden of comparison with one of the most iconic and adored figures since the dawn of media.
Though Okuefuna, who executive-produced the companion BBC documentary, maintains in his introduction that The Dawn of the Color Photograph is primarily a picture book, in typical British fashion he sells himself and this extraordinary volume short.
They have been the cornerstone of human connection since the dawn of civilization, painted on cave walls for all to see.
Now comes the Net and suddenly Microsoft appears as slow and confused as DEC at the dawn of the PC era.
When the first cable landed, Brian Herlihy, the CEO of Seacom said its arrival marked "the dawn of a new era for communications".
Yet, for all of the buzz, we are only at the dawn of Big Data, and there still exists tremendous confusion about what the term really represents.
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