• After all, as long as the computer revolution keeps charting a crazy course, programmers will continue to rely on O'Reilly's scribes to explain it to them.

    FORBES: Calliope's revenge

  • One of Les Mis's student revolutionaries, Gavroche, takes refuge in the massive Elephant of the Bastille, the model for a never-built statue that stood in Place de la Bastille in the first half of the 19th century. (For the film, it was recreated at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England.) Though the pachyderm is long gone, the July Column commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 now stands in its place.

    WSJ: Fall Travel Inspired by New Movies

  • Although the process was unwieldy, those who worked on Ceefax during the pioneering days were conscious that they were taking part in an information revolution of some magnitude long before the world wide web arrived on the scene.

    BBC: Ceefax: The early days

  • The Earth's temperatures were fluctuating long before there were people, not to mention the Industrial Revolution.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Wilby is a long-term believer in the digital revolution in consumer electronics and argues that the Japanese remain the best-positioned in that sector.

    FORBES: Bargain bourses

  • Gradiente claims that it had foreseen the revolution of smartphones in 2000 long before Steve Jobs ever dreamed of iPhone.

    FORBES: Apple Fights For The Right To Call iPhone An iPhone In Brazil

  • Situated in north-eastern Wales, the 18 kilometre long Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal is a feat of civil engineering of the Industrial Revolution, completed in the early years of the 19th century.

    UNESCO: World Heritage

  • In this new business landscape where many activities take on the characteristics long associated only with financial trading, Revolution Analytics supplies tools for statistical analysis, a critical component of big data sometimes neglected by observers of the big data landscape.

    FORBES: Revolution in the Big Data and Business Landscape

  • There were two--and arguably three--buttons that engaged the supply-side revolution, which, in turn, set up the U.S.' long economic boom from 1983--2007.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As my friend Clay Shirky says, in a revolution, the old order gets destroyed long before the new order emerges.

    FORBES: The Biggest Story Of Our Lives: Economic Revolution

  • The move toward individual empowerment is a long, gradual revolution.

    WSJ: The Customer as a God: The Future of Shopping

  • But the Rome meeting did make a start on the longest of long-term goals: a second green revolution.

    ECONOMIST: The world food summit

  • Hunter upset a long-serving Democrat to win his House seat in the Reagan Revolution of 1980.

    NPR: Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)

  • I've long been a rather vocal advocate of the digital and cyber-revolution taking place in American business.

    FORBES: Malone's Musings

  • He has lived long enough to watch his most seminal work become the Rosetta Stone of the Economic Revolution, because infinite information overwhelms the transaction costs he found at the heart of the formation of companies, and of jobs.

    FORBES: The Death Of Jobs

  • The Bush Administration's proposed new savings accounts are a step--a remarkably bold one--toward a radical tax change in the U.S. This revolution is moving toward what I and others have long advocated: a flat tax--an income tax system with a single rate that would apply after a high threshold and that would exempt levies on capital gains, dividends and interest.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Long before that, the Bolshoi was stripped of its gold in the aftermath of the Bolshevik revolution.

    FORBES: For VTB Capital, Russia's Got Talent

  • It's possible that they can continue this economic progress for a long time without having to get to the kind of, you know, communications and education revolution that we enjoy, particularly in the United States.

    NPR: Role of U.S. Changing in New World Order

  • The chancellor promised his audience nothing less than a revolution in the way the government planned to open up public data kept private for so long.

    BBC: Open government - in tune with the Zeitgeist?

  • The Libyan government is aware of the urgent need to better control its borders, but they are long and desolate -- and much of Libya's air force was destroyed during the revolution.

    CNN: Benghazi tries to escape its ghosts, past and present

  • It is probably no coincidence that the Humanitarian Revolution came on the heels of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment, that the Long Peace and rights revolutions coincided with the electronic global village.

    WSJ: Steven Pinker: Why Violence Is Vanishing

  • He sets Audubon in the political context of the day: his uneasy boyhood during the French revolution, for example, memories of which made him later wince when having his unfashionably long hair cut by an Edinburgh barber.

    ECONOMIST: John James Audubon

  • Revolution put paid to absolutism and led, after a long and messy struggle, to the creation of an enduring republic.

    ECONOMIST: Creating economic wealth

  • The diminishing returns may continue for "Revolution, " as the franchise seems to be teetering dangerously close to the quality level of long-running direct-to-video spinoff series like Bring It On and American Pie.

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