greatness

in History:

from “Reversal of Fortune” By Arkady Ostrovsky: “For the Western world, 1929 marked the start of the Great Depression. For the Soviet Union, it was a year that Joseph Stalin called the ‘Great Break’—the ending of a short spell of semiprivate economic policy and the beginning of the deadly period of forced collectivization and industrialization. Often mistranslated as the ‘Great Leap Forward,’ ‘Great Break’ is truer to Stalin’s intentions and much more befitting their tragic consequences.”

Stalin may be better known for the Great Purge.

The Great Leap Forward may be better known as Mao Zedong’s plan in the late 1950s to transform China from and agrarian economy into and industrialized communist one.

in Science:

Reginald Smith, from the Bouchet-Franklin Institute in Rochester, New York, thinks he has an explanation for the Fermi paradox and what some people call the Great Silence (i.e. high probability of the existence of extraterrestrial life vs. the lack of evidence or contact from that life).

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