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The American Fabius

Washington is remembered for the most audacious night of the Revolution. He won the war by refusing, for years, to be audacious at all.

The Document Augustus Wrote for the Future

How will your autobiographical epitaph read 1900 years from now?

The Second Founder

Camillus, Churchill, and what Rome understood about the wilderness years

Federal Express's entire model depended on one nightly miracle. The sort kept finishing late. Then someone looked at the paycheck.

In 1922, AT&T needed a standard way to mount telephone relays. That decision is currently housing the hardware running artificial intelligence.

Everyone knows the horse's-rear-end story. Rome did not do it.