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White House staff are often tempted to attribute world-shattering events to the words and vision offered by their boss years earlier.

Obama in Cairo: Bold or timid? Glenn Kessler 2011

The Atlantic World Reborn, in the second-floor Dexter Hall, traces the origins of the American Revolution and the shock waves its world-shattering call for individual liberty sent through the Atlantic world, especially in the French possession of Saint-Domingue the future Haiti, the location of the first successful slave revolt in 1804, the year of the NYHS's founding.

Historical Resurrection Bruce Cole 2011

No, this headline-making outrage was all caused by the world-shattering news of -- can you guess?

Mark Morford: I Am Outraged! Are You Not Outraged? Mark Morford 2010

Think of the five minutes of “character development” shoehorned in between action scenes, or the huge, world-shattering events that somehow leave all the characters back in the same unchanged love triangle as before.

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No, this headline-making outrage was all caused by the world-shattering news of -- can you guess?

Mark Morford: I Am Outraged! Are You Not Outraged? Mark Morford 2010

No, this headline-making outrage was all caused by the world-shattering news of -- can you guess?

Mark Morford: I Am Outraged! Are You Not Outraged? Mark Morford 2010

While technically an alien invasion shocker, the film feels more like the original Night of the Living Dead, with the entire world-shattering incident being seen entirely through the eyes of Gibson's family as they hide in their farmhouse (it spawned a whole sub-genre of 'through their eyes/ears only' horror films, such as Cloverfield, Pontypool, and Legion).

Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010

While technically an alien invasion shocker, the film feels more like the original Night of the Living Dead, with the entire world-shattering incident being seen entirely through the eyes of Gibson's family as they hide in their farmhouse (it spawned a whole sub-genre of 'through their eyes/ears only' horror films, such as Cloverfield, Pontypool, and Legion).

Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010

While technically an alien invasion shocker, the film feels more like the original Night of the Living Dead, with the entire world-shattering incident being seen entirely through the eyes of Gibson's family as they hide in their farmhouse (it spawned a whole sub-genre of 'through their eyes/ears only' horror films, such as Cloverfield, Pontypool, and Legion).

Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010

Think of the five minutes of “character development” shoehorned in between action scenes, or the huge, world-shattering events that somehow leave all the characters back in the same unchanged love triangle as before.

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