“Twelve years ago I made a mock Of filthy trades and traffics; I considered what they meant by stock; I wrote delightful sapphics; I knew the streets of Rome and Troy, I supped with fates and Fairies-- Twelve years ago I was a boy, A happy boy at Drury's.” YearsMadeEducationBoysFateStreetsYears AgoTradeFairyRomeTwelveTrafficDelightfulMockFilthy Author:Winthrop Mackworth Praed
“I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level.” YearsTodayRememberGamesLevelsPlayerYears AgoInternationalNineNbaTwelveRemember WhenEighteen Author:Dikembe Mutombo
“I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band and touring and making posters and practicing with my band and working on my vocals, but I didn't spend a large pie chart of my time sifting through criticism as well, and nowadays I do, and all female artists do, because to be able to promote your work, you need to live in those spaces.” ThinkingNeedsWritingYearsWellsRunningAbleArtistSpacePerspectiveInternetBandFemaleYears AgoCriticismMy TimeTwelvePieVocalTouringPostersSiftingFemale Artists Author:Amanda Palmer
“Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did not occur as a result of the hunter-gatherers' elsewhere adopting farming; hunter-gatherers tend to be conservative.... Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers' outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture.” YearsEarthResultsTechnologyLandThousandYears AgoKillingConservativeSpreadDrivingDevelopingFedsFarmersTwelveElsewhereAgricultureSiteThousand YearsHuntersFarmingSuitableAdoptingHunter Gatherers Author:Jared Diamond
“I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!” YearsHas BeensMotherFatherNamesBornChallengesSleepGraceJourneySonDaughterYears AgoComplicatedMy DaughterMy SonTwelveMaxSyndromesPubertyInfantileSeizuresDown Syndrome Author:John C. McGinley