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Other than a few pages that survey topics such as the Renaissance and Heroes and Heroines, the volume comprises a year-by-year review of the past millennium. Early entries generally list one significant event per year, although more recent times usually include numerous items both serious and ephemeral (1978 marks both the Jonestown murders and the weighing in of the world's heaviest man). Color photographs brighten the browsable book. Ind.