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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 558159, member: 4381&quot;]Maybe not.&nbsp; There have been very few episodes of real freedom in human history, let alone peace and stability.&nbsp; Rome was a devastating slave center.&nbsp; Jerusalem was burned to the ground and was in the middle of a war zone, but it is obviously it was a great city.&nbsp; Cordova, or Toledo in 14th Century were close but nowhere near the center of civilization that NYC is now.&nbsp; London had devastating poverty at its zenith, and now resembles NYC in many regards.&nbsp; Amsterdam is a great city and might be close.&nbsp; Paris?&nbsp; nah.&nbsp; Great city but never the world center NYC is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Historically name the city that ever had New York&#039;s economy, freedom, stability, cosmopolitan culture, media, finance, opportunity, fashion, education, theater, music, writing and publishing, innovation, tolerance as this city does now in our lifetime, say from WWII to the Present.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is hard to fathom one.</p><p><br /></p><p>[music on]</p><p>Sometimes it almost seems that 800 years of Western Civilizations development was for the purpose of making New York as a gift to mankind.</p><p>[music off]</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruevain[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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