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As historian Richard John cleverly points out in Spreading the News: The American Postal System From Franklin to Morse , Tocqueville traveled by stage coach in the "hinterland of Kentucky and Tennessee," remarking on the "astonishing circulation of letters and newspapers among these savage woods."
Archaeologists digging under the ruins of the residential palace of Roman tyrant Nero earlier this month stumbled on an astonishing find: a 10-foot-by-6-foot fresco, faded but almost completely intact.
Perhaps what is astonishing is the increasing distance, chiefly during the past century, that landlubbers have put between the sea and themselves: knowledge and awareness of such matters now rests largely among naval types, those yachtsmen who enjoy the leftover jargon of the sea, and a handful of eccentrics, like Jeans, a few others I could mention, and me.
The Templeton Fund grew an astonishing 15 percent a year between 1954 and Templeton's 1992 retirement--a $10,000 stake in 1954 would have grown to more than $3 million by 1992.
As for the U.S. government's Plain Language Initiative, its stated ambitions are in truth astonishing.