The Bookworm Beat 10-12-15 — the mammoth Monday illustrated edition and open thread

Happy Columbus Day, on which we celebrate the vast expansion of our world and the march to a modernity that, in places untainted by political or religious totalitarianism, has seen more people raised from poverty and despair than at any other time in human history!  (Or as more and more Democrats are saying “Happy Indigenous People’s day, on which day we mourn the destruction of the ‘noble savages‘ who died because of Columbus, no matter how vile and violent some of those indigenous people were.”)  Let’s celebrate this special day with an enormous collection of excellent posters!

[I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the numbers in the above poster, but I find it interesting nevertheless.]