In a single day in July 1562, a Spanish bishop advanced the cause of his God by ordering the collection and destruction of every Mayan manuscript and work or art that could be found, the treasure of 4,000 years of civilisation.
If George Bush and Al Gore and Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot and Jesse Jackson and John McCain and Pat Robertson and your uncle Mo all ran on a single ballot on a single day, with the top two finishers advancing to a runoff, weird things would happen here, too.
Tickets, available at Ticketmaster, are $19.50 in advance for a single day.
Back at his tent that night he was too weak even to eat or drink, and the next morning he jettisoned all his survival equipment, committing himself to descending all the way to Advance Base Camp in a single day.
"This is more than just a single day of action, this is the beginning of a movement to protect, defend and advance human rights, even in the face of adversity".
Tickets at the gate are $45 for a single day and $60 for the weekend, and slightly less bought in advance.
At a time when supposedly rational decisions sent so many to their deaths – in 1916, the year Dada began, General Haig ordered an advance at the Somme that killed 19,000 British soldiers on a single day – Dada feigned madness.
No, indeed, not even a single day.
It was not a single day either.
130,000 people died in a single day.
