From being an obscure passion for a few geeks just five years ago, to forming the backbone of a G8 declaration, its spread across the globe has been phenomenal.
But instead of delivering honest truths, as he had promised in his "declaration", he spread egregious lies about the strikers and the cause of their deaths.
That is bound to anger pro-Taiwan members of Congress and neo-conservatives who had been celebrating Mr. Bush's recent declaration that spreading democracy is the core mission of his foreign policy.
Chan, who was criticised for being slow to make a similar declaration while Ebola spread across west Africa, sidestepped the question when asked if she felt that was a factor in the response to the Zika crisis in Brazil.
It was mid-September before news of the declaration of independence spread to the outer islands, and many Indonesians far from the capital Jakarta did not believe it.
In this era of instant communication, it's interesting to note the slow distribution of the Declaration, and the spreading of the word to those on whose behalf independence had been declared.
Opposition deputies endorsed President Mahamadou Issoufou's call to join the effort against Boko Haram, whose bid to extend the limits of a self-conceived "caliphate" modeled on a similarly dubious declaration in Iraq and Syria has spread fear across the area surrounding Lake Chad.
Twenty-nine countries voted in favor of the declaration after 15 hours of debate spread over two days.
The Haitian water authority has issued a "diarrhea declaration" expressing particular anxiety about the spread of cholera, a water-borne disease, to the earthquake area, where many have experienced nearly relentless misery since the quake struck.
It was only a century later, spurred on by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that mass schooling spread across the developing world.
