It has reinvigorated an interest in investing, some brokers here said, that brings flashbacks of Japan's spectacular bubble era of the late 1980s.
It represents almost 50% more ice than the spectacular satellite-era record-minimum achieved this time last year - when floes were reduced to just 3.41 million sq km (1.32 million sq mi).
In 1992, it was Basildon, held by the Tories, that signalled John Major's national victory; five years later, Michael Portillo's defeat in Enfield Southgate dramatised the spectacular end of a long Conservative era.
In 25 or 50 years, will people look at this as an era of spectacular clothing?
Plenty of others have pocketed $100m or more.Much of the nostalgia is for an era of spectacular returns.
Melbourne Victory continue to set the benchmark for A-League clubs, cracking 25,000 members this week, while Sydney FC have been solid, if not spectacular, since the Del Piero era.
To stay relevant to younger, digitally savvy visitors while also delivering growth to investors, Disney, the company that invented the modern theme park, knows that it has to devise a new era of spectacular attractions rooted in technology.
But if Hobsbawm was, as he writes, "unprepared to welcome an era of spectacular capitalist success," he also resisted the New Left, remarking that he did not wear jeans.
Whether he means anything substantial by this seemingly casual nod at the past — specifically the 1970s, an era of spectacular terrorist attacks like that of the Palestinian group Black September on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics — it subtly, and necessarily, widens the movie's historical framework.
Scotland's independence referendum has provoked much scrutiny of spending disparities a hint of what may lie in store for Ulster as the era of spectacular violence lapses into the past.If it can rise to its short-run challenges, the case for handing more of the levers of economic policy to Stormont is strong.
