This article maintains that the process of globalization may be best understood as the spatial offspring of modern technology, just as "the end of history" is its temporal offspring. This conclusion is prefigured in the thought of four 20th-century thinkers who, despite their diverse personal and ideological background, came to almost identical conclusions about the role of technology in modernity. These thinkers, Kojève, Strauss, Schmitt, and Heidegger, may be considered as collaborators in deciphering the meaning of modern technology and its planet-transforming capacities.

This document is a technical note (TN) that describes existing and recently developed tools to support ordinary high water mark (OHWM) identification and delineation. It also presents a case study to demonstrate how utilizing the tools provide supporting lines of evidence in OHWM delineations.

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All of us who teach and write know that the spoken word and written word often require a different format; while the same thoughts can be set forth in a lecture and in a book, each occasion usually requires its indigenous form. However, there are exceptions where words originally put down to be spoken turn into a fine book. One might think of Kojeve's brilliant words delivered to his students at Paris, or Voegelin's Walgreen lectures, or earlier, Hegel's words about history, for these originally spoken words have given us such classics as

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