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"The entire world of the translation, and of its hopes for the future, was rocked and very nearly shattered by an event which fell -- or, to be exact, very nearly fell -- on Jacobean England in November 1605: the attempt by a group of desparate and marginalized Catholic renegades and romantics -- terrorists is the word we would now use -- to blow up the king, queen, princes, peers and other members of parliament at its opening on 5 November. It would come to define Jacobean England as much as September 11 2001 would shape the attitudes, fears and methods of revenge of the western world in the first decade of the twenty-first century." -- Adam Nicolson, God's Secretaries (2003, HarperCollins, New York; ISBN 0-06-083873-6; subtitled "The Making of the King Jame Bible", published in Great Britain under the title Power and Glory). The next couple paragraphs draw more interesting parallels between 1605-11-05 and 2001-09-11, and I may quote those as well in the future.