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Description

Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the human species. In The Long... read more

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A wind of Force 9 is a strong gale and it makes a sailboat's rigging shriek unrelentingly.

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  1. Brian M. Fagan (Author)
 

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