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0:00 /0:01 1× Before there was ever a George Washington in Virginia, an Italian man named Pietro Cesare Alberti was living in Brooklyn. He was born under the Doge of Venice at the height of Venetian commercial power, but he fled the city when a brutal strain of

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A TIMELINE OF PREHISTORY.

0:00 /0:04 1× c. 4.5 MYA Emergence of an early ancestor of modern humans, Ardipithecus ramidus, in Ethiopia. [ Olduvai Gorge, Ethiopia ] C. 4.2 MYA Earliest of the australopithecines ("southern ape-humans"), East Africa; walks on two feet, has a brain one-third the size

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[BOOO, HITLER'S BIRTHDAY.. ]

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THE TIMELINE OF 'THE READER'

It is essential that every reader knows their history. This brief timeline is a brief testimony of that well-read history.

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Hurt People, Hurt People

be mindful on how you’re engaging with people, especially digitally. although 49% of the internet is bots, 51% are real people.

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Transportation: A Love Post

A kid stepped on a nail on the way to the bus in 2002. He was the brother of the girl I had a crush on in my neighborhood. 2002 is when I started loving public transportation. It was a morning adventure everyday going to the bus stop with my

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MIDDAY ON CANAL STREET

The economic underground runs an open market on Canal Street in New York City. The only street named “canal” that actually resembles its namesake. USD flows up and down Canal Street, a street awash with semi-criminal activity. African immigrants peddling their wares on the pavement while Middle Eastern shop

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0:00 /0:04 1× Here’s a quick scientific refresher: The funamental unit of any living organism is the cell. Some organismss, such as bacteria and algae have only one cell. Others—people, for instance—have billions of cells. Humans, plants, animals, bugs, and some single-celled organisms all

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