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People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

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Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and ...

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After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...

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