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"A jet engine is one of the most fascinating things in the world."

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"Theorists seem to believe that all human ills—with the possible exception of physical ones—could be done away with by…"

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"National societies (both their states and their nations) have emerged over the last few centuries to become the stron…"

"Thirty years ago, Giovanni Arrighi, Terence Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein pointed out that revolutionaries rarely …"