First Americans, Hardcover

Border Lines: Poems of Migration, Hardcover - Mihaela Moscaliuc

78,99 RON 84,99 RON

Reducere. In this remarkable collection--the first of its kind--poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards, and losses of ...

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Gig Harbor, Hardcover - Donald R. Tjossem

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Gig Harbor, located in southern Puget Sound, received its name from the Wilkes Expedition in 1841. History indicates that the captain's gig led the...

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Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa, Hardcover - Rachelle Chase

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionSome have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians li...

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Displacement, Hardcover - Kiku Hughes

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a histori...

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Anna Maria Island, Hardcover - Bonner Joy

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. Anna Maria Island was once inhabited by Native Americans, but as the beauty became known to its first homesteader, George L. Bean, the island's des...

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An African American History of the Civil War in Hampton Roads, Hardcover - Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. It was in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that hundreds gained their freedom. The teeming wharves were once a major station on the Underground Railroad, a...

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Hidden History of the Boston Irish: Little-Known Stories from Ireland's Next Parish Over, Hardcover - Peter F. Stevens

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. When it comes to Irish America, certain names spring to mind Kennedy, O Neill, and Curley testify to the proverbial footsteps of the Gael in Boston...

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Blues Musicians of the Mississippi Delta, Hardcover - Steven Manheim

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. The Mississippi Delta blues run as deep and mysterious as the beautiful land from where the music originates. Blues legends B.B. King, Muddy Waters...

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Charcutería: The Soul of Spain, Hardcover - Jeffrey Weiss

214,99 RON

2015 James Beard Award nominee 2015 Gourmand World Cookbook Award nominee An updated and redesigned edition of Charcutería: The Soul of Spain, the ...

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American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hardcover - Naoko Wake

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground no...

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Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer, Hardcover - Traci Sorell

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for...

millbrook press (tm), carti, carte straina, children's

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Native Providence: Memory, Community, and Survivance in the Northeast, Hardcover - Patricia E. Rubertone

672,99 RON 720,99 RON

Reducere. A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the n...

university of nebraska press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space, Hardcover - Michelle L. Evans

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into ...

university of nebraska press, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science, physics

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Blacks in the Bible: The Original Roots of Men and Women of Color in Scripture, Hardcover - James H. Warden Jr

216,99 RON

Abraham and his wife made their African slave a surrogate mother and she bore Abraham a half-black heir. Later, God wished to use Moses and his Eth...

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Corvette from the Inside, Hardcover - Dave McLellan

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. Celebrations begin this year to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette. There's no one more qualified than Dave McLellan to reflect up...

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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, Hardcover - Kate Masur

181,99 RON 194,99 RON

Reducere. The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws th...

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Illinois Wildlife Encyclopedia: An Illustrated Guide to Birds, Fish, Mammals, Reptiles, and Amphibians, Hardcover - Scott Shupe

182,99 RON 195,99 RON

Reducere. Illinois's wildlife has always played an important role in the history of human beings inhabiting the state. Native Americans depended on birds, ma...

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Prairie County, Hardcover - Bill Sayger

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Prairie County was aptly named when it was organized in 1846, as a large portion of its southern end was covered with prairie grass at the time. In...

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Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical, Hardcover - Jacqueline Jones

188,99 RON 202,99 RON

Reducere. From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived Goddess of Anarchy recounts th...

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Your Rugged Constitution, Hardcover - Bruce Allyn Findlay

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. Your Rugged Constitution was first published sixty-four years ago. It quickly became a go-to resource for generations of young Americans (and some ...

stanford university press, carti, carte straina, law, laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law

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Up Front, Hardcover - Bill Mauldin

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. "The real war, " said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" cam...

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The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens, Hardcover - Bernard E. Harcourt

187,99 RON 201,99 RON

Reducere. A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern AmericansMilitarized police officers with...

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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, Hardcover - Jessica Bruder

145,99 RON 156,99 RON

Reducere. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have disc...

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The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech, Hardcover - Kimberley Strassel

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. From Kim Strassel-one of the preeminent political columnists writing today and member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board-comes an insightfu...

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North Caddo Parish, Hardcover - Sam Collier

143,99 RON

DescriptionIn 1835, the United States purchased close to one million acres of land from the Caddo Confederacy of Native Americans; the Louisiana po...

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Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Hardcover - Shennette Garrett-Scott

863,99 RON 924,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on F...

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Copper Stain, Hardcover - Elaine Hampton

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. "The convertors would spew it out, " employee Arturo Hernandez recalled, referring to molten metal. "You'd see the ground, the dirt, catch on fire....

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Justice League by Christopher Priest Deluxe Edition, Hardcover - Christopher Priest

170,99 RON

DescriptionWhen Batman makes a fatal mistake, it triggers a series of events that threaten the very existence of the League itself. And when the te...

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Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen, Hardcover - Lidia Matticchio Bastianich

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. IACP Crystal Whisk AwardLidia Bastianich, loved by millions of Americans for her simple, delectable Italian cooking, gives us her most instructive ...

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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream, Hardcover - Jonathan Gruber

174,99 RON 187,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.The American...

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A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories, Hardcover - Bettye Collier-Thomas

100,99 RON

A collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century to the modern civil ri...

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All the Stars Denied, Hardcover - Guadalupe Garcia McCall

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment i...

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Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad, Hardcover - Nicole Weisensee Egan

125,99 RON

Description The definitive account of Bill Cosby's transition from revered father figure to convicted criminal, told by a veteran crime reporter an...

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Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship, Hardcover - Brenna Wynn Greer

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Washington, D.C.-based public relations ...

university of pennsylvania press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

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Stroudsburgs in the Poconos, Hardcover - Marie Summa

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionNestled in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania are the twin towns of Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg. Discover the hi...

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Atlas of the Great Plains, Hardcover - Center for Great Plains Studies

259,99 RON 278,99 RON

Reducere. 2011 Booklist Editor's Choice, reference categoryThe Great Plains, stretching northward from Texas into Canada, is a region that has been understud...

university of nebraska press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom, Hardcover - Gary D. Schmidt

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gary D. SchmidtIllustrator: Daniel MinterFrom celebrated author Gary D. Schmidt comes a picture book biography of a giant i...

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American History: A Visual Encyclopedia, Hardcover - DK

180,99 RON 193,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionUncover the key moments that shaped American history in this extensive history encyclopedia for children. Get the background on the Batt...

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Columbus in the Americas, Hardcover - William Least Heat Moon

99,99 RON

A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy ""They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tire...

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Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments, Hardcover - J. L. Pickering

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. July 16, 1969. Nearly one million spectators flock to Cape Canaveral to witness the largest rocket ever built send three Americans to the Moon. Fou...

university press of florida, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Russell Kirk: American Conservative, Hardcover - Bradley J. Birzer

263,99 RON

Award NameMichigan Notable BooksAward categoryNotable BookDescriptionEmerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing ...

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A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska, Hardcover - Sergei Kan

383,99 RON 410,99 RON

Reducere. This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photog...

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Russian River, Hardcover - Simone Wilson

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Russian River begins in the hills of Mendocino County and meanders past Cloverdale and Healdsburg on its way to the sea. But when lo...

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Fairytale: The Pointer Sisters' Family Story, Hardcover - Anita Pointer

183,99 RON 196,99 RON

Reducere. FAIRYTALE is the first and only book to provide inside portraits of The Pointer Sisters' formative and professional life--June, Bonnie, Anita and R...

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From "superman" to Man, Hardcover - J. A. Rogers

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Joel Augustus Roger's seminal work, this novel first published in 1917 is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. The central plot revol...

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Asian Mind Game, Hardcover - Chin-Ning Chu

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis book, by East-West marketing consultant Chin-ning Chu, is must reading for any Westerner in business, government, or academia who n...

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African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation, Hardcover - Gary Zellar

307,99 RON 329,99 RON

Reducere. Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste--black people--and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spok...

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America's First Ally: France in the Revolutionary War, Hardcover - Norman Desmarais

157,99 RON

DescriptionThis is a comprehensive look at how France influenced the American Revolutionary War in a variety of ways; intellectually, financially, ...

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The Debt Project: 99 Portraits Across America, Hardcover - Brittany M. Powell

185,99 RON

Finalist for the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize in Documentary. Featured on Politico, The Washington Post, The Daily Mail, and The Huffington Pos...

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Emerson's Nature and the Artists: Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea, Hardcover - Tyler Green

119,99 RON

Illustrated by classic American paintings and photographs, and accompanied with a prescient new appraisal, this stunning publication on Emerson's s...

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American Indians in Early New Orleans: From Calumet to Raquette, Hardcover - Daniel H. Usner

274,99 RON 294,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played ...

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Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution, Hardcover - Myron Magnet

119,99 RON 128,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from ...

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Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter, Hardcover - Charlton D. McIlwain

119,99 RON

DescriptionActivists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil righ...

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By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution, Hardcover - David Talbot

157,99 RON

New York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate "America's second revolutionary generation" in ...

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Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age, Hardcover - Julie Golia

170,99 RON

What can century-old advice columns tell us about the Internet today? This book reveals the little-known history of advice columns in American news...

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Lucean Arthur Headen: The Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur, Hardcover - Jill D. Snider

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, ...

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Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration, Hardcover - Edward T. Cotham

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. Juneteenth has been touted as a national day celebrating the end of slavery. Observances from coast to coast have turned this event into part of th...

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Three Little Engines, Hardcover - Bob McKinnon

94,99 RON

A gorgeously illustrated, modern retelling of the classic The Little Engine That Could, sharing the timely message that everyone's journey is diffe...

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Skinship: Stories, Hardcover - Yoon Choi

125,99 RON

An exquisite collection from a breathtaking new voice--centered on a constellation of Korean American families "To encounter these achingly truthfu...

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Bozeman, Hardcover - Denise Glaser Malloy

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Surrounded by dramatic mountain ranges, Bozeman is an impressive city with a remarkable past. The land that would become Bozeman and the Gallatin V...

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Morristown, Hardcover - Joan M. Williams

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. For many Americans, Morristown evokes pictures of ragged troops huddled in log huts, shivering in the bitter cold of winter--but there is more to t...

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City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago, Hardcover - Robert G. Spinney

350,99 RON

City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinn...

northern illinois university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Italians in the Lowcountry: Sunny Italy's Charleston Colony, Hardcover - Christina Rae Butler

342,99 RON 366,99 RON

Reducere. Italians in the Lowcountry is the first book to explore the contributions and legacies of the Italian and Italian American community in Charleston,...

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In Our Reach: How Resourceful Employees Build and Preserve Wealth at Work, Hardcover - Tony Verheyen

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. Why were so many Americans unprepared for COVID-19's financial fallout? Within weeks or months, it eviscerated their earnings, savings, credit, inv...

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Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease, Hardcover - Gail Jarrow

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Acclaimed author Gail Jarrow, recipient of a 2019 Robert F. Sibert Honor Award, explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine,...

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The Night Watchman, Hardcover - Louise Erdrich

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. New York Times BestsellerBased on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night w...

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The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World, Hardcover - Samuel Zipp

231,99 RON

"The Idealist is a powerful book, gorgeously written and consistently insightful. Samuel Zipp uses the 1942 world tour of Wendell Willkie to examin...

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Give Me the Now: An Autobiography, Hardcover - Rudolf Zwirner

157,99 RON

Rudolf Zwirner, "the man who invented the art market, " as coined in Der Spiegel, reflects on more than sixty years in the art business in his auth...

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Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders, Hardcover - Dennis C. Rasmussen

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation th...

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Gourdvine Black and White: Slavery and the Kilby Families of the Virginia Piedmont, Hardcover - Timothy Kilby

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Gourdvine Black and White is the history, biography, and genealogy of one family divided into two by race and the time in which they lived. For fou...

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