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Kind of Blue —the Miles Davis record that is typically considered the defining statement of post-bop modern jazz.

Coltrane recorded A Love Supreme

change would “disproportionately harm small investors, especially in middle America,” the National Venture Capital Association President Bobby Franklin said in a statement.

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Bryan Ward-Perkins in The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization illustrates how social, political and economic dynamism took a major hit in Western Europe with the Roman system’s collapse after 500 AD.

hunter-gatherers were the “original affluent society,” with subsistence requiring just some 3-5 hours of work per week. For Sahlins and his peers, agriculture ushered in a regime of ceaseless toil, one that has not been transcended by modern man’s 40-hour work week.

obesity has become a reliable marker of poverty

hig history (or Whig historiography ) is an approach to historiography that presents history as a journey from an oppressive and benighted past to a "glorious present".[1] The present described is generally one with modern forms of liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy: it was originally a term for the metanarratives praising Britain's adop... See more

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