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El mapa fantasma: La EPIDEMIA que cambió la ciencia, las ciudades y el mundo moderno (Ensayo) (Spanish Edition)
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the ambassadors were filled with admiration, and declared that the boasted subtlety of Philip was nothing in comparison with the intellectual vigour and enlarged views of his son.
Plutarch • Parallel Lives: Complete
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
As the naturalist Edward O. Wilson put it, we’ve got ‘Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology’.
Carolyn Steel • Sitopia
Marcus, wrote the historian Edward Gibbon, was the last of the Five Good Emperors (the other four being Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus) who ruled from 96–180 and brought about “the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous.”
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
What is notable about geopolitics is how rapid global change can be. Empires rise and fall with stunning speed. In 1914, Britain still ruled the world. By 1960, Britain’s empire had essentially vanished and the Soviet Union seemed to challenge the United States for hegemonic leadership. By December 1991, the Soviet Union too had vanished from the
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