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WCAG Heading WCAG Heading WCAG Heading By Dirk Vandewalle Libya’s Revolution in Perspective 1969–2000 The September 1,…
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I Told You So!

Thomas Sydenham – English physician (1624–1689).

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Portrait of Sitting Bull taken at the studio William Notman & Son, in Montreal, Canada, in 1885

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Galileo’s Secret Sauce: People Skills

A portrait of Galileo by Flemish painter Justus Sustermans. Circa 1640. Public domain. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

by Matt Kaplan

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