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(Classic Episode) Samo Burja: Patterns of Destruction and Structures of Rebirth

From the New World

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What Is the History of the Museum in Alexandria?

In 480, not many people are sort of funded to build machines or innovate in important ways, right? To just dwell on the mosaic in Alexandria because that's actually the original term for it. Or say, Haran at Alexandria wasn't just a philosopher as earlier generations had been, such as Aristotle or Socrates. You know, he was an engineer also that built what we today call Haran steam engine primarily to demonstrate the principle of heat being transformable into motion. That institution was long ago defunded. The human capital going to it was long gone.

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