
Hawaiian Pizza and Viral Meningitis
The Anthropocene Reviewed
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The History of the Pineapple
Afra urasia and the americas were separated for so long that neither knew the other existed. A moment fraught with wonder and opportunity and terror and catastrophe, everything began moving very quickly in what historians now call the columbian exchange. The typical hawaiian piza contains old world foods, wheat, ham and cow cheese, as well as new world foods, tomatoes and pineapple. But it was impossible until the planet's two worlds became one.
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