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"Who would you dine with? Scott or Amundsen?" Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford in Discussion.

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Is the British Empire Beginning in the Late Nineteenth Century?

There was something in scott's attempt that seems very late empire. But there was moment when the british empire's kind of ability to pull off these kinds of feats would have looked a lot more like admonson. Mevey another way of saying this said, amerson sounds, he sounds like an eighteenth century english explorer. He does. And amersons is from a very young country. n norway has only only just got its independence so it's very aware of its need to establish itself and to show the big boys that it can do something. So that, i think, comes across very much in what amerson is doing. I'm wondering, if the brit

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