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This was meatier than the usual companion book to a tv series. It's not Wood's specialty, but he looks carefully into the archaeology, the personalities, and the legend. He seems to be convinced Hisarlik is Troy and the war actually happened. The Ili
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C. F. Ritchel of Bridgeport, Connecticut, suggested a tower with a base one hundred feet high by five hundred feet wide, within which Ritchel proposed to nest a second tower and, in this one, a third. At intervals a complicated system of
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― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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― Dave Barry's History of the Millennium
― Dave Barry's History of the Millennium
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