While the seemingly stable pre-Sept. 11 status quo had postmodern academics pondering the "death of history," a number of popular authors sought to re-examine humanity's past and present in the light ...
A WRITER in the North China Herald of Shanghai devotes a learned article to detailing and discussing the facts regarding the claim of the Chinese to have invented the mariner's compass. They did not ...
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