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... thousand years , and when and by what people it was first employed would be hard to ascertain definitely . Fragmentary inscriptions prove that the an- cient Chinese , Babylonians and Egyptians all knew the principle of the wheel . Some ...
... thousand years , and when and by what people it was first employed would be hard to ascertain definitely . Fragmentary inscriptions prove that the an- cient Chinese , Babylonians and Egyptians all knew the principle of the wheel . Some ...
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... thousand or fifty thousand and standing room for about twenty thousand or twenty - five thou- sand more , making a maximum of seventy - five thousand . It appears that the ancient Roman writers had a tendency to exaggerate the number of ...
... thousand or fifty thousand and standing room for about twenty thousand or twenty - five thou- sand more , making a maximum of seventy - five thousand . It appears that the ancient Roman writers had a tendency to exaggerate the number of ...
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... thousand in 1869 ; seven- teen thousand two hundred in 1890 ; twenty thousand in 1900 , and twenty - eight thousand five hundred in 1906. Although the Navahos are essentially a composite race , they are pri- marily of Athapascan stock ...
... thousand in 1869 ; seven- teen thousand two hundred in 1890 ; twenty thousand in 1900 , and twenty - eight thousand five hundred in 1906. Although the Navahos are essentially a composite race , they are pri- marily of Athapascan stock ...
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