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... energy directly from the sun, and with the cultivation of the hard grains — wheat, barley, millet, rice — made storage and more equable distribution throughout the year possible, with a great increment of manpower no longer wholly ...
... energy directly from the sun, and with the cultivation of the hard grains — wheat, barley, millet, rice — made storage and more equable distribution throughout the year possible, with a great increment of manpower no longer wholly ...
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... energy was all the more formidable because Vril had been miniaturized and was transportable in a hollow rod. By making this new energy the key to both the governance of men and dominance over nature, and by burying his ideal community ...
... energy was all the more formidable because Vril had been miniaturized and was transportable in a hollow rod. By making this new energy the key to both the governance of men and dominance over nature, and by burying his ideal community ...
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... energy. Even before historians of technics had put together the evidence for the increased utilization of energy after the twelfth century, Adams had, in outlining this change, quietly abandoned the misleading notion of the eighteenth ...
... energy. Even before historians of technics had put together the evidence for the increased utilization of energy after the twelfth century, Adams had, in outlining this change, quietly abandoned the misleading notion of the eighteenth ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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