Nearly half of all New Guinea languages have fewer than 500 speakers. Guns, Germs And Steel
The rain is ever falling, drip, drip, drip, by day and night, upon the broad flagged terrace-pavement. Bleak House
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. Guns, Germs And Steel
Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness. The Third Wave
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