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One mans humble quest to become the smartest person in the world. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire. Forty years old by the time of trafalgar, she had been the flagship of half a dozen famous admirals, and was to continue in active service until 1812. Pliny the elder, natural history loeb classical library. The guinness is a compilation of isolated and insipid facts. Buy natural history penguin classics reprint by pliny the elder, john healey, john healey isbn. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover all ancient knowledge. The power of nothingness, by alexandra davidneel 1982. Publication date 1938 topics natural history publisher. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet. An online collection of historic images, maps, photographs, articles, illustrations and ephemera related to north tonawanda, new york. The crowninshield elephant natural history magazine. The story is about a lamas servant, a man of no intellectual pretensions, who finds his teacher murdered in his tent and presumably robbed of the precious jewel he wore around his neck. Pliny devised a summarium, or list of contents, at the beginning of the work that was later interpreted by modern printers as a table of contents.
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