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Next time a chainsaw!

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June 28th 2013
So have you ever wondered how many ants there are on the planet? If you have walked how far we have spending a reasonable proportion of your day staring at the ground in front of you, you will have. By my reckoning there are at least one thousand times as many of them as there are of us. Contemplate that something slightly bigger than them eats them and so on and so on. You will quickly realise as ... read more

Europe » Spain » Castile & León

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more