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Survival of the Fittest: a Brutal Selection Process

The selection process of survival of the fittest — natural selection — is so brutal, merely around one in ten to one in a hundred of those born mature to produce young. This ratio of variations yields abundant scope for the selection of any variation necessary in order to alter the species in such […]

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The Building of the Pentagon

The Pentagon was completed in 16 months. It was built on a swamp and on the area of the old Washington airport. Trucks hauled some 5.5 million cubic yards (4.2 million cubic meters) of junk and soil and dumped it in the marshes. The building’s foundation rests on 41,492 concrete piles.
The purchase of land […]

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