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"ref": "2013 March 25, Gregory T. Cushman, Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History, Cambridge University Press, page 104",
"text": "In 1901, he caught a case of the flu, fell into a moribund state lasting another year, and died without ever fathering a child.64 Niue was hardly alone in this experience. Soap sales benefited enormously from the deadly wave of bubonic[…]",
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"text": "If just one more damn high rate, red-lining, premium-gorging, inner-city auto insurance company tries to stick me up just because I choose to live and drive in a black city, I just might catch a case! If just one more white landlord or[…]",
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