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In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
John Boyd Orr
John Boyd Orr
John Boyd Orr
Born: Sep 23, 1880
Died: Jun 25, 1971

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