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... continued to be stable cores of the continents . They had been submerged by shallow seas during the Paleozoic , but when they emerged they remained so until the second half of the Mesozoic . During the Cretaceous the platforms border ...
... continued to be stable cores of the continents . They had been submerged by shallow seas during the Paleozoic , but when they emerged they remained so until the second half of the Mesozoic . During the Cretaceous the platforms border ...
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... continued as military expenditure , by military and economic aid to countries threatened by " Communist aggression , " and by direct and portfolio investment . Much of this huge American foreign spending and capital outflow assisted the ...
... continued as military expenditure , by military and economic aid to countries threatened by " Communist aggression , " and by direct and portfolio investment . Much of this huge American foreign spending and capital outflow assisted the ...
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... continued under the Romans , at least in name , a funda- mental change in fact came over the country . It has been conventional to speak of Greco - Roman Egypt as though there were a continuum ( and in some areas of life there was such ) ...
... continued under the Romans , at least in name , a funda- mental change in fact came over the country . It has been conventional to speak of Greco - Roman Egypt as though there were a continuum ( and in some areas of life there was such ) ...
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