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... early Ming years are described and analyzed in EDWARD L. DREYER , Early Ming China : A Political History , 1355–1435 ( 1982 ) ; and CHARLES O. HUCKER , The Ming Dynasty : Its Origins and Evolv- ing Institutions ( 1978 ) . Additional ...
... early Ming years are described and analyzed in EDWARD L. DREYER , Early Ming China : A Political History , 1355–1435 ( 1982 ) ; and CHARLES O. HUCKER , The Ming Dynasty : Its Origins and Evolv- ing Institutions ( 1978 ) . Additional ...
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... early in the Cenozoic there began a slow , intermittent cooling of the world's oceans , both at the surface and in deep waters ( see Figure 48 ) . There was an especially sharp decrease in temperature at the outset of the Early ...
... early in the Cenozoic there began a slow , intermittent cooling of the world's oceans , both at the surface and in deep waters ( see Figure 48 ) . There was an especially sharp decrease in temperature at the outset of the Early ...
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... Early business machines 640 Herman Hollerith's census tabulator Other early business machine companies Invention of the modern computer 641 Early experiments 641 Vannevar Bush's Differential Analyzer Howard Aiken's digital calculators ...
... Early business machines 640 Herman Hollerith's census tabulator Other early business machine companies Invention of the modern computer 641 Early experiments 641 Vannevar Bush's Differential Analyzer Howard Aiken's digital calculators ...
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