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... known as pot drums . They are found in Asia , Africa , and America - in Africa and America often in connection with exorcism . IN EUROPE Antiquity . Only a few kinds of drum , none indigenous , were known to antiquity . The frame drum ...
... known as pot drums . They are found in Asia , Africa , and America - in Africa and America often in connection with exorcism . IN EUROPE Antiquity . Only a few kinds of drum , none indigenous , were known to antiquity . The frame drum ...
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... known geologically . Along the western slopes of the Ural Moun- tains , Murchison recognized a sequence of beds that proved to be younger than rocks of the Carboniferous Period ( 345,000,000 to 280,000,000 years ago ) in En- gland ...
... known geologically . Along the western slopes of the Ural Moun- tains , Murchison recognized a sequence of beds that proved to be younger than rocks of the Carboniferous Period ( 345,000,000 to 280,000,000 years ago ) in En- gland ...
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... known only for heavy water , is metastable and is not shown . Ice VII has a density of nearly 1.7 grams per cubic centimetre and requires pressures of at least 21,700 atmospheres to be stable . Other well - known substances exhibiting ...
... known only for heavy water , is metastable and is not shown . Ice VII has a density of nearly 1.7 grams per cubic centimetre and requires pressures of at least 21,700 atmospheres to be stable . Other well - known substances exhibiting ...
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