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Jan 2014
19m 22s

Six Stories- the memory palace

ROMAN MARS
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Elevators are old. They would have to be. Because it is in our nature to rise. History is full of things that lift other things. In ancient Greece, and China, and Hungary, there were systems of weights and pulleys and … Continue reading → 
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