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By Bill Landauer In the first half of the 20th century, two world wars shook the planet to its core. The handful of empires that controlled the largest swaths of the globe crumbled, and from the dust arose the more than 200 nation-states you see on the map today. But it wasn’t that easy. Professors […]
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