[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...

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If the plates there continue to diverge, millions of years from now eastern Africa will split from the continent to form a new landmass. A mid-ocean ridge would then mark the boundary between the ...

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However, even as Nigeria attempts to expand, it, too, is likely to split into several pieces ... disease-ridden coastal trading posts, will loom large in the century we are entering.