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The entire history of mankind, in regular installments. Not just European stuff, but the history of all mankind, from the Americas to Sub-Saharan Africa & Oceania

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About David Roman

Historian, tried to be a philosopher but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in. In previous lives, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News alumnus, for a while gainfully employed by the Chinese Communist Party (no kidding).

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