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Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
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Pherecydes of Syros
Pherecydes of Syros
Greek writer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Gerard Peter Kuiper
American astronomer
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
British astronomer and geophysicist
Ernst Öpik
Estonian astronomer
Sir George Darwin, portrait by M. Gertler, 1912; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Darwin
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Immanuel Velikovsky
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