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ON September 9 occurs the centenary of the death of the famous Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, the contemporary of de Saussure and Prevost and the father of Alphonse de Candolle (1806 ...
Michel Gabriel Paccard, and three years later, by Balmat again and Horace Benedict de Saussure, ushered in a new era. It was previously supposed to be a “doomed place” inhabited by malignant ...
In broad strokes — and even in some much narrower strokes — Donald Trump is running the same campaign that he ran in 2020 and that he ran in 2016. Immigration must be curtailed, the elites are ...
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