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The Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has published for the first time: Charles Darwin's ...

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On the afternoon of Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was in Boston when he had a three-hour chat with his assistant and fellow inventor, Thomas Watson. It would not have been noteworthy — except ...