Such stories mark a big turnaround for diasporas, which over the last century have often had to wage an uphill struggle against time and geography.

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Knowledge and culture has its way of passing through time and geography, as these manuscripts remind us of the dialogue between cultures as an essential part of intellectual development.

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Well, hurricane strikes are actually a really poor measure of hurricane activity, since whether major hurricanes hit land or stay out at sea or hit some other country is pretty random (the only metric that is worse is hurricane damage numbers, which are biased over time and geography with large variations in coastal development value).

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In addition, vitamin D can be produced by the skin with sunlight exposure, but this ability decreases with age and varies considerably by geography, time of day or year, skin melanin content (darker skin produces less vitamin D) and sunscreen use.

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The former Plaid Cymru president, Dafydd Iwan, when he looked more like he did in the days of this picture than he does now, used to sing - in Welsh - of school days that were filled with "lessons history, lessons geography" and "lessons English " all the time.

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For the first time, individual investors across the country are able to see investment opportunities beyond their immediate geography.

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Geography is a mostly fixed lens, a constant that lets you trace seamless stories across time.

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They also can access real-time analytics about how their videos are being viewed, including demographics of who is watching them, geography and from which platforms.

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