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sibling sub-article to this one. I also added entirely new sections on Pre-Columbian
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to various mechanical wonders was not a thing until about the 1st century BC during the
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Ancheta, I'm Ling. Nice to meet you. I'm hoping to take this article to GA over the next few weeks or even months; you're welcome to join in if you want. It will be a nontrivial project. I saw your userpage. What da heck is Flowstream? And by coincidence, I was thinking of
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just this past week. Oddly, the article doesn't mention that it contains (or maybe, used to contain?) plum extract. That was the reason for the name "plum peanut". Thanks for your input here. There are two goals in this present moment, adding
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which involves boiling the hyena for 60 days until you get a syrup, taking care to strain out the fur (this is meant as a medicine). The antidote is probably older than the 1200 year-old manuscripts of
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