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Aristotle

Most of what carries Aristotle's name reached us through students and editors, not Aristotle's own hand for publication, and that fact shapes how confidently anyone can say what he actually thought.
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Nubian pyramids

More than double the number Egypt built, these pyramids survived a nineteenth-century treasure hunter who demolished forty of them from the top down searching for gold.