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In one story of Sindbad the Sailor, and in Marco Polo's writings about India, there is a diamond rich, inaccessible mountain. In both stories, locals harvest the diamonds in the same way using skinned animal bodies. Where does this story come from originally?
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In one of the stories about Sindbad the Sailor, and somewhere in the writings of Marco Polo, there is an inaccessible, diamond rich mountain. Where does this shared story come from?
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[WP] Instructions for a scientific experiment or process, but told in the style of a self-indulgent cookbook recipe.
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[WP] It was deep in the oceans, not on land, that intelligent life developed. Rudimentary technology for exploring land has just been developed and expeditions are sent out.
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[WP] Average joe joins the open qualifiers of some big competition for fun. Through a series of increasingly unlikely technicalities, scandalous disqualifications for the pros, and dumb luck, reluctantly wins the whole thing.
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[WP] An advanced alien civilization has adopted a hard core utilitarian ethic. The greatest happiness for the greatest number. Their numbers are few, ours are great.
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[WP] An accident leaves you blind, but soon you discover that instead of pitch black, you see what seems to be your childhood home in the dead of night.
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[WP] You, a normal person, die with no particular grudge and are now a ghost. Somehow, it's totally rational that you spend your time misplacing things, keeping at the edge of people's vision and going bump in the night.
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What points of no return have we already gone past with regards to climate change? How many just on the horizon? What are we certain there is still time to address?
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