Lawrence Dennis, American Fascist, speaking in this city excused Hitler as treating the Jews in the same fashion as they treated the alien tribes in the Old Testament days.
In 1825 Benjamin Gompertz worked out a mathematical law of human mortality that has remained the foundation of all actuarial calculations.
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