The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley (58 page)

as only children,
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parents of,
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persistence of,
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practicality of,
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premeditated,
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purity of,
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religion and,
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sense of wonder in,
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sources of,
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as surfers,
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that we want and deserve,
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timing in,
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use and misuse of word,
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women as,
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geology,
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Germany,
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language and,
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Nazis and,
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Gernet, Jacques,
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Getzels, Jacob,
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Ghiberti, Lorenzo,
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competition between Brunelleschi and,
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Ghose, Indrani,
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Gillmor, Stewart,
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Glasgow,
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
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Gogh, Vincent van,
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Golan mask makers,
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Goldberger, Ary,
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Google,
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Gordon, William,
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Graf, Max,
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Granovetter, Mark,
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gravity,
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Great Britain,
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Bose and,
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Calcutta and,
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Galton and,
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India and,
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Scotland and,
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great plague of 430 BC,
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Greece,
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and body and mind,
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and burdens of history,
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climate of,
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cuisine of,
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Florence and,
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foreign ideas stolen by,
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geography of,
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Hume and,
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language and,
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light in,
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Silicon Valley and,
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sitting and,
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Su and,
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symposia in,
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vases and pottery of,
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walking and,
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Greeks and the New, The
(D’Angour),
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Greenwood, Dara,
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Grudin, Robert,
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guanxi,
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Guilford’s Alternative Uses test,
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Gupta, Sunreta,
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Gutenberg, Johannes,
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Guttmann, Martin,
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Hallman, Ralph,
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Hamilton, Edith,
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Hangzhou,
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Athens and,
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Florence and,
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hygiene in,
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Ma and,
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poet–emperors of,
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Polo’s visit to,
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weather in,
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West Lake and,
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women of,
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Hare, David,
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Harrington, David,
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Harvey, William,
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Haydn, Franz Joseph,
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death and,
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Mozart and,
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