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Note from 5 January 2021

  • Nicolas Hoizey
  • 5 January 2021
  • society

Today, I remembered linking to a "Letter from 2020" back in 2001. It had been written in 2000 by Mark Summerfield.

It is now gone 😥, but @waybackmachine has a copy! 😍

http://web.archive.org/web/20001109235100/http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MarkSummerfield/MarkSummerfield3.html

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