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Politics : Evolution
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To: Greg or e who wrote (60979)10/21/2014 6:17:15 PM
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The reason we have 60mins in an hour or 360degrees in the circle is based on ancient Babylonian standards of measurements based on "60" which was an easily divisible number they decided to use & this dates back almost 4,000yrs. Pretty neat huh?

500-1000yrs before Moses... and early Greeks like Thales were there studying & learning from them, this we know for fact.
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