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When we visited the volcano it was in a state of ##QUESTION_1## . We stood near tip of the ##QUESTION_2## on an irregular plane. It was heaped ##QUESTION_3## stones and cinders and ##QUESTION_4## rocks which had been regularly ##QUESTION_5## out from the volcano. During the volcanic eruption, large quantities of rocks and stones were hurled out from the summit in terrible ##QUESTION_6## . From the summit volumes ##QUESTION_7## smoke and fountains of liquid fire ##QUESTION_8## forth continuously. The smoke now white, now impenetrably black was ##QUESTION_9## by a deep fiery roar. Stones ##QUESTION_10## down and the molten lava moved on with a horrible sound.

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The Aryans ##QUESTION_1## about northern Asia and Europe over the wide grasslands. But as their numbers grew and the climate became drier and the land ##QUESTION_2##, there was not ##QUESTION_3## food for all of them to eat. ##QUESTION_4## they were forced to move to other parts of the world in search of ##QUESTION_5##. They spread out all over Europe and ##QUESTION_6## to India, Persia and Mesopotamia. Thus we find that nearly all the people of Europe and northern India and Persia and Mesopotamia, although they differ so much ##QUESTION_7## each other now, are really descendants from the same ##QUESTION_8##, the Aryans. Of course this was very long ##QUESTION_9## and since then much has happened and races have got mixed up to a large extent. The Aryans are, ##QUESTION_10##, one great ancestral race of the people of the world today.

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Scientists have developed an electronic circuit that ##QUESTION_1## the wiring of the human brain in some ways – an achievement that ##QUESTION_2## revolutio nalise computer science and ##QUESTION_3## the understanding of how nature’s most powerful ##QUESTION_4## works. The ##QUESTION_5## built on a ##QUESTION_6## chip the size of a finger nail, is ##QUESTION_7## from the thinking machines of science-fiction : For one thing it cannot ##QUESTION_8##, the way the ##QUESTION_9## can. But researchers say it could ##QUESTION_10## in better speech and object recognition by computers.