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Imperial Eukaryotes

Jesse Walker | 11.20.2009 3:52 PM

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Friday fun link: watch four maritime empires grow and decline.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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