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Happily, the salvation of humankind doesn’t depend on anyone in the next generation actually getting there.
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But the brightest light of all was how this magnificent work dazzlingly shone into the heart of humankind.
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Pacific Rim 2: Uprising PG13 In this sequel, the Kaiju are monsters from the sea bent on destroying humankind, but even though humans have invented giant robots called Jaegers, will this be enough to fight them?
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Supermarkets have become a microcosm of humankind attempting to enforce order over nature.
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The idea that a pharmaceutical company could falsely brand a pill containing opiates, the most addictive substance known to humankind, is outrageous.
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To the brilliant 20th-century political thinker, and author of the always-too-relevant 1984, George Orwell, blowing up the fundamental meaning of truth was a bigger threat to humankind than the atom bomb.
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In 1948, botanist F.W. Went began a modest experiment that has since grown and grown into what is now a massive science project networked across the globe with ambitions of saving humankind from an increasingly hostile environment.
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Pacific Rim 2: Uprising PG13 In this sequel, the Kaiju are monsters from the sea bent on destroying humankind, but even though humans have invented giant robots called Jaegers, will this be enough to fight them?
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First Known Use of humankind
1560
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