But we can all remind ourselves that the richness of this country was not born in the resources of the earth, though they be plentiful, but in the men that took its measure.

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When Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was born one fifth of the Earth's surface was covered by the British Empire.

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Similar to the recent difficulty of identifying the seven billionth human born on earth (that prize went to Danica May Camacho, a girl born in the Philippine capital of Manila, symbolically chosen by the UN to mark the global population milestone), it is understandable if Apple used location as an important factor in calculating their tiebreaks.

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The portals, also known as X-points in Scudder-speak, are born from the mingling of Earth's magnetic field with incoming solar winds.

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