It was once an empire of ten million souls, a beautiful and bountiful continent that prospered for more than a thousand years.

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These technologies are doubling in power every year and therefore will be a thousand times more powerful in ten years, a million times more powerful in twenty years.

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Her other hits included "Ten Thousand Angels, " also in 1996, and her album by that title sold 2 million copies.

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