Century
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This is from Thomas Edison, from the beginning of the 20th
century
: "Sleep is a criminal waste of time and a heritage from our cave days."
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It dates back at least 200 years, to Galvani's famous experiments in the late 18th
century
and beyond.
So around the turn of the last century, I started to think, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if one could take this logic and turn it upside down?"
2010: Statistics about Native population today, more than a
century
after the massacre at Wounded Knee, reveal the legacy of colonization, forced migration and treaty violations.
By the middle of the 19th century, it's in full flower.
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