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		pg on May 27, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cities and Ambition Syracuse was in fact probably the richest and most sophisticated city in the West at the time.

tyn on May 28, 2008 [–]

What happened to the other Syracuse geniuses, then? Now it gets more complicated. I think that the article's argument apply more to some fields (e.g. painting, cinema) than others. IT is probably one of these other fields (Guido van Rossum comes to mind here).

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