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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
Anthropologist
University Teacher
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
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Israel Ehrenberg
M. F. Ashley-Montague
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