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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Pigs
Cows
Competing
Chickens
Grain
Environment
Nature
People

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