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“Jon(Page 23)”:http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/2004/04/page_23/ told me to:

# Grab the nearest book.
# Open the book to page 23.
# Find the fifth sentence.
# Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

From “Guns, Germs and Steel(Amazon.co.uk – Guns, Germs and Steel – A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years )”:http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099302780/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-6617646-4629454 by Jared Diamond:

None of the crucial developments preceding political centralization in those same parts of the world were associated with river valleys or with complex irrigation systems