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Why are farmers breeding wool-shedding sheep?

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Nostradamus and His Prophecies

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Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)

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Merino wool samples

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Why are farmers breeding wool-shedding sheep?

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Key People

John Macarthur.

John Macarthur

Australian agriculturalist

Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham

British inventor

Edmund Cartwright, engraving by James Thomson

Edmund Cartwright

British inventor