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The Farmers Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in 1875.

One of the goals of the organization was to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers in the period following the American Civil War.

The Farmer's Alliance moved into politics in the early 1890s under the banner of the People's Party, commonly known as the "Populists."

The Vedas are considered the earliest literary record of Indo-Aryan civilization. It is the most sacred scriptures of India.

There are four Vedas in Hinduism. They are:

1. The Rig Veda,

2. Sama Veda,

3. Yajur Veda and

4. Atharva Veda.

Most ailments, both physical and mental, were attributed to malevolent spirits and cures consisted of rituals, charms, mantras, medicines and surgical intervention.

The hymns in the Atharva Veda, the last of the four Vedas, and largely composed after the Aryans were well settled in the sub-continent, indicate that indigenous non-Aryan healing practices had influenced the Vedic Aryan healers.

George Gamow. Gamow, who died in 1968, was a physicist, who published “Thirty Years that Shook Physics”.