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Hiram Bingham, The real Indiana Jones, 1911
“Hiram Bingham (1875–1956) was an American academic, explorer and treasure hunter and politician. He obtained a B.A. from Yale University and a PhD from Harvard. Bingham was not a trained archaeologist, yet it was during Bingham’s time as a lecturer – later professor – at Yale that he discovered the largely forgotten Inca city of Machu Picchu. “
 
In 1859, a wealthy settler named Thomas Austin released 13 wild rabbits on his estate in Australia for hunting purposes. However, the rabbits quickly became an invasive species, and by 1920, their population had exploded to around 10 billion.
 
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