#Grandfather

I don't think it is, but from talking with my grandfather, who immigrated here penniless in 1960 & became successful, the biggest problem nowadays is an obsession with prior qualifications
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When my grandmother died a decade ago I was cleaning out her attic when I found an old photo album in the corner. I found myself in one of the
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In The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren has Vader’s helmet, Rey gets Anakin’s lightsaber.In The Rise of Skywalker, Kylo hears Vader’s voice, Rey hears Anakin’s voice. Both of them are the
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/chumocracy-covid-revealed-shape-tory-establishment this article does a brilliant job of mapping how a small group of tories are profiting off our misery. what it doesn't show is that these h
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Ok, since I haven’t told it yet(I thought I had), I’ll tell the story of when I dated a mob underboss’s granddaughter. For fucking OBVIOUS reasons, I will only refer
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Thread on Pakistani Mangos - Part IIWhite Chaunsa My grandfather, Faiz Bux Rajwana brought this Mango variety to fame. A little story behind it, in 1971 a widow sent mangos
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This Black History month I am thinking of my great-grandfather, Fred Lawrence, who was charged as one of the ringleaders of a protest in 1911 because he and others defended
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My great grandfather (Carl Fredrich August Schoenberg) fought in the Franco-Prussian War and this is an image of him in the military before he came to America in 1872. I
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My grandad wore a tacky toupee and EVERYONE knew. When I spent the night with my grandparents (age 9), his hair fitter came for an appointment.After, my grandmother whispered to
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La Matrone: My סבתא (grandmother) was born in Nedroma, Algeria in 1928 to a family that had lived in Algeria since their expulsion from Spain. Finding life in Vichy controlled
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in #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory, I'll share a personal story of a White friend of mine. Her Grandfather, while fighting in the war, made friends with a Black solider from his town. Upon
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Today I FELT my COLOR"Hi I'm Dr. Gilman, what brings you to the ER?" I said with a smile. Her head jerked back and eyes squinted. It was subtle, but
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1)A thread on Ancestral Responsibility in light of the BLM Movement. I would like to say that I believe that the roots of good and evil are the same. We
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On this day, #RemembranceDay , I remember my grandfather:William Samuel Bowman was born on 21 January 1924 in Hamilton, Ontario. He completed Grade 10 before leaving to work various unskilled
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The Killing of Bashir Ahmed Khan is quite clearly much more than heinous or atrocious. Every moment, every frame presents a hugely damning question: How does an old man out
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We got some new faces in the fanbase so we figured it was time to bring back our “Did You Know?” Series on the @Hornets!Enjoy the thread.... How did the
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