#Monuments

Interesting perspective when it's your house or place of work, and it's you on the other side of those broken windows. Suddenly the specter of a group of idiots rampaging
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Freedom of SpeechFreedom of WorshipFreedom from WantFreedom from Fear—@POTUS 32 FDRhttps://www.nps.gov/frde/index.htm  It was beautiful on this clear fall day, with gorgeous autumn foliage gracing the granite and stone civic spaces.
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It's not that statues can't teach, but that they can also erase (often the very purpose of monumentalization). We see this dynamic in two representations of Thomas Jefferson in D.C,
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As someone whose family have deep+wide Dixie roots going back forever, it’s overwhelming to read how awful people my great+grandparent’s age were during the Civil Right Movement. #BlackHistoryMonth I
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This will be longish history thread so get into it if you like to read.Its about Haiti.Nokukhohlakala kwe France.. Enslaved Africans were transported to the west side of the island
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NEW VIRGINIA LAWS THAT TAKE EFFECT TOMORROW, JULY 1ST, SORTED BY TOPIC: A THREAD Gun Control (1/2)-Universal background checks-Red flag laws “to temporarily take guns away from people deemed to
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The shift from Unionism - which in theory saw the Union as guarding and respecting the various national traditions and identites of the UK - to British nationalism, verging on
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More than 100,000 people of color have been displaced as a result of freeway expansion in the Los Angeles area, a partnership between @metrolosangeles (at the city level) and @CaltransHQ
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Rewatching Hamilton for the first time in four years, I had a kind of an unexpected revelation: King George is the ideological conscience of the show. Here's what I mean.It
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This image has been circulating heavily this year, mostly in posts marking Juneteenth. But it’s not quite what it looks like.https://twitter.com/calamity_jt/status/1274041814987620352 In the context it’s being used, it seems like
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New Book Thread! Now reading: The Pre Hostory of Britain and Ireland 2nd edition. Despite being far from the known Tin mines, the highest density of Bronze weapons and tools
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Just watched solstice sunrise at Newgrange, probably for the first and last time (but worth trying tomorrow and Tuesday morning, 8.45 am GMT):https://www.gov.ie/en/news/eea6b-winter-solstice-at-newgrange-2020/?referrer=http://www.gov.ie/new
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After reading @greeborunner 's upset at the mindless, hateful rantings of JHB, I thought I would inject some much-needed POSITIVITY into the mix, with some inspiring facts about @DollyParton, culled
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THREAD: This is a fascinating story about the political realignment in North Carolina by @FO_Woolverton that covers some of the same ground as my recent reporting for @Triad_City_Beat. #Election2020
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The Aksumite Empire___a trading empire centered in today Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Yemen and Somaliland. It existed approximately 400BCE -10 CentAD, growing from the Iron Age proto-Aksumite period c. fourth
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#3/thread on Angkor watChristianity and islam may be the largest religion of today’s world but Sanatan dharm has the largest religious monument in the world in the form of Angkor
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