#Traditions

Thread -- editorial endorsements from news outlets assessing candidates for public office are Good, as far as I'm concerned. I know not everyone agrees, and that's fine. I think they're
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So many Americans feel vulnerable. Whether they feel they're being victimized based on their religious views...or that their jobs are at risk due to undocumented (or even legal) immigrants...or
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Is Christmas a Christian or Pagan Holiday: A Thread December 25th is the birthday of Mithras, the Pagan Sun-God. It also happens to be the same day Christians celebrate Jesus’s
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The thinkers of the Enlightenment didn't know that they were working in an age that later generations would call "the Enlightenment". Certain models that seemed to have worked forever suddenly
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1. Lets do some analysis on Pak-Saudi relations & the options that Saudis & Pakistanis have... I only see Saudi & Irani lobbies doing disgusting propaganda on the subject &
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http://1.How  does a novel feeding habit spread in wild monkeys? We combined a field experiment with Bayesian dynamic learning models and showed that monkeys used the highest payoff processing technique
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Hey Laredo friends! I saw some of y'all questioning the origins of the WBCA festival and I want to share what I learned! I did a whole research presentation on
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A few thoughts, this will be a longish response so here it goes:I much like the author did grow up in the US as part of a Tamil and Kannada
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Grief is a constant complex companion.6 yrs since Ki'tay passed. I am learning daily-sometimes hourly.With so much loss, grief, heavy hearts, suddenly ceased texts/calls, I will share a bit:Life is
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A thread on Hanukkah and the Christmas season. 1) When we're talking about the importance of Hanukkah in America we're talking about a specific subset of Jews.Jews who are observant
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An important, detailed and critical docu re Hungary and the EU was released on Arte last week https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/099755-000-A/hallo-herr-diktator/ Remarks on aspects I find problematic in this otherwise professional docu that
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Another interesting part of quarantine: around the world, traumatized people are turning to comfort food.https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1248156214648807425 People are perfecting recipes, talking to grandparents about recipes, recon
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Anyway, because the Americans keep asking this question, I've been wondering about it for a while. So, to summarise some of the responses given and ideas I've had.1. The British
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(1/6) The majority of us were not raised in an isolated tribe in the middle of some forest. We were shaped by the systems various tools. From non-ancestral spiritual practices
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This evening is Twelfth Night, the eve of the Epiphany, and the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas. It's long been a time for festivity, the key ingredients (according
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1. Korean War prison camp thread. You can learn a lot about a country by how its men perform in captivity. POWs in Korea were tested mercilessly, just as POWs
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