#Impoverished

Faced with rising nationalism in #Bengal , #India's British colonial rulers fled Calcutta in 1911 to set up shop in #Delhi which offered the security and comfort of surrounding loyal
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On this day in 1989, George H.W. Bush ordered 27,000 troops to invade Panama to overthrow former CIA asset Manuel Noriega, killing 5,000 people, dumping bodies in mass graves and
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Absolutely vital at this point to run the ~100 or more cases per year (plus backlog) into the court system ASAP even if it means flooding the court system.Don't leave
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As a musician and music educator I do not find this meta-analysis' results surprising - or concerning - in the leasthttps://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1288497220602466304 Training in music doesn't transfer to cognitive skills? ...
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The root of Trumpism is white privilege (and for nonwhite believers, a desire to acquire some for themselves), including a “God-given” right to violate the rules and the laws that
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Lloyd's Glossary to the Progressive mind.As events unfold over the next few days. We may find ourselves interacting with "woke" progressives. It is important to know what kind of Progressive
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Senate's obviously the main event right now, but there's also a weird exchange happening over in House Public Safety... Members are weighing a bill that would require people to complete
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India’s train system is like the blood vessels of this nation. In an exclusive story that took months to report, we found that the government’s enormous train operation to bring
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The great political awakening that should be happening in America right now is middle-class people realizing how deeply and bitterly the Left hates them, and how eager they are to
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Thread: Land Reforms 1/ The term BANANA REPUBLIC was popularized locally by @ProfJNMoyo as minister of info from 2000-4. Moyo’s refrain was “Zimbabwe is not a banana republic.”I agree
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I want to talk about why I am very sensitive to the use of ableist language by anyone - ESPECIALLY me. I grew with PTSD, depression, anxiety and possibly ADHD
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Today is a very good day to remind everyone of a chapter that isn't in the history books in the US. A racist American named William Walker invaded Nicaragua in
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My initial reaction to @SimonClarkeMP's inane take on British history was despondency, but my students convinced me it's worth engaging - so here is a thread, since this really is
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a deep dive into the birth chart of karl marx. [thread] let’s start with his ascendant & ascendant ruler. right off the bat, those who are aquarius risings are free-thinking
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A good friend of mine has brought the fourteen properties of Umberto Eco's 'Ur-Fascism' to my attention. It made me wonder how many of them apply to the rule of
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OK. Theodicy thread. 1/x I don't believe that God "lets" people get sick. That God has a set of dice and is going, OK, Bob down there is going to
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