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The violence in Washington didn't happen overnight. It was culmination of a four-year saga of lies - mostly played out on @Facebook, @Twitter and @YouTube - that politicians, Big Tech
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Wikipedia is all but admitting what our historians do gymnastics to avoid admitting: Sea Peoples = Phoenicians. We can ignore “Illyrians” and “Tyrrhenians,” which are just poorly devised synonyms for
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1./ Is the UK somehow uniquely bad at tackling the pandemic? No and here's why not. I ask because various Boris haters have gone into overdrive. Here's an arch-Remainer claiming
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A legal-historian of early modern Irish crime and punishment, I will 'live-tweet' the last days and hours of John Atherton, a bishop of Waterford & Lismore and ally of the
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New commentary thread . ''The Last Dukes'', a 2015 documentary about the most prestigious aristocratic title in the United Kingdom. It's a rare title and we follow some non-royal dukes
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1/ Welcome to #DeFi Wednesday.Let's talk about how interest-bearing cash on a blockchain is going to revolutionise boring corporate treasury management that concerns every company is is a larger business
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Part 1Grooming of Brett SuttonLet’s take a look at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)To begin, Doctors Without Borders is fully funded by the very same corporate financier interests behind Wall Street
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Thread. Are you ready to #peaktrans ?I mean really #peaktrans ? Like #super #peaktrans ?On your marks. Get set. Mridal Wadhwa runs the Forth Valley Rape Crisis Centre in Scotland
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So I'm starting this thread of films I love and recommend. Hope you find a few you haven't seen.I will add to it over time. If you reply with some
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1/ A thread about some of the cool things I've learned about Taiwan, some history, and experiences from living here1st one, "Portuguese sailors, passing Taiwan in 1544, first jotted in
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Thread A History lesson for the MOAB: 1. The United States of America is not and has never been a Democracy, we're a Federal Republic tied together by the capital
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New today is an awesome book, “A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution,” edited by @desilva_jerry and pub’d by @PrincetonUPress. In
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OKKKKKK so my museum brain is slowly mulching whilst on furlough so I have decided that I am going to do a post each day analysing EVERY place setting on
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Star Wars MythbustersDarth Vader is from the German (or Dutch) for “Dark Father”1. “General Vader/Imperial Commander” appears on an early-1974 list of potential character names by George Lucas(screenshots from @jwrinzler’s
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Is there anything more heart-breaking than when someone you’ve admired your whole life turns out to be a sell-out? Or a sycophantic careerist phony?Thank God Matt Johnson @thethe is not
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In order to help raise awareness of the COVID long-termers - mild-to-moderate cases that have people struggling for months - this is a curated list of English-language press coverage of
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