#Books

Bitcoin has caused me to reconsider a commonly held idea about the history of the United States, and by extension history in general. I’ve thought for awhile now that we
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What a lush thing to be interviewed by a publication I hold in such high regard. I have a silly but persistent dream of one day having my own byline
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NEW: @DeutscheBank offered the Trump Org a break on payments on its loans tied to properties including the Doral golf resort.The Trump Org *rejected* the bank's offer as insufficient. with
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”We are now potentially dealing with a problem of *mass radicalization*. We’re not talking about the case of a few people that got themselves caught up in an extremist milieu
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Well, more info discovered today about the #WW1 saddle that has been sitting in a corner of our tack room for as long as I can remember... Dad used to
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1/ You’ve all heard it by now, #JeffBezos will be stepping down as #Amazon CEO soon. He isn’t going anywhere too far though, he’ll become Executive Chairman instead. You also
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In 1859 Sarah Parker Remond enrolled at Bedford College. She studied History, French, Latin, Music, English Literature & Elocution in her two years there. However, her impressive academic credentials are
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Yeah, I watched a ton of black and white Mexican movies growing up. Pedro Infante and María Felix and the like, because my great-grandma couldn't read so the new Hollywood
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What if I told you that I have your selfie you clicked 10 days ago?And what if I told you that I have your selfie you'll click 10 days from
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Victory in the Battle of Warsaw in the summer of 1920 did not only save Poland from the Bolsheviks. It quite possibly saved Britain from revolution too.Here is the story
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A bit of fun for this week's #WednesdayWritingTips. Let's play Writer Archetypes. You'll probably fall into a few of these, but often one is more 'you' overall. For extra fun,
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1/ Je ne partage pas toute la ligne argumentative du fameux texte de Beaud et Noiriel dans le dernier Diplo. Cependant, les réponses parfois unilatérales dont il a été l'objet
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1/ For #Pride , I’d like to introduce you to Manuel Tzoc Bucup: a poet, a maker of books, a curator of vintage clothing, and a performance artist from Iximulew
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10 Life Changing Secret Your Parents Should Have Taught You.The most important ideas and skills for successful living weren’t taught by your parents.Unfortunately, most people learn these lessons the hard
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I’m usually not very political on this platform, mostly because I usually feellike I’m preaching to the choir, and also because I feel like there are so many people who
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We asked our team members to share some of their old gaming artifacts.There were so many photos, that we decided to make a thread.The head of publishing Andrey Tsvetkov shared
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