#Century

Friday, January 29 is the annual “March for Life.” Given the loss of, well, life since last year it’s virtual this time. And not suffrage-themed. But the anti-abortion movement continues
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Here's the thing: In a very real way, Disney owes the long-term viability of #StarWars as a commercial enterprise to authors like Alan Dean Foster. It's hard to imagine now,
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99 years ago today the FA banned Women from playing football on any pitch owned by their associated clubs, changing the course of the Women’s game for the next century.THREAD
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The 1776 Report seems like the maudlin Americanism and conservative demonology of West Coast Straussianism at its most cartoonish. 1/ West Coast Straussianism, in large part the thought of Harry
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New paper: "Automation and the Fate of Young Workers: Evidence from the Automation of Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century" joint with @jamesfeigenbaum, available at https://www.nber.org/papers/w28061 . TLDR: skip to
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So here's a little thread about a rabbit hole I went down a few years ago as I was attempting to figure out a history of various coffee preparation methods
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for reasons i can't get into, i watched Titanic last night for the first time in 20 years, and i'm pleased to report that it is a grand, barbaric, pagan
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Welcome to today's virtual #LowTideTrail. Mersea Island sits just off the coast of Essex, at the mouth of the Colne and Blackwater Estuaries near Colchester. Mersea has been inhabited since
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The sale of human remains has prompted some discussion on social media recently. I've seen a lot of comments about how it must be illegal - so I thought I
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India shares a special bond with @HomeOfCricket On 25 June 1932 played 1st international at Lord's. They lost the game but won many 50 years later on the
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Mind-blowing buyer persona lessons from Horlicks. We grew up watching #Horlicks ads with the famous tagline - 'Taller. Stronger. Sharper.' But, in yesterday's edition of The Hindu, I found
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Old Norse words for genitalia (thread). How did vikings talk about each other's genitals? Recently me and @LAlbris were watching History of swear words on Netflix, and we were both
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1/10There has been a tremendous amount of discussion about racial inequality and slavery in our nation. What many should realize is this: The first slaves in the "New World" were
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The boy born to June and Stanley Gilchrist, on the 14th of November 1971 would go on to become the greatest wicket keeper batsman the world had ever known. He
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A lot of interest in the Greenland ice loss study from King et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-0001-2To be clear, this is not good news. Greenland ice sheet is demonstrably out of balance
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Brief Introductory Thread on Oucham/Washim,North African Tattoos Oucham is a type of traditional tattooing that was common practice in both the Middle East and North Africa, amongst all sorts
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