#Century

Thread on what the Catechism says about the 5th Commandment & Abortion: You have heard it was said to the men of old, You shall not kill: and whoever kills
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Bible study discussion thread: names of countries in Middle East and Africa have changed over years, often renamed by map makers to suit who the map was designed for, or
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This video encapsulates what I understand to be the focus of the teaching of the four Gospels in the New Testament.My thread will attempt to explain why I find N.
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Closing the books on 2020 and recording some thoughts for 2021. Themes, picks, SPAC / IPO watchlists to follow. A thread Fundamentally, expect continued mo for bios in 2021
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[THREAD: URDU CHAUVINISM]1/51By the end of the 10th century AD, Śauraseni Prakrit (a vernacular derivative of Classical Sanskrit) had started corrupting into regional dialects like Braj Bhasha, Awadhi, and Dehlavi.
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At the Truth & Reconciliation Commission in 1997, Professor Sampie Terreblanche made a submission that South Africa should impose a wealth tax. This was accepted by the TRC but rejected
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How did a bustling commercial strip in a Black Chicago neighborhood lose most of its businesses and buildings? It wasn’t an accident.On the left is what Madison Street looked like
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1. This beautiful and thought provoking piece of 21st century art was shared widely in anti-EU Facebook groups, Twitter replies to journalists and elsewhere online, in 2016. Is it an
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"The first generation lives, the second generation rejects, the third generation researches..." With this refrain, he began to narrate the history of Ottoman slavery & chart the lives of his
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A thread of things about the South Bronx, starting with @DecadeofFire, a documentary that manages to say more about the destruction of neighbourhoods in the 1970s than any other film
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Kurt Mundorff wrote one of the best essays ever on #ChildWelfare Children as Chattel: Invoking the Thirteenth Amendment to Reform Child Welfare following his time as an ACS caseworker, his
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#NowWatching “The Prestige.”For no reason in particular. “The Prestige” is, for my money, the best Nolan film ever and my favourite movie of the twenty-first century to date.It’s one of
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I've been thinking about North American Aviation a bit since my chat with @NavalAirHistory on @hack_history #HedgeHopping the other week. What an incredible company and what a run of aircraft.
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Half of all US Presidents (22 out of 44) have made claims of Irish ancestry. Like a lot of things in history, the evidence is stronger for some than it
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I want to say something about our pandemic response and groupthink, especially as it relates to the current scientific discourse in the United States.Stick with me here. 1/ We’re in
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Right. Friday history thread!Let's talk about how not once, but TWICE, in WW2 a 650 year old treaty between Britain and Portugal (that the rest of the world had mostly
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