#City

So what were conditions like in Hamburg in 1945?A thread for #HolocaustMemorialDay 53rd Welsh Division arrived in the city to find it in complete ashen ruins from the firebombing,
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CA legislature: Never mind that the one sector of the economy doing well, and which we tenuously host, is presently completely virtualized and the outbound moving trucks are already choking
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1) With the election over, new dad exhaustion is finally catching up with me. Before I fall off a sleep deprivation cliff, I want to share a few thoughts on
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Just a year ago I was someone who resented cyclists in London. I never imagined that I could ever be one of them.Now, city cycling is one of the best
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Why do cities matter? This is a question @EdgarPieterse is addressing in an input to the @UN Senior Management team today on The Future of Cities. Answer:• Central to new
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{THREAD}#FPL winner season review - Myth busterCongratulations Alexander @TooGoodFPL! Winning FPL is an extra-ordinary achievement, well done!Scanned through his GW history and couldn't help but wonder why some of us
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New ASIO boss, Mike Burgess (2019) had decades in tech security & worked for TELSTRA. This may have been critical to TELSTRA becoming part of the new CLARA Consortium &
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Here's a new one: "The primary factor of social cohesion in Tocqueville’s America was nothing other than white supremacy." The early American republic is bookended by two civil wars. It's
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The CFPB Director was at pains today to acknowledge the the "national conversation on racial inequality".She issued a blog earlier this week saying the CFPB "is taking action to build
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HAPPENING NOW: A group of Trump supporters are outside Eric Garcetti’s house protesting public health safety measures for COVID-19. The crowd chants “recall eric” Moderate police presence, over a dozen
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Sometimes all you need is to talk to combat vets until dawnIt’s a weird thing when you’re a civilian and the only people who really get your line of work
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Record of the Day: Kansas - Kansas. Multi platinum albums. Two songs of rock cannon. Yet I have never met anyone with strong feelings about Kansas, and I think this
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Manchester City 2020-21 : A THREAD There is still a lot to play for this season, but so far it's been a bit of an inconsistent one for City. This
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I believe:• It’s going to take time to root out the corruption inside our government• It’s going to take more than one leader to fight, we MUST elect lions in
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UPDATE: The explosion in Nashville, TN appears to have targeted the AT&T Central Office. Had the blast impacted the building most cell towers, ATM machines, and Internet infrastructure in the
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In one day, presumably over a few hours of rain, 83 people have died in Bihar due to lightning strikes. I thought it was 2020 doing 2020 things, but I
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