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A thread on Jewish magical recipe books, or grimoires, from late antiquity. Ancient and Medieval Jews possessed a variety of handbooks to harness the supernatural. 1 These include astrological handbooks
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THREADPaper just accepted in EPSL about solid-state sintering, led by Amy Ryan @UBCeoas! Solid-state sintering is a process in which crystalline clasts coalesce in the absence of fluids/melt. It occurs
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The China Initiative Year in Review includes several #FBIWFO cases. Here's a round up https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1328397532494516226 In October, Jun Wei Yeo was sentenced to 14 months in prison for acting in
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It looks like ‘money bills’ bypassing the @UKHouseofLords is going to be a subject of interest again. So the @HansardSociety ‘What is a money bill’ procedural guide may help navigate
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A brief primer on self-defense and the use of deadly force:(Not legal advice, yadda yadda)Deadly force is generally justified if an adversary commits a hostile act (uses deadly force or
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A THREADWORLD HEPATITIS DAY 2020Today 28th of July 2020 is celebrated around the World as World Hepatitis Day.Here are some basic knowledge about Hepatitis.Hepatitis refers to an inflammatory condition of
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'@walkafyre's muellerfiles https://themyefiles.knack.com/mueller-files/  is a tour de force of data assimilation. In addition to the laborious and essential work of collating dates, W has made some inspired identifications. 302
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Thank you for replying Mr. Ambassador...but your claim is in contradiction with what state media, the company and even three officials involved with the deal (Andargie Bekele, Mulugeta Seid Samuel
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Public Accounts Committee @CommonsPAC today released their report 'COVID-19: Government procurement and supply of Personal Protective Equipment' which includes recommendations also made by The Centre for the Study of Corruption
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THE SACRED#PanchPrayag#UttarakhandPanch Prayag signifies 5 sacred river confluences wherein different rivers emerging from Himalayas meet each other before forming GangaBathing in holy prayag water is revered as a way to
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Minister @cathmartingreen is launching general scheme of new bill to regulate social media - full document /1. https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/d8e4c-online-safety-and-media-regulation-bill/#general-scheme-of-the-online-safety-media-regula
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I have been asking myself what might prevent another New Tone Tuesday, where POTUS reads some scripted lines in his hostage voice and the press reports a change. https://presswatchers.org/2020/07/save-lives-or-obsess-about-trumps-tone-polit
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A landmark document. It replaces the two White Papers on China's Foreign Aid, and adopts the new term of "International Development Cooperation." Not just a semantic change reflecting the name
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The Daily Express...Dec 2009 vs today Today's Daily Express really is something to behold (esp given the paper's 'previous' on climate change)..."We need to change our mindset…Over the coming months,
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Bible study discussion thread: a biblical look at nose rings and lip rings for male and female worshipers of the Almighty and disciples of the Messiah who have them or
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Since Covid arrived, 179,000 more Americans have died than would in a normal year. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html @DeniseDSLu @jshkatz Deaths are now at least 10% higher than normal in most
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