#Historical

People don't think academic things have #fashions and trends, oh but they do! #Archaeology31 has fashion as its theme today, so let me tell you a bit about how time
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Here we have the total number of deaths in Canada over the past five years. The most recent 12 months of data do not suggest a spike in deaths out
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Bulverism, Kafkatrapping, Reinforced Dogmatism, Polylogism in a thread... Bulverism (CS Lewis): The Bulverist assumes a speaker's argument is invalid or false and then explains why the speaker came to make
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1/9Good article. But while growing international criticism and rising trade tensions may have had some impact, as the article suggests, I don’t think they really explain the great reversal in
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mmm let's talk about looking at butches there is a perception that butchness is ubiquitous, or that there is much visual representation of butches in fictionthere is: not there just
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It's #BlackHistoryMonth so I'd like to post some amazing reconstruction art of medieval Africa! First, here are some recreations of Great Zimbabwe, the royal palace of the Kingdom of
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That is a good question. In Civil Engineering, all projects that involve federal funds are subject to the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA). This requires all projects to go through
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"I didn't discard European theology but black theology began with deconstruction—that is, dismantling the oppressive, white theologies I was taught.... theologies that not only ignored black people but blinded me
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We're in the process of buying a house and I flatly refused to buy one in 100 or 500 year floodplain. Still, we're working to close on one that is
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A little history thread on the Virgin of Guadalupe. Many of us know about the story of St. Juan Diego and the Tilma in Mexico that led to numerous conversions.
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For the past few days, such fake news has been spread on social media against #AkshayKumar that a film which was based on "Battle of Saragarhi" was snatched from #RandeepHooda
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The Hound Of HistoryGreyhounds are a Historical and Stoic animal If you like to wonder and ponder their is no better friend Two walks a day with a Hound will
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As tech & VC twitter are exploding in excitement over the human-like capabilities of GPT-3, I'd like to remind everyone that at short time scales, "intelligence" is in the eye
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Why Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) married Ayesha (RA) at a young age?.* Informative Thread on this topic* This question is raised by a number of islamaphobes and because
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Offered as an illustration of the limits of "fundamentals"-based election models:The "Time for Change model", as specified here, predicts that Trump will lose the popular vote by ~36 points (not
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Like Zizi said, my interests include pop culture, new media, and marginalization. A recent news that overlaps with some of these topics is the new administration's effort to accelerate the
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