#1920s

A few weeks ago I read an intriguing 92 year old notice in an old bungalow register. It talked about Canning Benevolent Fund. Who was Canning? What was this fund?
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Just got an e-mail from a scholar who, like myself, works with non-digitized archival materials & therefore has their research process temporarily suspended by the quarantine. They had a small
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How white economic empowerment, specifically afrikaner economic empowerment, uplifted white South Africans through official government policy from early 1900s into apartheidB.E.E is nothing compared to the targeted government intervention w
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Pay attention: the rhetoric, policies & laws of Western Govt's in response to this 'pandemic' resemble that of Stalinist Soviet Union - driven by an inner clique of apparatchiks increasingly
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Okay I'm going to get started.https://twitter.com/CarolineGrego88/status/1319772519713415174 First, to be clear: DCH was a racist who, in his Jim Crow era book, dreams about his dominion as a rice planter, speaks
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Emeralds were enormously popular with the #Mughal Court, whose emperors referred to them as “Tears of the Moon” because of their opaque transparency. One of the most treasured jewels in
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Before you start shouting #notallmen, consider your role, not as a perpetrator, but as an enabler of men’s violence against women.When was the last time you let down a woman
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Churinga (or tjurunga) are the most important physical evidence of the intellectual heritage & artistic genius of the Aboriginal people. I strongly believe that the effective prohibition on displaying them
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1960s - Herbie Bonson, Do The Crunch 1950s - Chunky Finchman & The Interrupters, She's My Baby 1940s - Jöhn Smith, Britain (Is Where I'm From) 1930s - Disney Inc.,
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It's so hard not to give in to doomscrolling & depression right now. But my lifelong critical optimism ain't giving up that easy. So for each day of August, I'm
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And who created Critical Race Theory?? https://twitter.com/therightmelissa/status/1302345421868720130 Allow me to search Wikipedia... follow me... Weimar Republic, eh? Let’s find out what that was all about... Hmmm... seems like a
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Right, time for a thread on what life was like if you were LGBT in the Soviet Union:Part I I'll try and do this by decade:1910s:After Bolsheviks formed the RSR,
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/1 "France gave up in 1940" is a persistent myth for those who don't take into account longer historical trends. France was the one great power that opposed German aggression
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Surprise.#TheDimAge https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1384309755938676737 Not thrilled to turn this into a thread... but something tells me it’s necessary.Spotted by @paracelsusburns https://twitter.com/WatremezPA/status/13892839814603
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I genuinely think it's time to cancel OrwellNot because he was personally problematic or had problematic politics (though there's an argument for both)But because his Internet fanbase are the most
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1/ Tamralipti, one of India's first ancient ports; is identified at modern day Tamluk in West Bengal (around 100 km from Kolkata)A humble museum located on a congested shopping street
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