#1930s

The Premier League is coming back and lots of people are going to need an introduction to the teams.Good thing we have these cigarette cards from the 1930s.Tottenham: A team
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Every Armenian in the world is watching the war in Artsakh and we know it is life or death. Both states fighting Artsakh and Armenia have virulently hateful policies that
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Alright, finally the #wwdc2020 line is moving and we're getting let in. It was really interesting to get a last-minute invitation to join them in this undisclosed location. The line
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Reading #LeftOut #Corbyn terribly upset anyone could think him racist. He doesn’t see Jews as marginalised but wd have sympathised with us in the 1930s. Jews in Germany weren’t marginalised
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This reminds me of the time I read a wikipedia article about "whataboutism" and it cited Soviet Propaganda as a "classic example". Specifically it referenced the popular soviet mantra "...and
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1/On Memorial Day wear a white poppy, because it commemorates all victims of war, both civilians and military, on all sides of conflict. It also challenges attempts to glorify or
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1/ A short thread on housing in the Rodings, rural Essex. In non-chronological order, first up 'Swedish Houses' in High Roding - two of around 2450 permanent prefabricated timber homes
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Crash course on the word "coolie" since the timeline has misinformation."Coolie" comes from the Tamil word 'kuli' which means wages or hire. In the 16th century it was used by
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When I reflect on the fading of liberal arts from public life, one element that stands out the most in the last four years is the widespread inability to tell
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Y'day, Louisa DM'ed me to ask how, in my opinion, Germany overcame its sense of exceptionalism (or, as it was called in the 1930s: the idea of being the master
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We know times are tough, and we want to help. Today we launch the Coffee House Writers Project to get into the hands of artists and booksellers, and to
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The 1930s were a tumultuous time in the Tampa underworld. Dubbed the “Era of Blood” by local journalists, the sound of shotgun blasts was a common occurrence as competing gangs
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Some quotes from Marx's Grundrisse (Winter 1857-58; published in the 1930s).On technological change: It is sometimes said about machinery that it saves labor. However…the mere saving of labor is not
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1/5Following David Jones, for Day 2 exploring the still life here are paintings by Winifred NicholsonWindow-Sill, Lugano 1923 @Tate“What I have tried to do is to paint pictures that can
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A lot of your “southern manners” read “slavery-adjacent “ to us up top so we don’t do them. It’s not a drag; it’s our reality. We were told not to
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On this Earth Day let's scold the 5 biggest climate change mistakes Seattle ever made. (thread) #5 Downzoned the city in the 1930s to Single Family zoning. This left 80%
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