#1970s

ARGUMENTThe supposed continuity of the British establishment has actually been a disastrous run of utter failure since over a century......but foreigners & legacy of the empire hid this so well
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Who should I sketch next?Check thread for other eras#boxing #boxeo #boxingart 1) 1990s/2000s Who should I sketch next?Check thread for other eras#boxing #boxeo #boxingart 2) 1970s/1980s Who should I sketch
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A short thread on my article just published in Critical Historical Studies on the rise of the categories of "country risk" and "political risk" and the reordering of the world
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1. A reckless, unrealistic and gimmicky promise from @Coteau: We've been raising fares far too much in recent decades, but without a constitutional amendment guaranteeing full transit-operating-cost subsidies in perpetuity,
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It's that time of year where everything turns into a pumpkin-spiced version of itself! In celebration (?), I'm presenting The Great Pumpkin (Pie Spice) vintagespicetin thread you didn't know you
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Maybe it's not the single most useful thing you can do right now, but it's a thing you can do - say: This is worthless, all of it - Black
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Among the many myths about adoption that I would like to yeet into the sun, foremost would be the idea that replacing one sent of parents with another eliminates a
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Carole Brookins started as a muni bond underwriter earning half the salary of the men in 1965. Became VP of EF Hutton’s commodity business, one of the first women on
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Abusing "Bhadraloks" & praising Marwaris is the easiest way to become popular in Sanghi/Chaddi circles."Bhadralok" industrialists till 1970s dominated FMCG, Pharma, Engineering sectors in Bengal. Find out how/why they disappea
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Well, this is interestinghttps://twitter.com/Shetnews/status/1300451630123552770 I'll write about this in more detail at some point but here are some initial thoughts (short thread): The idea of autonomy for Shetland isn't new.
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The Netherlands is removing gender altogether from its national ID cards --https://www.livemint.com/news/world/dutch-id-cards-will-soon-omit-gender-says-minister-11593877554039.html In a 2011 report @HRW recommended the govt to: "Explo
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okay all this album is doing for me is making me want to write a 50k fic about 70s-era monaco where jin guangyao is hustling as a croupier, moonlighting as
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Weird that I don't get requests to appear on podcasts anymore. Have I become too boring? Maybe I need to do some glamour shots. Or, gods forbid, write another book.
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I'm very troubled by how many people go to the Nazis rather than to very recent American history when commenting on these forced sterilizations.The official eugenics program in North Carolina
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A brief, fun history on commodites Sumer is thought to be the world’s oldest civilization that traded commodities somewhere between 4500 and 4000 BC The Amsterdam Stock Exchange in 1530
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Breaking: A Sacramento County judge sentenced 74-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. to 26 life terms for killing 13 people and raping 50 in a series of break-ins that terrorized a
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