#Famine

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sarnchos

In 1958, during China's attempt at agricultural self sufficiency (tagged by their leader, Mao, as "the great leap forward"),A campaign against pests, tagged "the four pests campaign" was initiatedYou see,

Vinay Gupta

leashless

Also, I can't even remember what I'm trying to do here. My mind has basically thrown out about 15 years of world models, leaving me in this weird Tabula Rasa

Vinayak

vinayak_jain

Documents of the English and the Dutch East India Companies speak about Virji Vora, a Jain trader from Surat, the greatest in India in the 17th century. He was the

Kyle Murphy

the_bitcoin_bum

The biggest takeaway I got from the #Bitcoin vs #gold debate was that @Frank_Giustra undervalues the human capacity for change. He regularly referred to @michael_saylor as some kind of

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saffronwave_

I thought it would be best to introduce you all to the world of Saffron Wave before we get into the characters and the story. Not everyone may know about

Nini 💜 BTS ⁷

NiniTheOutcast

An honest account. I became a huge fan of bts around August 2013. Some time after, they announced our fandom name "army". Since then, our introductions would be like: "hey,

Killian Mangan 🇮🇪

killianm97

Today is #InternationalEarthDay and I want everyone to remember that anything less than net-zero by 2030 is not enough.Compromise is important but not if that compromise means millions of deaths

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Thread about China #NeverAgain or nah. The Great Leap Forward, Social Revolution, Red Guards and blackholes. Let's begin... The GREAT LEAP FORWARD and the CULTURAL REVOLUTION have been sucked into

Carl Zha

CarlZha

I was born in China 1 month aft Mao died. When I was born, China was a desperately poor country. My Grandparents lived thru Warlords, Japanese invasion and Civil War.

Chittukuruvi

chittukuruvi4

To those who think that in 2021 India is witnessing its biggest crisis in the opinion of dangerous fools like @ShekharGupta - India has seen far too many crisis in

Iona Italia, PhD

IonaItalia

I woke to a follower writing to tell me that, if the British had never colonised the world, slavery would never have ended because the Brits are the only ones

Ali Zeck

AliBeckZeck

All of the events we see happening, isolated & on their own would seem like coincidences or even random events, but you have to add in context & connect dots

Thibaut

Kpaxs

A monkey in a cage goes bananas, a thread.Humans in modern environments are like monkeys at the zoo.Evolutionary mismatch regarding diet, exercise and the nature of our modern social world

Daniel Keohane

KeohaneDan

1/ Thread: Man on right in 1938 photo below, was my grandfather, Dan Keohane, aka “The Duke”. Born in 1900, May 1st was his birthday. The beautiful lady on left

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DentesLeo

Why China is the only responsible for this shit: ThreadWhen China had a communist economy and was hit by the Great Famine, the government who was the sole producer and

Anshika Shukla

anshikashukla_

According to the UN, the current infestations of locusts can be traced back to the cyclone season of 2018-19 that brought heavy rains to the Arabian Peninsula and allowed at