#HISTORIC

1) I am going to make some points regarding Brexit and the future..As an arch-remainer who believes Brexit is a historic mistake, the reality is that it happened on 31st
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welcome to this thread, which is a text-based simulation of an episode of the hit HGTV show House Hunters using real estate listings I found online. let's begin. You are
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1. In 1906 three sisters constructed a fort over their ancestors graves in an indigenous burial ground in Kansas, armed themselves with shotguns, padlocked the gate and then hung a
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Early/Mail votes in Michigan: DEM 40%, GOP 40%.Everyone gets a ballot, so not much to look into here... but a slightWith 976k votes in, that is... unexpected. I looked more
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While there is some truth to it, this assessment is blind to some fundamental transformations among some communities in #AFG that’s given greater space for women. For ex. there’re thousands
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New OpEd in @washingtonpost @ml_barnett and I discuss the COVID-19 crisis in nursing homes and how our historic underinvestment in nursing homes has magnified the problem. We're getting what we
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@davidbollier in https://www.arc2020.eu/coping-with-covid19-commoning-as-a-pandemic-survival-strategy/ points out how "many ideas once ignored or dismissed by Serious People now don’t seem so crazy". One of the most compelling i
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When Trump finally departs the political landscape, we'll experience a wave of shame over the fact that things got to this point in America. He incited a coup in Michigan,
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1/Interesting thread, and I'm glad to have read it.My take is exactly the opposite: I have ALWAYS expected a pandemic. I have ALWAYS expected a nuclear war.Maybe bc I'm pretty
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A question for all our interesting followers if you have a few spare mins? What is your favourite #lostbuilding? Any country, any century.... Here's one of ours - the Custom
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What do you notice about this photo from @stri_panama in 1924?You might note that the group is comprised of North American white men. Let's take a look back at how
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A historic month:APRIL 69, David Oluwale, Leeds. APRIL 98, Christopher Alder, Hull.APRIL 2021: rare US verdict finds sacked police officer guilty.This is about attacking institutional corruption & cover ups, not
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America spent 30 years convincing itself Hillary was a uniquely corrupt evil, so it was easy to believe when left & right vilified herIt was harder to sell that somehow
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I still don't think people fully appreciate the mind-boggling magnitude of what took place at the White House: the GOP and the "conservative" legal establishment hosted a superspreader event in
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History of e Rhodesian Parliament nw Zimbabwe. Construction began 1895 as e Cecil Hotel,but remained a hotel in name only. In 1895 e unfinished building was bought by e British
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I see all this anger over the Pride train and the replies, and I just want to cry. Just a day after uproar over inclusive sex education as well.People always
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