#Historical

That's the al-fattash chronicleboth tarikhs (along with major West African chronicles like Ibn furtu's) have been fully translated -by R.Palmer in the 1900s and recently by Hunwick in "timbuktu and
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1/7Should we "replay" our own history?Hear me out.You raise your kids in a town designed as the 70s, listening to 70s music, eating at 70s restaurants.You listen to 70s radio
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The DofE's algo does not "moderate down" teacher-assessed grades. It ignores them. This is deliberate, since it replaces the external exams that students have been unable to take. Teacher assessment
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Many Javanese words have a schwa in their first syllable: təlu (three), pəkan (market), dəmak (gift). In Old Jav texts these usually written as or , with the unwritten
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One idea that needs to die is the idea that Brahmins taking up secular professions led to the collapse of Varnashrama and is the source of hatred against Brahmins. Secular
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IMPOSSIBLE to understate the threat the extreme unrepresentative nature of Senate poses to the RepublicOur system is built on a Congress that is responsive to the will of the people,
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*Response Thread*you are totally right that millions of Black Americans have been let down by the state as far as education is concerned. HOWEVER, you are making two critical mistakes
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In my own field of anthropology, there is a historical divide between scientific and non-scientific approaches that has largely been viewed as irreconcilable. I tend to view that as true,
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Aba women riot didn't happen in Aba. In fact, little or nothing happened in Aba.Everything happened in Opobo District which is in today's Ikot Abasi. Women from Abak District, Ikot
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Alright y'all, let's talk about sensitivity reading and cultural consulting (I'll be using the terms interchangeably, even though there are those who would use them for separate things). Because there's
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To continue in a little more detail...I read Ruha Benjamin's Race after Technology first and foremost as an early modernist concerned with technological "projects" and "improvements" in the seventeenth century,
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It has taken long before the first oil, due to divergent perceptions between us and the oil companies. Initially, I did not favor the idea of the pipeline. My question
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I've decided to calculate exactly how long after their excellent adventure with Bill and Ted each historical figure died a horrific death. Here are the results. After having a
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Toucan's 1 step solution to being less wrong about the USSR or any other historical event. Step 1. Don't read one single primary account and assume it is universally correct.
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a thread to see if it’s true or not that Twitter focuses on white people Blurry and upside down ??? Moving the faces?? Changing the number Changing
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@BNW_Ben There is no proven man-made climate change. It's another Malthusian myth. We know because AGW is premised and calculated by an atmospheric model of the greenhouse gas effect which
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