#Imperial

I led the team that designed and developed the first ever automated bank-to-mpesa system back in 2009. The first bank to let us run it in a live environment was
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THREAD: LOCKDOWN, THINK-TANKS & LOBBY GROUPS: The astroturf campaign to end lockdown.You’ve probably seen some articles and tweets about ending lockdown quickly. Even some scientists appear to support it. 1/
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This marble capital is Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in a nutshell. Originally probably from Ostia it was taken north of the Alps by Charlemagne for his palace
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A thread on the history of Korea and the rising sun flag and why Korean Sonic fans are upset. TL;DR Koreans literally see this symbol as the Nazi flagPlease read
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75 years ago today the #WW2 officially came to end with the surrender of Imperial Japan. Amidst the celebrations and relief for millions at home and abroad, there was one
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There's a narrative that sometimes people get so excited about their Palestine activism and their principled objection to Zionism that they get "carried away" and drift into antisemitism. I think
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A while ago I was playing around with some Chinese names data and found that people preferred shorter (one-character) names before the 1990s but that the trend was quickly reversed
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People forget a huge part of why the “encore!” tradition exists in theatre. Before cast recordings were invented, an encore was the ONLY way an audience member could EVER hear
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Sports #BettingTipster Predictions for Everyone. Advise and suggestions are welcome. But, please be polite and constructive with you argument.You can contribute on Reddit, r/sportsbook, r/Dota2Betting, r/csgobetting, use the comment section
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I wanna run a Tyranny of Dragons #dnd campaign in which Tiamat has already won and conquered both Avernus and Faerûn, rather than relying on her cult to be liberated.
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Nobody is wondering but here's a thread on how Enbarr's architecture and clothing relate mostly to the Eastern Roman Empire (later known as the Byzantine Empire). *Que Constinople Let's start
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akame ga kill, this is brutal sheele tatsumi sucks also all the sword fights are just random swinging ion like that not him dying and giving tastsumi
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This Sunday Times graph of *modelled* infections surprises me https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/three-weeks-of-dither-and-delay-on-coronavirus-that-cost-thousands-of-british-lives-05sjvwv7g I'd have assumed that such a narrow spike in
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An American friend asked me on Facebook "David, I've been reading about Sweden's "strategy." I'm so confused. How is this logical?"Here was my answer, which I think may help explain
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We finally started building the star destroyer and I’m gonna make a thread with progress!#Lego #StarWars #LetsBuildTogether Lego Star Wars 75252 Imperial Star Destroyer Step 1 going well. It’s gonna
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Sakura Wars vs Sakura Wars!In this thread I'll be chronicling my rewatch of the original Sakura Wars TV anime that aired exactly 20 years ago as well as the brand
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