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The news about the US recognition of the Armenian genocide is tricky. On the one hand, it's easy to see why diaspora groups spent decades lobbying for this. There are
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The so-called Arse/Elbow binary - a thread. I realise many of you will find yourselves, as I do, endlessly having to argue whether arses and elbows are a binary, as
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Apologize for the long thread. We can relate Darwin's theory of evolution to Hindu philosophy of 10 incarnations of the god. Details on the link below.https://www.google.com/amp/s/indroyc.com/2016/01/05/dashavatara/amp/ Whether ramayana
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A Thread on the BEST Italian Managers of All-Time Fabio CapelloCapello coached Milan for part of their historic unbeaten run. Capello was considered a pragmatic coach that added
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WORST SITCOM CHARACTER RESULTS !!12,704 TOTAL VOTES 52. Rachel Green (Friends) - 1 vote (0%)52. Manny Delgado (Modern Family) - 1 vote (0%)52. Robin Scherbatsky (How I Met Your
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The constituency that Pelosi is most indebted to for her Speakership is affluent suburbanites. She's the Speaker because of their voting patterns in 2018, and she needs them again in
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Romans reading modern comics, a thread:X men? I could easily defeat twice as many, don't know what this Magneto guy is complaining about. Professor X? What happened to professors I
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A thread about why H.G Wells’ The Time Machine has been a great addition to our KS3 Curriculum #teamEnglish It an ideal precursor to Jekyll and Hyde. Overlaps in context
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'Geet Ramayan' by 'Ga Di' Madgulkar and Sudhir Phadke is a collection of 56 Marathi language songs chronologically describing events from the Ramayana.It was broadcast by @AkashvaniAIR, #Pune in 1955–1956
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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/viking-was-job-description-not-matter-heredity-massive-ancient-dna-study-shows?rss=1Modern historians know this, but to repeat for the rest of you:1) "Viking" was a job, not a people2) The N
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The Meitei Mayek script ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ, now being adopted for the Meitei language in the Indian state of Manipur as a replacement for Bengali script, is of ancient origins.A unique
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EXCLUSIVE Laurence Fox is launching a new political party to fight the culture wars, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal @LozzaFox https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/26/laurence-fox-launching-new-political-party-fight-culture-wars/ Th
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Quebec Jewish stuff worth tweeting: scenes like these as gotcha journalism is inappropriate. Nationalists, restrain yourselves... 2018 column, context on tensions in Plateau/Outremont specifically:https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/dan-de
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Jonny Quest - The Curse of Anubis 1964Hanna-Barbera's Jonny Quest was an science fiction adventure show that felt like a Saturday Morning Hammer Horror movie.Said to have been inspired in
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Reflecting on these various lists, it’s clear that there is more dispute over how to define conservatism, vs. the other ideologies that Conor lists. 1/https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1284624736928935936 If your political frame is
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1) So I've been working on this story for the past few months.I've long been fascinated by the Satanic Panic. The moral panic in the late '80s and '90s that
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