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Army man modest about his service in the Pacific... transgender immigrant activist... last of the WWII Polish fighter pilots... college basketball assist wizard... retired New York Supreme Court justice... saved
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Let's talk about contingency in the history of life on Earth. Stephen Jay Gould, in "Wonderful Life" asked the question: what if we could 'rewind' the tape of life to
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With no Queen of the Classics on today, let's travel back in time, and consider what Paris-Roubaix looked like one hundred years ago. Back then, road racing was not the
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Want to hear an ordinary wee love story?I was looking through old pictures wanting to remember #Clovelly in Devon where a date took me one Saturday in August 1999. How
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1 of 11: Operation Market Garden lesson 20 of 20: Character matters, particularly at the senior level.  Let’s take a look the two main actors in Market Garden -- Eisenhower
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1/ there is this sense when you are young that your accomplishments need to be a list of things that seem impressive to others. A list of several items you
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So I want to do something to help all those gamers stuck in #coronavirus isolation, and help bribe people to stay indoors!Ive got a shed load of keys for games
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Harris began greening ON’s electricity grid in 2000; McGuinty completed it 2002-14. Harper made it a national mandate 2012. ON was North America’s first to phase out coal electricity, now
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Why stop with the Redskins, @NFL? Every team's name is offensive — a thread (TRIGGER WARNING):Chiefs: Brazenly continue to perpetuate racist stereotypes of Native Americans. CANCELED.Patriots: Of a country built
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I bid you welcome to the completely not live blogging thread for Wrestlemania. The opening is already one the best WWE have done in a while. Someone backstage finally
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[Thread] Me watching Suspiria: A commentaryI'll be watching Suspiria (2018) and rewatching the original 1977 version afterwards. The original film left quite the impression on me with it's visuals and
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Happy 103rd Birthday Roberta CowellA thread http://waldina.com/2021/04/08/happy-103rd-birthday-roberta-cowell/ Today is the 103rd birthday of the race car driver, fighter pilot Roberta Cowell, and the first British trans woman to undergo s
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#CLST6 #RR13 Ancient Greek Athletics had a wide array of events: with running, throwing, wrestling, chariot racing, and more. Because of this, it was portrayed across many different types of
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For a laugh, I'm going to run through every single Tory MP, one a day for the next 300+ days, and put forward prime examples of corruption and dodgy dealing/lying.Posts
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In light of Simon Beck’s new Sidney sand art, I’m thinking of a few of the locals’ reactions.Here’s Sidney’s reaction #Sanditon #SaveSanditon #SanditonPBS Esther and Babbers are racing over to
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United Kingdom (now sans Northern Ireland)Year: 202XDevastated by the economic fallout of Brexit, the UK is bailed out by an international consortium of racing fanatics. In exchange, they are forced
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