#Revolution

1. When the whale blubber salesmen heard rumours of oceans of oil being sucked out of the ground in the 1800’s, I’m sure many of them called it a scam
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28 avril 1779 : lancement à Rochefort de la frégate l'Hermione, célÚbre pour avoir conduit en 1780 le marquis de La Fayette en Amérique. Une réplique de ce navire fut
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Love them. Pray for them. But don't stay stuck in the past with them. It's time for America to stop asking Trump to be magnanimous. He will have to confess
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Rounding out the week (and the semester) with a thread about Annie Fiorio-Steiner, the moudjahida (veteran of Algerian War of Independence) who died this week and whose life story has
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The Word for World is Forest* | A Photo-Essay. Turkish photographer Uygar Bulut captured his mother's #quarantine as she lusts for the forest. Her affinity with nature leads her to
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A quick thread on the DPRK and African and diaspora liberation movements. I hope it reaches someone who didn’t know before. President Kim Il Sung stressed the importance of material
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Seen this error on the BBC today, and earlier in other media. It concerns the relationship of Prince Philip to the Russian royal family. BBC says his "aunt Ella" was
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It says something about Roman cognomens (cognomina?) that after Mucius heroically burned off his own right hand to demonstrate the intensity of purpose he came against the enemy with, he
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History Lesson: The Chinese "Coolie" Slave Trade by the British, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Americans-a thread When Britain "abolished slavery" in the early 1800s, the owners of mines/plantations still needed
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Without violent protest you'd still be the property of the British Empire.Guys, please, let's use lockdown to pick up a book or two...https://twitter.com/IanMbugua/status/1267021279539924993 I love Concerning Violence by Frantz Fano
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1) A woman in her 60s recently described to me her agony in having to stay away from escorting abortion patients who are routinely harassed by fanatics.She needs to keep
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For HK books? Plenty. John Carroll's A Concise History of HK is my favorite short historical overview. For more in-depth colonial history, Carroll's Edge of Empires and Christopher Munn's Anglo-China
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The world is changing.In light of what is coming. It is interesting and faith-promoting to me to consider the following:From, Prophecy: Key to the FutureBy Duane S. Crowther "A terrible
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60 years congress rule Registered vehicle increase 202% @INCIndia#60_years_of_Congress_Rule 60 years congress rule india Egg production increase 3933.3%. @INCIndia #60_years_of_congress_rule 60 years congress rule india Steel production inc
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Climate grief is getting to me whenever I’m more than two hours out from talking to another human and good god, I wish I weren’t also terrified to share with
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Abolitionists have gained more ground in the mainstream political arena in the last few months, than the last few decades. Their view as laid out in the book below is
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