#Biography

If you’re in the mood for an old movie, I recommend History is Made at Night, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Jean Arthur and the deep-voiced French heartthrob Charles Boyer.
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Following on from the @BBCRadio4 thread yesterday remembering the life and achievements of Dr Anthony Clare, I wanted to offer my own thread on notable British psychiatrists called Anthony. We'll start with Anthony Stevens. Born
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One of my least favourite types of history books are those that rely not on what happened, but on what people said.When evaluating an event as massive as the Great
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Thread for tracking the best/most "interesting" Lincoln commentary. https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/who-do-we-think-we-are/articles/the-great-simplifier https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/lincolns-religion The description does
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really really love this approach to prospect analysis. viewing NHL scoring translations as a distribution rather than a single translation factor is very helpfulhttps://twitter.com/CJTDevil/status/1256251247172227072 for example, european j
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Follow this cozy thread for a story of how I found the address of someone 7600 kilometers away from me with a 20-to-50 meter accuracy in just 5 minutes, using
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The armed forces of the French Republic are one of the few genuinely national institutions. I would not overstate this retired Generals' letter - I would also not dismiss it
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I finally read @JaneMayerNYer’s big Mitch McConnell piece. I waited for the print issue and read it by the firepit, fortified by bourbon and Prine. Since I have familiarity w/
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Khaled El-Masri was subjected to Extraordinary rendition by the @cia. El-Masri was beaten, stripped naked, deprived of food and water and sodomized at the CIA run Salt Pit. #Assange @wikileaks
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10 Book recommendations from the technoking of Tesla @elonmusk 1/ Zero To One by @peterthiel "Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero To One shows how." - Elon
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• Ebru Sahin biography/ description•(Witten by Betül Ö.pictures chosen by @iimmiii0) Really long thread #EbruŞahin was born in Istanbul on May 18, 1994 (26 years). After she graduated
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[Thread] 1/ Donald Trump has retweeted @HeshmatAlavi - an account believed to be operated by a number of people working for the MEK - Mojahedin-e-Khalq, a cultish opposition group -many
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The Bombay Plan- In January 1944, just three years before Indian Independence, a document was published, that caused great consternation and concern amongst the British rulers of India. This pamphlet
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Leonardo da Vinci had #ADHD.• He rarely completed projects.• He never published anything.• He was ashamed of abandoning projects & commissions.• He rapidly found new things to hyperfocus on.• He
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1/14 - BIOGRAPHY THREAD: Founder Jonathan Waldern is departing @DigiLensInc. He shared a video yesterday on Linkedin noting his departure & advertising that he is exploring opportunities.Jonathan's Likedin profile: https://www.linke
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Story of girl wearing thick glasses, cup of coffee and a Book... Desired by many...Loved by few ! The girl who is wearing thick glasses is sitting alone at Starbucks,
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