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(Thread/ 1) Iraq is in a dark place. The economy is collapsing, covid is rampant, and militias have grown so powerful that critics can be gunned down with impunity. But
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Oops! Looks like someone hasn't read the UNESCO 1970 convention. Manuscripts are in fact explicitly protected, as are *cough* incunabula. Let's have a thread about provenance, UNESCO, and the priciest
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I will be providing a live thread on the webinar "The Zagreb Summit: a moment of decisions?", organised by @Clingendaelorg and @ThinkforEurope. Follow this thread for updates on this webinar
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I had a chance to drive up to visit the forestry department @SCE today & see how Edison land fared in the Creek Fire compared to adjacent federal land. This
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tldr RaTG13, the virus most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 was discovered by the WIV in a bat cave in 2013 where 6 miners contracted a viral infection leading to severe
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THREAD. Do successive generations do better than their parents? Has the U.S. become a rigid β€œclass society,” or is Horatio Alger’s vision of economic advancement through hard work still alive
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Given that it was impossible to have a productive session at #vEGU21 this morning, here is a thread summarising the work we were hoping to present You can leave us
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It is historically significant. This thread is about the Court Case, what it means and why it should succeed. For some reason it’s under the radar, but expect it to
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Dear @tdsb, @TDSBDirector ; I know the province has screwed you over. But we're all in this together, and here are some immediate, low-cost steps within your power to reduce
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FPL STATS OF SHITHOUSERY π‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘ π‘’π‘›π‘‘π‘ π“π„π€πŒ πŽπ… 𝐓𝐇𝐄 π–π„π€πŠGW IIWhich players made it an XI so shite, so terrible, so fucking futile that they would have scored less between them than
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Excellent analysis! One of our biggest problems is that people think "democracy," all by itself, is a sufficient check on power. I frankly don't understand how anyone can still believe
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It is believed by many people who follow me that tougher, more confrontational questions β€” and more determined follow-ups β€” are the answer to press briefings on the virus that
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True but not the whole story, it is predominantly pvt but the model of pvtization is diff from what IR is following which seems closer to failed Brit model (some
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Fox's worst propagandists say there was no basis for the FBI to open a counter-intelligence investigation into a presidential campaign which had nearly 200 contacts with Russian operatives.Let's remind them
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1. One of the more interesting documents I've looked at in the archives is this 'Top Secret' report on Pakistan's internal situation produced by the Interior Ministry in 1952. The
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1/16 Chikunda, Slave Warriors of the ZambeziA threadThe Chikunda are an ethnic group located in Zambia, Zimbabwe MozambiqueChikunda has been proposed as Zimbabwe's 17th official language Who are the Chikunda
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