#Century

Suede Santoro 👣

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"Italians during this period (1876- 1930) were the targets of mass lynchings & subject to slurs like “guinea” (a person of mixed-race ancestry), “dago”(because Italians were paid as a “day goes”

NKOSAZANA YAKWA XHOSA

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The Green Mile” is one of Hollywood’s most shocking films, which has made many cry and see things differently.What matters, however, is that this is a story based on true

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Speaking at a 1963 SNCC event, activist Fannie Lou Hamer told the crowd, "I want true democracy. I want something that's built up from truth and righteousness that I won't

Dr Freya Gowrley

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Just submitted a revised version of a book chapter on fatness and late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century visual and material culture, focusing on representations Daniel Lambert, so I thought I'd

❌Missy Killion- Rudicil ❌

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Did you know ?The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political

What's in a name

SibuMabusela

Things I wish I knew about LinkedIn while I was still on the job Market: A thread A little background info: I've been on LinkedIn since 2014/ 2015 but only

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What do these German words have in common?KummerbundPundschabiPunschDschungelKalkuttaBungalowJumbo(jet) Answer: They are all borrowed from colonial English and are today produced by most speakers with inaccurate spelling pronunciations, in

Bharatputra101

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Some of the #Great_Empires & dynasties of #India . 1) The Pallava dynasty: existed from 275 CE to 897 CE, ruled in southern India,with ‘Kanchipuram’ as their capital. They

Kristof Smeyers

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Good morning #LockdownBestiary lovers! In today’s edition J is for jellyfish. Jellyfish are not jelly and they are not fish. They have no bones, no blood, no heart, no brain.

On This Day in Simpsons History

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#OnThisDay #OTD April 26, 1998, "Trash of the Titans", first aired on the Fox network. Dir: Jim Reardon. Wr: @ianhmg. Guest-starring @SteveMartinToGo as Ray Patterson, @U2 and their manager Paul

Emily Warren

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Oh boy.I feel like there's an essay somewhere in all this for the modern food historian ready to write it. I have absolutely no time for that kind of project,

L.A. Conservancy

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A #MidCenturyMonday thread: This lovely Mid-Century home in Silver Lake was built in 1949 by Chinese American architect Eugene Kinn Choy—it was also his private residence. When Choy, the first

Christine Artemisia Kelley

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I have never seen The Last Temptation of Christ. That is changing tonight. A Scorsese V.O. off the bat. Jesus fuck, Harvey Keitel's Judas is a flaming antisemitic caricature. "I

Joe Bassey

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Abubakari II, Mansa (King) of the Mali Empire in the 14th century, led Malian sailors to the America(s), specifically present-day Brazil, almost 200 years before Columbus arrived. He ruled what was

Chris Burniske

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Financial capital outpaces the installation of new technologies, in part because financial capital is responsible for speculating new technologies into existence. Speculation fuels capital growth, and with capital a group

Anonymous Seeker

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#thread#IntroductionToVedas Part 2Without wasting too much time lets take the name of Lord Ganesha & start part 2 वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभनिर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदावक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभनिर्विघ्नं