#European

Brexitland is out today! To celebrate the release of our new book I'm going to put up a graph a day here highlighting some of the big themes we discuss.
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I started reading @PhillipsPOBrien How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II a few weeks ago (and belatedly). Now that I've finished it, I
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1/ The End of the "Dollar Milkshake" TheoryThis thread is an attempt to visualize an endgame scenario for the short dollar squeeze anticipated by Brent Johnson @SantiagoAuFund in the Dollar
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Most Amazing Placing to Visit In Africa - A Thread.1. The Great Migration - Kenya The Great Wildebeest Migration - the annual migration of giant herds of grazers across Northern Tanzania and Kenya is a truly spectacular
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The Forgotten papers of history: Christians and Arabs under the oppressive Ottoman EmpireWith the dust settling from a multitude of conflicts In the Balkans ,Italian Ottoman war , And the
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A GW34 THREAD GW33 Snapshot Takeaway GW34 Fixture to Target Captaincy Predictions Differentials Hot Property Top Binned Bus Team Recommended ContentAs always, a thread built to evoke initial
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Hey everyone, it’s time for the 6th (?) annual Tomcat Award! For those not in the know, this is where I read the entire Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist, and
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐱𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝As the US media breathlessly reports on anything involving Russia, and diligently provides air cover for China, one nation has positioned itself to be the axis
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Aston Villa’s 2019/20 financial results covered the season following promotion, when they retained their Premier League status by finishing 17th and also reached the Carabao Cup final. Second season after
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A thread on the British empire.1/"At its height in 1922, the British empire governed a fifth of the world's population and a quarter of the world's total land area."@feeldalove168https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-
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THREAD re the "everybody's-got-it" school of covid truthery, which my story this wk in @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/11/why-a-study-showing-that-covid-19-is-everywhere-is-good-news, based on study by @in
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1909 Jacob Schiff founds the National Advancement for the Association of the Coloured People (NAACP). 1910 On the evening of November 22, 1910, Paul Warburg ( representing Kuhn, Loeb
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The toppling of a statue of John A Macdonald has unnerved certain sections of Cdn society. Fears of an “angry mob” that can “erase history” w such actions are overblown;
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"Why do people keep writing 'Latinx'? And yikes, how do you pronounce it?" Alright, deep breath. It's the 10th & final edition of my Mexican X series for 2018 (&
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Time for apple reviews! First up: “Mother,” an heirloom from Boston (1840). Slightly mealy texture but nice, standard apple flavor. I was told to look for “hints of wintergreen and
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#SaveMEC is about more than saving a co-op. It’s about preventing another Canadian icon from suffering the same fate as Tim Horton’s: a slow grinding decline under ownership that doesn’t
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