#Historical

“Regime mouthpieces in New Delhi tried to spin the Kabul massacre as an attack on Indian interests,” says Kite Fights co-author Pieter Friedrich. “The reality is the murder of those
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Okay my (very serious) explanation of the GameStop thingamajig:Say you are a Very Smart Investor with a lot of [other people's] money and you live in Late Capitalism, the defining
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Salsa music is identified as a Black music in Colombia because the first people to start making it there were Black people from the Pacific Coast. Pacific Coastal Afro-Colombians loved
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Edtech investment organizations are shaping the future of education through a mix of predictive technoeconomic valuations and imaginative visions. This post was basis for my short talk on education technology
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Two years ago this week we were thrilled to host the conference “Defining Black European History” convened by @kira_thurman, @tlflorvil, and @jeffbsox. You can find the conference report here (https://www.ghi-dc.org/events/event/date/de
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All racing driver helmets should follow the basic rules of vexillology. (thread) Too many drivers (the vast majority of them in my opinion) suffer from what I like to call
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1/ an (unofficial) historical observation/thread: every time there's one of these pivots ("inflection points") the Air Force Sci&Tech community is criticized for working on the wrong "stuff." This is scapegoating
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— caught in the witching hour. —#chilumi. a historical fantasy threadfic concept, ft. immortal witch Lumine + soldier ChildeUnder bright moonlight, in the eerie hours between midnight and dawn, a
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*THREAD*So Thornberry seems to be trying to claim that Labour Party has historical mantle of anti-fascism in UK. Not forgetting Labour’s direct involvement in various pieces of racist legislation &
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What history should you read about the New Deal to inform the present moment?With the caveat that I *will* forget something, so forgive me now: I would skew toward more
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Richard Nikolaus Eijiro, Graf von Coudenhove-Kalergi, one of the most influential and mischaracterized founders of the Pan-European Movement, was born in Tokyo in 1894, son of the Austrian-Hungarian Ambassador Heinrich
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I wanna set the record straight on language + the subcontinent. A lot of times when I’m like English is colonial kharra!! Sum parha likha jaahil is lyk: actually madam
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A THREAD:On Friday it was my birthday. I celebrated at home with my family. I had cake. I was spoiled. I couldn't have been happier. But it was different of
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1) There has been some renewed frothing about Trump not "firing all the jackasses" immediately when he became president, which led to keeping people like Sondland or Comey (Scrotumtoter), and
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For no reason other than that we're still in lockdown and have much more time than usual to think about these kinds of things, here's some of the albums and
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1980 White Sox. Used center field camera to steal signs. Didn't use trash cans, used light bulbs... http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=kurkjian_tim&id=1857661 1976 A's. Used binoculars from bullpen. http://news.google.c
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