#Looted

#ThreadSurely after reading you will be full of proud Do you know about the eccentricity of Banastambha standing in the courtyard of the 1500 yrs old Somnath temple? 'The history
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Before I lose myself in the blog post I'll start a slow-moving thread of cultural objects that were NOT safe, NOT in better hands outside of their country/community of origin.
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Asian American works like 100x to get the same petit bourgeois spot as a yt who just got an internship at Goldman cause his uncle is an MDOMG ASIAN PRIVILEGE
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"If it's going to be wasted or perhaps handed over to the Hun, we'd better take it ourselves..." In June 1940, as Pétain seeks an armistice with Hitler, a difficult
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I get it. You all protested for a week. But at the same time, there’s a pandemic going on and we happen to live in a country with the most
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Imagine Democrats win in November. Fast forward to 2021. President Harris is pushing huge tax hikes, a welfare spending spree, a reparations bill. Think you'll be able to drive safely
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Breaking the Byzantine SystemThe arc-of-history narrative cites two disasters in particular that both reflected and precipitated Byzantine decline: the Battle of Manzikert and the 4th Crusade.The systems approach unambiguously fingers
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Looks like the Antiquities Coalition is misrepresenting threats to Middle Eastern antiquities again -- this time for a GIS audience.https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/blog/maps-take-aim-at-antiquities-looters/ One of the main points of this article
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Of course, Black Americans are so upset yet another Black man was murdered by police they resorted to the most logical action that will definitely end police brutality: Stealing from
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Thread RE: Boog Boi activity in #Minneapolis during the #GeorgeFloyd uprising. Unslocited tagging of people because you have either engaged this issue or I thought you would be interested in
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THREAD@realDonaldTrump drew this crowd in Florida.NOT a swing state. Here's the rally.The man is a dynamo.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H13ov-O3ld4 The Democrats, press, and pollsters are putting out frenzied lies about how Trump has
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1. Dear @MBuhari @NGRPresident @ProfOsinbajo it appears nobody is listening upstairs. Too many of your aides on here & offline but I am not not sure they are really gauging
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A thread about the "heroes" of Punjab who protected the lives and fortunes of Punjabi Muslims and Punjabi Hindus from the Afghan looters in 18th century. A thread about Sikhs
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Africa's position in the New "Cold War" - ThreadAs deputy chief of staff to President Sirleaf, I once took my team to one of the urban slums to talk about
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On this day in 1913, the Montenegrin Kingdom sieged Shkodër, a city predominantly inhabited by Albanian Catholics and Muslims. The city was devastated, a few Catholic churches were damaged, its
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Bernie raised the imperative need for a political revolution.We need a political revolution AND a social revolution. We need a new system that puts people before profits.In short, we need
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