#Tradition

12 minutes into a documentary on Suleiman I's harem and I'm laughing. The fantasy of men on the outside was naked women inside a closed palace, when modern historians have
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J. Sexton; footnote 15, “Ante-Anti-Blackness” (2012):“Blackness does not come from Africa. Rather, Africa and its diaspora become black at a particular stage in their history. It sounds a little strange
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Few people talk about this, but there is a great deal of racism in medicine, which affects patient care. If you listen to the conversations in the doctor’s lounge when
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hardcore red-on-red violence is communist tradition and this will never change. if you want cordial lefties, try a socdem. https://twitter.com/BlackRedGuard1/status/1385273530733010947 literally as I typed this out, as if they meant
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Gender reveal parties aren't some ancient tradition. They're a few years old. They're part of the conservative backlash against the increased visibility and tolerance of trans people. They're not "just
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Did you know that Egyptians say that they brought Christianity to Ireland? Here's the story as it was told to me.There was a king of Ireland in the 2nd or
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Our psychology has replaced an oppressive Victorian tradition (?) with fashionable opinion, now more oppressive than the Queen, having become our new opinion about the soul, man and the purpose
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A thread on #RiseOfTheTMNT and the Deconstruction of Sacrifice. (fair warning, this is gonna be pretty long. Also #rottmnt #rottmntfam #saverottmnt ) You gotta love how even in the face
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Assyrian-tradition (Church of the East (COE)) Churches have long held that Nestorius was, to put it lightly, bullied by St. Cyril. Mar Bawai Soro, Chaldean Bishop, in 1986 said that,
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Excited for eBird's #GlobalBigDay tomorrow. In what may become a tradition, my focus will NOT be on trying to find the most species (North America is pretty well represented on
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Someone smarter than me is going to write an important book about how "magical thinking" came to replace discourses in civil society, and confused almost every political bloc, between 2010
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Being non-monogomous doesn't mean you're a "greedy whore" or "not serious about your partner" or "not actually in love".Civilization has gone through so many iterations of what "socially acceptable
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I shouldn't need to say this (but obviously I do, it's been bothering me all day) - but if you have insults about being fat in your show, if being
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Having spoken to Destiny, I know what he was trying to do with Prof Wolf.When Destiny debates communists and socialists, he tries really hard to get you to nail down
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Thx to @adrianamperezr & @evanjmckenna for the great story & video today in the @NDSMCObserver w/my reflections on the lessons, tough challenges & thrilling memories of being the 1st female
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Look: U.S. Catholics are ≈ perfectly split between parties.Many liberals don’t like conservative Catholics. A few don’t like Catholics at all (e.g., secular reasons)Many conservatives don’t like liberal Catholics. A
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