#1918

Today is the birth anniversary of one of my most favourite cultural personalities of all time, the iconic stage and screen actor 'Vishwa Nata Chakravarthy' Samerla Venkata Ranga Rao!
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Some fascinating histories behind the car logos we see every day. — Top Gear 1. Volvo (1926): Volvo uses the chemical symbol for iron to symbolise the ‘strength and power’
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You can't be a Brahmin AND a Shudra!! In case your father is a Shudra and mother a Brahmin, then the proper term for you is "Chandala". In the reverse
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I’m doing @themattiejames ‘ #MJConsistencyChallenge on my blog this month... crazzzyy, I know. Here’s my first post of the month, and all other posts will follow on this thread. Keep
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" Les trois ou les quatre cinquièmes de toute la nation arménienne a été anéantie ; et il n'y a pas de page dans l'histoire, certainement pas depuis l'époque de
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59 years ago, on April 23, 1961 Judy Garland performed at Carnegie Hall. In honor of that iconic concert & my upcoming book, JUDY AT CARNEGIE HALL, I'll be live-tweeting
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Watching a literal lecture not a documentary on the Black Death and oh boy are we in for it Holy shit this woman just spoke in Olde English that’s what
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Thread of stuff on the Indonesian coup of 1965... Peter Dale Scotthttps://mobile.twitter.com/TimothyS/status/588697231538180097 The controversial 'Cornell Paper' co-authored by Benedict Andersonhttps://mobile.twitter.com/elgranjuego/status/64
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1922: Atlanta releases it defiantly explicit racial zoning plan five years after the Supreme Court bans candor. Robert Whitten, consultant, leads the charge https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435003851870 Racial zoning is being so
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OK, let me write a thread, with some numerical experiments, about the influence of the social graph structure on the attack rate of epidemics (attack rate = number of people
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time to chill and read some "State and Revolution" (1918): https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/Lenin continues to be astoundingly relevant for our current and future struggles. "In a democratic republic, Engels c
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Greetings virtual Blitz walkers, wherever you are. Something of a mixed day with the weather in London but we're gathered outside Sloane Square Underground Station to begin our exploration of
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When this is over, we're going to need independent movie theaters more than ever. Until then, they need us. THREAD Art house theaters embody the values we’re missing
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Do #flags directly speak to the core character of a nation?Let's take a journey. What do #colors convey? (Note: These are my views, and may be irreverent.)A thread. #Argentina: The
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"Sailors Do Not Need To Die": Captain Of COVID-19 Plagued Carrier Pleads To Bring Crew Ashore (Updated) - The DriveNancy Pelosi’s hometown leftist newspaper SF Chronicle published what is being
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11:17. Pain time. This is the one that EVERYONE is gonna lose it on. Get ready for the Heavy. Because we have the 171 page document. (Actually for part
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