#1950s

These people obsessed with “free speech” who want “all ideas to be debated” are never the kinds of people who have to spend a considerable amount of their life “debating”
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There's a creation myth about modern Ireland that needs debunking. It's the one of an inward protectionist state until 1958 when Whitaker/Lemass saved us with tax breaks & FDI. It's
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As far as I know, mystery fandom--mystery fans--don't tell you that the only way into the genre is through Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, though of course fans of both
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We can't understand the present if we don't understand the past.This thread will show you the history of death and disease outbreaks in Sweden. All source data is available for
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Another Indonesia-related ephemera:I’ve wondered for decades! why Pinochet has been so much more reviled than Suharto in the popular imagination when Suharto was so much more lethal ?! There’s even
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Jack Butler at the National Review calls Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series a "comforting technocratic fable."https://twitter.com/jackbutler4815/status/1246838444866879493?s=21 I loved the Foundation Trilogy when I was a boy.
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From the perspective the people whose already-perilous lives were fvcked in 2008Here’s where we're coming from when you threaten us with 'you'll die' or 'four more years of Trump1/ Living
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When I was in junior high school, I received a book report assignment. I'd never heard of the book and when I learned it was by an English author, I
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Remembering #Nehru I remember Nehru for the blunders given in this #Thread Nehru never Made #India , He broke #India #Creating the Kashmir issue :Nehru single-handedly created the Kashmir issue
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Why is there less talk of "Free Tibet" now? Why have the riots in Tibet disappeared? Once in a decade you find a positive article on China. China has focused
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CHAPTER 6: MAXWELL TAYLOR'S UNCERTAIN TRUMPET1 of 56: If you have not been following along with this story, please go back and read the first five chapters of “The Atomic
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Money rules everything: the diabolical partnership between Germany, Qatar, Turkey, the Muslim Brotherhood German policy towards the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah and the takfiri groups has included an internal dimension and
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I see way too many people in this corner saying"Serotonin is the Happy Hormone. Do this to increase it!"Let's go deep into the history of serotonin to see why it's
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#OTD in 1915 and 1940 two members of my family met with fate during #FWW and #SWW. Pix show my Great uncle Leslie Barnes and my uncle Edward Leslie Barnes.
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Short thread on Christopher Tennant of Cadoxton, Neath. Killed in action 3 September 1917 while serving with the Welsh Guards in Flanders. The Tennant family arrived in Neath in 1816
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Do you hear that? It's the Sound of a new Twitter Exhibition... Most people know that the National Science and Media Museum does photography, film and TV. But not so
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