#TRAVEL

President Eisenhower suffered a stroke in the Oval Office this day in 1957, impairing his speech. In 1958 he wrote a letter giving VP Nixon the authority to take over
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Looking over some recent work on history of #tourism and #travelwriting I’m once again struck by the question: can you really write about 19thC tourism without thinking seriously about empire
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I know I sound like a stuck record sometimes but do yourself a favour. Organise 4 or more friends and do a trip every few weeks to the Joburg Market
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Our latest data show that retail sales increased by an estimated 12% in May 2020 http://ow.ly/dFyl50Ac2Ed  In the three months to May 2020 volume sales fell by 12.8% when compared
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A Thread on the species that live among Humans called "Jinns".(If you heard about Reptilians - read this)"Jinn" (AKA "Genie") is a word that derives from Arabian folklore & Islamic
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If and when we can all travel, I would like to go to Tayshet. Here are the reasons why (a thread) Tayshet, in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast, was the site of
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Today is the 100th death anniversary of the amazing mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. He passed away at a young age of 32 on April 26, 1920, at Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan
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As many parts of the world settle into the COVID winter of our discontent, it's worth thinking critically about public health messaging. As I've said for months, despair-based messaging (of
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Calling on all startups with solutions to build smart sustainable cities!The deadline for the ICMG Aichi Smart Sustainable City Co-Creation Challenge has been extended to 6 Nov, 2020. Don’t miss
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Commentary thread as I read through Tomino's 1997 novel "Secret Rendevouz - Amuro and Lalah" via machine translation Lalah is from a place called カバス (Kabas?) and grew up in
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Thread: Can our demands for justice delay The Great Awakening?1. A speculative thought excursion around beliefs, time and The Great Awakening 2. Many of us following Q and the exposing
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COVID19 and the UK to Oz/NZ doctor pipeline :The NHS is being handed the biggest opportunity for medical workforce management in years...and it's almost certainly going to squander it be
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Healing with Jimin - a soft thread He is just so soft that I wanted to share it with all of you His smile itself is already healing
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Do you guys not normally do this at the store?https://twitter.com/mcnostrilcom/status/1197286050114293761 For sure it can be uncomfortable to watch customers browse your merchandise, but after all, this is how shopping is
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PCR false-negative rate is not insignificant Plaquenil data gets less whelming by the dayrapid serology tests may help provide important answers, but come with their own pitfallsnew COVID framework of
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What is computer programming?Programming simply refers to instructing a computer to do something within it's capability.Consider a car analogy: A conventional car can be made to move faster, slower, turn
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