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Storytime, friends.This feels like an appropriate moment to talk about the time I tried to start a jewelry business and ended up fleeing my makerspace after someone used it to
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Prompted to look at this well known photo from March 1944. Churchill shooting a Thompson submachine gun; in the background you can see General Eisenhower doing the same. Churchill had
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A really interesting presentation at January's #IAVEvent was the Leonardo DRS Mission Command Expeditionary Command Post (MC ECP) concept. A case of new automotive power generation tech enabling a rethink
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“Doctors, nurses, patients and their families are demanding to know why staff fighting the coronavirus pandemic were left unprotected at a top Durban hospital where five people died and 66
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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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From January 2004 issue of Socialist StandardWhen Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was sixteen his brother was hanged for complicity in plot to assassinate the Tsar. Later, he himself got involved in
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Last week, I spoke to @Freedland who asked me whether I thought the Ayanda contract was corrupt. That was not then a word I was prepared to use (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/07/its-taken-just-12-months-for-boris-johnso
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FEMALE SEX OFFENDERS; A THREAD I studied, did alot of research, read articles, cases about women molesters, and here's the information I've collected. Sexual assault by women accounts for about
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A thread on the influences on women's mourning fashion during the 19thC - my dissertation topic *Disclaimer: This will be a very short overview of my dissertation, I am not
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WizKid in the framework of the world-wide stage with capricious genres, his newest album “Made In Lagos” sounds more stable with traditional Afrobeats #madeinlagos @wizkidayo, @ellamai, @burnaboy, @Skepta, @damianmarleyhttps://spankrad
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Regarding these "Chop suey" fonts, (example below) one wonders if the wedge-shaped strokes are the product of a person trying to write Latin characters using a Chinese brush 毛筆, which,
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As the bull market has gotten underway, I've started to receive many questions from friends & family interested in learning how they can jumpstart their own Bitcoin journeys, so I've
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Thread of things you may not know about visiting an emergency room for a sexual assault/domestic violence related incident in Ontario*:(CONTENT WARNING: thread includes health care services available & offered
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Now these terms. First, "diversity."Diversity doesn't mean what anyone thinks it means. It means diversity as Critical Identity Studies (like Critical Race Theory) understand it, which means diverse "lived experiences
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The much hyped Middle Class in India are the biggest hypocrites.Five years ago, one of my Colleagues, a Senior Consultant working in Oman, but hailing from Tamil Nadu was vociferous
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In case you missed Hon. @JaneRuth_Aceng's address on Uganda's comprehensive response to #COVID19UG, here are the highlights; Uganda registered its first case of #COVIDー19 on 21st March, 2020. As of
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