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TALIBAN:The #Taliban overthrew the Rabbani government in September 1996. #Hekmatyar fled to northern #Afghanistan. Unwilling to join forces with his old rival #Massoud, he made plans to evacuate to #Iran.
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Some details to help with your bets on how many $1 hot dogs my oldest kid will eat at the Jays game tonight:He’s 14He plays hockey and baseballHe’s 6 foot
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Off a layby on the A483, you'll find a sunken churchyard. Walk down the avenue of sentinel yews and you'll discover the little church of St Anno. From the outside,
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1. Many uni researchers/ethics centre Indigenous governments (ie: Band Councils) or groups that claim to represent grassroots/traditions (but are still exclusive/opaque)& say ‘ok, we’ve consulted community’ . Nope. You consulted
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I'm at a blockchain conference in the Dubai World Trade Centre. According to its marketing, it's the largest/most anticipated/most influential blockchain conference of the year. Will post some thoughts. Spent
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Top nuclear physicist to lead @WitsUniversity. Professor Zeblon Vilakazi has been appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.#WitsLeads #WitsForGood #WitsForInnovationhttp://www.w
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Our latest: using satellite images, detainee interviews and leaked videos we reconstructed one of Xinjiang’s camps to give a detainee’s eye view of life inside. Over the past five years,
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IN MEMORIAM: Tabare Vazquez, 1940-2020.In politics, for the left to achieve dramatic things and real change, it often has to talk to the centre but act to the left. Tabare
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Leaf collection for a leaf mould cage we are going to make during the week. Leaf mould is very useful for home made potting compost. Retweet if you want to
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What's the name for the kind of place on the left? How about the photo on the right? I reckon most of you will have a (different) word come to
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Christ, this insistence that feminism act as unpaid carer to all other activist movements - and sacrifices, without complaint, its own interests in doing so - is precisely why feminism
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In what was United Bengal (modern day West Bengal+Bangladesh) back in 1941, Muslims were 56% of the population, and today they are approximately about 67% of the population. If you
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A wee Sunday map thread...This is not my favourite building.It's the University of Strathclyde's Technology and Innovation Centre. It tries to be clever, and just manages to be bland and
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British India Corporation Limited (BIC) is a Public Sector Undertaking of the Ministry of Textiles. The company produces textiles for use by civilians & the Indian armed forces. It manufactures
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"The puck slides to the line out to centre ice. Here's Gretzky, at the line OHHHHH"I've got a trove of clips from tonight's HNIC broadcast of the Oilers-Leafs game, with
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A shot of euphoria, a dose of regret: Some health-care professionals who got vaccinated before front-line workers have second thoughts - Toronto Star, January 16. The vaccine, initially a symbol
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