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Joel
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In fairness, would you expect a politician 80 years from now to know Xi Jinping by name? HW Bush fought in the Pacific, of course he knew Chiang. Could he have named a Chinese leader from the 1860s?
Maiathree generations of conservative intelletcual decline, from a guy who made jokes about chiang kai-shek on a regular basis to his sons who vaguely knew who he was from a guy who thinks he's chinese goku
That last sentence is just the Yoshimi Red experience
World War I As It Happened (1914)58-year-old Sigmund Freud, noted psychoanalyst, reacts to the news of the war thus: "For the first time in thirty years, I feel myself to be an Austrian, and feel like giving this not very hopeful empire another chance. All my libido is dedicated to Austria-Hungary."
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he almost literally said to do that lauren
Right Wing WatchRep. Lauren Boebert insists that public Christian worship events are necessary for America to experience revival: "I don't think that Jesus ever called for any Christian to pray only silently or to keep their faith hidden only in the prayer closet."
Climate change will manifest as a series of people becoming eepier and eepier until you're the one who is yawning all day
Met Office - weather and climateA warm and humid night is on the way making for a somewhat more uncomfortable night for sleeping, more especially in the southeast after the heat of today 😴
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Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog
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Hukou Britain
Rachel ColdicuttOne of the things I find odd about UK skills and jobs policies over the last 10 years is the idea that - for young people - place is destiny. It's like we've taken the Brexit memo and double stamped it into meaning you need to stay put to be a success. The geographical footprint of the UK is *tiny*