#English

Dean Bakopoulos

DeanBakopoulos

Since my "child of immigrants" post went viral, I thought I'd share a good story about my Ma's first Xmas in the US (Detroit). Born just after my Ukrainian grandparents

Victor John King

VictorK43995989

Back in the 1940's and 50's, we sent children to homes in Australia, Canada and other countries. When they got on the boats, these children were happy that they might

Catie Lilly

catielila

In a final-round interview for a postdoc (to teach pre-modern European history at an Asian university that shall remain nameless), I was asked by the committee if I could recite

Paul O’Connor, 3.5% #FBPE 🔶

POCX100

Witnessing economic decline from a comfortable position is rather odd, whilst the lives of millions are changed forever, jobs lost, businesses closed, hopes dashed, nothing much changes for me, should

Hannalore Gerling-Dunsmore

JoyofPhysics

Seriously y’all, this would be like getting a PhD in physics and publicly INSISTING gravity acts at a distance instantaneously due to the Newtonian description, rather than at the speed

Candela ✟☀️✟

gjrt888

Horned gods in European folklore/mythology Pan was a Greek god of shepherds and flocks, & mountain wilds. He has the hindquarters, legs, & horns of a goat. He is

The Irish Story

theirishstory

Really interesting new article on the site by @swgannon: The Green Frame of British Rule?’ – Irish in the Indian Civil Service: https://www.theirishstory.com/2020/11/27/the-green-frame-of-british-rule-irish-in-the-indian-civil-service/#

niss ♡

hyunjinurl

— hyunjin is more than just stray kids’ visual: a thread i’ll start with main dancer hyunjin - who only started learning how to dance the moment he became a

Alexander Reid Ross

areidross

Interesting side note. After the February 1934 Crisis in France when far-right chauvinist leagues leveraged the center-left out of government through street action, the French left mobilized culturally, partly due

Sharkie

1PolicyWonk

It’s said “those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Forty-two-years ago, late President Siyaad Bare govt introduced Family Law (aka Xeerka Qoyska) to protect the rights

@lupingcayisa

lupingcayisa

Historian Dr Nomalanga Mkhize provides a history lesson we all need to learn.Nomalanga: The widespread economic impact of the ban on alcohol should scare us. How much of our economy

Daniel

DictatorJorgi

Main criteria for judging full backs:- Passing in the build up phase- Defending out of possession- Crossing in the final third- Pace and dribbling for dynamism in between all phases

Mulboyne

Mulboyne

One popular foreign entertainer in Japan you don't hear much about today, is Roy James. Here he is, in a TV commercial for Nescafe instant coffee. Roy James was born

Sammy Wright

SamuelWright78

Question: what exactly would be the problem with a massive increase in grade 4 passes in English and Maths GCSE? How many of the careers that those students now had

James Palmer

BeijingPalmer

I wanted to expand a little bit more on what it would mean to have an IR/strategy curriculum that actually took in the history of the rest of the world,

XNÓX

XNOXnoisy

I disagree but actually what happened TSR is kinda interesting to meThey had a amazing ideas that work and are amazing! But everything else is so poorly made and it

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