#Grandfather

Okay, I'm going to try and not make this a senti thread. God knows there are enough of them. Some of them quite excellent in their tear jerkiness. (Meaningless aside.
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1/My father, David Cooper MD, was a cool guy. Like, proper cool. A polymath, even. This year will be 30 years since he passed away unexpectedly and I have detailed
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Why I am reverting to the past to find examples of instances that describes a management concept. The more I look at things in a detached, philosophical way,the more I
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Time for my first thread of 2021: Today, How I Measure Myself: a 2020 Report!With some related thoughts on evaluating management and picking investment managers.Important note: underlying everything that follows
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Does #COVID19 change the problem with #Housing (real estate) being the biggest distortion in India?This is an appreciation self-perpetuation game, fueled partly by black money.SEE MATH BELOWcc: @andymukherjee70 @VishalBhargava5 @KD_MHUD
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Why the "Reyyan forgave Nasuh so what's the problem with Miran forgiving him" argument doesn't work: A Thread#hercai #reymir 1) They're fundamentally different characters. As even Miran acknowledged, Reyyan was
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*THREAD*1. In 1989 0prah did a show exposing:Generation RituaIistic AbuseDeviI worshiping CanibaIism30 years ago this was mainstream &shown on what even today remains one of the highest rated daytime talk
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Trying to organize all the info and pics I have on my gt-grandfather's neighbourhood. His family lived on & around Smithdown Lane so pretty much nothing remains, incl. many of
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This week we heard that the RCMP were investigating a “hate crime” in Oshawa after a statue was defaced. The statue in question was a monument to the Nazi SS
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Today is adi swathi, the auspicious gurupoojai day of Sri Sundaramurti Nayanar. This thread aims at introducing this lesser known but extremely valuable Chola panel that paints his life history
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While figures like Alan Turing are household names, many people who advanced LGBT+ rights in the UK aren’t as well known.Here’s a on a few people you should know.
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Pa Orlando Martins1899–1985Celebrated film and stage actor. He was born in Oke-Suna Street, Lagos to Emmanuel Akinola Martins a Clerk in the marine department of PWD, & his wife Madam
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A Christmas tale! Sometimes the best gifts are ones you don't realize until years later. I had a Boomer rebel aunt. Spent the '70s as a hippie, then left our
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Today is the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This was a landmark piece of legislation, and yet it still falls short of providing true protections from discrimination
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I got my first real job in '99 on the biz dev team at Amazon. Like most first jobs, it was a combination of hustle and luck. I had no
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I saw a nice picture of @JoeBiden with his grandson and thought it would be nice to look for more pics of Presidents and their grandkids...and some random facts
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