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History tells us dictators who build the biggest bunkers have the most fragile minds
1 week, 5 days ago

History tells us dictators who build the biggest bunkers have the most fragile minds

The Independent  

We have seen these scenes before, of course. You can imagine Loyd Grossman taking us through the keyhole to ask “Who would live in a palace like this?” The wealth of evil men such as Bashar al-Assad is always stolen from the people they claim to protect, but these images of dictator kitsch provide light relief from the other terrible …

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'Road to Rickwood' tells the story of Alabama's famed Rickwood Field
5 months, 3 weeks ago

'Road to Rickwood' tells the story of Alabama's famed Rickwood Field

NPR  

'Road to Rickwood' tells the story of Alabama's famed Rickwood Field SCOTT DETROW, HOST: When you think of Major League Baseball cities, places like New York, Boston or Chicago might come to mind. I remember my sister and I had to do history projects, and my sister asks my dad, you know, everyone's going to do Jackie Robinson; who was …

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‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’ tells how humor and hashtags fostered a subculture
7 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’ tells how humor and hashtags fostered a subculture

LA Times  

When Hulu announced that it would be releasing a docuseries about Black Twitter, the streamer got an immediate earful from … Black Twitter. As one person posted on the platform, “The Black Twitter response to the Black Twitter doc is so very #BlackTwitter.” The makers of “Black Twitter: A People’s History,” the three-part series that premiered at the South by …

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Laura Trevelyan says sorry for ‘horrors’ of her slaver ancestors during visit to Grenada school
1 year, 3 months ago

Laura Trevelyan says sorry for ‘horrors’ of her slaver ancestors during visit to Grenada school

The Telegraph  

Laura Trevelyan is reading a story to children in a tone of regret, one received with a knowing resignation beyond the years of her young audience in a school in Grenada. “I’m sorry about the past”, she tells the sweltering classroom, “but I hope we can build a better future together. You are the future of Grenada and I’m honoured …

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The history of the Swiffer and its cleaning empire
2 years, 5 months ago

The history of the Swiffer and its cleaning empire

Salon  

This story first appeared on Food52, an online community that gives you everything you need for a happier kitchen and home – that means tested recipes, a shop full of beautiful products, a cooking hotline, and everything in between! In the background came a bubbly '70s voice, intoning catchy lyrics: "This old mop makes me shake; that old vacuum makes …

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Planet Normal: Dismissing Wuhan lab leak theory was a ‘shocking episode in the history of science’
3 years ago

Planet Normal: Dismissing Wuhan lab leak theory was a ‘shocking episode in the history of science’

The Telegraph  

When Matt Ridley started writing his new book on the origins of the Coronavirus pandemic, he and his co-author, Canadian molecular biologist Dr Alina Chan, felt the possibility that the virus was an engineered escapee of the Wuhan Institute of Virology was unlikely. “I thought I’d probably be able to dismiss it after a couple of months’ work,” he tells …

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History tells us a 'keep calm and carry on' policy could be disastrous during coronavirus
4 years, 3 months ago

History tells us a 'keep calm and carry on' policy could be disastrous during coronavirus

ABC  

When the coronavirus first came to Australian shores, Prime Minister Scott Morrison sought to reassure a nervous nation. A nation ordered to 'carry on' It's a nice bit of trivia that the "keep calm and carry on" slogan wasn't widely used during WWII in Britain. But while that slogan was coined during the war, historians now say the "carry on" …

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