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Largest Ancient Roman Mosaic in 50 Years Unearthed in London | My Modern Met

By Jessica Stewart on February 23, 2022 “This is a once-in-a-lifetime find in London…When the first flashes of color started to emerge through the soil, everyone on site was very excited.” The ancient Roman Empire extended all the way to … Continue reading →

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I love this | Hank Green

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Ukraine through the eyes of Vladimir Putin

At the centre of the greatest crisis Europe has faced since the Second World War is one man – President Vladimir Putin. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) In an impassioned address to the nation on Monday he set out in 7,500 rambling words … Continue reading →

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Facts About SLAVERY They Don’t Teach You at School

This is an excerpt from ‘Intellectuals and Race’ — https://amzn.to/3rknNP4

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Whitewashing 101: How To Rewrite Black History

It’s Black History Month, so it’s about time we talked about the recuperation of Black radicals like Dr. King and Nelson Mandela. Everyone and their mother likes to claim MLK as their own, and use his words as a rhetorical … Continue reading →

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Teacher Transforms Door To Celebrate Black History Month | My Modern Met

By Arnesia Young on February 17, 2022 “I wanted to create a door that represented the African American women that work in the class with me.“ Teachers are some of the most creative people on Earth. They come up with … Continue reading →

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The Decline and Fall of Warner Bros. Cartoons | THE MERRIE HISTORY OF LOONEY TUNES

Television rules a nation as Termite Terrace tries to play nice with the emerging medium. But try as they might to keep their heads above water, the studio will soon be pulled under thanks to a combination of ill-timed departures, … Continue reading →

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The top secret plan to explode a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire

In the 1960s, America was running “Operation Plowshare”: the idea that perhaps nuclear bombs could be used for peace, not war. At least some British scientists had similar ambitions, and it involved setting off a nuclear bomb under Wheeldale, in … Continue reading →

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The Ghostly Yokai Illustrations of Katsushika Hokusai | Laughing Squid

LORI DORN FEBRUARY 10, 2022 Hochelaga looks at the ghostly Yokai illustrations created by renowned Japanese artist Hokusai, creator of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. Tommie Trelawny of the obscure art channel Hochelaga takes a look at the ghostly Yokai … Continue reading →

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How Maps LIE To You

 

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Noam Chomsky: The USA is a mafia | with Fatima Bhutto

Part 3: https://youtu.be/I0m_7pqq7rg The war in Afghanistan and the mafia-like global order; Modhi and the collapse of Indian democracy; the “China Threat” and the “pivot to Asia; Joe Manchin and climate change. The world seems like a dark place, and … Continue reading →

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Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out | BBC News

By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent New fossils challenge ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals after arriving from Africa. Neanderthals were a separate species of human that populated Europe for hundreds of thousands of years until they went extinct 40,000 … Continue reading →

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