#Heroic

"Historical fiction aimed at children, and often relating to National Curriculum History topics, appears to be growing in popularity. There is a challenge to make the children’s novel – often
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An updated thread on Manolis Glezos Manolis was born on the island of Naxos and moved to Athens in 1935 with his family. He became involved in the anti-fascist movement
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I will post some strategies i have found useful for finding a sense of groundedness from which action can arise during periods of (needed!) social unrest / challengehttps://twitter.com/kateschapira/status/1381956360460505089 because i
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1/ Omar Shakir is Human Rights Watch's director in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Read his account. Then see the video, in the reply immediately below, of what actually happened
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Deku's influence as an inspiration to others along his pathA thread We can say, to get started, that the protagonist of a story will generally have an influence in
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A thread on why you shouldn't hate on Jiang Cheng and instead, you should love him - I sacrificed my soul to write this This feels like it's going to
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I love Mulan with all my heart so I want you all to be aware that it's a vast corpus of stories written over the course of several hundred years.There
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nonperiodic reminder that the reason I excuse Spec Ops The Line from the standard criticism of "video game that tell you do bad thing and then get angry at you
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What I wish was understood about election forecasting, and this didn’t make sense til grad school for me but it’s much easier to make make sense if you are a
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If you’re in the mood for an old movie, I recommend History is Made at Night, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Jean Arthur and the deep-voiced French heartthrob Charles Boyer.
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A thread of Sidharth's pictures in white with some of his characteristics as captionsI made a word cloud of some of his characteristicsThese are very few ik coz i am
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Ticketmaster is a runaway corrupt monopoly. They forced out or gobbled up every ticketing company, then merged with Live Nation and monopolized both venues and promo, to the vast detriment
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This is the bookIt was p ableist (especially toward people with developmental disabilities, ESPECIALLY autism)Read it if you like but be warned that it’s infuriating.There was also:The “wheelchair BOUND” narrative“Trapped
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2499 years ago, approximately #OTD, the pass at Thermopylai in Central Greece became the site of one of the most famous land battles in history.You've probably heard a bunch of
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Ireland reached a milestone in the pandemic response today completing 1 million Covid19 tests. An ungodly amount of work went into it all over 6 months, so I'll shine a
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Since everyone has realized what big buddies aardvarks are I'd like to remind folks that giant armadillos exist. They eat similar diets but are from different continents.Look at that big
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