Our increasingly fascist public discourse
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Revolutionary War fighting ended in 1781. The last shots exploded two months ago.
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Are we on the road to civilization collapse?
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The Metropolitan Museum will return prized gilded coffin after learning it was stolen
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When it comes to learning a foreign language, we tend to think that children are the most adept. But that may not be the case – and there are added benefits to starting as an adult.
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Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature
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Confusion over medicine names threatens lives
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Pope makes unprecedented move of defrocking ex-cardinal McCarrick over sex abuse
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Teutoburg Forest 9 AD - Roman-Germanic wars
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In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism
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Melbourne Archbishop enlists LGBTI faithful as church tries to reset
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What is the difference between translation and interpreting?
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The assassination of Fred Hampton
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Why White people don't use White emoji: Does shame explain the disparity in the lesser use of light-skin-tone symbols in the US?
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The overlooked history of African American skate culture
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How the US has hidden its empire: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story.
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Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece
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Chimpanzees’ gestural communication follows same laws as human language
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Emoji don't mean what they used to - The pictorial language has moved away from ideography and toward illustration
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The philosopher redefining equality
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Conservative Christian group launches campaign against “Buddhist meditation” in public schools
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Ardha Kumbha Mela starts with much fanfare; your guide to the mega event
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The fatal ensnaring of Dan DePew
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Sack of Constantinople 1204 - Fourth Crusade
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Is ‘Huh?’ a universal word?
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Seeking Utopia in Louisiana - The lost story of a group of socialists who built an extraordinary, but flawed, colony
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There’s a vanishing resource we’re not talking about - humans are losing our cultural diversity even faster than we’re destroying the planet
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Meet the guardian of grammar who wants to help you be a better writer
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Words as feelings. A special class of vivid, textural words defy linguistic theory: could ‘ideophones’ unlock the secrets of humans’ first utterances?
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Emmeline Pankhurst: The Suffragette who used militant tactics to win women the vote
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Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald
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The rise of the swear nerds
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Black mecca or most unequal US city: Will the real Atlanta please stand up?
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God is not male or female, says Archbishop of Canterbury
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UAE’s tolerance embraces faiths, runs up against politics
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Eastern Front of WWII animated: 1943/44
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Zela, Ruspina, & Thapsus (47 to 46 B.C.E.)
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Let’s Talk: The hypocrisy of Bell Canada and mental health under capitalism
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Language and identity: Lessons from a unique Afrikaans community in Patagonia
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Socrates versus Roger Stone
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Toadbollock, Dustiberd and Lytillskyll: historian on what names can tell us about everyday medieval life
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Grave of Matthew Flinders discovered after 200 years near London station
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So I became a historian—Now I’m telling how it worked out
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Aberdeenshire church to break away amid gay marriage row
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Why West Africa’s pidgins deserve full recognition as official languages
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History is written by the losers
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Xenophon: The ancient Greek rebel leader who saw Socrates solo-dancing
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Israeli Christians protest artwork depicting Ronald McDonald as ‘McJesus’
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The Pyramids of Giza - Chapter 1: The charlatan and the gossip
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How the Latin East contributed to a unique cultural world
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