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12 votes
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Why people believe their own lies - The George Santos syndrome
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Another gold treasure discovery in Norway – thirty-five 1400 year old gold foil figures found in a pagan temple near Hov
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Podcast: a History of Modern Palestine
American Prestige did a series on the History of Modern Palestine. The first episode is always public, but they have unlocked the remaining episodes for this week in light of current events. I...
American Prestige did a series on the History of Modern Palestine. The first episode is always public, but they have unlocked the remaining episodes for this week in light of current events.
I listened to this back when it was posted and learned a lot about the role of colonial powers in the formation of Israel and Palestine and the way Palestinians are being treated today. The viewpoint is is not anti-Semitic but it is also not pro-Israel. For example, they discuss Israel's (then) current treatment of the Palestinians as apartheid.
I can't imagine what it would be like to live in those conditions. I don't mean to condone terrorist violence, but set against the background of the oppression in Palestine, it's hard to imagine what people might be driven to.
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Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests
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A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
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Ada Palmer on viking metaphysics, contingent moments, and censorship
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The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Fritz Haber, the man who killed millions and saved billions
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Are there any Black people in Japan? (2015)
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Slavoj Žižek on how toilets embody ideology
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Freedom, responsibility and privilege – the trichotomy of speech (2016)
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Does “and” mean “and”? Or “or”? The US Supreme Court will decide.
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Vikings and glass windows
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Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends-- finding more like this with NLP
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Added context to Benjamin Franklin's famous quote about trading liberty for safety
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Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
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Always bet on text
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Baltimore Archdiocese files for bankruptcy before law on abuse lawsuits takes effect
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What is History?
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Arts and Letters Daily
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Baltimore Archdiocese says it will file for bankruptcy before new law on abuse lawsuits takes effect
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How Emily Wilson made Homer modern
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Denmark's first Viking queen was likely more powerful than the king, research finds
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No rides, but lots of rows: ‘reactionary’ French theme park plots expansion
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Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while searching for a lost gold earring in their garden
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The villa where doctors experimented on children
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How languages steal words from each other
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The race to catch the last Nazis
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Danish dictionary to weed out gender stereotypes – ‘career women’ are now paired with ‘career men’ and manslaughter is a linguistic offence
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As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements
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Fun fact: Taiwan claims exclusive sovereignty over mainland China and Mongolia as well as parts of Russia, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Japan
Decided not to post a single link as there are tons of different articles about different aspects of it on Wikipedia. It's a whole thing! Exclusive mandate - Republic of China (Taiwan) and...
Decided not to post a single link as there are tons of different articles about different aspects of it on Wikipedia. It's a whole thing!
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Exclusive mandate - Republic of China (Taiwan) and People's Republic of China
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1992 consensus which established semi-official dialogue between ROC and PRC
It seems like this is a leftover from the Chinese civil war and/or Chiang Kai-shek's authoritarian and murderous rule because one of the above articles does mention that these territorial hopes haven't been worked towards for many years:
Originally placing high priority on reclaiming the Chinese mainland through Project National Glory, the KMT now favors a closer relation with the PRC and seeks to maintain Taiwan's status quo under the Constitution of the Republic of China. The party also accepts the 1992 Consensus, which defines both sides of the Taiwan Strait as "one China" but maintains its ambiguity to different interpretations.
It goes further back than that though, probably to 1966 when Project National Glory was abandoned:
[invasion of mainland China] as the initial stage of reunification was effectively abandoned after 1966, although the Guoguang planning organization was not abolished until 1972. The ROC did not abandon the policy of using force for reunification until 1990.
Thought this was all quite interesting, so I wanted to share! It is not exactly light reading though so I also wanted to ask for documentary recommendations about this, and of the Chinese civil war in general, if anybody knows of any good ones?
Don't mind me, just finding myself going into a lot of Wikipedia rabbit holes lately 😊
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Ancient Amazonians created mysterious ‘dark earth’ on purpose
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Pope in Marseille: Migration must be addressed with humanity, solidarity
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Denmark's parliament to introduce interpreters – Aki-Matilda Hoegh-Dam spoke and answered questions in Greenlandic, causing protests from some lawmakers
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Europe talks to itself in many languages. That’s why English is vital to its democracy
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Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure: dating back half a million years and predating the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens
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Solar storm confirms Vikings were settled in North America in 1021AD
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In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the US into more than five years of misery
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‘We put in air conditionin’, stayed year-round, and ruined America’
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Five oldest descriptions of the Pyramids
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Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed
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Haitian scholar was early path-breaking anthropologist
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Norway remembers its wartime debt to Dumfries – special relationship being marked with the unveiling of a one-and-a-half tonne stone of friendship
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Study shows US public defenders have significantly more clients than they can adequately represent
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The earthquakes in Türkiye killed a prolific war crimes investigator, deputy chief of Syria investigations for the Commission for International Justice and Accountability
9 votes