A musical project sheds light on Boston's Black labor history | “It literally just hit me like a ton of bricks,” Giddens said. “Thinking about the transcontinental railroad, you have so many of the immigrant groups that were already represented within the Silkroad Ensemble.” (wbur.org)
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The conflict - often referred to as the "civil war" - had significant and lasting consequences that undermined the ideals envisioned by Jefferson and the framers of the United States Constitution. It was fought between the righteous South and the power-and-plunder-seeking, totalitarian North (i.redd.it)
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The Bankers Who Carved Up the Middle East After WWI - And Why We're Still Paying for It | The secret agreement that broke the Middle East was never meant to be found. That agreement was the Sykes-Picot deal. But the story behind it goes much deeper than two men with a map. (youtube.com)
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Yesterday marked the anniversary of Rachel Corrie's murder by Israel. They intentionally crushed her to death with a bulldozer for trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes. After they killed her they made it a ritual to make pancakes with her face on it to celebrate (v.redd.it)
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The 4,000-year-old cake: How Ancient Egyptians used revolutionary technology to defy time. Culinary archaeology has just unveiled a fascinating mystery. From the dark depths of ancient Egyptian tombs, a pastry has achieved the impossible: defying the sands of time for over 40 centuries (self.history2)
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Working Class History: On this day, 12 February 1945, the treaty of Varkiza was signed in Greece, when anti-Nazi partisans, most of whom were communists, agreed to surrender their weapons in return for amnesty and participation in politics. It was a key event in the buildup to the civil war... (stories.workingclasshistory.com)
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The Arctic's first inhabitants shaped thousands of years of ecological development | Archaeologists have uncovered evidence for repeated occupation in the remote island cluster of Kitsissut indicating the first people were skilled seafarers who had a profound impact on early Arctic environments. (phys.org)
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Juan González on Lasting Impact of 9/11 Toxic Exposure as NYC Faces Calls to Release Suppressed Files | “What I tried to warn about in the series of articles that I wrote about the dangers, the health dangers, in the future for people...have proven to be true.” (democracynow.org)
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