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This SF #Diggers #History page sums of #lifeacting concisely: By #acting out an #ideal life (or "life acting"), that ideal became #reality. http://status.hackerposse.com/url/5265
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22 years ago: 'Israel Defense Forces fired missiles at the motorcade of عباس الموسوي (Abbas al-Musawi, influential Lebanese Shia cleric, co-founder and Secretary General of حزب الله Hezbollah) in southern Lebanon, killing him, his wife, his 5-year old son, and 4 others' #tomorrow !history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_al-Musawi#Assassination
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45 years ago, 'Bloody Sunday' in Istanbul: "30,000 people marched on Taksim Square. The #demonstration was broken up by the police, but several 1000 continued the march towards Taksim. It was at this point that a counter-revolutionary force attacked a large group of these protesters with knives and sticks. During this confrontation, 2 protesters were #killed", #tomorrow !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_%281969%29
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"Prior to the '#oil crisis of 1973', the members of the 'Seven Sisters' controlled around #85% of the world's petroleum reserves, but in recent decades the dominance of the companies and their successors has declined as a result of the increasing influence of the #OPEC cartel and state-owned oil companies in emerging-market economies" !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_%28oil_companies%29
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160 dead and 410 wounded, is this "Italian offensive action against British, Commonwealth and Free French forces during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War" a happy occasion for you? !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_Egypt
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Do you think 71 years after the Battle of #Stalingrad (which lasted for over 5 months) ended, people still think about this even in human !history ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
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Have you read already the 11-page #review of Louis Segal: "The perils and promises of global !history: new ideas on a usable past" about "Linked labor histories: New England, Colombia, and the making of a global working class" by Noam !Chomsky 's daughter Aviva ? http://www.ncsu.edu/acontracorriente/fall_10/reviews/Segal_rev.pdf
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you're too late, the #Odrysian kingdom collapsed and came under #Macedonian control in 341 BC !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odrysian_kingdom
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It'll be 4 years since Operation Sledgehammer (Turkish: Balyoz Harekâtı) got known in public, it "is the name of an alleged Turkish secularist #military coup plan which reportedly dates back to #2003, and was allegedly in response to the Islamist Justice and Development Party gaining office." #tomorrow !history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledgehammer_(coup_plan)
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Aren't you curious why Moshe Sharett said: '#Satan himself could not have chosen a worse timing.' "Ben-Gurion the defense minister consulted with Ben-Gurion the foreign minister and received the green light from Ben-Gurion the prime minister" #1955 !history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Olive_Leaves
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I think you mean #1961 !history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_government_of_Israel
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nice panorama view! (not incl.) "In 1271, Kublai Khan declared the creation of the Yuan Dynasty and named his capital #Dadu (#大都, Chinese for "Grand Capital", or Daidu to the Mongols). It is also known by the Mongol name #Khanbaliq (汗八里), spelled Cambuluc in Marco Polo's account. Construction ... began in 1267 and ... the entire palace complex was completed in 1…
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Don't tell me you were responsible for "Agnes Sampson being questioned by King James VI of Scotland and confessing to practising #witchcraft" ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Sampson !history
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#BER (Berlin Brandenburg #Airport): "Originally planned to be opened in #2010, BER has encountered a series of #delays due to poor construction planning, management and execution. As of October 2013, it is not known when the airport will be inaugurated. Since the still necessary (re-)construction work is estimated to take 18 months, and has not started yet, any dates prio…
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I guess the #history teacher's exam must be very hard when over 60 of his students have to take class #again the next semester?
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Nice photomontage showing some of the #history at Jackie's Diner: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/living/lifestyles/1008961-469/transfer-station-is-now-jackies.html #nashua !nh
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blogged: Revisiting Edgar Allan Poe http://ur1.ca/a8gmc #photograph #daguerreotype !copyright #attribution #reuse #history
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