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Yet, smashed to pieces, from the era of Assyria to Rome to the Eastern Empire and Islam, it managed to reemerge under different names and titles, over and over. Until, perhaps in the era of the Mongols, it was finished for good -- with the exception, perhaps, some of the elements that made up the Mughal empire in India. That is of vast interest!

And always wrong!

Did colonialism happen? Yup Were other countries resources exploited? Yup Was this a new phenomenon the British invented? Nope Can Britain's success by explained by 'colonialism' and 'racism'? Nope Did the Industrial Revolution as well as a number of key factors play into Britains success? Yep Has Kemi said anything wrong here? Nope Has it outraged a bunch of keyboard warriors because the answer is always 'colonialism'? Yep Is that a good thing? Definitely.

Also, the notion that Benjen resented Ned is ludicrous, there’s zero evidence for it. And even worse is the idea that Benjen manipulated Jon into joining to spite Ned. This is classic order of the green hand stuff.

One of the jurors selected on Tuesday has had to leave, because the media posted so many details about her that everyone knew it was her.

Benjen was ~ 13/14 years old at the time of the Harrenhal tourney. It is entirely possible that a good speaker with stirring rhetoric about a noble cause yadda yadda yadda could very well impress a boy of 13 to the point that he thinks then that it is a noble and worthy cause. Now, it’s not said anywhere that he decided then and there he was going to join, only that the recruiter made a positive impression on him. And then later, given things he might have known or actions he might have taken and seeing how it all turned out, including but not limited to the deaths of Rickard and Brandon… well, I think it makes perfect sense that he might see joining as a form of deserved exile while also thinking that at least it’s a worthy cause. I’d be surprised if Ned had sent him and Martin never included a single line pointing to that. If we look at Benjen’s convo with Jon during the feast at Winterfell, the strong impression there is that he decided to join, not that Ned made him join. Also, yes, their father and older brother had died, but Ned came home married and with two sons or an heir and a spare. And Benjen could have been the KotLT for all I know. In fact, other than Lyanna he is the only other credible possibility.

Dude, you are nothing if not predictable.

Where did the raw materials used in the factories come from, such as cotton? Also many of our universities were funded by legacies left by the rich who made money through colonialism and slavery. Glasgow has a lot of areas and streets named after such things and people

Industrial revo-whatnow? Nah, must be racism innit.

Did not know anything about Transformer One. So basically applying the LEGO Movie formula to Transformers... could work.

Its authors were Cole, Calvert, and Diaz-Balart, all Republicans. Biden endorsed it however.

Is the jury pool for this trial drawn from all of New York City, or just from Manhattan? If it's the latter, I am sure Manhattan would have a higher percentage of corporate lawyers as residents than almost any other jurisdiction in the United States.

All of the novels are worth reading, IMO, but my favorite remains Fevre Dream despite what flaws it has compared to Armageddon Rag which really is a very, very strong book. But the short fiction is the best stuff of all. In the 70s, George had a run there where I've seen critics opine that he was among the top short fiction writers in the genre in that era. "The Way of Cross and Dragon", "Seven Times Never Kill Man", "Bitterblooms", "The Stone City", "Meathouse Man", and on and on. Dreamsongs is a great book to pick up if you're interested in the short fiction.

If we put aside asoiaf , the most interesting work to me is the Elden Ring lore

So would I as I would see it as a way for him trying to get back the money he was forced to spend on Twitter.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1086940/announcements/detail/4172097464031362568 Update on Larians final major patch for the game. Beyond this one, we’re gonna have bug fixes,performance improvements,cross play ,picture mode and continued mod support. But this is the final major content patch. They’re adding in new endings and Wyll content along with the start of mod support. It’s still a few weeks away as they’re hosting a closed beta first for it. Its a good time to start an evil playthrough, which is gonna be my 3rd and final play through of this game…until there are enough new quest mods added in the next 3-5 years.

Is the bill bi partisan in construction?

The House bill does not order Biden to send ATACMS, it simply encourages it.

The House Ukraine bill in particular seems to be actually better than the one that Senate passed. Increases the amount of forgivable loans to 8 billion, orders Biden to sends ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, cuts out a lot of unrelated pork... The biggest change is that money is now granted to the US military to buy replacements after they send their equipment to Ukraine, which is just an accounting difference. Interesting and unexpected, but not unwelcome.

He always voted for his party's call and he never thought of thinking for himself at all. So time to make him the ruler of the King's navy!

Red states threaten librarians with prison — as blue states work to protect them No surprise these are the same states that ban contraception and plan/threaten to prosecute women for utilizing it, along with anyone else who might have assisted her, say in having an abortion because being pregnant will kill her. The graph/chart of which states have done what and plan/threaten to do more is useful. BTW -- how often has your librarian tried to give you pornography? Ya, I thought so. The actual porn problem in libraries, as it is on public transportation, including flying, is guy demanding to use porn on their own personal devices and ya, you know, do right then there what guys do with porn. Don't fool yourselves. This is about white washing the history of the United States, prosecuting LGBTQ+AI, denying women any information about their bodies and birth control, and making sure African Americans, Latinos, and anybody else can't learn anything about their history in this great nation of the WHITE USA. In states like WV, all our books could be prohibited for obscenity, since slavery itself is all about obscene acts and behaviors, despite one of them at least, is for sale in the book store at Monticello -- and the arch villain, among thousands, in this book, is Thomas Jefferson himself. gift link -- no paywall -- https://wapo.st/3JkJQxp

Spurs are lucky that Sheff Utd and Burnley will likely already be down by the time they play them, otherwise i'd be wondering if we could catch them.