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the lineup before the battle of agincourt

absolutely incredible

robbing you but its alright as its in my traditional gypsy culture

@tutt_brian @JAHeale @LeeDavidEvansUK very interesting to imagine if Suez never happened he would probably still remain a important figure

@JAHeale @LeeDavidEvansUK The 5th Marquis of Salisbury? Resigned with Eden in 1938, in Churchill’s wartime administration, a key figure in 1951-58. He’s one of the four subjects of Simon Ball’s The Guardsmen, but surely deserves more?

Read once that Geoffrey Howe was the most significant political figure of the final third of the last century about whom there was no proper biography. Any other gaping holes in twentieth century British politics?

@NeilBahadur Chaplin cheering up Churchill after he said he didn’t like his monetary policy

Christ Carrying the Cross ~ detail ~ c. 1587- 1596 EL GRECO

"There are Sundays" by Michel Houellebecq Translated by @jo3amato

la valise ou le cercueil!

Si quelqu'un vous dit que la remigration est impossible, vous pouvez lui dire que les Algériens n'ont eu aucun problème à l'organiser en 1962.

@anonnotbot @Hvygens see this i essentially agree with.

@AltFemKG @Hvygens It is actually exactly ignoring what people want* In that you are ignoring what they want to do You give them what they want in the end. Which in the end is what all want, a safe comfortable, prosperous life. Ignoring calls for rent freezes does the latter against the former

Lee Kuan Yew: "I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind. An inability to chart a course. Whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. You're not a leader."

@anonnotbot @Hvygens ignoring polling is not ignoring what people want. you misunderstood what he said

@Hvygens He is completely correct. But this is much easier to do in a less democratic system like Singapore. Yew was able to give people what they needed because he could ignore what they wanted. Living conditions and wealth increases and people come around.

@Szabadsag1956 peter magyar should return to the sacred unwritten consitution

Weird to think Hungary has only had two written constitutions: the Communist one of 1949 (amended beyond recognition in 1989) and Orbán's in 2011.

i like this one

@DrugGovoruna @historyinmemes still a literacy test! but alright then, here's Mississippi's oppressive literacy test from the 1950s

@AltFemKG @historyinmemes This is actually an Army literacy test from World War I.

Literacy test given to African Americans as a prerequisite to being allowed to vote during the height of Jim Crow Segregation. The test was designed to be impossible to pass. (1960s)

@asglidden @UsingLyft @historyinmemes "Anyone whose grandfather could vote, could vote" this wasn't true after nineteen FIFTEEN. it existed for about twenty years

There are a couple things going on here: 1) Anyone whose grandfather could vote, could vote (implicitly: whites only). 2) Anyone who could prove 5th grade education could vote (doesn't exclude blacks, but the argument goes that it could be harder for them than whites because of disparities in resources). 3) The literacy test is more than these 13 questions; it was actually like 30+ and some of them were significantly more challenging to parse than this first page. 10 minutes is a pretty short window for all of them. 4) The standard used is 100% accuracy, which is also a pretty high standard even for an easy test. People often make dumb mistakes when moving quickly. 5) Grading presumably was not done to a standard key in LA (there are other states that do have answer keys), so the examiner could interpret ambiguities against the examinee, if they did happen to finish the test and got all the unambiguous questions right. IMO this is a good example of "defense in depth" - the state applied a series of filters, culling some % of applicants at each step, resulting in relatively few blacks being allowed to vote.

one of the funniest myths is this fake literacy test which was never used being the most famous example of one

@PolitlcsUK @thetimes 🥳 🥳 🎉

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has dropped the Bill to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after Donald Trump withdrew his support [@thetimes]

@E2Villiers Dubaï : la ville des nouveaux riches tape-à-l'œil et de la prostitution. Je me demande bien ce qu'elle y fait.

Absolument grandiose. La rolex du Président Sarkozy était dérisoire.