@BlackLabelAdvsr We had these in Stanmore UK fourty years ago. Not enough room to walk between the 'mansions'.
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Francis Wilson
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@JohnCleese The Norman culture did not really have slaves. Before 1066, up to 10% of the Anglo-Saxon population were enslaved. Following the Norman invasion, King William I banned the export slave trade, and the practice largely disappeared by the early 12th century. Serfs were not slaves.
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The British were slaves during the Roman occupation for over 300 years, and then slaves under the Norman French for another 300 years
So we should do well out of reparations, and then get a bonus for being the first country to abolish slavery
The British Patriot@TheBritLad
🚨 WTF! Lenny Henry demands Britain cough up £18 trillion in reparations, insisting “All Black British people deserve it for slavery.” This ignores Britain’s historic stand: abolishing the slave trade in 1807 and unleashing the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron, which seized 1,600 ships and freed 150,000 Africans at massive cost in blood and treasure. Yet today, per the Global Slavery Index, Eritrea, Mauritania, Nigeria, and Jamaica (Henry’s parental homeland) still suffer shocking levels of modern slavery. Billing today’s British taxpayers for 200-year-old sins while turning a blind eye to ongoing African and Caribbean horrors? Pure selective outrage and hypocrisy. Focus on ending slavery now, not chasing guilt cheques. Maybe the comedian should stick to jokes instead of peddling selective history.
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Crazy that Constantinople fell almost entirely because the Emperor didn't want to pay for a Hungarian's autism project (building a 19 ton cannon with a 30" bore inspired by much smaller models introduced by the Mongols) so the autist in question asked the Ottomans if they would like to fund his superweapon instead.
Being tired of repeatedly losing, they said yes and threw money at him to make the damn thing, which destroyed the previously unassailable walls of the city using 1200lb cannon balls with a range of up to a mile.
Dude wasn't concerned with politics, religion, or the civilizational consequences of his actions. He just really wanted to make an enormous cannon, and by god did he succeed.
drakolobo@DerceinLycaon
@___TheGOOdWitch 1. The crusade did not expanding Christianity; it was to defend Byzantium, which was besieged by Islam. 2. The expansion of Christianity was done through evangelization and only became military when a king became Christian and forced his subjects to convert.Really was martyrdom:
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La plus grande forteresse médiévale d'Europe fait 35 000 m².
Elle n'est ni en Angleterre, ni en Allemagne, ni en Écosse. Elle est dans les Ardennes.
Château fort de Sedan. Sept étages. Des murs de 27 mètres d'épaisseur. Un promontoire qui domine la Meuse. Fondé en 1424.
Jamais pris par un ennemi.
Pendant deux siècles, Sedan n'est même pas française. C'est une principauté indépendante, protestante, souveraine. Elle bat sa propre monnaie. Elle résiste à la France catholique, aux guerres de Religion, au temps.
En 1642, son dernier prince conspire contre Richelieu. Il perd. Sedan devient française.
En 1803, Napoléon visite la forteresse et fait transférer la collection d'armures des princes à Paris. Certaines sont aujourd'hui aux Invalides.
En 2023, les Français l'ont élu monument préféré des Français. Un château que la plupart seraient incapables de placer sur une carte.
Quel monument en France mériterait d’être plus connu ?
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@ramonagusta Furrowing the eyebrows in an attempt to signal the intensity of his thought processes.
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Only Labour could manage to find a candidate that's worse than Starmer...
Steve Miller@StevenJonMiller
Are you also thinking this? He is Starmer 2.0
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@Khaledhzakariah Do not mistake grown-ups in Britain for Media Children.
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Unbelievable how I studied and worked for 20 years in Cairo’s 40 degrees summers.
Apparently, 27 is unbearable for grown-ups in Britain.
Trades Union Congress@The_TUC
BREAKING 🚨 | As Britain's first heatwave of 2026 begins, the TUC is calling for a maximum working temperature to protect workers. Workers should be able to stop work above 30°C, or 27°C for those doing strenuous jobs. With heatwaves becoming more common, we need new laws on maximum working temperatures, cooler workplaces, and climate action to reduce global heating.
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@VeryBadLlama A beverage that has almost no impact on the daily nutrition requirements. Do you not understand the difference ?
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incredibly funny stuff from a country obsessed with a beverage made from a plant that does not grow in their climate
ClarksonsFarm@ClarksonsFarm1
National food security should be a top priority!🙌🏼
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@JohnCleese Yes, but leave the knives at home. No dispensations.
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A huge thank-you to the Sikhs
They are setting an excellent example for the Muslims to follow
This is, for moderate Muslims to speak out against the radical Muslims
We're all waiting...
Guramit Singh@Guramitsingh01
Statement from the Sikh community regarding the scum bag that stabbed an innocent man in Southampton. #predhunter
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@KirkegaardEmil How do you test someone's IQ ? In utero. ???
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@King0243_PJC Some people understand what the term 'net' means. Perhaps you could google it ?
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This should destroy Nigel Farage’s entire political argument.
Net migration has collapsed from 944,000 to around 204,000, yet voters still think it’s rising because Reform and Farage have spent years feeding Britain hysteria instead of facts.
Asylum seekers are only about 9% of immigration, not the “invasion” constantly screamed about.
The NHS was broken by underfunding.
Housing was broken by austerity.
Wages were crushed by corporate greed.
Migrants were the distraction. Not the cause.
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@AnnaClarke_____ The single most stupid thing I have read all year.
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Attempting to grow all our own food would be the fastest way to food insecurity - a drought or bad harvest one year, and people would starve.
ClarksonsFarm@ClarksonsFarm1
National food security should be a top priority!🙌🏼
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This is one of the richest countries in the history of the world.
Yet we have thousands of children going to school hungry each morning while supermarkets rake in obscene profits. #bbcqt
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@Finumus1 In France the seller will take the bloody lightbulbs
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@CommanderTorenn Bright-eyed Pallas Athena ?? WTF . I can't see anything 'Glaukopis' about her.
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Elle est tellement mid
Pop Base@PopBase
New look at Zendaya as Athena in ‘The Odyssey.’ (via ELLE) In theatres on July 17.
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@GFreiNews "By the way, the average IQ among North African Arabs – Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia – is also only 76–84." Algeria Morocco and Tunisia have a small number of Arabs; the rest are Berbers. Egyptians are Egyptian.
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1973 senkte die Amerikanische AAMD den Wert, ab dem man als geistig behindert gilt, von einem IQ-Wert von 85 auf 70.
Der Grund dafür war, dass der ursprüngliche Schwellenwert diskriminierend war, weil nach ihm der größere Teil der Schwarzen als geistig minderbemittelt galt.
Von 70 bis 85 kommt man nur für einfache angelernte Hilfsarbeiten infrage.
Unter 70 nur für betreute Arbeiten unter Aufsicht.
Für einen qualifizierten Handwerksberuf in Deutschland setzt man einen IQ von 100 voraus.
Der durchschnittliche IQ bei nordafrikanischen Arabern – Ägypten, Algerien, Marokko, Tunesien – liegt übrigens ebenfalls nur bei 76–84.
Das bedeutet, eine Massenimmigration aus all diesen Ländern ist eine Immigration von größtenteils bestenfalls Hilfsarbeitern.
Eine Klasse von Arbeitern, die man in einem Industrieland mit hohem Automatisierungsgrad kaum noch benötigt.
💙 ₘ ᵢ ₙ ᵢ 💙@miiniiiie
Fuck is das krass 😳
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Statement from the Sikh community regarding the scum bag that stabbed an innocent man in Southampton.
#predhunter
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Another Hollywood actress with multiple alphabet kids.
This doesn't seem right to me.
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🚨NEW: Green party MP Carla Denyer has announced that she is going to "take several weeks off" as she claims to be too tired and suffering from "burnout"
This comes at the same time as summer
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