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Mosaddeq and Acheson(left and right),conferring in Washington in October1951. From Gasiorowski, Mark J., and Malcol… https://t.co/7vO9KxulvF

Praying for rain: The drought of 2012, the worst in 50 years, sent US corn prices to record levels exceeding even t… https://t.co/4y0VLdwiI8

A life worthy of memorial: https://t.co/MLyCjxA5YT https://t.co/pErUvKbFgQ

On this very cool site you can watch the UK and French electricity grids in real time. Gives clear idea of the scal… https://t.co/Wzr9bKMJ6V

Neo Repo: “We believe sponsored repo cannibalises less efficient forms of repo, ultimately freeing up capital and c… https://t.co/UZ9HIpzovk

@adam_tooze I recommend reading „discrimination and disparities“ by Thomas Sowell if you are interested in the reas… https://t.co/5BFMPHaNlA

Low wages in the US are concentrated amongst minorities, young, poorly educated, single parents (mothers), those wi… https://t.co/bTEbdqjS3b

“I only wanted to be human and not a heartless combination of digits. To relate by existence to the future and to k… https://t.co/oHLGoudVfj

“I only wanted to be human and not a heartless combination of digits. To relate by existence to the future and to k… https://t.co/TMgHN5ChNz

30 December 1971: a brave East Berliner weighs themselves after the Christmas holidays (via Bundesarchiv) https://t.co/DFeCM1qlhC

There's a growth slowdown stalking emerging markets (lhs) and this slowdown hits those countries hardest that need… https://t.co/q1DVe0rFz1

Last, Germany. Almost all German regions have stronger economies than most UK regions. A nation of Cheshires, Oxfor… https://t.co/NboJrk8NkG

Remarkable story of Daniel Kaye the Israeli hacker who took down Liberia’s electronic infrastructure, attacked Deut… https://t.co/PRCYXQGLWN

OPEC was “a reflection and crystallization of several trends in the world economy” Francisco Parra 1968.… https://t.co/PBDn6eH0jZ

2018 v. 2000: China’s emergence as the largest supplier of goods to huge chunks of world economy has been spetacula… https://t.co/bMwi92xf7d

Raúl Prebisch delivers the opening statement of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, March 24, 1964. From th… https://t.co/wMo8nwfW5n

Surveillance tech: We see a lot of data on the patents race, but less on what patents are for. Surveillance and fac… https://t.co/5zE7JtIEwO

Iranian PM Mossadegh touches Liberty Bell in Philadelphia during visit to US to address UN during oil nationalizati… https://t.co/wwGblDkbtj

After the hectic activity of the space race, the 1980s were a quiet decade for the moon. Great graphics from… https://t.co/tsglB5Mqhz

How Gulf oil state revenue surged in the 1950s following the 50/50 deals of the postwar period. The plateau of the… https://t.co/Cb8lgEHSiE

English viticulture has seen huge growth since millennium, but yields remain low. There are 33k ha of prime viticul… https://t.co/UGbRjURNyl

To head off China’s Minsky moment, does Xi have what it takes to deliver a Volcker-style shock to the Chinese econo… https://t.co/LAhKbjVRQS

Low-skill and low-pay service sector workers in EU, as elsewhere, are intensely vulnerable to automation. Great gra… https://t.co/CfAGyVXwRr

In Aug-Sep 1942 in repressing Quit India campaign Brit Imperial troops imprisoned 66,000 & shot dead 2500 Indian ci… https://t.co/sJ4JjxYiL3

Hands up who wants a book on the architecture of the Japanese property bubble of the 1980s and early 1990s! After t… https://t.co/NSCB0HWoPa

95 % measles vaccination coverage is needed to prevent wider outbreaks. Globally we fall short as we do in several… https://t.co/285Gbs9rK7

This is a MAD and wonderful thread on Japanese architecture since the 1980s boom! Read & read & read …. https://t.co/dsZvrJMZn8

Even construction sites in Japan can be incredible objecrs of aesthetic delight… Mobile construction gantry for a… https://t.co/GxsS8K6l4b

"I have been detained by police for holding a poster of Gandhi and speaking about the constitution to the press,"… https://t.co/ZP1jvJETSw

What a beautiful cover to this interesting looking book! https://t.co/akVczV68h1

And, off to the left (as the original poster adds in a later tweet) you can see John Hope Franklin. https://t.co/hVdrODm1bC

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On Christmas Eve, unusually warm weather melted the most ice across the continent of Antarctica in a single day out… https://t.co/vCCCQRtsyP

NEW: inspired by @p_surridge & @olhe, I looked at how the class gradient in British politics has been weakening. L… https://t.co/kpyHrOw4fU

Allies answer to the Vierling Flak. https://t.co/3Bp3XNlYXw