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My daughter left her toy rabbit on a train at Reading heading to Bristol Temple Meads. Left Reading station just be… https://t.co/CKMGDn1eQd

Model showing the Ministry of Development complex, Baghdad…1958 Gio Ponti… #architecture #arquitectura… https://t.co/x3h5ayeEzR

Expressed in constant prices for 2000, in Britain the price of electricity was 120 pence per kWh in 1900 and 6 penc… https://t.co/bw17SL0B6q

Mr Modi’s government has vowed to spend $1.4tn on infrastructure over the next five years, building world class tra… https://t.co/2I9zxwHFKi

India’s inability to get the $1bn Zojila tunnel, running along the volatile Kashmir boundary, built, despite high-l… https://t.co/7rAidKC14Q

Retratining is no panacea but it doesnt help that US has a mess of 46 separte retraining and reskilling programs, s… https://t.co/5fuJV5CS5J

The median annual income of a low-wage worker in America is just $17,953 = < 1/2 average cost of a degree from an i… https://t.co/bC5URaPeol

Mapping of median wages &. mobility reveal the dead-end low wage/low mobility occupations of the service sector eco… https://t.co/eJUbzhbBxT

Occupational transitions in the US 2003-2019: which jobs do various types of retail salesworkers move to and how do… https://t.co/VqPkLWQQPQ

c. 53 m Americans —44 % of all U.S. workers ages 18–64—are low-wage workers. Their median hourly wage is $10.22, an… https://t.co/6rT79gk7XV

Since 2016 there has been a surge in OTC interest rate derivative trading. Total turnover has more than doubled in… https://t.co/YTmgKRPd6j

As the global tourism industry booms and destinations diversify, Europe remains the most popular destination.… https://t.co/JhpulcjWrX

The FX market which once had a clear two-tier structure of client-dealer and inter-dealer relations has become a mu… https://t.co/wNmeGFINCZ

Since 2000 the global IP picture has radically changed -> despite Sino-American confrontation there may in fact be… https://t.co/xydNm5Nk5d

“Lenin’s lamp” – Lenin fused with the promise of electric light in We Build (1929) celebrating the first five year… https://t.co/nJ02eJlI3u

Soviet electrification defeats counterrevolution (1921) the forces of darkness literally try to put out the light w… https://t.co/A0CoZ1WRVp

Kazuma Oda (1881-1956) was fascinated by Japan’s radically changing landscape – much of his body of work documents… https://t.co/HXtwRpPfyw

Are we really witnessing a crisis of globalizatio or its evolution? Whilst global FDI is stagnant foreign revenue e… https://t.co/OkGput4AuB

As FX trading has become more and more concentrated in London, NY, Singapore & HK, a larger share of trades are “of… https://t.co/FTkkPbCXgA

Daily Renminbi (RMB) turnover surpassed $280 billion per day in April 2019 but it remains lower than one would expe… https://t.co/z79cfJKAmo

If you measure US trade with China in value-added rather than gross trade terms, the deficit narrows considerably.… https://t.co/uIQ42B1Ilq

Is globalization dying or is it evolving, ask @sdonnan @LaurenLeatherby Trade volumes may no longer be growing as t… https://t.co/TMfxA2cBAX

On the backstory to Arkady Shaikhet’s photograph “Lenin’s Lamp” (1925) see this wonderful blogpost by Soviet cultur… https://t.co/XFKbV1AvuP

The English word "electricity" was first used in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne, derived from Willam Gilbert's 1600 New… https://t.co/U6BFqDvlx8

Heckler & Koch postwar Germany’s premier small arms manufacturer was founded on 28 December 1949 with approval of F… https://t.co/Wlyf1GWDW1

Its the 70th birthday of Heckler & Koch postwar Germany’s premier small arms manufacturer. https://t.co/KyNpmnBrBH

Debt of 45m US students is reaching $1.6tn And reimbursement become an issue https://t.co/rv9U3yFQIk https://t.co/is1QcZIde3

William Gilbert MD (1544-1603) who coined the term electricity in English performing magnetic experiments for Queen… https://t.co/QEbw12acoq

Believing this to be the skull of Mary Magdalene when it was found in the 1200's, French Catholics encased it in go… https://t.co/lMarkB4MEo

As a tunnelling geek I found it pretty amazing so see so many open #WW1 system entrances dotted up and down the Fre… https://t.co/m59ODd9lz4

#FACT: An estimated 53 million people—44% of all US workers ages 18–64—are low-wage workers. @MarcelaEscobari, Ian… https://t.co/d8S3llTWlG

Le régime Erdogan dévoile le prototype de la première voiture électrique turque, #TOGG. Aussitôt, les nationalistes… https://t.co/SnIIELp3xu