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“Palestinian sources show clearly how months before the entry of Arab forces into Palestine, and while the British were still responsible for law and order in the country – namely before 15 May – the Jewish forces had already succeeded in forcibly expelling almost a quarter of a million Palestinians.12”
― The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
― The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
“Nothing says failed lesbianism quite like an accidental pregnancy.”
― Toxic Nursery
― Toxic Nursery
“Menaced by environmental problems, torn by struggles between the tiny coterie of wealthy Spaniards at the center and a teeming, fractious polyglot periphery, battered by a corrupt and inept civic and religious establishment, troubled by a past that it barely understood—to the contemporary eye, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico City looks oddly familiar. In its dystopic way, it was an amazingly contemporary place, unlike any other then on the planet. It was the first twenty-first-century city, the first of today’s modern, globalized megalopolises.”
― 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
― 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“How could the colonists starve in the midst of plenty? One reason was that the English feared leaving Jamestown to fish, because Powhatan’s fighters were waiting outside the colony walls. A second reason was that a startlingly large proportion of the colonists were gentlemen, a status defined by not having to perform manual labor.”
― 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
― 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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