Thinking about history

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Christmas in the Keys: some history?

archive link for the Keys Weekly, if you get a paywall:
https://archive.ph/TWPjY

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Was just reading about the tsunami, and what has been done to improve warning systems:

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-stunning-series-of-informal-ceasefires-known-as-the-christmas-truce-began-on-this-day-in-1914-180985734/

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One of my favorite Sabaton songs is about one of these.

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Since 1983, anytime I hear the name Haile Selassie, I think Trading Places.

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I had a professor who both got an award as a young man from Halassie, and later spent time in jail as the regime started falling apart for his activism.

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Passports… technologies of control. :woman_shrugging:

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Or the piece of paper that saves your life.

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