Been watching this on iPlayer. I hadn’t realised how much opposition to getting involved, or helping people who had managed to escape, there was. Then how long it took after the war to fully accept how bad it had been.
The US and the Holocaust:
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p.s. she did it! Sore feet, but happy and already thinking about doing another one in May 😁🙌🏻
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OMG! It’s Jane Austen... the TikTok generation embraces new heroine
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Dot watching today as my Mum is doing the London Winter Walk challenge, marathon distance - she's past the the 10km checkpoint already! 😃👏🏼
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Londoner based Rebecca May and partner Alex adopted a senior cat, Ziggy. As she enjoyed sitting on her new owners' laps so much, to make her comfortable when they were busy they created this.... #Caturday
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haven’t laughed like that for a while. I’ve been suffering another horrible cold all week, sat around feeling sorry for myself, not running, and that’s just brought me back to life. 😂😂😮💨🙏🏻
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the worst month of the year starts next week and this is still the best video on the internet
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On this day in 1945, Auschwitz was liberated. Today, the world marks International #HolocaustRemembranceDay.
We can say “never again” all we want, but only constant effort to defend universal human rights has a chance of making that ambition a reality.
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Burying my children is my greatest nightmare. Brett’s son was killed at Uvalde last May.
How anyone can read this thread and not want gun control is beyond me. Just try and imagine his pain.
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Today is not a good day. I can't stop crying. I hurt so fucking bad. I try so damn hard to not fall apart but every day it gets harder. I push my feelings down and put on a mask. I'm not just the pissed off dad. I'm the broken dad. The dad that is in excruciating pain because
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The answer to ‘what’s on at the Abbey on my afternoon off’ ended up being Empire of Light and I loved it. A lovely friendship story set around a beautiful old building.
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So I've been messing around with chatgpt, the AI system, and asked it to write a scene in the style of Shakespeare about refugees being turned away by Braverman but the Dalai Lama steps in. That's all I gave it. In under five seconds it produced this...
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📷 Celebrate Lunar New Year with Rabbit, by American artist #jeffkoons
#lunarnewyear #contemporarysculpture
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When did humans start writing? I wrote about a new theory—proposed by an amateur who spends his day job restoring furniture—that may mean humans started writing more than 10,000 years earlier than previously assumed.
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That was like being wrapped in a cold blanket, even with the self generated warmth from running, but it actually felt nice and strangely refreshing. ❄️🥶🏃🏼
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10-year-old Veronica comes to her house in Borodianka every day to feed her cat Marquise. Their family apartment was on the 9th floor, door to her room still visible. The cat refuses to move to a new house. Dad tells Veronica that the war will end in the summer.
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Chavrusa: “… a small group of students (usually 2-5) analyze, discuss, and debate a shared text.”
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Interesting day at TED x Oxford. All the speakers were great but I particularly enjoyed Charis Jo’s talk about the deep reading practice of chavrusa. 📖👏🏻
“Teach a girl to read, and you feed her soul for life.”
tedxoxford.com/Programme-TEDx
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BREAKING: a Holocaust survivor just confronted Suella Braverman to say: your hateful language has consequences
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How my thighs have been feeling every time I move since covering BodyPump on Tuesday for the first time in a couple of months. Hello, DOMS. 😬 😫
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Get mesmerised by this 3D cactus animation on display in our #ASMR_IRL
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'Cactus Cuddle' by @Pettersson0scar
Get mesmerised by this 3D cactus animation on display in our #ASMR_IRL exhibition: bit.ly/3Cpnl78
'Cactus Cuddle' by @Pettersson0scar
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#January, by Eugene Grasset, for La Belle Jardiniere, #artnouveau #calendar, 1896. #1stJanuary #January1st #NewYear #HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2023
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One of my favorite pictures for first post of 2023, the surprised look of a little girl in front of the bronze statue of the Antikythera Ephebe (4th c. BCE).
May 2023 be full of surprises and happy moments...
#Archaeology #AncientGreece
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Currently reading, and enjoying, the latest Shelterbox Book Club pick: A People’s History of Heaven but thinking I should get out for a run before lunch.
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New Year’s morning: birds seem happy singing and dancing, church bells ringing in the distance. 🌄
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Word of the Day: NEWERYMORN (n.) the morning of New Year’s Day
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Happy New Year!! 🥳🎆💖🎉🥂
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Scarborough Council has cancelled its NYE fireworks because there’s a walrus having a kip on the front, which is possibly the finest story to end 2022 we could ask for.
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Bizarre Victorian & Edwardian New Year cards, a thread
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I once had an illicit vegetable garden in prison. We smuggled fresh veggies into the cell blocks. A thread...
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#YearInReview: The one that broke our hearts.
Children's drawings as they sheltered from the war in #Ukraine.
Violence continues to have a devastating impact on families. They need peace. Now.
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Dragged myself away from the TV for a couple of hours in Oxford. Doing the tourist thing and taking lots of photos of the college buildings is impossible to resist on such a sunny day. ☀️🏛😎
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