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503 pts · June 28, 2017


"If you don't know what you're doing, neither does your opponent." - Don Tzu

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What'shyoname!?

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Now you know who's got the real Epstein files...

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This fragment opens the 1994 movie "JFK" with Kevin Costner

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I could not find Poland in this chart (G-20). Since January 2025 the return is arr 80%

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Maybe it crossed his mind that one day he might be next target.

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Have you ever heard of Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine?

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Satellite caught it in Polyarnyi Inlet this morning...

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Dear Radio Yerevan, is it true that bananas grow in Moscow's Red Square? Yes, it's true, but not in Moscow, but in Leningrad, not on Red Square, but on Revolution Square, not bananas, but cucumbers, and they don't grow them, they confiscate them...

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Over 50 years ago, Polish writer Marek Hłasko wrote in his autobiography: "Experience (of being Eastern European) is incommunicable; we could convince the people of Paris or the people of Milan dreaming of communism of the misery of this endeavor only if Soviet tanks appeared on the streets of Paris or Milan."

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Another "break the thermometer, you won't have a fever"

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Some guys speaking Russian, some maybe Turkish? Caucasus Mountains for sure, on the Russian-Georgian border

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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

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T(H)T

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UK is second largest holder of US Treasuries (over 888 billion) acc to Reuters. Just saying....

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I think your assessment is a bit exaggerated. However, it's important to remember that it took the NSDAP only eight years to go from being an illegal party to the largest party in the Reichstag, which almost immediately after seizing power established a concentration camp for its opponents.

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Yep, looks German-ish ;-) But Gleissen sounds like "glacier". Polish word "luty" literally means "February" and this month in Polish tradition has always been associated with severe winter and heavy frost, down to even -20 Celsius, in the past most of the country was frozen during that month.

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That's great. How about "darklight" and "darkcandle" - was that translated this way or translator came up with English neologism just as Dukaj invented the Polish one?

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It took seven years to translate! Even in original Polish, "Ice" is somewhat difficult to read due to its fictitious technical terms and philosophical undertones. I wonder how the numerous neologisms were translated into English?

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Jacek Dukaj's... He was awarded European Union Prize for Literature in 2009 for this title.

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Let's imagine:
A powerful Great Britain with access to American resources
France with little chance of revolution.
Monarchies in Europe last longer.
No revolutions in South America.
Slavery exist until the 20th century
Possibly no World War I in Europe - Great Britain too powerful

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AFAIR from history class, there was once significant immigration from Nordic countries to America, but eventually the indigenous inhabitants saw them as competition, so they were forced to return...

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What is this? It processes oil and explodes with a huge flame? A Russian non-flammable and non-explosive oil refinery.

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This is optical phenomenom called cloud iridescence, plenty examples on YT. Another cool rainbow clouds are polar stratospheric clouds

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