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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929)
“We found that there was a really significant reduction in disease severity, and that was really reassuring, because it provides a high degree of confidence that there's still great value in getting the vaccine,” Miller said.
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"In response to an anti-tariff ad launched by the Ontario government, Trump broke off trade talks with Canada late last month (October 2025). He also threatened to hit the country with more tariffs on top of the ones he imposed earlier this year."
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
" ... a.k.a. the 28th Canadian Armoured Regiment. In April 1945, the unit crossed the Küsten Canal in western Germany ... He was credited with destroying an armoured infantry vehicle and two self-propelled guns — tanks designed to destroy other tanks — as well as killing 50 enemy soldiers."
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
His companions (dragging) him forward ... and finally throwing him out ... the stricken aircraft was rapidly losing height ... now too low for the (aircrew) to bale out. They perished instantly as it crashed onto farmland 4.5km from where Jack had been thrown out."
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"The Americans' cash-and-carry policy required immediate payment in gold or US dollars for American-made war materials, which Allied nations then had to transport on their own ships" - "Although the transfer was successful and necessary, Britain's resources were nearly exhausted by the end of 1940."
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM