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Strictly speaking
we weren’t there.
Strictly speaking
we believe we’ve
never been anywhere.
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We gotta hurry. The revolution is going to happen and we’re going to miss it.
David Michael Kennedy - The Wigwam Village Motel in Holbrook, Ariz [***]
achromianervosa / GreekParade25, nyc
Amos Harlow, Marquette Michigan, 1875, ύψος ~4,5 μέτρα, The Cedar Wooden Man, η ταχυδρομική κάρτα (Real Photo Postcard) περί το 1940, Συλλογή Jim Linderman
Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890–1950. Από τη συλλογή του Jim Linderman
In the winter of 2009, a smiling Dr. Bishop was shown on the cover of The Huntsville R & D Report.
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Her lawyer said Friday that she did not remember what happened next. But the police and witnesses say that on Feb. 12, Dr. [Amy] Bishop went to a routine faculty meeting with a plan. And a loaded handgun.
les attentats contre les tours jumelles du World Trade Center firent près de 3.000 morts. Neuf ans après, la chaîne américaine ABC diffuse des photos inédites qu’elle s’est procurées auprès de la police de New York.
1972 - Η ταινία του Pier Paolo Pasolini “Το κατά Ματθαίον Ευαγγέλιο” (1964) διανέμεται εκ νέου στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες από την εταιρία των Gidney Talley Jr και Steven A. Coulter. Στη διαφήμιση το όνομα του Παζολίνι δεν αναφέρεται πουθενά.
“Due to the emotional nation (nation? μάλλον nature) of the film no one admitted after first ten minutes”
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Το κατά Ματθαίον Ευαγγέλιο, διαφήμιση της εταιρίας διανομής - ΗΠΑ 1972.
the status quo, not perfection or anything like it, is the alternative
The most stunning thing about [Switzerland’s recently banned minarets in a referendum] is the gap between the clear rejection of the ban in public opinion polls and the clear approval given in the actual vote. It means there is an official discussion of Islam and that there is a subterranean discussion.
‘It’s Much Better If Things Are Discussed Openly’ - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
sometimes the issues are major, as illustrated by the ruling of a court in Lille, France, which in 2008 annulled the marriage of a Muslim woman because the bride was not a virgin.
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Islam is the second biggest religion in Europe. But that is true only if you’re thinking statistically. If you’re thinking culturally and spiritually, it looks like the first religion of Europe.
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I’m very fond of Turkish Germany and it reminds me a lot of Chinese America. You have some very successful people, but you have a very low level of integration.
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SPIEGEL ONLINE: Is America more successful when it comes to integrating immigrants?
Caldwell: For now, yes. I think the first reason is the ruthlessness of the American economy. You either become a part of it or you go home. There are more foreigners in the workplace, and that’s where a lot of integration happens. And because most immigrants are in the workplace, you never hear, as you do in Europe, that immigrants don’t want to work. No American would dream of saying that. [?]
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Two-thirds of the imams in France are on welfare. There is nothing wrong with being an imam. But I don’t think the French are very happy about paying what is effectively a state subsidy for religion in that way.
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