📖 There was a gap in knowledge about the historical relationship between #colonialism and common property in the Portuguese case.
Joana Dias Pereira tries to fill this gap in this article published in the journal #AfricanStudies, where she "focuses on the debates surrounding the ‘indigenous’ common property regime among the political and academic elites and its historical evolution".
Dr. Allan Lichtman, a #historian who has correctly predicted nine of the past ten presidential #elections, pulls no punches as he explains why #Biden must head the ticket if the #Democrats hope to win in 2024.
It’s good to be clean, but societies have taken all sorts of different routes to cleanliness over the years. From elaborate public baths to private bathrooms, from relaxing soaks to unpleasant exfoliation, let’s look at the long history of the bath.
Anita Carrillo 1898-1974 #SpanishCivilWar#communist Captain in Republican Army. Fought alongside husband on Front Line. Heard erroneously he had died disguised self as eccentric Englishwoman to retrieve body, found him alive. 1937 injured but survived Desbandá Málaga–Almería road massacre of 1000s refugees by Francoist troops. 1938 arrested by Franco government, 1939 exiled in Tangiers. 1954 arrested #Morocco imprisoned a yr on Spanish mainland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Carrillo_Dom%C3%ADnguez@histodons@CarveHerName
The word “#trauma” comes from ancient Greek, and until the 19th century it meant a physical injury, a lost limb or damaged body part.
The word earned the definition of “psychic wound” during the #GildedAge and #IndustrialRevolution, as modern society abstracted away labor and suffering via automation and machinery.
It’s never been a disorder.
It’s a symptom of our altered states as we mechanize instruments of production and destruction.
PIG. Sixpence, a sow's baby. Pig-widgeon; a simpleton. Cold pig; a jocular punishment inflicted by the maid seryants, or other females of the house, on persons lying over long in bed: it consists in pulling off all the bed clothes, and leaving them to pig or lie in the cold.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)