Heroin and the War on Drugs | Retro Report | @nytimes
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in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of prohibition, war on drugs
Did People in the Middle Ages Really Throw Fecal Matter Out of Their Windows?
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How Magellan circumnavigated the globe – Ewandro Magalhaes
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The Civil War, Part I: Crash Course US History #20
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The regions of England
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What Life Is Like on Gaza’s Side of the Fence riots | NYT – Dispatches
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in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, war against terror
Hamas Accomplishments Since the Gaza Disengagement
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Is Auckland Action Against Poverty secretly neoliberal on housing habitability laws? @_AAAP_
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in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, unintended consequences
What does unconscious bias only get cracking after women’s 30th birthday? Employers, we men, bastards all, must be good at unconsciously guessing ages?!
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@toby_etc reply to Press Council complaint: Inequality Tower 2018 @XTOTL @MaxRashbrooke @TheSpinoffTV
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History of the Prince of Wales titles. Part II
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Since the time of the House of Tudor and through the times of the House of Stuart, when sons of the Sovereign were granted the courtesy title of Prince, questions of how far in the male line to extend the title was not an issue for grand children of the Sovereign in the male line hadn’t yet occurred. With the accession of King George I in 1714 and the Hanoverians, new situations arose.
First issue that George I faced in the need to regulate titles was with his siblings. Since they were not the sons of a British sovereign, they were German princes and sons of the Elector of Hanover, were they entitled to be prince or princess of Great Britain? King George I, as the “Font of All Honours” was able to grant peerage titles to his youngest brother, Ernest-Augustus. In 1716, Ernest-Augustus visited England where, on June 29…
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