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Remembering Nurse Florence Warren, Voluntary Aid Detachment, died from illness on the 8th November 1918 aged 42. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
OTD, 1942, Operation Torch begins where "Nurses from US 48th Surgical Hospital land with Torch forces, the first and last time women land with the assault during the war." (Citation in caption).
ALT https://www.sarahsundin.com/today-in-world-war-ii-history-nov-8-1942/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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After the Anschluss, queues formed at the British Passport Office in Vienna.
Thomas Kendrick, SIS head of station, issued visas by every loophole he could find.
My research shows that he helped thousands of Austrian Jews leave Nazi-occupied Vienna.
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My Dad was only 20 years old when was killed in Normandy in August 1944 two months before I was born.
He was younger than three of my grandchildren are now.
He has always been a hero to me.
“When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today"
OTD, 2023, women protested in Moscow, calling for their husbands, who were mobilized to Ukraine, be sent home. This came during a time when Russia was tightening the reigns on speech, especially protests.
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Remembering Nurse Kathleen Buckeridge, died on 6th November 1916 aged 58, no VAD index card, photo with a date and a death registration in the December Quarter 1916, not commemorated by the CWGC. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
I agree in essence but the problem is, it's not a brainworm, it was part of educational philosophy and practice over the past 10-15 years. I know this because k-12 teachers told me this, and they had to implement it, regardless of if they agreed.
I was a girl who could appreciate Hatchet just fine due to the fact I was a literate child. Both my son and daughters must read Hatchet. Obviously.
There's a very common brainworm going around right now that people can only enjoy books with self insert characters that mirror them. That's, of course, a problem. Mirrors AND windows are important. Another symptom of low literacy. Not every reading experience is supposed to be a bespoke pleasure experience specifically to titillate your particular fancies and make you feel like a self-insert fanfic character.
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Hey girl, are you an academic journal because you’ve ignored me for 8 months then devastated me with your feedback
OTD, 1917, women suffrage workers marched in a New York parade; joined by wartime mothers, they knocked on doors reminding citizens of the women's patriotic war efforts and reminding men to vote for suffrage in the upcoming referedum.
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In a normal society, this would be called the English department, but since English departments no longer teach literature, we now need a separate department to teach the Great Books.
You can't make this stuff up.
Some higher-ed good news: Clemson is launching a new department based on the Great Books, with up to 120 scholarships a year and a Socratic tutor for each student. C. Bradley Thompson reports on The Lyceum—and on profs putting teaching first again: city-journal.org/article/cle…
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i had a professor in undergrad who would brutalize your papers, often with a red pen for its obvious affective function, but it was always to the betterment of your essay! and as i’m grading now i really want to do that but i understand that im not the main grader rn
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I'd dissuade people from getting a BA but certainly not a funded PhD in the humanities. I would (and have) suggested planning a career path that isn't academia though
