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Allison

@arm_hist

history faculty member; historian of women and war, esp. nurses in war; Host profile for Daily Women in War/Conflict Challenge. RT not an endorsement

Joined November 2021
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I wish there was a navigation app with an option like “longer route, but less brutal on the nervous system of an anxious driver.”
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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Help.
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CNN PROJECTS THAT THE MITOCHONDRIA WILL REMAIN THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
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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.
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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…
We’re Building a New Kind of Department at Clemson

We’re Building a New Kind of Department at Clemson

The Lyceum will give students a chance to read the Great Books and ask fundamental questions.

city-journal.org
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4 November 1918 Wilfred Owen is shot and killed at the Sambre canal.
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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
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Like, my profs in college in no way tried to dissuade me from pursuing a PhD in philosophy but even actively encouraged it, and this despite knowing the landscape concretely when I did not. This was, in hindsight, unethical and an abdication of one's responsibility as a mentor.
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Yes. A million times, yes!
John Reeks (@wartsandbrawls) profile pictureJohn Reeks@wartsandbrawlsNov 2
Lecture recordings devalue education by reinforcing the idea that lectures are just textbook-style content, and encourage students to make poor choices by giving them an inferior but easy option.
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Damn how much daylight they trying to save?? It’s dark as hell.
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Neil Renic@NC_RenicNov 1
November marks the offical start of “Let’s just push this to next year”
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Remembering Nurse Gertrude Roskell, Voluntary Aid Detachment, died from appendicitis on the 31st October 1915 aged 36. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
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In his first speech to Parliament after learning of the Declaration of Independence, King George vows to crush the rebels.
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Just discovered a brilliant new abbreviation: ai:dr
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Seriously, reading a book a week for a subject was standard in virtually every literature degree in the English-speaking world for decades. Either the students have gotten stupid (they haven't) or the education system is failing our communities (hint: it's the second one)
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